92: [Jessica Willis Fisher] Finding My Voice

What Came Next

Broken Cycle Media

Documentary, Education, True Crime, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.4 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Content warning: child sexual assault, child rape, statutory rape, incest, sexual abuse, cultic abuse, religious abuse, narcissistic abuse, assault, physical, emotional, mental, and financial abuse.

Jessica Willis-Fisher is a singer-songwriter living in Nashville, Tennessee. Her childhood as the eldest of twelve siblings and member of a family band was marked by great tumult and abuse, despite spending several years in the public eye. Jessica would eventually free herself and deal with all that came next: coming to terms with her abuse, navigating the media, working to see her abuser imprisoned, and healing from the harm. The Broken Cycle Media has immense gratitude for Jessica’s time, energy, and all the awareness she is bringing with this conversation to intrafamilial abuse.

Jessica’s website: https://jessicawillisfisher.com/

Jessica’s song, “My History:” https://jessicawillisfisher.com/brand-new-day-lp/

Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice - https://jessicawillisfisher.com/book/

A Little Bit Culty feat. Jessica: https://alittlebitculty.com/episode/behind-the-reality-jessica-willis-fisher-on-her-childhood-abuse

For more resources and a list of related non-profit organizations, please visit http://www.somethingwaswrong.com/resources

Sources:

Fisher, Jessica Willis. “My History.” Brand New Day LP, Bard Craft Records, 2022, Track 6. https://jessicawillisfisher.com/brand-new-day-lp/

Baker, K. C. (2017, July 11). Former TLC Star Toby Willis Pleads Guilty to Child Rape and Receives 40-Year Sentence. People Magazine. https://people.com/crime/tlc-toby-willis-guilty-plea-child-rape/

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0:00.0	What Came Next is intended for mature audiences only.
0:04.3	Episodes discuss topics that can be triggering,
0:07.0	such as emotional, physical, and sexual violence, animal abuse, suicide, and murder.
0:13.6	I am not a therapist, nor am I a doctor.
0:16.9	If you're in need of support, please visit something was wrong.com
0:20.6	forward slash resources for a list of non-profit organizations that can help.
0:26.1	Opinions expressed by my guests on the show are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of myself or broken cycle media.
0:34.8	Resources and source material are linked in the episode notes. Thank you so much for listening. Jessica Willis Fisher is a singer-songwriter living in Nashville, Tennessee. Her childhood as the eldest
1:13.0	of 12 siblings and member of a family band was marked by Great Tumboldt and abuse, despite
1:20.0	spending several years in the public eye. Jessica would eventually free herself and deal with
1:26.5	all that came next, which includes coming to terms with her abuse, navigating the media, working to see her abuser imprisoned and healing from the harm.
1:38.4	The Broken Cycle Media team has immense gratitude for Jessica's time, energy, and all the awareness she's bringing with this
1:45.9	conversation to intrafamilial abuse.
1:53.0	I'm Jessica Willis Fisher. I live in Nashville, Tennessee. I am a singer-songwriter,
2:00.4	author, dog mom, fiddle player, and all kinds of different
2:04.7	artsy things. I spend a lot of my time now sharing my story of my upbringing and survivorship
2:12.6	because I love making something meaningful and beautiful out of the hardest things that life throws at us.
2:21.7	I was born on the south side of Chicago. I'm the oldest of 12 kids. The first seven, eight,
2:30.8	nine years of my life, fairly normal. We went to my grandfather's church on the weekends.
2:37.4	My mom stayed home with us. She was an education major. So she was schooling us at home.
2:43.1	Dad was working nine to five. And around my ninth year, there was a lot of changes.
2:49.5	There had been some tragedy in my extended family. There was a
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