EP19: The Climb w/ Raven Gates
Let's Talk About It With Taylor Nolan
Wave Podcast Network
3.4 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2018
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Taylor invites good friend Raven Gates to share her story with domestic violence. 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have been victims of some form of physical violence by an intimate partner within their lifetime (NCADV). Things get emotional as both women reflect on the abusive relationships they’ve been in, what the warning signs were, and how these relationships impact their current relationships. Keep on moving, keep climbing, keep the faith baby, its all about the climb.
RESOURCES
The National Domestic Violence Hotline
The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Let's Talk About It. I am here with a new guest this week and |
| 0:10.8 | we're going to dive into a topic that we've actually got a lot of emails about and you |
| 0:15.0 | guys have been kind of waiting for us to cover this topic. I am not with Kit today but |
| 0:20.4 | I am with someone you guys might recognize from my season of the Bachelor and also from |
| 0:25.9 | Bachelor in Paradise. Welcome Raven to the pod. Yay! Hello and thank you for having me. I am |
| 0:33.7 | excited about these topics you have for us today. Yeah me too. So today we're going to |
| 0:40.6 | dive into abusive relationships. Raven is going to share a little bit about her experience |
| 0:46.0 | with abusive relationships so I'll share a little bit of my experience and then we'll |
| 0:51.1 | try to get to some of your guys' letters about it. Sounds good. Well I'm kind of nervous |
| 0:55.8 | I've never really publicly talked about any of this before in detail but I'm excited to do it. |
| 1:01.7 | Well thank you for like being open to talk about it. I mean you did you shared a little bit |
| 1:08.0 | on our season. Right. Yeah it wasn't a big part of my storyline per se in the Bachelor world |
| 1:17.2 | but when we got to Paradise I kind of opened up a little bit and I've had a lot of girls |
| 1:22.6 | ask me about it but I have yet to talk into detail about it so yeah I hope we can help some |
| 1:29.0 | people today. Yeah definitely and I mean what was that experience like for you to open up about |
| 1:35.1 | it a little bit you know in the small amount that you did but it was on national TV. I have mixed |
| 1:43.8 | emotions about it because I don't want people to look at me differently and then I also think |
| 1:51.6 | it's so important to talk about. So I just have such a mix of emotions which I feel like every |
| 1:59.9 | survivor of abuse has when they talk about it they feel empowered and they also feel |
| 2:08.2 | they're afraid. Yeah well even how you started off saying that you didn't want to be looked at |
| 2:13.4 | differently. Exactly. That's a huge reason a lot of the time so people don't come forward |
| 2:18.2 | because they don't want to be seen as you know damaged or a victim. Exactly. That is my |
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