Rerelease | Jenna Lee & The Controlling Firefighter

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

Abuse Survivor Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.7 • 791 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this re-release episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Brandon talks with Jenna Lee about her relationship with a firefighter who built trust quickly and used it just as fast. What began with connection, vulnerability, and future plans slowly shifted into control, pressure, destabilization, and confusion. Jenna Lee shares how mirroring, intensity, cognitive dissonance, and emotional overwhelm made it hard to see what was happening in real time—and how small moments began to change the direction of the relationship long before it ended.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor named Jenna Lee,
0:06.8	and Jenna Lee was in a relationship with an abusive firefighter.
0:10.7	It's a story of mirroring, future. I am Brandon Chadwick and with me today. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.
0:38.7	I am Brandon Chadwick, and with me today, we have Jenna Lee.
0:44.1	How are you?
0:45.5	I'm doing great.
0:46.7	How are you?
0:47.8	I'm doing well.
0:49.5	Thank you for being here.
0:51.3	And if you want to be a guest like Jenna Lee is today, please do go to our website
0:56.9	at Narcissistapocalypse.com. Click on the guest form button at the top of the page. There,
1:02.6	you can fill out our guest form and press the submit button. We also have a new newsletter at our
1:07.8	website. If you want our newsletter, our newsletter comes with a free workbook
1:11.4	every week for our episode. So if you want that newsletter, sign up at Narcissistapocalypse.com.
1:17.1	And we also have a support group at Narcissistapocalypse.com with Zoom meetings every Wednesday night,
1:22.2	Thursday afternoons, and Saturday nights. So that is all at Narcissistapocalypse.com.
1:30.4	And today's episode is a re-release of Genelie's story. And this is from, I think, our first year, maybe the first six months
1:37.2	this episode is from. And I've done my best to make some better sound fixes for this episode and have a few more insights as well.
1:48.5	And there is no content warning for this story, for Genelese's story. And Genelie's story is
1:54.9	very much about the trust building and the mirroring that went on right at the beginning of the
2:00.5	relationship.
2:01.4	Future faking, a lot of love bombing, a lot of fate type talk that is just overwhelming her senses in every way for her to not really trust her gut.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Abuse Survivor Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Abuse Survivor Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.