Darlene Lekowski, resilience speaker, bestselling author, and survivor advocate, with shoulder-length blonde hair wears earbuds, a light pink shirt. She is sitting at a desk with a microphone, a laptop, and a notepad.

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Darlene Lekowski has been featured in hundreds of publications and on 50+ podcasts. Here is a sample of her recent media appearance and press coverage.

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Justice and the Power of Telling | One Voice Podcast

Darlene Lekowski is an Amazon best-selling author, speaker, and business leader who transformed decades of silence into a powerful platform for truth, healing, and advocacy.

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Incest: How to Heal & Survive - Lyn Smith & Darlene Lekowski | Hearts Entwined Podcast

Keeping a secret for fifty years is a heavy burden to carry, but eventually, even the most tightly sealed boxes begin to leak.

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Survive And Thrive After Sexual Abuse - Darlene Lekowski and Lily Patrascu | Heal Podcast

Darlene explains that surviving and thriving after sexual abuse begins with letting go of shame, anger, and survival patterns that no longer serve you.

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Shattering Silence: Turning Trauma into Truth | Darlene Lekowski | Life. Reimagined. with Stacey Ray

In this powerful and emotional episode, host Stacey Ray sits down with Darlene Lekowski for a deeply honest conversation about trauma, truth, and the lifelong journey of healing.

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Sued by Her Own Brother After Revealing Her Childhood Sibling Sexual Abuse. She Fought Back. Countersued. And Won in 2024. Now She Tells Her Story | PRWeb

Unlike traditional memoirs that simply recount past trauma, Shattering Silence unfolds as a deeply personal and chronological journey that follows Darlene from childhood into adulthood—revealing not only what happened, but how decades of silence shaped her relationships, choices, and sense of self.

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Darlene Lekowski: She Buried the Truth as a Child…What Happened When It Resurfaced? | Sexual Assault Survivor Stories with Dave Markel

What unfolds in this conversation is not just a story of what happened to her as a child, but what it means to live an entire life shaped by silence… and what it takes to finally break it.

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Darlene Lekowski: Healing from Shame and Unresolved Trauma | Conversationns with Joan

Some stories really challenge how we think about justice, silence, and the courage it takes to finally speak your truth.

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She Kept a Secret for 50 Years… | Survivor Story of Healing, Justice & Speaking Up on Unsubscribe with Ginny Priem

In this powerful conversation, Ginny Priem sit down with survivor, advocate, and author Darlene Lekowski to talk about silence, truth, healing, and what it really takes to reclaim your voice after decades.

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Darlene Lekowski’s Debut Memoir “Shattering Silence” Reaches #1 Amazon Bestseller Status Across Multiple Categories

Shattering Silence: A Story of Survival, Justice, and the Power of Telling the Truth explores the long-term effects of childhood trauma, identity formation, and healing.

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Shattering Silence and Finding Justice with Darlene Lekowski and Jessica Buchanan | How to Survive Survival

After fifty years of silence surrounding the Sibling Sexual Trauma and Abuse (SSTA) she endured as a child, Darlene found her voice and chose to stand in her truth—ultimately prevailing in a civil lawsuit brought against her by her own brother.

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Her Brothers SAed Her, One Tried to Silence Her with a Lawsuit | Beyond the Monsters Podcast with Chell Bane

Darlene Lekowski was sexually abused by two of her older brothers beginning at just 7 years old, carrying the trauma in silence for more than five decades while building a life that looked perfect from the outside.

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She Stayed Silent for 50 Years… Then Took Her Abuser to Court with Morgan Huelsman

What began as childhood trauma inflicted by two of her siblings turned into a lifetime of silence, survival, and hidden pain. But when that silence finally broke, it set off a chain of events no one could have expected...

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