Roar with Shari. . . All Things Justice for Women & Survivors

People in Epstein's Orbit Using the "I Didn't Know" Strategy Attorney, survivor advocate, and legal analyst Shari Karney joins Bill Cunningham Sunday Live (heard by more than 1.3 million listeners ) to examine the testimony of people connected to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, before the House Oversight Committee. Karney analy...

In this episode, I’m talking with Thien  Ho , who successfully prosecuted serial killer and rapist, Joseph DeAngelo, known as The Golden State Killer/East Side Rapis t. DeAngelo had escaped justice for 30 years leaving in his wake, dead, murdered, and raped girls, women, children, and men. He is now running for top DA, Sacramento, California. Find out how the victims of The Golden State Killer/Eas...

In this episode, I'm talking with Lisa Zarcone, the author of “The Unspoken Truth: A Memoir. Lisa shared with us her authentic, truthful, and raw look at child abuse, maternal mental illness, alcoholism and her family’s response to grieving the loss of a child. In the blink of an eye, we hear how it all changed before Lisa’s “pretty baby blues” and life became an unlivable, abusive, nightmare...

In today’s episode, I’m talking with Sacramento District Attorney, Anne Marie Schubert, the first openly lesbian woman running for Attorney General of California. The job was formerly held by Vice President, Kamala Harris.  Her platform: Justice for Victims She describes herself as a ‘tough-on-crime candidate’ who, in recent years, has helped put the Golden State Killer behind bars, and has been a...

I’m talking to social activist and rainmaker, Cherie Benjoseph, LCSW.  She has a passion for empowering children in order to keep our kids safe.  As co-founder of the KidSafe Foundation, she works with community leaders, kids, parents, guardians, foster care, and child-serving professionals to improve defining the ever-changing issues around protecting children.  Because, in order to keep kids saf...

In this episode I’m talking with Allison Bressler, MA, and Gloria Sgrizzi,  Love and Murder in Suburbia.  A True Story.  About “Big Little Lies” when it comes to intimate partner violence that occurs literally everywhere.  We are talking about domestic violence, dating violence, intimate partner violence, beatings, murder, and more hidden behind closed doors, a Big Little Lies, a dirty, little sec...

In this episode, I’m talking with Senator Steele who reveals the first time she made a dramatic stand for survivors of sexual abuse. She bravely shared her own story of incest and child sexual abuse on the Arizona State Senate Floor.  Steele recounts the attacks, “My very first memory in life was being raped by my grandfather. She goes on to say that “I don’t have very many memories from my childh...

In this episode, I am talking to Dr. Lois Lee, a pioneer and trailblazer in rescuing America’s sex trafficked and prostituted children here in the United States on a street near you.  She is the founder of Children of the Night and has rescued over 10,000 children from forced prostitution--she says, “that is more children than all of the other sex trafficking organizations combined.” Dr. Lee has t...

  In this episode, I’m talking with Marissa Hoechstetter who was licked on her vagina by her OB-GYN, while pregnant with twins during an ordinary exam that was anything but ordinary. What should have been an exciting and joyous experience being pregnant with twins, turned into a horrifying nightmare as Marissa says she was sexually assaulted by her OB-GYN, Dr. Hadden.  Marissa quickly learned of o...

In this episode, I’m talking to Dr. Tragil Wade-Johnson, Founder of America's Big Sister Foundation, and Sister of NBA’s Miami Heat #3, Dwyane Wade .  Tragil Wade grew up on the South Side of Chicago with her younger brother Dwyane Wade and tells her heroic story of protecting her younger brother, Dwyane from hunger, gangs, and crime.  Saving Dwayne's life took a turn for the better when...

Allen v. Farrow: THE ENABLERS Where there is incest, there are enablers. Mothers, fathers, siblings, neighbors, therapists, doctors, churches, schools. As the victim is groomed, so is the community. In this episode of Allen v. Farrow (HBO) we see how the community and family is groomed. How we are all groomed by narcissistic, predators, especially, the rich and famous. This episode focuses on Alle...

In this episode, Shari Karney delves into HBO's Docuseries Allen v. Farrow Season 1.   THE SECRET. The secrets that surround incest and child sexual abuse, especially when it occurs in the family. Shari Karney is the victim of father-daughter incest. She understands what the child victim feels and the predatory obsession of the perpetrator. She understands Dylan Farrow's confusion, self-...

