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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Let’s Talk About It 12/8/23: Holidays with Abuse

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

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

Guests:
Gina Dobson, Sarah Graham, Jennifer Greensmith, Tiffany Pacin, Mary Kamradt, and Jolene Iannotti.

Topics include: 
How domestic abuse is worse during the holidays, road rage, when there is no joy for children due to the abuse.

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 11/10/23: Man Growing Up With a Violent Father

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

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

Guests:
Commissioner of Corrections, Randall Liberty

Topics include: 
How growing up with a violent father impacts boys and men.

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 10/13/23: Two-Parter On Military, LBGTQ Situations

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

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

Guests:
Ashley and Dezarae

Topics include: 
How the military turned a partner mean, same-sex abuse, emotional abuse, impact on 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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Let’s Talk About It 9/8/23: Yes it DOES Happen in Expensive Homes, Too

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

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

Guests:
Anonymous

Topics include: 
Domestic abuse crosses into every socioeconomic strata, child abuse, how domestic abuse impacts family members, the complicity of silent friends.

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 7/14/23: Abuse by a Father – Updated Version of 6/11/21 Episode

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

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

Guests:
Sue Garrett, Elizabeth Garber, Karin Spitfire, and Kathleen Robinson Weston

Topics include: 
Child abuse, how domestic abuse impacts the family, healing through art and writing

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 6/9/23: Ex Turning a Miscarriage Into a Murder Charge

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

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

Guest:
Gina. Gina talks about how her ex made good on his promise to crush her if she left, by filing a false charge against her for murder when the death was actually a miscarriage, and how she remains a felon to this day.

Topics include:
Legal abuse, emotional abuse, financial abuse.

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit 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 5/12/23: Narcisstic Abuse

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

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

Guests:
Aimee, author of the blog Biddeford Bachelorette.
Mandy returns to update us on how she is still being plagued by her ex years after the divorce and his way-too-short prison term for domestic violence, and how the courts are enabling him to shirk paying her child support.

Topics include:
Using your love of pets to terrorize you, no justice for domestic violence victims and no accountability for domestic violence perpetrators. Post-separation abuse.

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

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