ep 47: "My calm conversation with the man who sexually assaulted me"
Hilarious Humanitarians Podcast
Deanna Silverman, LCSW & Erin Prewitt
4.8 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In episode 47, Frances is joined by Erica M. Hart (@ericamichellehart), a documentary filmmaker who sat down with the man that sexually assaulted her years prior to have a "calm conversation" about that night. And it's all on tape in the upcoming documentary, "Grey Area." Erica shares how the sexual assault has shaped her life and how she advocates for sexual abuse survivors, healthy body image and sex positivity while refusing to live in a victim mentality.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome. It's episode number 47 of the hilarious humanitarian's podcast. |
| 0:09.6 | My name is Francis Etchevaria, licensed marriage and family therapist. |
| 0:13.0 | Deanna Silverman out this week, but I am joined by a guest who's going to be talking about a |
| 0:16.8 | project that she is working on that involves sitting down for a calm conversation with |
| 0:24.4 | the man who sexually assaulted her. |
| 0:26.1 | We'll be talking to Erica in just a minute, but before we get started, I want to say |
| 0:29.7 | thank you for listening to the podcast. |
| 0:31.6 | And if you have not done so already, please subscribe and rate. |
| 0:35.4 | A brief disclaimer as well as that the hilarious humanitarian's |
| 0:38.5 | podcast is for informational purposes only, does not constitute medical advice, and is not a |
| 0:43.5 | substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice |
| 0:48.8 | of your physician, mental health professional, or other qualified health provider with any |
| 0:53.0 | questions you have regarding a |
| 0:54.2 | medical condition. And if you're looking to follow us online, you can look for us at H. Humanitarian's |
| 0:59.5 | podcast on Instagram. Deanna goes by Hilarious Humanitarian. I am shut up Skippy. You can also |
| 1:05.7 | check out the websites, hilarioushumanitarian.com and shut up skippy.com. So I am joined by Erica Hart. She has a |
| 1:14.2 | project that has been getting quite a bit of coverage that you're currently in the editing |
| 1:19.3 | stages of. Is that what's going on? Yes. Yes. I'm currently in post for my short documentary gray |
| 1:26.3 | area. So I just want to say thank you first for joining me. |
| 1:30.8 | We have a mutual friend that I met through radio and I saw the article and the advocate |
| 1:36.2 | and thought, oh my God, this woman is insanely brave. |
| 1:40.6 | So can you tell us about gray area? |
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