Amish Entrepreneur Show with Torah Bontrager

Amish Entrepreneur Show with Torah Bontrager episodes:

• 05.22.2018

  S3 A Women's Spring: Gratitude in the Age of MeToo - Special Holiday Episode

  This panel features memoir authors who are all sexual assault survivors. The discussion centers around gratitude for the #MeToo movement, the everyday and extraordinary women speaking out relentlessly, and how we see societal support to eradicate sexual assault and uplift survivors....

  
• 05.14.2018

  S3E14 Rachel Halder: How Purity Culture Shaped Abstinence-Only Sex Education + Slut Shaming

  Rachel Halder is a Sacred Sexuality Specialist/Coach and Founder of Our Stories Untold, a blog dedicated to sharing the stories of Mennonite/Anabaptist sexual assault survivors and raising awareness and healing around the topic of sexualized violence in the Mennonite Church....

  
• 05.13.2018

  S3E13 Mary Kathryn Nagle: Fighting for Native Americans in Court + Onstage, Legal Rape, Manahatta

  Mary Kathryn Nagle is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program. She is also a partner at Pipestem Law, P.C., where she works to protect tribal...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S3E12 Kenneth Copp: The Amish Atheist, Amish Fashion + Crafting Furniture Powered by Workhorses

  Kenneth Copp is a rare (former) convert into the Amish church, who now calls himself an Amish atheist. Kenneth builds handcrafted, solid wood Amish-style heirloom furniture, powered by real workhorses in an effort to produce goods in the most...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S3E11 Bridie Farrell: How to Binge Watch and Do Good: Tweet to Save a Child from Sexual Assault

  Bridie Farrell is a former US National Speedskating Team Member and the founder of NY Loves Kids. When she was 15 years old, she was sexually abused by Andy Gabel, a 33-year-old and the #1 speedskater in the US...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S3E10 Sean Wyman: Letting Go: A Military Veteran’s 8-Step Trauma Recovery Process

  Author, Trauma Recovery Speaker, Military Veteran & Radio Host Sean Wyman shares his story of overcoming childhood abuse (C-PTSD) and 30 years of barricaded hate. He believes it is inside of all of us to live the life we...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S3E9 Lindsay Gibson: An Angel Mom’s Journey to Just Be, Learning Surrender from Her Stillborn Son

  Author, Speaker & Natural Mommy Blogger Lindsay Gibson shares her story about loss of innocence through rape, attempted murder, and the death of her baby. The loss of her child caused her to seek answers. That led her to...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S3E8 Dr. Glen Brooks, MD: What Ketamine Is + How It Helps with PTSD, Depression and Pain (w/ intro)

  Dr. Glen Brooks explains, based on decades of ketamine research, why post-traumatic stress isn't a chemical imbalance and really much more of a structural problem. He explains how ketamine can fix the neurons in our mood centers so that...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S3E7 Kelly Atwood: A 20-Something’s Winding Road to Self-Love and Mindset Mastery

  Kelly Atwood's story: "I’ve been so broke that I literally couldn’t afford to buy food for dinner. And I’ve also made $30,000 in one month. I’ve been that girl who feels like the world is out to get her...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S3E6 Jo Beckwith: Life After Sexual Assault: Yes, We Survivors *Can* Laugh and Love Again

  Jo Beckwith was raped by a pastor six years ago, and it devastated every part of her. Very fortunately, she was able to take her life back and live again. Now she spends her time trying to help...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S3E4 Molly Maeve: Her Story of Hollywood Sexual Abuse at Age 15 by Movie Producer James Toback

  Molly, a C-PTSD survivor and ketamine advocate, is an award-winning investigative journalist and is on a mission to educate the public about complex PTS (post-traumatic stress), which most often stems from childhood sexual assault. PTS(D) is not just a...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S3E3 Elise Trucks: Pondering “Mundane Sexual Assault” in the Wake of Harvey Weinstein, #MeToo

  Elise Trucks is the daughter of one of the members of legendary rock and roll band (The Allman Brothers Band), a Columbia University alumna, former professor, and art historian. Elise explains what she means by experiencing “mundane sexual assault”...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S3E2 Kathy Picard: One Woman’s Tireless 15-Year Quest to Challenge Outdated Statute of Limitations

