Leah Olszewski is Co-Founder at FEMTAC, public speaker, Army Reserves Officer, and an advocate for domestic violence survivors.

E22. Getting real about domestic violence with Leah Olszewski Part 1

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0:13 Intro

2:12 Preston Introduces Leah Olszewski

2:46 Leah’s opinion on Bigfoot

3:46 Leah talking about her military experience

10:11 Leah’s Story

11:40 Leah talk about Sere School (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) is a training program best known by its military acronym that prepares U.S. military personnel, U.S. Department of Defense civilians, and private military contractors to survive and "return with honor" in varied survival scenarios.)

15:28 Chapter 2 of her story with new relationship and small signs of abuse

16:10 Abuse Starts

18:13 Once they have you trapped abuse amps up

18:45 Threats and Extreme Abuse

19:20 Kicked while she was pregnant then miscarried

19:36 Preston calls out “This Person”  If you are the abuser, get help. Stop. Don’t abuse Kids.

20:43 Leah talking about victims feeling bad about abusers getting in trouble.  “Hey. You committed a crime-You need to pay the price for your choices.”

22:25 Nothing is ever good enough

23:05 Abuse cycle/ taking away phones, reading messages, gets worse

24:00 This is what happens in domestic violence You get roped in

24:20 People who are listening to this right now.  If abuse is happening to- YOU are NOT less because this happened or is happening to you, there is nothing wrong with you. It happens to a lot of different people

26:08 Contact Leah on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/leahmarieolszewski or email Leah@leaholszewski

27:34 Falling in love with Potential V.S. How they actually are/Internal Self Hatred/The Masks we wear

31:04 Hate yourself so much you abuse another person

32:56 Admit to what you have done and move on and be better

37:28 Intermission: Check out Non Profit https://kirstieennisfoundation.com/

39:14 Leah talks about rebuilding after getting out of abusive relationship

39:40 6-9 Months of Depression

40:13 Action.  Take action about things you don’t like instead of just complaining. Leah mentions https://www.protectourdefenders.com/ Reach Out!

42:01 You’re not going to heal over night

42:19 Preston talks about fortitude and grit to overcome life’s struggles

43:01 Fighting Hopelessness - When Not taking your own Life feels like a victory, you’re right, it is...keep fighting.

45:58 Constant Battle- Never Give up

47:21 Leah talks about her apparel company, https://femtac.com/, performance, safety, and comfort.

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51:03 Closing

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