Survivor's Guide to True Crime

14/11/2023

Did you know that we are posting full video versions of the interview over on our patreon?

We also have exclusive merch and lives over there.

If you’re not yet a member, find our NEW link in the profile.

06/10/2023

Working on things today.
Patreon always gets first crack but stickers coming v soon. Merch too.

25/08/2023

“One day you will tell your story of how you overcame what you went through and it will be someone else's survival guide.”
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Here are a few sneak peeks of our SGTC-styled photoshoot courtesy of the incredibly talented .roseto.photography

27/07/2023

On Survivor's Guide to True Crime, we thoughtfully cultivate our guests. We have a list of upcoming, dream, and ISO (mostly experts) guests BUT we would love to hear from YOU!

Who would you love to hear come on the podcast?
What about return guests!?

Let us know in the comments!

21/07/2023

Accolades and reviews from you just affirm what we are doing.

Thank you for being here with us. For taking the dive into yet another podcast. For being willing to listen, learn, and laugh.

We are here to change the MO.

17/07/2023

Kara here, back from the almost dead to tell you we’ve posted new episodes the last few weeks but I haven’t been posting here. Good thing our guest Summer was on break too!

Trauma-informed Mental Health with is available where you get podcasts now!

Summer Forlenza LMFT joins Kim & Kara as an expert guest. Talking about trauma-informed mental health, Summer sheds light on popular therapeutic approaches used for survivors and their support persons.
Summer Forlenza helps people to heal from trauma and to support the survivors in their lives so that we can build a world with more compassion, connection, and joy. She does this through her work as a therapist, educator, and facilitator.

Summer graduated with her Master’s in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University in 2018. Since then, she has worked with teens in school-based counseling, with the general population in community mental health, and with eating disorder patients at residential, intensive outpatient, and partial hospitalization levels of care.

Summer now runs a virtual private practice providing online EMDR therapy to California residents. In her practice, she specializes in treating the impacts of trauma, including eating disorders, depression, anxiety, and the cycle of abuse.

Educators are near and dear to Summer's heart. In her life before therapy, she taught 5th grade in East Harlem for a year, then worked as a substitute teacher for the two years she was in graduate school. Summer's husband is a 4th-grade teacher, both of her parents are teachers, and her grandmother was a school principal.

Summer loves pop punk music, her dog Ronin, taking up new hobbies, and building Ikea furniture. On weekends you can find her writing, taking long walks, listening to podcasts, or trying new recipes.

Learn more from Summer:
https://www.SummerForlenza.com
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Summer's CTA: Explore available courses through Summer's website on healthy relationships, self-soothing, and supporting survivors.

07/06/2023

Chapter 17 | with
Get ready to feel some feelings this week. Although for Kara, the feelings are mostly nausea. Pregnancy is kicking her butt this time around so the vibes while Kim and Kara play catch up are rather relaxed. Updates on former guests and are on tap as well as SGTC making a pretty cool ethical true crime top ten list on .

Benzii Diaz joins Kim and Kara to talk about her experiences as a child and how they impacted her into adulthood. Still early in her recovery journey, Benzii's revelations throughout this raw interview offer a unique look at the oscillating feelings survivors go through on a daily basis.

Benzii Diaz is a survivor of domestic minor s*x trafficking. Today, she is a thriving advocate, influencer, and businesswoman. Benzii has dedicated her endeavors to breaking the molds and stigmas of what a survivor is "supposed to be". She has testified at the Pennsylvania State Senate, coordinated drives for the youth and homeless, and has worked with celebrities. Her efforts over the past 6 years have been nationally recognized and she has been deemed one of the most influential women in the tri-state area all before the age of 30.

Learn more from Benzii:
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TikTok:

Benzii's CTA: Check out Benzii's campaign and non-profit organization
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31/05/2023

Kim and Kara return from their mid-season break with some BIG news!

