Let's Talk About It

GUEST: Anonymous He strangled her and forced her at gunpoint to take a bottle of sleeping pills, and is out on bail pending trial!  TOPICS DISCUSSED : Strangulation, perpetrator right trumping victim rights, bail reform 

GUEST: Jolene No accountability from the courts and police make him scarier and scarier, to her, her children, the police and the public.  TOPICS DISCUSSED : Criminal court reform, good ol’ boy network, the folly of Batterer’s Intervention 

GUEST: Randall Liberty,  Maine's Commissioner of Corrections Randy talks with Patrisha about the impact his father’s violence toward his mother had on him and his brothers.  TOPICS DISCUSSED : Sons and fathers, sons and mothers, the importance of prison for violent abusers

GUEST: Amy   Maine officials worked overtime to give full custody of her baby granddaughter to a two-time domestic violence felon.  TOPICS DISCUSSED : Family court dysfunction, child abuse, grandparental rights 

GUESTS: Donna Kaz  William ( Body Heat ) Hurt swept Donna off her feet when she was a young actress, and grew steadily more dangerous.  TOPICS DISCUSSED : Narcissists, fame as an enabler, career-sabotaging 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...

GUEST: Bethany This nurse’s ex has a 30-page criminal record and has violated protection from abuse orders 20 times with no consequences  TOPICS DISCUSSED : Uselessness of PFAs, do-nothing DAs, child abuse

GUEST: Jackie Lee McLean  The host of this Podcast talks with her daughter about how the abuse impacted them separately and also together and their path to healing. TOPICS DISCUSSED : Child abuse, narcissistic fathers, triangulation  Jackie is an executive of an IT company, and singer-songwriter who provides the music for this Podcast. More of Jackie's Music here.