Retaliation with Julie Roginsky
Retaliation with Julie Roginsky is a weekly podcast focused on the stories of women who have spoken truth to power and been punished for it. It shares the experiences of brave individuals who have been castigated rather than celebrated for standing up. Political strategist and television commentator Julie Roginsky examines the structures, systems, and individual culprits responsible for perpetrating and perpetuating workplace toxicity. Retaliation explores the legal steps, policy changes, and cultural reevaluations that can finally bring an end to the ongoing attack on women in this country and around the world.
Episodes
Though the season is over, please keep the stories coming. Reach out if you need advice or just to talk or just to say "I can't tell you what happened to me but I just want someone to know that something did." For those of you facing retaliation for asking for a better workplace environment, please know that ...
Lisa Guerrero is a former sports reporter, actress, model, NFL executive, and now an investigative journalist for Inside Edition. Lisa tells her s...
Trish Nelson is a former server of The Spotted Pig in New York City, owned by Ken Friedman and partnered with chef April Bloomfield. In 2017, Trish came forward with her story about Friedman's abuse...
Desiree is the former Chief Sustainability Officer for financial giant DWS, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank. Desiree's allegations of greenwashing against her former company led to regulatory investigations on both sides of the Atlantic and a reassessment of how the financial services industry conducts its business. Desiree's life changed, and she soon went from ...
In 2019, Adrienne Lawrence, an on-air personality at ESPN, filed a lawsuit against the sports network for sexual harassment. This experience motivated Adrienne to write a best-selling book about navigating sexual harassment in the workplace, and to dedicate her career to speaking to organizations about creating a more r...
Erin Oberbey is a former archive editor at The New Yorker Magazine. After raising concerns privately to her colleagues, Erin published a Twitter thread on the lack of diversity in the magazine's bylines and masthead. After speaking out about gender and racial pay parity in me...
Cheyney Ryan was a longtime Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Oregon where, for years, he urged leaders to take a harder stance on sexual misconduct. Instead of listening, they retaliated against him, all because he stood up on be...
"There were a lot of people who just wanted to be on the Christie train, and at whatever cost to sacrifice anyone else, they were going to do it."
Bridget Kelly, Deputy Chief of Staff to then Governor Chris Christie, was on her way to work when she got a phone call that would change her life forever.
After working in state government for two decades, Bridget was indicted, tried and co...
Jennifer Joy Freyd is a psychologist, researcher and the founder and president of The Center for Institutional Courage. She pioneered the concept of intuitional courage and its opposite, institutional betrayal, where organizations from universities to corporations create ...
Jamie Fiore Higgins worked as a managing director at Goldman Sachs. One of just 8 percent of Goldman employees to earn the managing director title, she was the highest-ranking woman in her department. When she reported misogyny, homophobia and toxicity in the workplace, she ...
Cher Scarlett is a high school drop out, teenage single mother and a former drug addict who taught herself how to code and rose to become a software engineer at companies such as Apple, Blizzard and Starbucks. But her brilliant career was cut short when she dared to speak up about worker's ...
Zelda Perkins is the former assistant to Harvey Weinstein. She speaks with Julie Roginsky about her fight for justice against the movie mogul after he assaulted her ...
Kristen Shaughnessy is a former anchorwoman at NY1, New York's local television station. In 2019, Kristen and four other anchorwomen sued NY1's parent company for age and gender discrimination. The lawsuit was explosive. Kristen has become a fierce advocate for changing the American...
Katie Brennan was campaign volunteer for New Jersey Governor, Phil Murphy's first campaign. In April 2017, Brennan attended a party where she says she was assaulted by one of Murphy's senior aids. For months she tried to get justice, even contacting Governor Murphy himself. When nothing happened, she finally went public with her story with The Wall St...
Alexia Norton Jones grew up in the world of music and literature. Her father is the former speech writer for Martin Luther King Jr. and her grandfather was the late publisher, W.W Norton. In the late 80s and 90s, she lived in New York and ran in the same social circles as Hip Hop entrepreneur and founder of Def Jam Records, Russell Simmons. Alexia discusse...
Helen Miller was a valued employee as a court reporter for the Cook County courthouse in Illinois. After years of enduring sexual harassment, she finally filed a complaint. She was fired two months later. Her own co-workers and close friends retaliated against her, driving her away from her job and even the state.
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Daniella Mestyanek Young was born into the third generation of the religious sex cult, the Children of God. She later served as an intelligence officer for the US Army for over six years, making the rank of Captain, and observed the same misogyny she had thought she escaped...
Lisa Bowman's 20-year marketing career led to her dream job, Chief Marketing Officer at "America's Favorite Charity," United Way. Then, with the hiring of a single employee, everything changed, and her dream career came to an end after deciding to speak out against harassment and retaliation at her workplace. Lisa is the author of "Harasshole: A Caut...
Liani Reyna is a former Portland Police Sergeant and the first and only woman to serve in the city's elite Special Emergency Reaction Team. After joining SERT came a nightmare of hazing, misogyny and retaliation that changed her life both personally and prof...
Bridget Kelly, Deputy Chief of Staff to then Governor Chris Christie, was on her way to work when she got a phone call that would change her life forever.
After working in state government for two decades, Bridget was indicted, tried and convicted of conspiring to shut down the world's bu...
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