In HBO's Allen v. Farrow, this episode sheds new light on the fact that Connecticut state prosecutor Frank Maco, despite believing there to be grounds to continue, elected not to criminally prosecute Woody Allen for the alleged sexual abuse of Dylan.  While Allen continues to receive accolades in Hollywood and is supported by famous actresses who worked with him, the momentum of the #MeToo mo...

In this bonus episode, we discuss that while Mia Farrow tries to shield 7-year-old Dylan from the trauma of repeated questioning about sexual abuse, Allen’s legal and PR team drives a narrative that Mia is a scorned woman and unfit mother who brainwashed her children. What ensues is a harrowing custody battle where Allen tries to get sole custody over Dylan, Moses, and Ronan Farrow.  You get to ex...

In this episode, I’m talking to Jenny Coleman who works with perpetrators, sexual abusers and pedophiles in trying to STOP them from abusing again. Stop It Now! is a perpetration prevention program to help and support people who have abused, or are at risk of abusing children...so that they stop and get treatment.  Jenny says, “ We believe in compassionate, respectful support to all...even if that...

In this episode, I’m talking to a grandmother who experienced first-hand the devastating impact of child sexual abuse in her family. The financial, emotional,  psychological and legal devastation.   It all began when Carol D’Attoma’s six-year-old granddaughter was sexually abused by her father.  He was arrested, and Carol’s daughter’s main source of income was gone. The mother of the child (Carol’...

In this episode, I’m talking with former Jehovah’s Witness, Mark O'Donnell who rips the lid off the Jehovah’s Witness Secret DATA BASE OF CHILD ABUSE “It’s like a cult.” says, Mark O’Donnell in the documentary made about the child sexual abuse occurring in the JW, called “ Crusaders.” JW makes people fear for their lives and puts them in a box they cannot escape. Mark is now a heroic whistleb...

#Sexual Assault Awareness Month I’m talking to Mary Reigel an experienced  Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT). and Trauma  Recovery Specialist who has been working in the field of death, grief, and trauma about how to recover from trauma.  Can you ever fully recover from trauma? What does recovery look like?  We talk about the fear that so many trauma survivors carry of going to therapy...

In this episode, I’m talking with Jennifer Carole, the daughter of a successful attorney, on his way to becoming a judge, who was murdered and his wife raped and bludgeoned to death, while the killer remained free to rape and kill some more,  and the victims and their families were deprived of justice for 40 years!    Today Jennifer Carole is here with us to share her horrifying experience learnin...

In this episode, Kim Rhodenbaugh Lewallen’s life revolved around swimming, and she loved it. Kim made the US Olympic Swim Team and was thrilled to represent her country. Like many young athletes, her world revolved around the sport she loved and felt safe being surrounded by other like minded athletes. However, that sense of safety was soon shattered by some of the very same people she trusted. Wh...

In this episode, Senator Victoria Steele  a member of the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma Addresses the Epidemic of #MMIWG, “Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls” Arizona State Senator and House Whip,  reveals the excruciating truth of about #MMIWG. How Native American women are murdered and sexually assaulted at rates as high as 10 times the average in the U.S.--crimes overwhelmingly c...

In this episode, I’m talking with Tabitha’s Mpamira who shares her incredible story which begins when her own African grandmother was sold as a child into a forced marriage with an older man in exchange for a cow. Tabitha’s mother was also forced into child marriage in exchange for a goat, but fought back and escaped. So began the journey of freedom that was passed on from mother to daughter. Tabi...

I n this episode, I’m talking with former Jehovah's Witness member, Debra McDaniel (a member of the LGBTQ+ community) who alleges that she was raped and abused by her Jehovah's Witness Presiding Overseer while the Watch Tower Organization turned a blind eye.   Debra reveals her shocking truth about the child sexual abuse she endured from the age of 7-18 years from her  congregation'...

In this episode, I’m talking to  Laura Askowitz, a survivor and the CEO of The KidsSafe Foundation She helps keep KidsSafe by teaching personal safety to children and their grown-ups to build strong, more resilient families and communities. Laura believes that one of the reasons predators find children such easy prey is because children don’t understand that they can say “no” to an adult. Children...

As a Victim of Domestic Violence, Now Outspoken Survivor, Neisha Himes Helps African American Girls G.R.O.W with her Nonprofit Aimed at Raising Self Esteem and Opportunity.  In this episode, you will hear the distressed 911 call of a 6-year old child calling for help as the little girl is witnessing domestic violence in her home.   Neisha Himes experienced domestic violence. As an African American...