The bullying series is coming this summer!

You will hear about a

personal encounter with a school official

how an army was mobilized - Mallory's Army

was is quite possibly the cause of bullying behaviors

if your child is bullied how to provide them the support they need

Change the way you look at the bullying epidemic this summer!!

Bonus: Season 1 | Part A Story Updates

The summer is fast approaching and we are getting closer to resuming the release of new episodes. A lot has happened since the podcast launched last October and there have been updates that I want to share with you. 

Today we are going to check in on Child Sex Trafficking story 1, see what Crista Miller has been up to, we will also check in on Lorin Lafave (Breck Bednar's Mother) and finally, we will have an update on school attacks.

 

Music:

Lead In: 

Breaking Out - Stephen Schweyen

Outro:

Twist and Turn - Sandeep Bhandari

BONUS EPISODE!

Hello fellow Awarians and welcome to back for this bonus episode! 

I want to thank you for sharing the episodes and for sticking with me so far. Together we have raised awareness in almost all 50 states and 11 countries, and that is truly amazing! 

And as a thank you, I wanted to share with you the first interview I conducted for a podcast. This interview was done in conjunction with Henry, who is a co-host on the Typical Daddy podcast with me. This was also the 3rd episode I produced, and at the time which was last year, I was still learning the craft so please be patient with the audio. 

This interview ignited my passion for helping people, to help by sharing the information I found during my research And now 13 episodes in, we have learned a lot together and we will continue to do so.  

As you listen to the episode, you will hear many of the same themes I have covered already, a lot of the direction I took for this podcast, came from this interview. The interview was with best selling author Nancy Jo Sales and we discussed her book called American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers published in February 2016.

 

Podcast Social Media

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AwarenessPod/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AwarenessPod

Website: https://www.awarenesspodcast.com

 

Intro Music:

Dhajala-Mystic Crock

Sexual Offenders: Facing Reality

**WARNING**

This episode contains graphic language about violence towards children, please use your discretion.

This will be our mid-season finale, with episodes returning this summer.  

Over the last 6 months, I have brought you stories about child sex trafficking and how groomers prey on victims to turn them into sex slaves.

We have also examined stories about groomers and how they are everywhere on the internet and nowhere is safe, if you are connected to the internet.  

Now it is one thing for me to bring you stories about how these people are preying on our children, stalking them post after post, for me to tell you how deviant these people are using words like monster and predator, but it’s another thing for you to hear it for yourself.  

On today's show we are going to examine the deviant minds of sexual predators, and it's going to be extremely graphic and at times very difficult to listen to, I have been struggling for months now on whether or not to share this with you, but this is the Awareness Podcast and thus you must be made aware of what we are dealing with. We need to stop the powerful myths that make us feel safe the ones these monsters trade on, the ones that jeopardize the safety of our kids, the ones that make our children vulnerable.  

If you still can't make the leap, to see how dangerous our world is today for our kids, just take a look, spend a few hours searching for it and you will find it, as I did, and it's why I'm here today.   

On this episode, you are going to hear from sexual predators, in their own words, their thoughts their desires and how easy it was for them to commit these heinous acts and this was before social media and unfettered access, and as you listen, take note, that it is now easier than ever before in history, for a predator to come into our lives and wreak havoc, because their deviancy has no limits, it has no boundaries. It is very dangerous when we fail to recognize the reality of malevolence. We don't have to understand it, but we must recognize it. 

 

Video Source(s):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sEqWlJbEX4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwGVuZ54Eyg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7fywYUZqbk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iopDGjrjpzY

https://www.theindychannel.com/news/call-6-investigators/convicted-child-molester-says-social-media-is-givingSe-more-tools-to-predators

 

Website Source(s)

https://www.ipredator.co/

 

Safety Doc Podcast Episode 61 | Where I was interviewed about grooming: 

YouTube: https://goo.gl/2GVfKA

Podbean: https://goo.gl/HwpevB

Apple Podcast: https://goo.gl/ZLHX72

 

 

Podcast Social Media

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AwarenessPod/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AwarenessPod

Website: https://www.awarenesspodcast.com

 

Thanks:

Thanks to Shane Yoder and his team at puttheminasong.com for the theme song, thanks to Ed Luby for the Awareness Logo, and thanks to my family for allowing me to do my part to help raise awareness.

 

Intro Music:

Pa - Tokee

Closing Music:

Deep Atmospheres (remix)-Mystic Crock

School Attacks | Part 3 with Dr. David Perrodin 

I have been at it for a year now, researching stories about people who have been affected by some of the worst that humanity has to offer. The next episode will be the 13th of this podcast and it feels like a good time to take a break and recharge, but don't fret, I will be back with more episodes this summer, cause after all Awareness never stops, so I will continue to investigate more stories to bring you. 

If you haven't already, check out  part 1 and 2 on school attacks because at the end of this episode Dr. Perrodin will summarize our discussion and you might be a little lost if you haven't heard them already. 