Dr. Sheena C. Howard () joins the podcast detailing her love of comics, writing, and telling her story of how she became the superhero she needed.

Dr. Sheena C. Howard is the first Black woman to win an Eisner award at San Diego Comic-Con for her first book, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation (2014). The Eisner is considered the ‘Oscars of Comics.’ Howard has published comic books for both Marvel (Illusion of Fairness, 2023) and DC (Fresh Air in Philly, 2021, and others) comics. She has written a graphic novel and stage play for DMC (from RUN-DMC), published with Bloomsbury (Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation, 2014), Chicago Review Press (Encyclopedia of Black Comics, 2017), BenBella Press (Why Wakanda Matters, 2021), and more. In addition, her work has received numerous book awards, including the American Library Association’s Outstanding Reference Sourcebook award and more. Her books have been featured in Good Morning America, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and more. She is also the subject of an Emmy-nominated episode of State of the Arts. Finally, Dr. Howard writes and ghostwrites for celebrities, CEOs, and social impact companies that seek to empower, inspire and motivate.

24/05/2023

No new episode today! It’s our mid-season break.

We will be back next week for the content you know and love.

Check out patreon for all your SGTC needs in the meantime!

11/05/2023

Kim and Kara joined Natalie and Paige of "The Murder Diaries" podcast to discuss ethics in true crime as both survivors and now show hosts within the genre.
Check it out now everywhere you get your podcasts!

04/05/2023

This week is our first Q&A episode! Tune in for some conversation featuring listener-submitted queries.

01/05/2023

May you all a great week with plentiful cheese throughout your nachos 🤤

28/04/2023

Kimberly Corban explains that her family planned a trip to Chicago, where her daughter was excited to get her ears pierced at the American Girl...

26/04/2023

Avremi Zippel , joins Kim and Kara for a conversation you'll probably want to listen to a few times to digest all of the wisdom this survivor imparts. His journey through reclaiming his voice, healing his inner child, and forging a new path toward justice for survivors like him provides a unique message that is compassionately delivered.
Chapter 13 is now available, everywhere you get your podcasts.

28/03/2023

When we work with survivors, it isn't just for an interview. The guests we host are fully in charge of their episodes. We carefully comb through our recorded conversations in editing, draft all of our show notes, identify proper crisis resources, and link any calls to action discussed before sending everything to the survivor guest for their review. Any changes they want, we make--no questions asked.
This is vastly different than what we have experienced working with most media outlets and content creators in the past. Once we relive and share our story, it is out of our hands and in that of a journalist, content creator, or the company they work with. It can be a scary process, and we have certainly been burned, but we engage in this practice over and over. We know how important it is to have survivor stories and voices heard.
When we created SGTC, we sought to be the change we wished to see in the world of covering true crime. I (Kim) was talking this afternoon with to run a couple of sentences we were including in our press release by her as they mentioned her and her story. Seems like a no-brainer, but she reminded me that what Kara and I are doing here is not yet the industry standard.
Jess said: “Thank you so much for making such an effort to help me feel safe. You’ve gone above and beyond for this newbie advocate and I’m so grateful for you.” (shared with her permission, of course).
It’s not rocket science, it’s consent. Radical respect for survivors and the stories they have lived should be at the center of all true crime content, but we aren’t there yet. It’s up to all of us as consumers to demand that autonomy and consent remain in the hands of survivors and their families.
It’s ok if we haven’t always gotten it right, so long as we are learning and doing our best to be better today. 💖

25/03/2023

Have you joined the conversation yet? Even more available on our ‘Captive Audience’ Patreon right now!

22/03/2023

This week, mental health advocate joins Kim & Kara for a riveting conversation on hope, change, and how great the world is with you in it.
Listen now everywhere you get your podcasts! 🎧

14/03/2023

Hey! You! Yeah, you!
Did you know you can help us reach more listeners by leaving a 5-star rating and review? It’s true.

