The Aron Bender Podcast
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We found 3 episodes of The Aron Bender Podcast with the tag “abuse”.
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Kirk Hawkins: Anchor, Reporter, Real Estate Agent
July 5th, 2021 | 37 mins 50 secs
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Aron Bender talks with KTLA utility player Kirk Hawkins. He reports, anchors, does weather and traffic, and is also a real estate agent! We discuss the wild housing market, and his journey from Agoura Hills, California, to UC Santa Barbara and the local station KCOY, then his "News Across America" tour that took him to KXLY in Spokane, Washington, WFTV in Orlando, Florida, home to KCBS/KCAL, then over to WCCB in Charlotte, North Carolina, and back west to KTLA in 2014. Kirk and I also discussed the impact of the Woolsey Fire and Borderline Bar & Grill Shooting in 2018.
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Gin Amber: Trauma Survivor, Immigrant, Dermaroller Queen
July 2nd, 2021 | 35 mins 24 secs
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Aron Bender talks with Gin Amber -- who left a small town in Lithuania to become a global beauty icon: the Dermaroller Queen. In this episode we discuss Gin's traumatic childhood, her early memories of wanting to escape her abusive home for a better life, her pursuit of the American Dream, and how her YouTube stardom started because she was a bored introvert in the US on a student visa.
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Somy Ali: Survivor, Activist, Former Bollywood Actress
May 15th, 2021 | 1 hr 6 mins
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TW:
Sexual violence.
Rape.
Domestic violence.
Child abuse.
Harmful language and discrimination.
I understand if you may not be ready to listen right now but I'm here and this episode is here when you are.
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Aron Bender talks with Somy Ali -- a sexual abuse, domestic violence and rape survivor, an activist, a former Bollywood actress, and the founder of No More Tears https://nomoretearsusa.org/donate.html — an all-volunteer non-profit in South Florida that helps victims of human trafficking and domestic violence. We talk about how her abusive childhood was the catalyst behind No More Tears, the dream that led her to India and Bollywood, growing up in Pakistan and then North Miami, being bullied and discriminated against, and her obsession with Bon Jovi.