On today's episode, Dr. David Perrodin is back, as we are going to conclude our school attacks series. We will be bringing you 2 more stories, the attacks on Bethel Regional High School and Sandy Hook Elementary. You will continue to see that there were warning signs, chances for someone, anyone to intervene, and yet no one did. And this continues to happen to this day....

 

Resources:

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2017/02/18/evan-ramseys-tattered-life-filled-him-with-rage-then-he-brought-a-shotgun-to-school/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmoTqaFT7Ic&t=1282s

http://cspsandyhookreport.ct.gov

https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/adam-lanza-spoke-a-year-before-sandy-hook-but-nobody-listened/ 

https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/lanza_posts_1.0_1.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIQt9Jdp94Q

 

Safety Doc Podcast Episode 61 Interview about grooming: 

YouTube: https://goo.gl/2GVfKA

Podbean: https://goo.gl/HwpevB

Apple Podcast: https://goo.gl/ZLHX72

 

Podcast Social Media

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AwarenessPod/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AwarenessPod

Website: https://www.awarenesspodcast.com

 

Thanks:

Thanks to Dr. David Perrodin for sharing with us his expertise on school safety and for joining us for the school attacks series. Go check out his podcast, The Safety Doc Podcast, and if you need his contact  information, you can find that on https://www.awarenesspodcast.com/guests/.

Thanks to Shane Yoder and his team at puttheminasong.com for the theme song, thanks to Ed Luby for the Awareness Logo, and thanks to my family for allowing me to do my part to help raise awareness.

 

Intro Music:

This was my last hope-Etherine

 

Closing Music:

Running With Insanity-Mystic Crock

School Attacks | Part 2 - Columbine with Dr. David Perrodin 

As the world mourns yet another mass shooting, thoughts and prayers, from around the world, are being sent to the family and friends of the victims of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School . In the coming weeks, we are going to be inundated with information, some of it truth, some of it conjecture, And it is only through the passage of time, that the false narratives will be panned from the truth, we will hear theories as to why our politicians have failed us, and many experts are going to posit reasons as to why this happened again. We will be bombarded with statistics, and be shown how around the world gun violence is almost non-existent. Both sides of the gun debate will trot out their experts providing us with a decision to make, either for or against, {interject your cause of choice}. We have all seen this before. This is what happened 19 years ago in Littleton, Colorado in the aftermath of the Columbine school attack. 

Most people have heard of the Columbine school attack, there are thousands of documents, dozens of video and audio clips, and a few documentaries. During the first part of this episode, we are going to take a retrospective look at the events of April 20th 1999.  This story has been scrutinized every which way. There have been many things learned from this tragedy, some of which, Dr. Perrodin will share with us today.  

Today's episode will unfold in 2 parts...

Dr. Perrodin will take us through what we have learned about the Columbine School Attack and how this changed our preparedness.. and then we will examinee some frightening similarities of the events leading up to the attack at Columbine and the attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high schools, specifically we will be examining a lesson that some have learned but at the same time, others have not and the consequences are devastating…

 

Resources:

http://www.acolumbinesite.com

http://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/student-accused-of-plotting-everett-school-shooting-could-be-charged-today/281-518703506 

http://www.heraldnet.com/news/grandmother-turns-in-teen-who-allegedly-planned-shooting/ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex_7zxAz3uE

http://komonews.com/news/local/police-everett-teen-arrested-after-plotting-a-shooting-at-his-high-school

http://time.com/5159578/student-suspect-washington-state-school-shooting-plot/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N43k2hKCFiU

http://columbinefamilyrequest.org/2010/01/columbine-anatomy-of-a-coverup/

 

Safety Doc Podcast Episode 61 Interview about grooming: 

YouTube: https://goo.gl/2GVfKA

Podbean: https://goo.gl/HwpevB

Apple Podcast: https://goo.gl/ZLHX72

Podcast Social Media

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AwarenessPod/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AwarenessPod

Website: https://www.awarenesspodcast.com

 

Thanks:

Thanks to Dr. Perrodin for lending his expertise! Check out the Safety Doc Podcast here: https://thesafetydoc.podbean.com and you can find his contact information here: http://www.awarenesspodcast.com/guests/

 

Thanks to Shane Yoder and his team at puttheminasong.com for the theme song, thanks to Ed Luby for the Awareness Logo, and thanks to my family for allowing me to do my part to help raise awareness.

 

Intro Music:

Arcadia - Monkey Trial

 

Transition Music: 

Self Leveling-Mystic Crock

 

Closing Music:

Wrong Side Of The Bed-Mystic Crock

School Attacks | Part 1 with Dr. David Perrodin 

Bath Consolidated School Sources:

22 things you may not have known about the 1927 Bath school massacre

Bath School bombing: Oldest surviving student recalls ‘how awful it was’

Book TV: Arnie Bernstein, author of “Bath Massacre: America’s First School Bombing”

 

Grover Cleveland Elementary School Sources:

Brenda Spencer Documentary | I Don’t Like Mondays

Justice Story: 16-year-old girl shoots up school, tells reporter 'I Don't Like Mondays'

 

Social Media

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AwarenessPod/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AwarenessPod

Website: https://www.awarenesspodcast.com

 

Thanks:

Thanks to Dr. Perrodin for lending his expertise! Check out the Safety Doc Podcast here: https://thesafetydoc.podbean.com and you can find his contact information here: Awareness Podcast Website

Thanks to Shane Yoder and his team at puttheminasong.com for the theme song, thanks to Ed Luby for the Awareness Logo, and thanks to my family for allowing me to do my part to help raise awareness.