08/03/2023

This week, Kim & Kara welcome Amanda Knox to the conversation to tackle subjects like "unpopular" trauma responses, secondary survivors, and why she agreed to partake in the documentary project about the miscarriage of justice in her case.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

01/03/2023

Kim and Kara host fellow survivor and human rights activist Barrett Pall () for a conversation covering the modeling industry, the Adult Survivors' Act, hiking your own hike, and how gratitude makes everyone better humans.

22/02/2023

Chapter 4 is live!

Join and for an amazing conversation on trauma responses with and .rebeccabailey

We often hear about fight or flight and Stockholm syndrome. Jaycee and Dr Bailey have done research and published a study to expand this wording to something more authentic to what trauma survivors experience.

Give episode 4 a listen to learn about APPEASE.

18/02/2023

Hearing back from you all is the best part of putting this out into the world.
Knowing we are making a difference in the world and your minds is our purpose behind what we do.

Have you listened yet?
Have you left a review?
Reviews help others find us so we can help as many people as possible!

17/02/2023

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15/02/2023

"After advising Lifetime on their telling of her story, she launched a podcast with partner Kimberly Corban, another survivor. Their Survivor's Guide to True Crime focuses on the survivors' perspectives of crimes.

Their first guest is kidnap survivor and Girl Who Escaped executive producer Elizabeth Smart. In the weeks ahead, Survivor's Guide aims to include a diverse array of survivor experiences.

"We're also two white women," Kara Robinson Chamberlain said. "We're also aware that that doesn't represent all of the people who have become victims in this world."

Robinson Chamberlain said her purpose with the movie and the podcast was to provide future survivors with resources should they experience similar traumas. She said that when she escaped, she did not see any depictions of her fight, flight, freeze, and appease approach.

"They can understand that the things that they're experiencing might be a normal response," Robinson Chamberlain said. "The more diversity we can have in our guests, the more we can reach more people who may feel seen and heard."

Kara Robinson Chamberlain said the Lifetime movie about her experience, "The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story," helped her unbury emotions she'd blocked from her kidnapping.

14/02/2023

A sense of dark humor is like a Valentine…not everyone has one.

09/02/2023

Meet your co-hosts!

Kimberly Corban is a s*xual assault survivor turned outspoken victim’s advocate. Upon her attacker’s conviction, Kimberly chose to release her name to the media to educate the public on responses to crime victims. After graduating from the , she worked as a victim advocate with her local police department and district attorney’s office.

Kimberly's expertise in trauma-informed media coverage, work to improve legislation in favor of victim rights, and her talk have all received high praise, sparking both timely and timeless conversations about survivors of abuse.

In addition to delivering keynote speeches across the country, Kimberly is a wife and mother to four children living in Colorado.

02/02/2023

Introducing a one-of-a-kind podcast hosted by Kimberly Corban and Kara Robinson Chamberlain.

Premiering Wednesday, February 8th, discover true stories of survival healing, and hope, beyond the headlines.

Listen as fellow survivors reclaim their narratives, and share their experiences in an effort to educate and empower listeners.

Trailer is live on all podcast platforms!
Listen, Subscribe, like, share and review now everywhere you get your podcasts!

02/02/2023

Survivor’s Guide to True Crime

What’s in a name?

True crime is the top genre right now. To what end?
The content follows a pattern:
“Life before, details of the crime, resolution of the crime.”

As survivors, we believe there’s more interesting parts of the story like what comes after, how did you heal, how did you take back your power.

These are the conversations we love to have and are going to share with you.

We will talk with other survivors and share their stories of how to heal and how to move forward.

Real stories. Real conversations. Real inspiration.

02/02/2023

Get to know your hosts!

Kara and Kim met on the line and quickly became best friends. They bonded over their stories of survival, dark humor and Virgo tendencies.

Having someone who truly understands this world of sharing your story is real but we are one another’s people.

And we now hope to be your people.

Let’s do this survivor thing, together.
Shall we?