Let's Talk About It

Guests: Darcia and Dezarae Darcia and Dezarae discuss how the “sweetest man in the world” in prison turned evil upon release. Topics Discussed: Failed judicial system, strangulation, impact on children

Guest: Lilly DesRoberts Lilly, a 20-year-old UNE Biddeford pre-dental student, talks about how cyber-stalking and suicide threats by her boyfriend from high school plagued her first year of college. Topics: Life360 cyber-stalking, suicide threats, alcohol, failure of judicial court system

Guest: Kerry Smith Kerry talks about the preventable DV murders of mother and daughter Jennie and Lisa Bailey in Bath. Topics include: Police response to DV, Veteran’s Administration response to DV, systemic changes needed

Guests: Michelle, Kerry, Amber Michelle, a communications executive talks about an early marriage that almost killed her. Kerry and Amber talk about their best friends who were murdered by DV this year. Topics include: Financial abuse, guns, family impact of abuse

Guest: Melody. Melody, a Mi’kmaq native, realized when she connected with Finding Our Voices that domestic abuse is at the root of her substance abuse as well as incarceration. She talks here about how she transcended both to become a wellbriety coach and published author. Topics include: Incarceration, Substance Abuse, Native culture

Guests: Anonymous and Jennifer. Two-parter about how religion helped to trap both women in domestic abuse and made it harder to get out. “Anonymous" talks about the Cantor who refused to give her a Get for a divorce, and Jennifer talks about the pious-acting husband who was anything but.

Guest: Shelly Edwards Jorgensen. Shelly is the author of the memoir Beautiful Ashes: A quest to uncover family secrets and survive the truth. https://www.beautifulashesmemoir.com/books/ Topics: Child abuse, Siblings, Arson

Guest: Mary Kamradt, Chief of Staff of Finding Our Voices. Her home was destroyed and dog killed in a fire set by her ex, and her family sided with him. Topics: Sexual abuse, arson, estrangement from children and grandchildren.

Guests: Ashley and Dezarae. Ashley talks about how overseas deployments made him increasingly abusive at home. Dezarae talks about being terrorized by a girlfriend. Topics: The military, same sex abuse, impact on children

Guest: Caroline McKuen The director of the Presbyterian Advocacy Council talks about her church’s enabling of criminal, financial, and sexual abuse Topics: Religious abuse, financial abuse, sexual abuse. https://www.presbyterianadvocacycoalition.org