61: [Danielle Leukam] The Last Straw // Part 1
What Came Next
Broken Cycle Media
4.4 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Danielle Leukam is a mother, nurse, author, survivor, speaker, and victim advocate from Minnesota. In November of 2018 her entire life changed forever after becoming a victim of home invasion and sexual assault. The journey to find and convict her rapist was long and arduous, but Danielle leaned on the community and professionals around her to prevail. She continues to share all that comes next in her journey and fight for justice in hopes of bringing awareness and inspiring other survivors.
Danielle's website
https://www.danielleleukam.com/
Danielle's Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/danielleleukam/
Danielle's Amazon Author page
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| 0:00.0 | What Came Next is intended for mature audiences only. |
| 0:04.5 | Episodes discuss topics that can be triggering, |
| 0:07.2 | such as emotional, physical, and sexual violence, animal abuse, suicide, and murder. |
| 0:13.7 | I am not a therapist, nor am I a doctor. |
| 0:17.1 | If you're in need of support, please visit Something Was Wrong.com |
| 0:20.8 | forward slash resources for a list of non-profit organizations that can help. |
| 0:26.3 | Opinions expressed by my guests on the show are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of myself or broken cycle media. |
| 0:35.0 | Resources and source material are linked in the episode notes. |
| 0:38.9 | Thank you so much for listening. Danielle Lycambe is a mother, nurse, author, survivor, speaker, and victim advocate from Minnesota. In November of 2018, her entire |
| 1:15.2 | life changed forever after being the victim of a home invasion and sexual assault. The journey |
| 1:22.3 | to find and convict her rapist was long and arduous, but Danielle leaned on the community and professionals |
| 1:29.5 | around her to prevail. She continues to share all that comes next in her journey and fight for |
| 1:35.7 | justice in hopes of bringing awareness and inspiring other survivors. |
| 1:46.0 | I'm Danielle Leikam. I'm from the Rochester, Minnesota area. |
| 1:49.0 | I'm a nurse. |
| 1:50.0 | I work full time. |
| 1:52.0 | I'm an author, a public speaker, an advocate against sexual violence. |
| 1:57.0 | I'm a mom of two kids, and I am a very busy human being. I'm a mom of two kids and I am a very busy human being. |
| 2:01.6 | I'm a caregiver so I'm always making sure everyone else around me is happy and taking care of, |
| 2:08.6 | which is hard on my mental health too because I put myself on the back burner. |
| 2:13.6 | I talked to my mom about this. |
| 2:15.6 | Her and my dad say that I'm a very protective mother. I'm |
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