Episodes

Today, Jan continues her series on healing after trauma. In today’s episode, Jan emphasizes the importance of relationships and how they can impact one's recovery. She also shares some of her experiences dating in high schoo...

Today Jan is joined by Darla Helmick, LISW-S, who has been a licensed social worker in Ohio for over 30 years, working as a child welfare caseworker/supervisor and as a medical social worker. She currently works in the emerge...

Today Jan begins a new series on healing after trauma. In todays' episode she shares her personal experience of coping with trauma and the challenges of moving on with life, the grieving process that started when she realized...

Today Jan is joined by Narcissist_Survivor, a public figure, speaker, advocate, and narcissistic abuse recovery consultant with over 190,000k followers on Instagram. Through her twenty-plus years of lived experience with a na...

Today Jan expresses her gratitude for all those in her orbit: her family, her staff, her volunteers, and her listeners. Thank you all for making our vision at the Jan Broberg Show and Foundation Possible! Join us at The Jan …

[CONTENT WARNING]: Discussions of childhood sexual abuse, emotional and verbal abuse, domestic violence, descriptions of violence and attempted murder. Today Jan is joined again by Sara Pitcher for part two of this two part s...

Today Jan talks about the sixth stage of grooming, "Maintaining Control". This stage is when the abuser makes threats and manipulates the child in order to continue to sexually abuse them. Everyone at The Jan Broberg Show and...

[CONTENT WARNING]: Discussions of childhood sexual abuse, emotional and verbal abuse, domestic violence. Today Jan is joined by Sara Pitcher for part one of this two part series of how a woman went from childhood abuse to a m...

Today Jan talks about the fifth stage of grooming, "Initiating Sexual Contact". This stage may start as inappropriate comments and eventually lead to sexual abuse. Everyone at The Jan Broberg Show and The Jan Broberg Foundati...

CONTENT WARNING : Sexual Abuse, Descriptions of Violence & Murder Today Jan is joined by Amy B. Chesler, author, podcaster, speaker, survivor, and victim advocate from Los Angeles, California. Her training in the arts and pub...

Today Jan explores stage 4 of the 6 stages of grooming which is 'Isolating the child'. This can take many forms, but one of the ways that seems to be consistent is using secrets as a way of putting a …

In today's episode Jan is joined by Brenda Sandquist who is the founder and executive director for Xquisite, a nonprofit, established in 2012, specifically designed to walk alongside victims of human trafficking, sexual assau...

In today's show we continue with our series, Conned? Duped? Manipulated? Yes You've Been Groomed!! as Jan discusses the third stage of grooming, filling a need and playing a role in the child's life. Jan gives examples of how...

Today Jan is joined by Deb Shapiro who has, for over fifteen years, developed the talents and businesses of some of the top credentialed speakers in the industry including Hall of Fame inductees and Certified Speaking Profess...

In this episode, Jan will be talking about the second stage of grooming, as discussed by Dr. Michael Welner on Oprah.com, gaining the victim's trust. Jan will give us examples of how Bob Berthold built trust with her, her fam...

Today Jan is joined by John Doe who is here to talk to us about the dangers of internet predators and how they groom children and teens online. He uses the stages of grooming to illustrate how pedophiles target and …

Today Jan begins the first part of a series within a series, introducing what the identifiable stages of grooming are, then diving into stage 1 using her story as an example. Stage 1 is how the groomer singles out a …

Today, Jan is joined by Abigail Alvarado who is here to tell her harrowing story. Starting at age 9, Abigail and her siblings were removed from the crack house they called home by Child Protective Services (CPS). After a shor...

In today's episode we start another Jan solo series and this time we're focusing on grooming, what it looks like, verbal and behavioral tactics these manipulators use, how they become a fixture in everyone around their target...

Today Jan is joined by Eboni Banks to explore how clair-senses helped her on her healing journey from sexual trauma and how others can get in touch with their intuition. Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Silver Spring, ...

Today Jan is joined by Michelle Jackson, Director of Community Engagement for Jan Broberg's Thrivivors Community, to have a candid conversation about suicide prevention in honor of National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month....

Today Jan sits down with Katy, a Thrivivor who was initially entangled by a local businessman when she was just 13 years old, only to have blackmail and abuse follow her for 11 years. Katy's story is one of learning …

What do we do about pedophiles? Are there different kinds of pedophiles? How should we treat non-offending ones? How do people become pedophiles? In this episode, we take a wide look at the issue with Andrew Gold, creator and...

Jennifer Lawley tells her story, which gives a clear glimpse of how family dynamics can go off the rails when abuse is exposed. Jennifer’s nephew began assaulting her when they were both very young. This adolescent abuser use...