[Content Warning]: Discussions of child sexual assault/abuse, neglect, child sexual exploitation, discussion of sexual acts, mild language

Kat Emrick grew up in a single-parent household in Michigan, moving between her mother's home and her aunt and uncle’s before landing, at around age 12 or 13, largely on her own. She was seeking connection and attention she hadn't found at home, and that vulnerability is exactly what a trafficker exploited.

In this episode of Trauma Interrupted, Jan Broberg sits down with Kat for a searingly honest conversation about what backyard trafficking actually looks like, not the high-profile Epstein-level cases that make headlines, but the everyday, neighborhood-level exploitation of kids that nobody wants to believe is happening. Kat shares how she was recruited, what the grooming process felt like from the inside, and what it meant to be a 13-year-old having sex with men in their suburban homes while their family photos looked down from the walls.

They also talk about what comes after: four marriages, four children, taking part in advocacy as a birth doula, and the persistent reality that trauma doesn't just end when the exploitation does. Kat is blunt, funny, self-aware, and unsparing, about the systems that failed her, the police who didn't believe her, and the ongoing lack of support available to survivors today.

This is a conversation about what we miss when we dismiss the "troubled teenager" in our neighborhood. And it's a conversation about what it takes to use your voice anyway.

Where To Find Kat:
Insta: @emotionalsupportbae

Mentioned Resources:
S.A.S.S. (Sexual Assault Survivor Stories)

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[Content Warning]: Discussion of child sexual abuse, suicidal ideation, intrusive thoughts of self-harm, and youth suicide.

What happens when the body holds a secret the mind hasn't found yet? In this episode of Trauma Interrupted, Jan Broberg sits down with Roanna (Ro) White, Australian educator, advocate, and entrepreneur, whose healing journey began not with a memory, but with a physical sensation she couldn't ignore.

Ro spent years managing high-functioning depression, gut health issues, and a nervous system that never seemed to rest. It wasn't until she entered somatic therapy that the body began to tell its story: a childhood sexual abuse experience she had no conscious memory of, buried since she was around four years old. From the first crack of awareness, Ro walked a long road, through CBT, antidepressants, insomnia, intrusive thoughts, and eventually toward something that looked a lot like freedom.

In this conversation, Jan and Ro explore what it means to heal when you don't know what you're healing from, why so many women in their 40s are only just beginning to process childhood trauma, and how community, service, and radical honesty became Ro's most powerful medicines. Ro also shares the inspiration behind her upcoming book, The Quiet Crisis, and her "hire a friend" connection platform Ynkyer, both born from her own experience of feeling profoundly alone while surrounded by people.

If you've ever thought something is off but couldn't name it, this episode is for you.

Where To Find Ro:
Insta: @One.Ro.Many.Roads
Youtube: @oneromanyroads

Keep Your Eyes Out For What’s Coming Up For Ro:
Upcoming Book: The Quiet Crisis: Understanding and Healing Loneliness in the Modern World (Find It On Amazon Upon Release)
Ynkyer (Still in development phase in Australia)

Mentioned Resources:
Workaway

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[Content Warning]: Discussion of childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault in a carceral setting, and graphic statistics related to child sexual abuse material and human trafficking.

What if the very thing you've been hiding is the thing that could set you free?

Sonny Von Cleveland is an author, speaker, and survivor who spent most of his childhood enduring sexual abuse by multiple perpetrators, beginning before he could form reliable memories of it. At 16, facing the compounded wreckage of an unprotected childhood, he entered the prison system and spent 18 years inside. Today he has recently been appointed as Director of Public Engagement and Content with Our Rescue and works alongside Operation Light Shine to fight child sexual exploitation and trafficking at the source.

In this conversation with Jan Broberg, Sonny introduces a framework he calls comparative trauma syndrome, the damaging habit of ranking our pain against someone else's, and based on that, deciding we're not worthy of healing. He and Jan explore why speaking about trauma isn't re-traumatizing but strengthening, why voice is the one healing tool no one can take from you, and what it actually means to interrupt your own trauma cycle.

They also go deep on Operation Light Shine's intercept task forces, the staggering gap in government funding for child exploitation prevention, and what every parent and every social media user can do right now to protect children.

Where To Find Sonny:
Buy Sonny’s book: Hey White Boy: Conversations of Redemption
Conversations of Redemption on Youtube
Our Rescue

Mentioned Resources:
Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
Operation Light Shine
Hunting Warhead

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[Content Warning]: Discussions of childhood sexual abuse, physical and emotional abuse, parental betrayal, chronic trauma-related physical illness, and medical dismissal.

When doctors can't find anything wrong, it doesn't mean nothing is wrong; it may mean they're looking in the wrong place. In this episode, Jan sits down with Dr. David Clarke, a gastroenterologist-turned-pioneer in neuroplastic medicine, to explore the real, physical ways that trauma lives in the body long after the abuse has stopped. From a patient with one bowel movement a month to a man with 55 years of unexplained stomach pain, Dr. Clarke's stories aren't just remarkable — they're a roadmap for anyone who has ever been dismissed, misdiagnosed, or told to just get over it. This conversation is for every survivor who has wondered why their body still hurts.

Dr. David Clarke is a board-certified gastroenterologist and president of the Association for the Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptoms (ATNS), a volunteer-led nonprofit he founded to bring science-backed treatment to the millions of people whose physical symptoms are rooted in stress, trauma, and adverse childhood experiences. His book They Can't Find Anything Wrong is used as a medical school textbook in Slovenia and can be found in libraries across multiple continents.

