Becoming an Avenging Angel | Susan Omillian
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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On this episode of the Preacher Boys Podcast, Eric Skwarczynski sits down with Susan Omillian.
Susan Omilian is an attorney, author, motivational speaker and nationally recognized expert who has worked to end violence against women for the last forty years. In the 1970s, she founded a rape crisis center and, in the early 1980s, represented battered women in divorce proceedings. She also litigated sex discrimination cases, including helping to articulate the legal concept that made sexual harassment illegal in the 1990s.
Her passion and enthusiasm for this work became more personal and immediate with the violent death of her niece Maggie, killed by her ex-boyfriend in 1999. Driven by a desire to help women move on after abuse as Maggie could not, Susan developed and has facilitated since 2001 her My Avenging Angel WorkshopsTM, based on the idea that “living well is the best revenge.” These workshops have helped hundreds of women take the journey from victim to survivor to thriver.
Susan’s award-winning work has been described as “life-changing” and as “a component for women recovering from abuse that has been virtually overlooked.” On her own healing journey after the senseless death of her niece, Susan found the work she was born to do and it comes together here in the THRIVER ZONE — a healing place for women who want to reclaim their lives after abuse.
Susan’s three books in The Thriver Zone SeriesTM contain the motivational guidance she has successfully used with women in her workshops. These books include Entering the Thriver Zone: A Seven-Step Guide to Thriving After Abuse, the first in the series published in 2016 and Staying in the Thriver Zone: A Road Map to Manifest a Life of Power and Purpose, published in 2018 as the second. Completing the three-book series will be Living in the Thriver Zone: A Celebration of Living Well as the Best Revenge.
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| 0:00.0 | Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:09.7 | You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, physical, |
| 0:15.8 | and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement. |
| 0:25.5 | 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 |
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| 0:46.9 | at Preacher Boys Doc. |
| 0:49.4 | Now, here's your host, Eric Squarsinski. |
| 0:53.8 | All right, everybody, welcome back to the Preach Boys podcast. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm so excited to have Susan O'Million on the show with me today. |
| 1:00.8 | Susan, can you just really quickly just introduce yourself to my audience? |
| 1:04.9 | And we'll dive into your story a little bit, but just give me a little bit of context about the current nature of what you do and what you've been working on recently. Okay. So I am an attorney. I don't currently practice in a conventional |
| 1:18.1 | way, but that's my background. So currently what I do is work with mostly women's survivors, |
| 1:26.5 | domestic violence, sexual assault, different kinds of abuse. |
| 1:31.0 | Sometimes I have women who have been sexually harassed at work, and I have devised a workshop that I call |
| 1:36.8 | my avenging angel workshops. |
| 1:39.5 | And I believe one of the things that helps people in the process of moving on after abuse is the |
| 1:45.4 | idea that living well is our best revenge. And the women really like that. So I've devised a |
| 1:51.8 | workshop. It's really trying to move women beyond even the survivor place. So my mission is to work |
| 1:59.6 | on the journey from victim to survivor to thriver. |
| 2:03.2 | And I've had my own personal journeys that sort of have spearheaded this, |
| 2:08.5 | but I've been in this movement for many years. |
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