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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Brenda Tracy, Survivor & Activist

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Mindset, Finding Mastery, Business, Sport Psychology, Education, Health & Fitness, Michael Gervais, Psychology, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Self-improvement, Self Help

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Brenda Tracy, the founder of the national campaign SetTheExpectation which aims to raise awareness around issues of sexual assault and domestic violence -- through the power of sports while also engaging, empowering and educating men as agents for change.

Brenda was gang raped by four men in 1998.

So heavy.

In this conversation, she shares that even though law enforcement collected extensive evidence – including confessions from her attackers – the District Attorney advised against prosecuting her case.

She was never advised of her victims’ rights, nor informed when officials destroyed her evidence three years prior to the statute of limitations.

Sixteen years later, Brenda came forward publicly, and now seeks to make the world a better place for survivors.

Her stance on “men as the solution” has garnered national attention and made her one of the country’s most influential voices on sexual assault.

I wanted to speak with Brenda to better understand courage.

Where did she find the power to come forward, be vulnerable, and not only stand up for what’s right but also strive for change.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You don't know what you could do to impact another person's life.

0:03.5

It could be something really insignificant to you,

0:07.3

but it could mean everything to that person.

0:09.6

So how often do we just walk around as people?

0:12.2

What if you intentionally smiled at someone

0:15.4

or gave them a compliment or held a door open?

0:17.9

Who knows?

0:18.4

That could be that one thing that that person needed

0:21.8

to validate them or their experience or why I'm still here.

0:25.9

Like all of us could have saved someone's life and not even known it. All right,

0:35.0

welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast, I'm Michael Jervay,

0:42.0

and by Trade and Training, a Sport and Performance Psychologist,

0:46.2

as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create.

0:49.6

And the whole idea behind these conversations is to learn how the

0:53.4

extraordinary's think how they do. How do they organize their

0:57.5

internal world as well as their external life to be able to

1:00.5

understand the nuances of both craft and self.

1:05.0

And in these conversations, we want to dig to understand.

1:08.0

How do they do that, but then how can we apply some of those insights and learnings for our own life as well.

1:14.3

And the whole idea is not so that we're better,

1:16.7

just you being better, or me being better.

1:19.6

But when we become better, we can also help others do the same. I am really excited to announce that this year

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