  Kathy Picard is an inspiring award-winning advocate whose work centers on increasing awareness of the harsh realities of sexual child abuse. As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, through her own process of trying to understand what happened to her,...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S3E1 Philippe Lewis: A Male Supporter Shares Insights From a Relationship with an Assault Victim

  Philippe Lewis is a Love Coach, Certified Sexological Bodyworker, Trained Somatica Practitioner, and Epic Event Producer. For the last 18 years, he has been exploring love, relationships, intimacy, sensuality and sexuality with individuals and communities through teaching, writing, coaching...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S2E20 Clara Byler: From Amish to Born-Again Christian to Self-Empowered Freedom

  PART 2: Clara was born and raised Old Order Amish. At the age of 19 she, along with her boyfriend (now husband), left all that she'd ever known to explore a world she had only dreamed of. Although the journey is...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S2E19 Clara Byler: The Longing for Connection: An Amish Woman Accused of Incest Leaves the Community

  Clara was born and raised Old Order Amish. At the age of 19 she, along with her boyfriend (now husband), left all that she'd ever known to explore a world she had only dreamed of. Although the journey is one that...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S2E18 Warren Whitlock: A Social Media Veteran Discusses White Male Privilege and ISIS

  Warren Whitlock is a digital business development strategist. In 2008, he wrote the first book about Twitter and Mobile Marketing, and the best selling Profitable Social Media: Business Results Without Playing Games. He is the host of Social Media Radio...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S2E16 Marian Bacol-Uba: Transforming Trauma into Triumph, Sexual Assault from a Female Asian Voice

  Marian is a social entrepreneur, speaker and writer who is on a mission to inspire others, especially minority women, to build a life of their design by transforming past trauma into triumphs. She is currently working on her forthcoming book...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S2E15 Eve Mayer: Common False Expectations About Being a CEO/Entrepreneur, How to Manage Millennials

  Eve Mayer is the former Owner and CEO of Social Media Delivered, now acquired by Splash Media where she serves as CMO. Eve is an Author, Mother, Wife, Humorist, Professional Speaker, Social Media Strategist and Company Culturist. She’s...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S2E14 Addie Liechty: Coming Out in a Mennonite School vs Smith College

  Addie Liechty is a voice for LGBTQ inclusivity in the Mennonite Church, which is part of the Anabaptist tradition, which is historically against homosexuality and from which the Amish religion emerged. In an article “The children are listening” in...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S2E13 Addie Liechty: A Voice for LGBTQ Inclusivity in the Mennonite Church, Religious Trauma

  Addie Liechty is a voice for LGBTQ inclusivity in the Mennonite Church, which is part of the Anabaptist tradition, which is historically against homosexuality and from which the Amish religion emerged. In an article “The children are listening” in...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S2E12 Heather Criswell: The Emotional Investment of Being Famous + How to Be a Better Parent

  Heather Criswell, creator of WiseInside, Author and Kid Whisperer, says: It is so important to me to bring to the world a sense of love and wisdom that each and every one of us have inside. We are special...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S2E11 Steve Olsher: You’re One Choice Away: The Slow Death of *Not* Being a Star

  Steve Olsher is the founder of Liquor.com, a polarizing keynote speaker, and a no-holds-barred mentor who will change the trajectory of your life and your business. He shares his story of bottoming out in 2013 from career pressures and...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S2E10 Kylie Slavik: Why We Need Community to Heal + A New Definition of Recovery and Healing

  Kylie Slavik is an "accidental digital marketer" with a lifelong obsession with story. She says, This obsession led me across the globe looking for the “one story” that accomplishes three things: 1. Increases wealth. Story IS currency. Period. 2. Unlocks unlimited potential. (Change...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S2E9 Kelly McRee: When Giving Space to Your Partner Leads to a Suicide Trail (on Your Birthday)

  During the weekend of her birthday, Kelly McRee discovered a trail leading to her partner's suicide. She shares the aftermath of emotions she went through and how she processes her grief and anger. She says, "I was angry that he chose...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S2E8 Julie Thompson: How to Be an Advocate for Your Child, Grieving the Loss of All My Children

