261: Escaping Toxic Environments | Ft. ASHLEY EASTER + Claudia King, Sarah Edmondson, Emily Anderson
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:20.4 | The testimony shared on this podcast are told from the personal experience and perspective |
| 0:25.0 | of the survivors. |
| 0:26.8 | Not all legal outcomes are known or final. |
| 0:29.8 | Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. |
| 0:34.4 | Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinsky. Leaving a toxic or abusive environment is a very |
| 0:41.7 | difficult thing, and navigating those uncharted waters for the first time can feel extremely |
| 0:47.3 | lonely. But the truth is, there are people out there who have made it to the other side. |
| 0:52.4 | And I think it's important to hear the stories of those |
| 0:54.5 | who have been there and done that because they can articulate and understand in a way that nobody else |
| 0:59.7 | can. I hope today's episode is helpful to anybody who's at any stage in that journey, whether you're |
| 1:05.1 | questioning if you can get out, whether you're somebody who just exited and you're looking |
| 1:09.3 | for answers, or whether you're an advocate or a survivor yourself turning back to help another generation of survivors |
| 1:15.9 | make their way to freedom. This episode has something for you. At the beginning of the show, |
| 1:21.2 | I'm going to be sharing snippets from three conversations I've had with guests on the Preacher Boys |
| 1:25.8 | podcast. The first is my good friend, Claudia |
| 1:29.1 | King. Claudia is a former police officer who was a victim of domestic violence herself. |
| 1:35.5 | She was an unlikely victim. And while there were warning flags everywhere, the people around her |
| 1:40.6 | just didn't see the things that were really happening behind closed doors. |
| 1:45.8 | Next, I'm going to be sharing a snippet from my conversation with Sarah Edmondson. |
| 1:50.5 | Sarah and her husband Nippy have become good friends of mine as well, and I've collaborated |
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