Break the Silence, Build a Future

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Strategic Silence and the Most Dangerous Moment

Episode 3

Wednesday, August 5, 2026 • Duration 50:45

Content note: This episode discusses domestic and gender-based violence. Listener discretion advised.

Leaving an abusive relationship isn't a single decision — it's a series of calculated, survival-driven choices. In this episode of Eight Minutes to Silence, host Fartumo Kusow sits down with Sofi Khan to unpack what researchers and advocates call "strategic silence" — the deliberate quiet survivors adopt not out of fear alone, but as a conscious safety strategy during the most dangerous moment of an abusive relationship: the moment of leaving.

Together, they explore why silence is so often misread as compliance, what "the most dangerous moment" actually means for survivors and the people trying to help them, and what a real roadmap toward safety can look like.

Eight Minutes to Silence is Season 3 of Break the Silence, Build a Future, a production of the Sahra Bulle Foundation — a Windsor, Ontario registered not-for-profit corporation working to end gender-based violence through education, storytelling, and community action. Founded in memory of Sahra Bulle, the Foundation turns grief into a living force for change through workshops, an annual conference, community walks, and public-awareness campaigns.

🔗 Full episode notes, transcripts, and ways to support:

https://www.sahrabullefoundation.ca/podcast
💜 Join our Circle of Giving campaign before August 14: https://www.sahrabullefoundation.ca/giving
📍 #IAmSahraBulle Conference — November 26, 2026, Windsor, ON — free to attend

Turning silence into collective power.

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#BreakTheSilenceBuildAFuture
#EndGBV

#GenderBasedViolence

#SilenceIsNotProtection

#ActNotJustRemember

#DomesticViolenceAwareness
#DVAwareness

#SurvivorStories

#IPVAwareness

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#WomensSafety

#TraumaInformed
#Windsor

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Introducing Sahra

Episode 2

Wednesday, July 29, 2026 • Duration 13:08

Before the trial. Before the headlines. This is Sahra.

In Episode 2 of Eight Minutes to Silence, Fartumo Kusow introduces her daughter Sahra as the shild she loved, the memories, the moments, the life that existed before the world only knew her story through loss. This episode walks through the timeline of the day Sahra disappeared, honoring who she was before turning toward what the trial would later reveal.

This is a season about breaking silence and building a future. Sahra's story is where it begins.

🎧 Listen to Break the Silence, Build a Future https://www.sahrabullefoundation.ca/podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.
💜 Learn more or support our work at: sahrabullefoundation.ca

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What I Expected. What It Was. What It Became.

Wednesday, July 22, 2026 • Duration 08:39

I thought I knew what a trial would look like. Television prepares you for a few dramatic days and clear answers — it does not prepare you for three and a half weeks of testimony, evidence entered page by page, and a level of care I didn't expect.

In this season opener, I walk you through what it actually meant to sit through my daughter Sahra's trial: the moment I was asked to give my own blood so the forensic lab could identify her remains, being called as the very first witness, and the unexpected gratitude I felt on the day the man responsible turned himself in.

This is where the Season begins, not with the courtroom details themselves, but with what it cost me just to walk into that room.

Break the Silence, Build a Future: "Eight Minutes to Silence." New episodes every Wednesday through December 2nd.

Turning silence into collective power.

sahrabullefoundation.ca |

#SahraBulleFoundation

#EndGBV

#SilenceIsNotProtection

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Eight Minutes to Silence Trailer

Tuesday, July 21, 2026 • Duration 01:37

What could you do with eight minutes? Fold a load of laundry. Brew a pot of coffee. Sit through the previews before a movie starts. It's nothing. A time you don't even notice passing.

But eight minutes of silence isn't nothing. It's a phone ringing with no one answering. A door someone almost knocked on. Every second someone could have acted, and didn't.

Eight minutes is how long it took to alter my family's life forever.

This season, host Fartumo Kusow tells the full story of her daughter Sahra's trial, the testimony, the evidence, the exact moment the system had a chance, and what happened instead. Ten episodes, released weekly, walk through the courtroom day by day: what was said, what was missed, and what silence actually costs.

Break the Silence, Build a Future. This Season begins July 22, 2026. New episodes every Wednesday through December 2.

