Is bravery a muscle? Can fighting the system that protects your attackers, help a rape survivor to heal?

Carrie Bobb is a mom, a wife, an entrepreneur, and a real estate industry leader, who also happens to be the survivor behind Carrie’s Law. She was blazing trails all along, starting with the real estate world where she handled nearly 2 billion dollars worth of sales volume and was a rising star at a major real estate company. Then at a conference in 2018, she was drugged and raped by a man at her own company, and was not only shocked when the details came in to focus, but horrified and traumatized all over again to learn that her employment contract required confidentiality and mandatory arbitration in cases of physical sexual assault. So she, like many, was forced into a confidential arbitration process with the company, which left her silenced. But not for long.

On today’s podcast we talk about the bipartisan bill she introduced to Congress, lobbied for, and ultimately got passed in 2022, with the help of the many good people she found along the way. The passage of Carrie’s Law outlawed mandatory arbitration clauses which existed in as many as 60 million employment contracts across the country.

We examine the courage it takes to go public with something like this, how past regrets can inspire us towards action, and the moment when her faith finally convinced her to take up the fight, because someone had to. We talk about healing, and rage, and self-censorship…and how she explained it all to her supportive husband. The way that she summarized it to her children was this: Mama was heading to Washington to fight some bullies.

And, mama won.

About Carrie’s Law: https://lesko.house.gov/2021/5/lesko-introduces-bipartisan-carrie-s-law-to-end-mandatory-arbitration-in-instances-of-physical-sexual-assault

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