Let’s Talk About It 5/14/21: Police Response

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

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

Guests:
Hannah, Mandy, Lori, and Sarah talk about police response to the domestic violence and how this impacted their safety as well as their children’s.

Topics include: 
Lax sentencing, mental illness.

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 3/12/21: Emotional 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:
Dr. Kerry Roarke talks about how she was the breadwinner yet he controlled the money.
Elizabeth Garber reads her poem about her abusive father.

Topics include: 
Financial abuse, coercive control, parental 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 2/12/21: Mother and Daughter

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

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

Guest:
Jackie Lee McLean, musician daughter of the host of this radio show talks with her mother about the abuse in the home while she was growing up.

Topics include: 
How domestic abuse impacts each family member differently, not talking about it and then breaking your silence, breaking free, turning trauma 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 12/11/20: No Accountability For the Perpetrator

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

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

Guest:
Hannah

Topics include: 
Mental Illness, Family Court dysfunction, Leniency for Perpetrators.

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 11/13/20: Let Down by the System

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: “Just A Bully” co-written with Patrisha McLean and Nora Willauer in a collaboration with DocSong. Performed by Willauer.

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

Guest:
Amanda Fitzsimmons

Topics include:
Impact on children, court dysfunction, inaction of police and judge.

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 9/11/20: Best Friends Saving Each Other

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: “Just A Bully” co-written with Patrisha McLean and Nora Willauer in a collaboration with DocSong. Performed by Willauer.

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

Guests:
Nicky and Kathi. These best friends and business partners discuss how they each were lured and trapped into dangerous relationships and how they helped each other escape.

Topics include:
Emotional abuse, financial abuse, isolation, power of friendship.

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 7/28/20: Mother/Daughter

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: “Just A Bully” co-written with Patrisha McLean and Nora Willauer in a collaboration with DocSong. Performed by Willauer.

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

Guests:
Rhonda and Ashley talk about how they were controlled and tormented in similar and different ways by husband/father and how they healed their mother and daughter relationship.

Topics include:
Coercive control, child abuse, financial 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 7/21/20: Emotional Abuse

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production assistance: Alex Wilder
Music: “Just A Bully” co-written with Patrisha McLean and Nora Willauer in a collaboration with DocSong. Performed by Willauer.

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

Guests:
Molly Eddy, Lindsay O’Brien and Carissa Carney. When there are no bruises it is harder to see, but feels just as bad and sometimes worse. 

Second Part, more voices from some of the 45 women on the Finding Our Voices domestic abuse-awareness posters touring the state: Melanie Leo-Daigle, Meg Barclay, Maegan Graslie and Mary Lou Smith.

Topics include:
The tactics abusers use to get and maintain control of you.

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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