Unsilenced w/Meg Appelgate

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4.8 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Meg Appelgate is the CEO of Unsilenced, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to stop institutional child abuse by empowering self-advocates to promote lasting social change. The organization envisions a world where youth are free from institutionalization and the voices of young people are respected in the development of their own mental, emotional, and physical well-being. At the age of 15, Meg was abducted by two strangers in the middle of the night from her California home and was told that “she was coming with them”. 8 hours later she found herself at a lockdown treatment facility in Boise, Idaho. Then, 6 months later, she found herself in an additional behavioral modification program in northern Montana where she spent the next 3 years. After graduating college, with a degree in psychology, completely oblivious to the abuse she had experienced, Meg spent the next 17 years dedicating her life to serving on various non-profit boards to help them with board development and recruitment and expanding their programs to further their impact. It wasn’t until she was well into her non-profit career that she woke up to the abuse and brainwashing that plagued her childhood and the effect it had on her entire adulthood. It was then that she became determined to pair her love of giving back and helping those in need, with her dedication to empowering other survivors of institutional abuse. Meg brings to Unsilenced an extensive background in non-profit management, board development, and fund development. She is actively involved with and serves on the Board of Directors at Laura’s House and The Shea Center. When she doesn’t find herself fully immersed in new ideas for fundraising and development, Meg loves traveling to see new places with her husband and 4 children. In this candid and revealing conversation Meg shares with Rachel the harrowing experiences of her adolescence that inspired the work she does today. Throughout the discussion, Rachel relates to Meg the insights she's gained from her years working with people who've been negatively impacted after encountering dangerously unprofessional practitioners in the therapy field. Before You Go: Rachel reiterates how silencing whistleblowers allows abuse to continue and exemplifies why communication is a fundamental human need by explaining the genesis of the obscure Chinese language of Nushu. You can find more info about Meg's organization at: https://www.unsilenced.org/ Follow Meg on Social Media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/megappelgate IG: https://www.instagram.com/megappelgate/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@megappelgate You can purchase Rachel's webinar series LIVING IN FREEDOM here: rachelbernsteintherapy.com/webinar.html To help support the show monthly and get bonus episodes, shirts, and tote bags, please visit: www.patreon.com/indoctrination Prefer to support the IndoctriNation show with a one-time donation? Use this link: www.paypal.me/indoctrination Connect with us on Social Media: Twitter: twitter.com/_indoctrination Facebook: www.facebook.com/indoctrinationpodcast Tik Tok: www.tiktok.com/@indoctrinationpodcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/indoctrinationpodcast/ YouTube: www.youtube.com/rachelbernsteinlmft You can always help the show for free by leaving a rating on Spotify or a review on Apple/ iTunes. It really helps the visibility of the show! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Welcome to indoctrination, a weekly conversation series about protecting yourself from systems of control.
0:11.1	I'm your host, Rachel Bernstein.
0:13.6	Hi, everybody.
0:15.0	I am so happy to be able to report that we have so many listeners, again, all over the world, I am still
0:25.2	blown away by the fact that we have an audience in Sri Lanka. So please be in touch with us from
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0:39.6	Poland is really very powerful to me, especially from having ancestors who lived through World
0:47.2	War II, the Holocaust, who dealt with being a part of a nation where they were treated as less than human because of
0:57.7	sudden group think and indoctrination. And so it is very powerful for me to see the amount of
1:04.4	listeners we have in places that give me a feeling of hope for the future then in those places or in I guess around the world.
1:14.5	And also, thank you to our big listenership in Sweden and in the UK, Canada and Australia.
1:24.6	We love all of our listeners and love to be able to point out where people are
1:29.9	listening. So again, be in touch. Let us know about what brings you to the podcast in your part of the
1:36.0	world. And for today, we have Meg Applegate. She is the CEO of Unsilenced, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to stop institutional child abuse by empowering self-advocates to promote lasting social change.
1:57.5	The organization envisions a world where youth are free from institutionalization and the
2:02.7	voices of young people are respected in the development of their own mental, emotional, and physical
2:08.9	well-being. At the age of 15, Meg was abducted by two strangers in the middle of the night from her
2:15.6	California home and was told that, quote, unquote,
2:19.2	she was coming with them. She didn't know them. She didn't know why she was going and she didn't
2:24.2	know where she was going. Eight hours later, she found herself at a lockdown treatment facility
2:29.8	in Boise, Idaho. Then six months later, she found herself in an additional behavioral modification
2:36.0	program in northern Montana, where she spent the next three years. Yes, three years. After graduating
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