  Julie Thompson (Inspiring Mother) shares her deeply moving story of losing all her children––and how to be a better parent: “You have to fight for your children. You have to be the advocate.” "The greatest gift you can give your...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S2E7 Lori Ruff: Why You *Must* Use Your Personal Story to Compete, The Benefits of Medical Cannabis

  PART 2: Lori’s fans call her “The LinkedIn Diva,” because she focuses on delivering world-class expertise at a time when many entrepreneurs and business innovators are trying to make their mark in a bigger and ever more challenging world. Lori has...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S2E6 Lori Ruff: A Forbes-Ranked Social Media Power Influencer + #1 Woman on LinkedIn Rocks the World

  Lori’s fans call her “The LinkedIn Diva,” because she focuses on delivering world-class expertise at a time when many entrepreneurs and business innovators are trying to make their mark in a bigger and ever more challenging world. Lori has been recognized...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S2E5 Jeffrey Hayzlett: Own Who You Are, Because You Can: The Rewards of Being Relentless

  Jeffrey Hayzlett is a primetime television host of C-Suite with Jeffrey Hayzlett and Executive Perspectives on C-Suite TV, and business podcast host of All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett on C-Suite Radio. He is a global business celebrity, speaker, best-selling author,...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S2E4 Stephanie Dalfonzo: How to Create Lasting Changes and Set Yourself Up for Success, Not Burnout

  "Just because you had this experience in childhood does not guarantee that you're going to have a less than optimum adulthood." - Stephanie Dalfonzo Stephanie Dalfonzo (Anxiety Expert, Women's Leadership Coach, and Certified Hypnotist) gives us simple free tools to process...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S2E3 Stephanie Dalfonzo: How to Break Through–Not Manage–Anxiety + A Roadmap for Processing Trauma

  Stephanie Dalfonzo (Anxiety Expert, Women's Leadership Coach, and Certified Hypnotist) gives us simple free tools to process anxiety and PTSD / PTS (post-tramatic stress), applicable for entrepreneurs, survivors, and anyone else living/working in high-stress situations. Watch, listen, and be inspired by...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S2E2 Mary Byler: 3 Simple Things Everyone Can Do for Sexual Assault Survivors

  PART 2: Mary Byler is one of less than a dozen cases [we're still fact-checking this number] of Amish sexual assault on public record. The focus of our conversation is on not so much the details of Mary's heinous ordeals...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S2E1 Mary Byler: The Lingering Effects of Sexual Assault 13 Years Later: How to Understand Survivors

  Mary Byler is one of less than a dozen cases [we're still fact-checking this number] of Amish sexual assault on public record. The focus of our conversation is on not so much the details of Mary's heinous ordeals but on...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S1E20 Jeselle Hadley-Bacon: Why She Left the Amish Church, Reading Rumi, Finding Love + Freedom

  Part 4: Jeselle Hadley-Bacon is a chef, clean foods advocate and sexual abuse survivor. This final installment ends on a remarkably positive note. Despite the terrible atrocities and darkness of her childhood and young adult years (recounted in...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S1E19 Erika W.: A Commentary on Her First Episode, How Sharing Her Story Has Made Her Feel Lighter

  Part 2: Erika W. is a weight and wellness coach and a very recent sexual abuse survivor. This is Erika’s commentary on her first recorded conversation with Torah. They both have some very important feedback on the post-assault...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S1E18 Sarah Alexis: How to Make Art Out of Darkness: Writing and Speaking Poetry

  Sarah Alexis is an interior and set designer and a sexual abuse survivor. She reads a short poem for us that she wrote as a way to express what happened to her and to help release the trauma stored...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S1E17 Brian Young: How Education Was an Escape from Suicide, Shocking Rates of Suicide Among Natives

  Part 3: Brian Young is a filmmaker and MFA Writing for Fiction candidate at Columbia University, speaks fluent Navajo, and is currently writing a novel based on his native Navajo culture. He’s also the editor for this podcast. ...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S1E16 Erika W.: The Immediate Aftermath of Sexual Assault, Torah’s Story On Film for the First Time

