22: [John-Michael Lander] An Athlete’s Silence
What Came Next
Broken Cycle Media
4.4 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
John-Michael Lander is a former Olympic-bound diver and current actor, author, speaker, and victim advocate. His words and efforts have been seen everywhere from TIME magazine to the TED Talk stage. He has entitled his experiences of sexual abuse and trafficking “An Athlete’s Silence.” By sharing his story, his goal is to bring awareness to predatory practices in the athletic and education worlds, as well as to change the way society receives sexual abuse victims. I am so honored he joined me today to discuss how he’s transformed all that came next for him into healing for athletes of all ages.
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Episode *Content warning: child sexual abuse, rape, physical violence, stalking, sex trafficking, self-harm, suicidal ideation, suicide attempts
Resources:
Darkness to Light: End Child Sexual Abuse - http://d2l.org
The Army of Survivors - https://thearmyofsurvivors.org/
National Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation - https://endsexualexploitation.org/
End Violence Against Women International: https://evawintl.org/
Survivor Space: https://survivorspace.org/
Additional resources + non-profit organizations: http://www.somethingwaswrong.com/resources
Sources:
- Department of Homeland Security. (n.d.). Human Trafficking. Retrieved July 8, 2024, from https://www.dhs.gov/hsi/investigate/human-trafficking
- National Human Trafficking Hotline. (n.d.). National Statistics. https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/statistics
- Darkness 2 Light. (2023). Child Sexual Abuse Updates. https://www.d2l.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Child-Sexual-Abuse-Updates.pdf
- Strauss Investigation. (n.d.). Ohio State University. https://straussinvestigation.osu.edu/
- Burga, S. (2023, April 23). Congress Re-Introduces Bill to Protect Kids from Online Sexual Abuse. Here’s What To Know. Time Magazine. https://time.com/6273895/congress-re-introduces-bill-to-protect-kids-from-online-sexual-abuse/
John-Michael Lander:
An Athlete’s Silence: https://anathletessilence.com/
John-Michael’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnmichaellander
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Kitch. |
| 0:02.7 | What Came Next is intended for mature audiences only. |
| 0:07.1 | Episodes discuss topics that can be triggering, |
| 0:09.5 | such as emotional, physical, and sexual violence, suicide, and murder. |
| 0:14.1 | I am not a therapist, nor am I a doctor. |
| 0:16.6 | If you're in need of support, please visit something was wrong.com forward slash resources for a list of non-profit organizations that can help. |
| 0:25.3 | Opinions expressed by my guests on the show are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of myself or broken cycle media. |
| 0:33.1 | Resources and source material are linked in the episode notes. |
| 0:36.8 | Thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:42.0 | John Michael Lander is a former Olympic-bound diver, actor, author, speaker, and advocate. His words |
| 0:51.1 | and efforts have been seen everywhere from Ty Magazine to the TED Talk stage. |
| 0:56.0 | He is entitled his experiences of sexual abuse and trafficking and athletes' silence. |
| 1:02.0 | By sharing his story, his goal is to bring awareness to predatory practices in the athletic and educational worlds, |
| 1:10.0 | as well as to change the way society receives |
| 1:12.7 | sexual abuse victims. |
| 1:14.9 | I am so honored he joined me today to discuss how he's transformed all that came next for |
| 1:20.2 | him into healing for athletes of all ages. I'm John Michael Lander. |
| 1:47.3 | My loved ones would say that I'm caring, empathetic, easy to talk to. |
| 1:52.6 | I think that's one of my superpowers. |
| 1:54.7 | I care a lot about people. |
| 1:56.6 | I want to hear where they're coming from and what they're going through. |
| 1:59.7 | I'm a former Olympic diving contender. |
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