Today's show is highly sensitive and listener's discretion is advised. Grace converses with Andrea Leeb, a survivor of incestuous sexual abuse; whose abuser was her father. She is also a writer, an advocate for survivors of sexual assault, volunteering at the UCLA rape treatment center and Stuart House; mentoring young women from post-conflict and climate- challenged countries. Her work has been published in numerous literary journals, including Litro-magazine, HerStry, Potomac review, Text Power Telling magazine. She was a non-fiction finalist in the Tucson Festival of Books Literary award program, 2025. She previously worked as an attorney and a nurse and currently lives in Venice Beach in California.

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