The One About Turning Tragedy Into Activism With Fallon Farinacci

The Papaya Podcast

Mental Health, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 23 December 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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When Fallon was just 9 years old, the unthinkable happened to her family. An unthinkable that lead to an unfolding of trauma that didn’t seem to end. Fallon, however, used her survival as a means to activate her story, and the story of so many others, including sitting on the board for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada. This mother of 3 is is turning tragedy into an opportunity to speak and advocate.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:04.0	As a parent, do you ever wish someone could just whisper some realistic and trustworthy support in your ear?
0:10.4	And not make you feel awful for not having all the answers?
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0:15.0	I'm Dr. Alisa Pressman, developmental psychologist, parent educator, clinical professor, and I'm a mom. My goal is to make
0:22.9	your parenting journey less overwhelming and a lot more joyful. Please join me every Friday for
0:28.8	new episodes of Raising Good Humans. Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast.
0:40.3	I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostis, Sarah Nicole.
0:43.4	And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that.
0:50.8	So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital
0:56.3	space together. Hey everyone, welcome back. So today's guest is quite an amazing one. She was
1:07.4	actually recommended by my manager Sam because she has such an incredible story. And
1:13.6	I think that everyone really needs to hear it. So I was like, okay, okay. And, you know, things got
1:18.9	busy and all of a sudden now here we are months later. And I am sitting with that girl so she can
1:25.2	tell her story and so that we can all learn from it. This is the first
1:28.5	time I will be hearing it firsthand. So all reactions will be genuine and I'm just really excited to
1:34.4	dive in. So please welcome Fallon. Thank you. I already forgot how to pronounce her last name.
1:39.8	Fallon Faran Faran Faranacchi. Okay. So you are from St. Catharines? Yes. Originally from out west. I grew up in Manitoba. Really? Mm-hmm. Oh, my gosh. Is Manitoba out west? Yes. Yeah. I kind of thought it was like in the middle. Well, in that, sorry. For me, I've grown up saying out west. It's definitely in the Yes. Okay. I was like, what is that? Is that mean it's Midwest? Yeah. I feel like most of the time that's what it's kind of referred to us. I feel geography in high school. That's okay. That's who I am. Anyway, so you are a lot of things. You're a speaker. You're an advocate.
2:18.2	And I don't want to give away all of it.
2:19.8	But I just really want you to tell your story and explain how it's all happened that you are who you are today and what it is that you do.
2:28.7	Okay.
2:29.2	So I grew up in rural Manitoba in a community of 300 people.
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