The Sadie Green Story.
What are the repercussions of abuse? This podcast tells my story of childhood degradation and survival. Each episode features a conversation between me and my longtime friend, Pam Colby, and includes excerpts from a memoir that I wrote when I was younger. We share this in an attempt to understand how early trauma can affect a lifetime. Thank you for listening.
The Sadie Green Story.
Episodes
E1. Why Now?
“People loved my mother. She nearly killed me.” With that stark paradox, we open a story that refuses easy answers. Sadie Green grew up in rural Minnesota with a cleft palate that required surgeries and a mother who was celebrated by neighbors ...
E2. Looking Back
A single sentence on a phone call—“We only have one daughter”—can divide a life in two. We sit down with Sadie to follow the arc from being erased by her family’s story to authoring her own during a winter spent alone in a Wisconsin cabin: a wo...
E3. Hunger and Hiding
A cold November garage, a basement chair, and a girl counting footsteps—that’s where Sadie’s story begins. We walk through the fear along with the stubborn spark of imagination: a belief that somewhere else this would not be happening. The narr...
E4. The Teacher and The Schoolhouse
A clean green shoebox of sugar donuts sits on a teacher’s desk, and a hungry girl can’t stop staring. From that memory, we follow Sadie back to a one-room schoolhouse in rural Minnesota, sneaking in from the woods, wearing someone el...
Fan Mail
sadie, this is the most incredible story I have ever heard. The fact that you came through this to be the woman that I know you to be is simply remarkable. Your resilience, your endurance, your creativity, your determination to get through this is really inspirational. After listening to this, I can’t believe you still have such a wonderful laugh. I can still hear it to this day. Not only that, but the writing is just fantastic. I was on the edge of my seat many times anxious to get to the next chapter to see what happens thank you thank you thank you for writing this remarkable memoir.
Duluth, Minnesota