 

Intro Music:

Gaja-Amfibia

 

Closing Music:

H15-Mystic Crock

Trafficked Story by Dottie Laster & Online Grooming: Carly Ryan 

Today's episode will unfold in 2 parts.  

During the first part of the episode…

Dottie will be sharing the story of a high school student we will be calling "Nancy" who was abducted and forced to do things that would destroy her innocence. Her story is a cautionary tale for the vulnerability of our kids not just from the internet monsters but from those around them. I have come across many stories of high schools students being tricked by people in their schools, the ones they call friends, who set them up for predators like the ones you are going hear about today. You will also be introduced to the power of coercion, a term not unlike grooming, in that it's power is only matched by it's ability to stay under our radar.  

The second part of this episode will feature Carly Ryan's story, her story will be the final story of the online grooming series for a while. This is an important story, so it must be told. We often underestimate the deviant nature of these predators, we underestimate the desire they have to inflict harm on our children. This story will cap off the grooming series I promised you. Over the last few of months, I have shared with you stories, that I wouldn't have imaged were possible, stories that seem like they could only exist in our nightmares. Stories that we now know are very real.  If you take away only one thing from this series of episodes, It is my hope that you know that you must beware, they are out there, waiting lurking, planning…

 

Social Media

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AwarenessPod/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AwarenessPod

Website: https://www.awarenesspodcast.com

 

Thanks:

Dottie and I are in constant communication, and we will likely bring you more from the world of human trafficking. Thank you Dottie for meeting with me and for sharing your stories. On behalf of the listeners and me, Thanks for your service! 

 

Thanks to Shane Yoder and his team at puttheminasong.com for the theme music, thanks to Ed Luby for the Awareness Logo, and thanks to my family for allowing me to do my part to help raise awareness.

 

Intro Music:

Memorial-DP Kaufman

 

Closing Music:

Riding The Ghan-Mystic Crock

Online Grooming: The Grooming of Adults | with Dottie Laster:

On today's episode, Dottie Laster returns with a truly shocking story about an adult being groomed. As parents, we pour our hearts and souls into raising our kids. Spending countless moments filling them with love and building an unbreakable trust. A trust we believe will stand the test of time and will be impervious to anyone trying to break that bond. As parents raising our kids in the world of smartphones, tablets, and online connectedness, we are fighting an uphill battle, unlike anything seen in history. The devices we hold dear, are producing the effects of addiction. Just like any addiction, the effects make people behave in ways that are uncharacteristic. It is this dependency, that groomers are adept at exploiting.  

Today we are going to hear how important it is to prepare our kids, to give them the tools they will need as adults to understand how to use technology appropriately because a lifetime of love and trust can be destroyed in 18 months.

 

Social Media

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AwarenessPod/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AwarenessPod

Website: https://www.awarenesspodcast.com

 

Thanks:

Dottie Laster is a big supporter of this show, I thank you Dottie for the support you have given me. Thank you for sharing this story with us, so that we may learn, so that we may become aware!

Thanks to Shane Yoder and his team at puttheminasong.com for the theme music, thanks to Ed Luby for the Awareness Logo, and thanks to my family for allowing me to do my part to help raise awareness.

 

Intro Music:

Through the Walls-Ehren Starks 

Closing Music:

Mourning-Mystic Crock

Human Trafficking with Dottie Laster:

This year on the Awareness podcast, I have interviewed some amazing people. Christine O'Donnell (a journalist featured on episodes 1 &2 about child sex trafficking), Dr David Perrodin (a safety expert and host of The Safety Doc Podcast featured on episode 3 about Bullying), Crista Miller (a Parent advocate and mother of a survivor, featured on episode 4 about child sex trafficking ), and Alicia Kozakiewicz, a survivor of a grooming kidnapping, featured on episode 6). So it is only fitting that we close out 2017 with another amazing person, Dottie Laster a Human Trafficking expert.

 

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Social Media

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AwarenessPod/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AwarenessPod

Website: https://www.awarenesspodcast.com

 

Thanks:

Thanks to Dottie Laster for fighting for us, and for sharing her story! You can find Dottie Laster's contact information here: https://www.awarenesspodcast.com/guests/

 

Thanks to Shane Yoder and his team at puttheminasong.com for the theme music, thanks to Ed Luby for the Awareness Logo, and thanks to my family for allowing me to do my part to help raise awareness.

 

Intro Music:

Bright Light - Mokhov

 

Closing Music:

Cybele - Mystic Crock