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  • Facing the Jaguar: Babs Walters Journey of Healing and Empowerment

    Facing the Jaguar: Babs Walters Journey of Healing and Empowerment
    Sep 10 2025
    Join us as Babs Walters, author of "Facing the Jaguar," shares her transformative journey of overcoming trauma and finding empowerment through storytelling. In this episode of "Break the Silence, Build the Future," Babs reveals how confronting the symbolic jaguar helped her break the silence and embark on a healing journey. Discover the power of memoir writing and the courage it takes to face one's fears. #HealingJourney #Empowerment #OvercomingTrauma Connect with Babs Walters https://babswalters.com https://www.youtube.com/@facingthejaguar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    44 min
  • Break the Silence: Why Silence Costs Lives | #IamSahraBulle Campaign 2025

    Break the Silence: Why Silence Costs Lives | #IamSahraBulle Campaign 2025
    Sep 4 2025
    Silence is not protection — silence is permission. In this clip from Break the Silence, Build a Future, Fartumo Kusow, author, advocate, and founder of the Sahra Bulle Foundation, explains why silence costs lives and why breaking it is the first step toward ending gender-based violence (GBV). As part of the #IamSahraBulle Campaign 2025, this message calls us to recommit — through the Purple Ribbon Campaign, the Walk to End Silence (Oct 4, 2025), and the 3rd Annual #IamSahraBulle Conference (Nov 26, 2025). 👉 Learn more and take action: wespeake.com/recommitment Because if not now, then when? If not you, then who? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    20 min
  • Breaking the Silence: Community Action Against Gender-Based Violence

    Breaking the Silence: Community Action Against Gender-Based Violence
    Aug 27 2025
    🎙️ Episode Title (specific + SEO) Breaking the Silence: Community Action Against Gender-Based Violence #IamSahraBulle Campaign 2025 In this powerful opening episode of Break the Silence, Build a Future, Fartumo Kusow — author, storyteller, and founder of the Sahra Bulle Foundation — emphasizes the urgent need for action against gender-based violence (GBV) and the dangers of silence. Through her personal story, Fartumo illustrates how silence costs lives and why advocacy, empowerment, and women’s rights must remain central to our communities. She connects today’s work to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (Beijing+30), reminding us that collective responsibility and community action are essential to lasting social change. This episode also introduces the Purple Ribbon Campaign, a community-driven initiative that raises awareness, honors lives lost, and amplifies survivor voices. By uniting individuals and organizations, it fosters justice and demonstrates how collective action can transform grief into meaningful change. Because if not now, then when? If not you, then who? 👉 Take action today: https://www.wespeake.com/recommitment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    13 min
  • The Attempt to Reach for Beautiful: Grief, Love, and Letting Go

    The Attempt to Reach for Beautiful: Grief, Love, and Letting Go
    Jul 11 2025
    When Sally McQuillen lost her 21-year-old son in a tragic accident, her world changed forever. In this powerful episode, Sally, author of Reaching for Beautiful: A Memoir of Loving and Losing a Wild Child, joins host Fartumo Kusow for a deeply honest conversation about parenting through fear, the weight of grief, and the journey toward forgiveness and healing. Together, they explore the complexities of loving someone who walks a risky path, the illusion of control that haunts so many grieving parents, and how writing her memoir became both a burden and a balm. As a psychotherapist, Sally brings unique insight into the emotional landscape of loss and how grief reshapes not only our memories but our identities. This is a story of holding on, letting go, and reaching again and again for something beautiful on the other side of heartbreak. 📚 Learn more about Sally's book: Reaching for Beautiful: 🎧 Listen now and share with someone who needs this message. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    44 min
  • How institutions stay silent in the face of gender-based violence — and what that silence costs.

    How institutions stay silent in the face of gender-based violence — and what that silence costs.
    Jul 2 2025
    What happens when survivors do everything they’re “supposed” to — and the system still fails them? In this second episode of our 30-day campaign series, host Fartumo Kusow confronts the institutional silence that surrounds gender-based violence. From missed warnings to broken protections, we ask what it really means when silence is built into the structures meant to keep us safe. 🎧 Listen to this powerful reflection and find out how you can join the Purple Ribbon Campaign leading up to the #IamSahraBulle Conference. Because if not now, then when? If not you, then who? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    6 min
  • WhenGrief That Demands More

    WhenGrief That Demands More
    Jun 25 2025
    n this opening episode of a special five-part lead-up to the #IamSahraBulle campaign, host Fartumo Kusow reflects on the grief that changed everything—the grief that came after losing her daughter, Sahra, to intimate partner violence. But this isn’t just a story about loss. It’s about the kind of grief that doesn’t settle down. The kind that asks more of you. The kind that won’t let you stay quiet. This episode sets the tone for what’s coming: a collective call to action rooted in remembrance, resistance, and rebuilding. If your grief has ever asked something more of you—this episode is for you. 🎧 Break the Silence, Build a Future is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    9 min
  • When Grief Comes Back Without Warning, Now What?

    When Grief Comes Back Without Warning, Now What?
    Jun 11 2025
    Grief doesn’t move in a straight line—and it doesn’t always soften with time. In this deeply reflective episode, Fartumo Kusow marks the two-year anniversary of her daughter’s death and shares how the pain has not lessened, but deepened. With raw honesty, she explores what it feels like when grief returns like a storm you didn’t expect—and what to do when it settles in and takes the place where love once lived. This episode is for anyone who’s ever felt like they “should” be doing better, only to find the ache has grown louder. It’s a quiet, fierce reminder that time does not always heal—but presence, truth, and compassion can help us carry the weight. 🎧 Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    11 min
  • The Sentence That Changed Everything

    The Sentence That Changed Everything
    Jun 4 2025
    June 5, 2023. 10 PM. A knock on the door. And then—a single sentence that shattered everything I knew. In this deeply personal episode, I recount the night I was told my daughter had been murdered. What followed was not just grief—it was a transformation of identity, purpose, and the very shape of my world. This story is about the line between before and after, and what it means to live when everything has changed. If you've ever faced a moment that broke you wide open—this episode is for you. Together, we ask: Now what? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    9 min