  Erika W. is a weight and wellness coach and a very recent sexual abuse survivor. She shares her story on film for the first time. It just so turns out that this is Torah’s very first time to...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S1E15 Brian Young: Origins of His Navajo People, Their Matriarchal Society, The DAPL

  Part 2: Brian Young is a filmmaker and MFA Writing for Fiction candidate at Columbia University, speaks fluent Navajo, and is currently writing a novel based on his native Navajo culture. He’s also the editor for this podcast. ...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S1E14 Jeselle Hadley-Bacon: How the Amish Handle Sexual Assault: Bishop Ben Girod Victim Blames

  Part 3: Jeselle Hadley-Bacon is a chef, clean foods advocate and sexual abuse survivor. Jeselle shares the story of the first time that she disclosed her sexual assault to a group of Amish women in a confidential setting. ...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S1E12 Jeselle Hadley-Bacon: Feeling Like “Damaged Goods” from Assault, Tainting the Amish Bloodline

  Part 2: Jeselle Hadley-Bacon is a chef, clean foods advocate and sexual abuse survivor. She is one of the rare converts into the Amish church—but has since left—and was part of a horse-and-buggy Mennonite community before joining the Old...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S1E10 Elam Zook: Finding Himself and His Purpose, Why "Ex-Amish" Is a Problematic Term

  Part 3: Elam Zook is a deeply devoted Amish advocate of our community and is altering the compass for a culture swept off-course. He is an Amish activist, writer, critical thinker, and self-taught-scholar on how the Amish religion intersects...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S1E9 Elam Zook: Fighting for My People, Amish Issues Perpetuated By Academia, Amish Evolution

  Part 2: Elam Zook is a writer, critical thinker, and self-taught-scholar on how the Amish religion intersects with modern society. He is a consultant for the course The Amish at Franklin & Marshall College, a rare position given that...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S1E8 Elam Zook: Why the Amish Are a Dying Society, the Catch-22 of Amish Mental Health Counseling

  Elam Zook is a writer, critical thinker, and self-taught-scholar on how the Amish religion intersects with modern society. He is a deeply devoted advocate of the Amish community, having moved beyond his culture-of-birth and journeying far in a new...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S1E7 Sovilla + Lucinda Coblentz: Trauma and Marriage, Grief Recovery, Amish Childhood Sexual Abuse

  Part 3: Sovilla had been about to walk out on her husband because of communication conflicts and Lucinda would clash with her husband because she felt her freedom was being infringed upon. Both sisters’ lives changed drastically when they...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S1E3 Sovilla Coblentz + Lucinda Coblentz: Escaping the Amish as Young Female Teens, Wearing Lipstick

  Sovilla and Lucinda Coblentz are entrepreneur sisters who are like twins, and their husbands are brothers who craft beautiful, custom solid wood pieces with traditional Amish integrity. The four run their small family business in Texas together. Before Torah’s escape,...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S1E4 James Schwartz: The Burning Question Every Amish Person Faces + An Amish Underground Railroad

  Part 2: James Schwartz, author of The Literary Party: Growing up Gay and Amish in America, addresses dilemmas that challenge every Amish person who wants to leave the church. He talks about how he had to take personal responsibility to...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S1E5 Fiona Teng: Breaking the Cycle of Societal & Romantic Traumas—Trauma Doesn’t Discriminate

  Fiona Teng, an activist and writer of “Fatherlessness: The Presence of Dad’s Absence” on The Huffington Post goes in-depth on the challenges of working on one’s traumas and how mindfulness meditation has changed her life. “Mindfulness opens up a space...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S1E6 Sovilla + Lucinda Coblentz: Amish Interrogation Methods, Sleep Deprivation, Desire for Freedom

  Part 2: Sovilla and Lucinda Coblentz are entrepreneur sisters who run their small family Amish custom woodworking business in Texas together with their husbands. We discuss the methods used against captured Amish escapees and that it’s a miracle that any...

  
• 04.16.2018

  S1E7 Sovilla + Lucinda Coblentz: Trauma and Marriage, Grief Recovery, Amish Childhood Sexual Abuse

  Part 3: Sovilla had been about to walk out on her husband because of communication conflicts and Lucinda would clash with her husband because she felt her freedom was being infringed upon. Both sisters’ lives changed drastically when they did...