Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations.

Listener discretion is advised. 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. The testimonies shared on this podcast are told from the personal fundamental Baptist movement. The testimony shared on this podcast

are told from the personal experience and perspective of the survivors. Not all legal outcomes

are known or final. Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law.

Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinski.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast.

Today's guest is Ashley Easter.

Ashley is the founder of Courage 365, a nonprofit organization that inspires and

transforms countless abuse survivors' lives through a community of understanding,

inspiration, and empowerment. I recently joined the board for Courage 365, and I'm excited to talk

a little bit about my role and involvement on today's conversation with Ashley. But the thing I'm

most excited to share with you is about the 30 days of courage that's happening in October.

We're going to talk about this event in depth on this episode and what you can come to expect,

but at any time you want to find out more details, be sure to head over to courage 365.org

slash 30. That's courage 365.org slash the word 30. All right. Let's get into my conversation with Ashley Easter.

Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Prejoice podcast. Ashley. Thank you for joining me again on the show.

Thank you so much. I'm honored to be back last time was a blast. And I just, I love all the things that you're doing on your podcast,

just the awareness that you've created. And so it's, it's really an honor to be here.

I know last time we dove pretty deep into your story and just your kind of personal,

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