The One About Turning Tragedy Into Activism With Fallon Farinacci

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🗓️ 23 December 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

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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1:01.6	Hey everyone, welcome back. So today's guest is quite an amazing one. She was actually
1:07.7	recommended by my manager Sam because she has such an incredible story. And I think that everyone
1:15.2	really needs to hear it. So I was like, okay, okay. And you know, things got busy and all of a
1:19.9	sudden now here we are months later. And I am sitting with that girl so she can tell her story
1:26.0	and so that we can all learn from it. This is the first time I will be hearing it first hand.
1:30.7	So all reactions will be genuine. And I'm just really excited to dive in. So please welcome
1:36.0	Fallon. Thank you. I already forgot how to pronounce her last name. Fallon Faranachi.
1:41.1	Fallon Faranachi. Okay. So you are from St. Catharines? Yes, originally from
1:47.0	West. I grew up in Manitoba. Really? Oh my god. Is Manitoba out West? Yes. Yeah. I kind of thought
1:54.8	it was like in the middle. Well, in that, sorry, for me, I've grown up saying it West. It's
2:00.0	how we are. Yes. Okay. What is that? Is that mean it's Midwest? Yeah. I feel like most of the time
2:06.8	that's what it's kind of referred to us. I feel geography in high school. That's okay.
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