270: Fighting Back Against Abuse with Sarah Klein
Midlife Conversations with Natalie Jill: Fat Loss, Hormones & Health for Women Over 40
Natalie Jill
4.8 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Sarah Klein is a preeminent civil and trial attorney who specializes in representing sexual abuse survivors and a nationally renowned advocate for legal, cultural, and political change for the support for the victims of sexual abuse. A former competitive gymnast, Klein is also the first known victim of former Olympic women's gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. At the July 2018 ESPY Awards, Klein accepted the Arthur Ashe Courage Award on behalf of herself and the hundreds of other survivors who spoke out and testified about Nassar's abuse. Klein's legal practice is focused on representation of victims of sexual abuse by perpetrators under the aegis of powerful institutions including school districts, sport federations, entertainment conglomerates, churches, youth organizations, and Fortune 500 companies.
She is also actively spearheading the fight to extend the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse victims across all 50 states. Sarah is an alumna of Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Global Entrepreneurship program. She sits on the Board of Directors of CHILD USAdvocacy, a national organization committed to protecting children's civil liberties and keeping children safe from abuse. She also sits on the Board of Yale University's Sports Equity Lab, pursuing research that can inform policies around safe sporting environments and help fight abuse, in all forms,for all athletes.
Through her significant experience in lawyering some of the country's highest profile cases,Klein has become a leading voice on sexual abuse and other legal issues on television, radio,and in print media including ESPN, NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, NPR, The New York Times, TheWashington Post, and USA Today. Sarah hosts a weekly podcast called Bar Fights: Taking On Issues That Matter on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartMEDIA, Audacy and Stitcher.
In this episode, you will learn:
- How to notice a predator early on
- How to educate your children on what to avoid
- Why victims need more support
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Natalie Jill, fat loss expert turned lifestyle and high performance coach. Welcome to Listen |
| 0:08.0 | Up, the podcast. On this podcast, I do what I do best, taking complicated information that is |
| 0:14.3 | relevant to us now and breaking it down simply with actionable steps you can implement to level |
| 0:20.7 | up your life. |
| 0:21.6 | I also regularly interview some of the most inspiring and courageous men and women |
| 0:26.5 | on the planet who, at their worst, learned how to achieve success greater than anything |
| 0:31.2 | they ever dreamed possible, creating everything from nothing. |
| 0:35.2 | If you are new here, I encourage you to go back and listen |
| 0:37.5 | from episode one when this podcast was previously called Leveling Up for the Full Transformative |
| 0:43.1 | Experience. Today I'm talking to Sarah Klein. She was a gymnast from the age of five. She is now a |
| 0:52.6 | civil attorney representing survivors of sexual abuse. |
| 0:56.7 | She was one of the original victims of Larry Nassar and just quite an incredible journey, |
| 1:04.4 | a story. |
| 1:04.8 | We're going to dive in to what it was like, how this happened, how the sexual abuse even |
| 1:08.9 | happened, what that felt like to be in that as a |
| 1:12.1 | child all the way up to the age of 25, why it's now her life purpose to help other victims. |
| 1:20.0 | You know, she was telling me before we started recording that so many times the perpetrator will |
| 1:25.7 | get penalized, go to jail, whatever it is, but the story of the victim has never healed, is never shared. |
| 1:31.3 | They're never compensated. |
| 1:32.2 | And she goes after helping supporting them. |
| 1:34.4 | Thank you so much for being here today, Sarah. |
| 1:36.3 | Yay, thanks for having me. |
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