Let’s Talk About It 10/11/24

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production Assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: Jackie Lee McLean

Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse

He burned her house down, with her dog inside, and she is estranged from her children and grandchildren.

Topics:
1. Arson.
2. Sexual abuse.
3. Family siding with the abuser.

Guest:
Mary Kamradt, Chief of Staff of Finding Our Voices.

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine.

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Let’s Talk About It 9/13/24

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production Assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: Jackie Lee McLean

Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse

Caroline McKuen shares how her pastor minimized the financial and sexual abuse and criminal activity of her ex-husband.

Topics:
1. Financial abuse.
2. Patriarchal churches enabling domestic abuse.
3. Sexual abuse.

Guest:
Caroline McKuen, director of the Presbyterian Advocacy Coalition. More info at www.presbyterianadvocacycoalition.org

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine.

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Let’s Talk About It 8/9/24

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production Assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: Jackie Lee McLean

Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse

The devastation of financial abuse, as experienced by Lora, a Maine nurse, and explained by Jeannine, a domestic abuse survivor/victim’s advocate with Finding Our Voices.

Topics:
1. Financial Abuse
2.Sexual Abuse
3. Manipulation of Abusers

Guest:
Lora and Jeannine. Jeannine is a survivor from Southern Maine who led the passage of LD 947: An Act to Address the Long-Term Impact of Economic Abuse by a Spouse. findingourvoices.net/jeannine-archive
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About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine.

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Let’s Talk About It 7/12/24

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production Assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: Jackie Lee McLean

Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse

He strangled her, tried to smother her, forced her at gunpoint to take a bottle of sleeping pills and a judge lowered his bail so he could be released from custody.

Topics:
1. Domestic violence murder hidden as suicide
2. Puffball sentencing of domestic abusers
3. Reckless Maine judges

Guest:
Anonymous

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine.

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Let’s Talk About It 6/14/24

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production Assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: Jackie Lee McLean

Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse

A man talks about being abused by a woman.

Topics include:
The Power and Control Wheel, the specific challenges of being a man abused by a woman, the similarities of men being abused by women and women being abused by men.

Guest:
Anonymous

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine.

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Let’s Talk About It 5/10/24

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production Assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: Jackie Lee McLean

Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse

Jolene Miles of Lewiston talks about how Maine’s courts and police enabled her dangerous ex, putting herself, her children, her pets, the general public and also the police at risk.

Guest:
Jolene Miles

Topics include:
The dereliction of the courts when it comes to DV.
How police fail victims of domestic abuse.
How perpetrator rights trump those of the victim in Maine.

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine.

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Let’s Talk About It 4/12/24

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production Assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: Jackie Lee McLean

Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse

Guest:
“Bethany”

Topics include:
PFA violations being ignored
DA Dismissals of DV over and over again
Children traumatized by DV

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine.

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Let’s Talk About It 3/8/24

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production Assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: Jackie Lee McLean

Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse

Guest:
Amy Judkins talking about how DHHS prioritized custody of her granddaughter to a domestic violence felon.

Topics include: 

Maine officials emboldening domestic abusers.
No accountability for Maine domestic abusers.
Domestic abuser rights trumping the safety of children.

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine.

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