Ep. 103| Featuring: Martine Kalaw

Trauma Survivorhood

Host's note - if you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video.
This episode features our guest, Martine Kalaw - a community advocate, speaker, author, and stateless survivor of the US immigration and legal system - talks to us about her legal battle, her path to freedom, her books, and her Enterprise that bridges the gaps of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
TOPICS COVERED:
- Her recovery journey through being a 4yr old child immigrant on a visitor visa, an abusive childhood from her mother's unhealed trauma, to her stepfather being the best dad, to when both her parents passed and she became undocumented and stateless, through a 7 yr legal battle of malpractice, legal trauma, and a judge's abuse of power and bias
- How there was no time to grieve after losing her step father (her protector) and watching her mother die, and the feelings of abandonment after their passing
- How she got free from her neglectful family when an angel/stranger helped connect her to a boarding school to escape and why it saved her life
- Speaking in front of Congress: Being a voice to the voiceless, leaning on community, trying to hang on one more day
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (D.E.I.) - bridge building
- Starting in the workplace, hoping it translates outward
- Why it's important to ask permission to ask questions, ask the questions, and then listen and acknowledge other people's experience
- Basic fundamentals of management
- The anti-racism movement in America: "we've still got work to do"
- Active allyship - speak up, check in with BIPOC people, share your platform/privilege
- How non-BIPOC people can change their perspective to try to understand the BIPOC experience
GUESTS MOST HELPFUL RECOVERY RESOURCES IN THEIR JOURNEY:
*Her 'team' that helped resuscitate her dignity through her battles*
1. Mental health support - finding a therapist that understood
2. Her attorney - who partnered with her in her case as an advocate
3. An active ally - a friend who stood by her and helped her walk the journey
FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1. Website for socials and contact info and her books
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