Becoming The Brave One, with Amanda Carrasco
This Changes Everything with Sarah Rice
Sarah Rice - Wave Podcast Network
4.6 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
TRIGGER WARNING - This Changes Everything Sarah is joined by the writer of Becoming The Brave One, Amanda Carrasco. Amanda is a family survivor of homicide and sexual assault who uses her experiences to impact the lives of her community and those impacted by the justice system.
Amanda's website: https://amandacarrasco.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amanda_the_brave_one/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome once again to everybody's favorite therapy theme podcast. I'm your host, Sarah. And before we begin, I want to give everybody a quick heads up. Today's episode is going to include some discussions of childhood, sexual abuse and family violence, trauma. And we share these stories with care, |
| 0:22.3 | not detail. But if you're not in the space for that today, I totally understand. I've been there. |
| 0:28.0 | And we'll be here when you're ready. So this conversation is ultimately about healing and hope |
| 0:33.8 | and reclaiming your voice. And if you've been through hard things, |
| 0:37.7 | I think this is going to be such a great reminder |
| 0:40.5 | that you're not broken and you're not alone and there's a way out. |
| 0:44.1 | And our guest today is Amanda Carrasco. |
| 0:46.6 | She is a restorative justice advocate and survivor |
| 0:49.4 | whose story is as brave as it is powerful. |
| 0:52.9 | I'm so excited to have you here on the show. Welcome, Amanda. |
| 0:56.6 | Thank you so much. I'm so excited to be here. Well, first, I want to say thank you so much for being |
| 1:02.9 | brave. I'm all of a sudden nervous and like, like I haven't done this a million times because your |
| 1:08.3 | story was so relatable to me. And I just oh my god I'm crying |
| 1:14.1 | right away I just want to say thank you so much for being so brave and sharing that story |
| 1:19.3 | because I know it's not an easy thing to do and oh so thank you so much like when you first started |
| 1:26.6 | out the book oh my god I will get myself together don't Like when you first started out the book, oh my God, I will get myself together. |
| 1:28.8 | Don't worry. |
| 1:29.7 | When you first started, you talked about the ACE test, which is, for people who don't know, |
| 1:34.6 | it stands for adverse childhood experiences. |
| 1:37.0 | So it's this test that you can take. |
| 1:38.7 | And I really encourage our listeners to take it because it, I think a lot of times in this, in this, I don't know, |
| 1:47.3 | social media TikTok era, the word trauma has is like thrown around and, and everything is like |
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