Where To Find Dr. David Clarke:
They Can’t Find Anything Wrong by Dr David Clarke
Be Sure To Visit: Symptomatic.me
Dr. David Clarke’s Podcast: The Story Behind The Symptoms

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For the first time, Royce Rendon tells his story in full on Trauma Interrupted with Jan Broberg.

Content advisory: child sexual abuse, childhood neglect and abuse, addiction, and suicide.

Jan Broberg sits down with Royce Rendon, a survivor, writer, and advocate, to get the deep dive into his story that hasn't been publicly discussed before. Beginning with a short video about his story reaching millions of people and in this episode he talks, without holding back, about the parts that video could not hold: the childhood behind it, and the aftermath that came after.

Royce describes growing up as the child of a parent living with addiction, and what it does to a kid to become the adult in the room before they are ready. He talks about the pressure survivors face to perform a “good” recovery, the loneliness of healing in public, and how hard it was to find trauma-informed care. He and Jan talk honestly about the justice system, about what happens when a case does not move forward, and about why reporting still matters even when it feels like it doesn't.

It is a heavy conversation, and also a hopeful one. Royce ends with three dreams he is keeping alive, and a reminder that survivors get to decide for themselves what justice and healing look like.

This is the kind of conversation we made Trauma Interrupted for. Honest, survivor to survivor, with nothing performed and nothing exploited.

Where To Find Royce:
Insta: @RoyceRendon

Mentioned Resources:
The Crime Victims Treatment Center (New York)

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The Wound, the Work, and the Way Forward. Trauma Interrupted with Jan Broberg is here. In our first episode, Jan Broberg, Teresa Agustin, and her son Austen Tanner share the story behind the show and why it exists.

Content advisory: child sexual abuse, grooming, and substance use recovery.

In the first episode of Trauma Interrupted, host Jan Broberg sits down with Teresa Agustin, JBF Board Chair and creator of Spot 6, and her son Austen Tanner, JBF Co-Founder and co-creator of the T.I.M.E. Program, to introduce the show, the foundation's three pillars of Awareness, Community, and Justice, and the programs they have spent the past two years building.

Together, they trace why the rebrand from, The Jan Broberg Show, to Trauma Interrupted is more than a name change. They talk about how Survivor Circle evolved from an early community called Thrivivors, why the T.I.M.E. Program (Trauma Interrupted, Mitigated, and Expressed) was built as peer-led and community-sustained, and how SPOT6 teaches the six stages of child grooming so adults can recognize patterns before abuse happens.

Teresa shares her grooming story and the decade of silence that followed. Austen speaks about addiction, recovery, and why peer-to-peer community matters for healing. Jan ties it back to the foundation's broader mission of breaking the cycles of abuse that depend on secrecy.

If you or someone you know is experiencing emotional distress or suicidal ideation, please access the resources below:

National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: Call/Text 988
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We're saying goodbye to The Jan Broberg Show by returning to where it began. Jan Broberg shares her story in full with good friend and fellow podcaster Dave Markel.

Content advisory: child sexual abuse, rape, kidnapping, brainwashing, emotional abuse, drug-facilitated sexual assault, and threats of violence.

In this episode • Jan sits down with Dave Markel, a retired family detective, trauma expert, and the producer and host of SASS: Sexual Assault Survivor Stories. This is the most detailed continual account of her abuse outside of her new book, The Jan Broberg Story. She goes deep into the techniques Robert Berchtold used to brainwash, kidnap, and assault her over years. For anyone trying to understand the predatory mindset and how grooming affects young, absorbent minds, this is a must-listen.

Be sure to check out Dave's podcast, S.A.S.S.
Sexual Assault Survivor Stories
Hosted by Dave Markel
https://sexassaultsurvivorstories.libsyn.com/

This is also a goodbye to The Jan Broberg Show. Its spirit continues on as Trauma Interrupted with Jan Broberg: same feed, same host, same dedication to survivors. One change worth mentioning. We will now release new episodes every Friday. Thank you all for your listenership and support. We will see you in Trauma Interrupted with Jan Broberg.

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Photographer and survivor Lee Cooper joins Jan Broberg to talk about thriving after intrafamilial sexual abuse, and the photography collective, Places Nowhere, that grew out of his healing.

Content advisory: intrafamilial child sexual abuse, domestic violence, substance abuse, physical abuse, and a brief mention of suicidal ideation.

Today, Jan is joined by Lee Cooper, who courageously discusses the sexual violence he experienced at the hands of his father, not revealing his secret until 20 years later during the Covid Pandemic. Through his healing, Lee has created a photography collective called “Places Nowhere”, which expresses the dissociation one experiences during and after being sexually assaulted. Lee and Jan converse about Lee’s passion for photography and how it became a form of escape and mindfulness during his healing process. Lee speaks openly about the bullying and sexual abuse he endured , the abusive relationship with his father, and the traumatic incidents he both witnessed and experienced.. He highlights the importance of safe spaces and the vital role his grandmother played by offering her love and support. Lee discloses his abuse to his ex-girlfriend and reflects on the impact of reading 'The Body Keeps the Score' by Dr. Bessel Van der Kolk which became a catalyst for his healing. He shares the challenges he faced during the pandemic and the strain it put on his relationships. Lee also talks about reporting his father to the police and the personal consequences that followed. He reflects on the deep grief and pain he experienced and the impact it had on his relationship with his mother. Lee explores the process of reframing his relationship with his family and the desire for a better connection with his mother. . Lee shares his journey of self-awareness and the role of mindfulness in recognizing triggers and maintaining healthy habits. In closing they emphasize the need for peer-to-peer support and the power of sharing stories to raise awareness and support survivors.

Check out Lee’s photography and events:
Instagram: @coopscw
PlacesNowhere.com

Mentioned Resources:
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk
Sam Fender : Spit Of You

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