Turning silence into collective power.

sahrabullefoundation.ca |

#SahraBulleFoundation

#EndGBV

#SilenceIsNotProtection

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Facing the Jaguar: Babs Walters Journey of Healing and Empowerment

Season 3 · Episode 20

Wednesday, September 10, 2025 • Duration 44:06

Join us as Babs Walters, author of "Facing the Jaguar," shares her transformative journey of overcoming trauma and finding empowerment through storytelling. In this episode of "Break the Silence, Build the Future," Babs reveals how confronting the symbolic jaguar helped her break the silence and embark on a healing journey. Discover the power of memoir writing and the courage it takes to face one's fears. #HealingJourney #Empowerment #OvercomingTrauma Connect with Babs Walters https://babswalters.com https://www.youtube.com/@facingthejaguar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Break the Silence: Why Silence Costs Lives | #IamSahraBulle Campaign 2025

Season 3 · Episode 12

Thursday, September 4, 2025 • Duration 19:38

Silence is not protection — silence is permission. In this clip from Break the Silence, Build a Future, Fartumo Kusow, author, advocate, and founder of the Sahra Bulle Foundation, explains why silence costs lives and why breaking it is the first step toward ending gender-based violence (GBV). As part of the #IamSahraBulle Campaign 2025, this message calls us to recommit — through the Purple Ribbon Campaign, the Walk to End Silence (Oct 4, 2025), and the 3rd Annual #IamSahraBulle Conference (Nov 26, 2025). 👉 Learn more and take action: wespeake.com/recommitment Because if not now, then when? If not you, then who? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Breaking the Silence: Community Action Against Gender-Based Violence

Season 3 · Episode 13

Wednesday, August 27, 2025 • Duration 12:36

🎙️ Episode Title (specific + SEO) Breaking the Silence: Community Action Against Gender-Based Violence #IamSahraBulle Campaign 2025 In this powerful opening episode of Break the Silence, Build a Future, Fartumo Kusow — author, storyteller, and founder of the Sahra Bulle Foundation — emphasizes the urgent need for action against gender-based violence (GBV) and the dangers of silence. Through her personal story, Fartumo illustrates how silence costs lives and why advocacy, empowerment, and women’s rights must remain central to our communities. She connects today’s work to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (Beijing+30), reminding us that collective responsibility and community action are essential to lasting social change. This episode also introduces the Purple Ribbon Campaign, a community-driven initiative that raises awareness, honors lives lost, and amplifies survivor voices. By uniting individuals and organizations, it fosters justice and demonstrates how collective action can transform grief into meaningful change. Because if not now, then when? If not you, then who? 👉 Take action today: https://www.wespeake.com/recommitment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Attempt to Reach for Beautiful: Grief, Love, and Letting Go

Season 3 · Episode 7

Friday, July 11, 2025 • Duration 44:02

When Sally McQuillen lost her 21-year-old son in a tragic accident, her world changed forever. In this powerful episode, Sally, author of Reaching for Beautiful: A Memoir of Loving and Losing a Wild Child, joins host Fartumo Kusow for a deeply honest conversation about parenting through fear, the weight of grief, and the journey toward forgiveness and healing. Together, they explore the complexities of loving someone who walks a risky path, the illusion of control that haunts so many grieving parents, and how writing her memoir became both a burden and a balm. As a psychotherapist, Sally brings unique insight into the emotional landscape of loss and how grief reshapes not only our memories but our identities. This is a story of holding on, letting go, and reaching again and again for something beautiful on the other side of heartbreak. 📚 Learn more about Sally's book: Reaching for Beautiful: 🎧 Listen now and share with someone who needs this message. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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How institutions stay silent in the face of gender-based violence — and what that silence costs.

Season 3 · Episode 7

Wednesday, July 2, 2025 • Duration 06:04

What happens when survivors do everything they’re “supposed” to — and the system still fails them? In this second episode of our 30-day campaign series, host Fartumo Kusow confronts the institutional silence that surrounds gender-based violence. From missed warnings to broken protections, we ask what it really means when silence is built into the structures meant to keep us safe. 🎧 Listen to this powerful reflection and find out how you can join the Purple Ribbon Campaign leading up to the #IamSahraBulle Conference. Because if not now, then when? If not you, then who? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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WhenGrief That Demands More

Season 3 · Episode 7

Wednesday, June 25, 2025 • Duration 08:32

n this opening episode of a special five-part lead-up to the #IamSahraBulle campaign, host Fartumo Kusow reflects on the grief that changed everything—the grief that came after losing her daughter, Sahra, to intimate partner violence. But this isn’t just a story about loss. It’s about the kind of grief that doesn’t settle down. The kind that asks more of you. The kind that won’t let you stay quiet. This episode sets the tone for what’s coming: a collective call to action rooted in remembrance, resistance, and rebuilding. If your grief has ever asked something more of you—this episode is for you. 🎧 Break the Silence, Build a Future is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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