PODCAST
The first step to solving any problem is shining a light on it and that is what we are doing with domestic abuse in "Finding Our Voices: The Podcast", as we hear from the real experts: Survivors.
This podcast reflects how domestic abuse is everywhere and also is complicated, in conversations with best friends who rescued each other, mothers and daughters, a young man feeling guilty for leaving his mom in the abuse when he left home for college, women whose abusers are famous. We explore the playbook that every abuser seemingly has to get and keep us trapped, and to keep terrorizing us post-separation by weaponizing the courts and our children. We also talk about how perpetrator rights trump victim rights in the criminal and civil courts, and the special hell of having to co-parent with an abuser.
If you like what you hear please rate this Podcast, and recommend it to friends. Feel free to contact Patrisha at hello@findingourvoices.net
Patrisha McLean escaped 29 years of domestic abuse in 2016, and is the founder and CEO of Finding Our Voices, the grassroots survivor-powered nonprofit breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine. https://findingourvoices.net Check out her online book club, too, that looks at life through the lens of domestic abuse: https://findingourvoices.net/book-club
Music is by Jackie McLean Strack, the host’s daughter. https://open.spotify.com/artist/1M6qI3IXGTAAKFEZNLGr13
Audio engineer is Tammy Oropesa.
Thank you to a Deborah Pulliam Social Justice Grant through the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Castine for the funds to create the podcast.
EPISODE 1: Six survivors talk about how holidays are the scariest and most miserable times of the year for moms and children when we are trapped with an angry and controlling family member. With Jolene's ex-husband in jail, her eight-year-old is having the first peaceful holiday season of her life.
EPISODE 2: Randall Liberty is Maine's Commissioner of Corrections, overseeing all prisons, jails and probationers in the state. Here, he talks with Patrisha about his father, beloved in the community and incarcerated for beating up his mother. He also talks about how the violence in the home impacted himself and his brothers.
EPISODE 4: Jackie Lee McLean and the host of this podcast Patrisha McLean talk about how control and violence from father and husband impacted each other, as well as their mother/daughter relationship. They also talk about their journey to healing themselves and their relationship.
Jackie is a mom of three, executive of an IT company, and singer-songwriter who provides the music for this Podcast.
Find Jackie's Music here
EPISODE 5: Donna Kaz talks about being physically and emotionally brutalized by the sensitive late actor --and serial domestic abuser --William (Body Heat) Hurt, when she was in her early 20s. We also talk about the Amber Heard/Johnny Depp trial.
Donna is a feminist activist and author of Unmasked: Memoirs of a Guerilla Girl on Tour
https://www.amazon.com/MASKED-Memoirs-Guerrilla-Girl-Tour/dp/1510709436
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/donna-kaz-william-hurt-former-partner-surviving-abuse-1235208312/
EPISODE 6: Bethany talks about her 30-year odyssey of trying to get the terrorizing by her ex of her extended family to stop, with District Attorneys and judges dismissing of 19 separate occasions of violating restraining orders and conditions of release.