Let’s Talk About It 4/14/23: When Your Abuser is Famous

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

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

Guest:
Donna Kaz. Donna talks about being swept off her feet by the late actor William Hurt who terrorized her for three years. Donna is a feminist activist and the author of Unmasked: Memoirs of a Guerilla Girl on Tour. 

Topics include:
Being stymied, staunched, and brutalized by someone the public glorifies. The harmful silence of others. Getting out from the shadow of someone famous and finding ourselves.  The Johnny Depp/Amber Heard trial.

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 2/10/23: This Is Not Love!

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

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

Guests: 
Olivia and Jeannine. Olivia, 24, talks about being swept off her feet by an older man who was more established in her credit union work field and how the jealousy and control swept in as soon as they were engaged. Jeannine, a former TV news anchor, talks about financial abuse.

Topics include:
Coercive control, financial abuse, no justice in court.

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 12/9/22: Surviving Domestic Violence – Melody and Melissa

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

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

Guests:
Melody Rose Paul, author of Savaged to Wellness and The Road to Recovery and Melissa, who barely survived the violent rampage of her ex who was out on bail when he committed this. Melody is a Mi’kmaq native who says that being incarcerated was a relief from her captivity at home by her controlling ex.

Topics:
Incarceration, the link between substance abuse and domestic abuse, no justice for victims of domestic abuse, turning pain into art.

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 10/14/22: Effect of Domestic Abuse on the Children

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

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

Guests:
Gail and Natasha talk about lingering control and abuse of the children once you physically escape the abusive partner, and 83-year-old Mary Lou reads poems documenting her growing understanding of the 43 years of abuse she and her children endured.

Topics Include:
Post-separation abuse, the impact of domestic abuse on children, how domestic abut impacts the mother/child relationship.

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 across Maine.

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Let’s Talk About It 6/10/22: Surmounting Abuse to Excel Academically

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

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

Guests:
Denisse, Fullbright Scholar and Harvard Kennedy School graduate
Lian, law school graduate

Topics include:
Emotional abuse, post-separation abuse, wanting to kill yourself because of the abuse.

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grassroots survivor-powered non-profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse community by community all across Maine.

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Let’s Talk About It 5/13/22: When Your Abuser is Famous

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

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

Guest:
Donna Kaz. In Donna’s memoir Unmasked: Memoir of a Guerilla Girl on Tour she relates being terrorized by the serial domestic abuser William Hurt.

Topics include:
What is it like when your abuser is an artist admired around the world for his sensitivity, emotional abuse, the power of fame, being robbed of yourself and coming into yourself.

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grassrroots survivor-powered non-profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse community by community all across Maine.

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Let’s Talk About It 4/8/22: They Don’t Change

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

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

Guest:
Christie, beauty pageant director

Topics include:
Multi-generational abuse, how they don’t change, family enablers.

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grassrroots survivor-powered non-profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse community by community all across Maine.

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Let’s Talk About It 1/14/22: Domestic Abuse and Religion

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

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

Guest:
Jennifer Greenmith and Anonymous. A woman survivor of domestic abuse in the orthodox Jewish community and another in the Christian community talk about how religion played a key factor in trapping them and keeping them trapped in domestic violence.

Topics include:
Religion, mental Illness, family court malfunction.

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is an award-winning photojournalist and the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the survivor-powered and grassroots nonprofit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse.

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