216: Raised by Fake Missionaries | Isami Daehn
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Today's guest is Isami Daehn.
Isami was born in Japan in 1989 and moved to the United States in 2007. Raised by a Japanese father and an American mother, she was raised bilingually. (She honestly doesn't know which her first language was!)
Unfortunately, her home was not a safe place for children. Physical and verbal abuse were "normal" in her home. After she became an adult, the relationship did not get any better.
In 2017, Isami became permanently estranged from her parents.
She was depressed and unable to see herself in a positive way. After much inner work and healing, she realized that the estrangement did not define her worth.
Having discovered this, her passion is to share the same empowerment by coaching, speaking, and creating content.
Isami is a survivor of child sexual abuse and mental health advocate (Her abuser was also her church pianist from ages 9-almost 14).
She was raised in church all of her life, but says she did not meet Jesus until she was 23.
It took being removed from my abusive home/church to realize her abusers and Jesus were completely opposite.
She considers herself an anomaly. As most would (and understandably so) never want to have anything to do with God ever again.
➕Isami has hosted safety/abuse seminars for church leaders
➕Created content for those struggling with mental health
➕Spoken on multiple podcasts/live videos across the globe
She has received some of the best diversity & inclusion training as a former international flight attendant and currently as an employee of Forbes top #2 largest employers to work for in the United States.
She also has an international CPC coaching certification as well as an interdisciplinary studies degree in psychology/communications/design.
And she wants to speak to your church/youth group/organization!
If you are truly concerned about the safety of your congregation, want your staff to have a broader understanding of diversity & inclusion, and/or want someone to encourage your church/youth group/organization:
Isami is here to help!
Please feel free to reach out to her via email:
[email protected] or on her website https://www.isamidaehn.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:09.2 | You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement. |
| 0:20.3 | The testimonies shared on this podcast are told from the personal experience and perspective of the survivors. |
| 0:26.7 | Not all legal outcomes are known or final. |
| 0:29.7 | Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. |
| 0:34.3 | Now, here's your host, Eric Squarsinski. |
| 0:38.6 | Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast. And today's guest is someone like, |
| 0:44.0 | when I was looking at the calendar a few days ago, I was like, how have we not done this? |
| 0:48.9 | I feel like I've been fan girling for like two years. And then we met a year ago when you moved to Vegas. |
| 0:55.5 | We're both in Vegas. And that was it. We haven't connected since. So yeah, just introduce |
| 1:02.1 | stuff a little bit. Give us just a 30 second little backstory. Then we'll dive deep. Yeah, sure. |
| 1:08.1 | Well, my name is Isami. And I'm originally from Japan, and then recently |
| 1:12.6 | moved to Vegas, and then there's been a billion moves in between there. But I grew up super |
| 1:20.3 | strict, fundamentalist, Baptist. I still identify as Christian, but have re-evaluated a lot of things since leaving where I grew up in. |
| 1:34.8 | A lot of it was kind of being pushed out, but then also realizing that some of the things, |
| 1:42.1 | a lot of the things actually, that I grew up thinking were |
| 1:44.8 | okay or not. And then, you know, hearing a lot of people's stories and other survivor's |
| 1:51.8 | stories made me realize what I grew up with was definitely not okay. So I'm kind of in that |
| 1:57.3 | process of still learning and unlearning a lot of things. So that's where I'm at right now. |
| 2:01.3 | Well, you describe yourself a lot as like growing up in like a fake missionary family. |
| 2:05.8 | And like that's a, when you read that, it's interesting. |
| 2:08.6 | And you can pull some context out of that. |
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