About this podcast
Silence Serves The Wrong People is the podcast for the conversations people avoid, edit, soften, or shut down. Hosted by Ilja Abbattista, survivor-advocate, speaker, consultant, and lived experience professional, this show explores what happens when people with lived experience are finally trusted to speak about the systems that shaped them. This is not trauma dumping. It's not sensationalism. This is lived experience as expertise. Each episode looks at the stories behind the headlines, the gap between trauma-informed theory and real-life practice, the cost of unpaid emotional labour, and the systems built “for us” that still fail to reach us. From modern slavery and human trafficking to child abuse, care systems, domestic abuse, learning disability, child exploitation, criminal gangs, cuckooing, FGM, forced marriage, honour-based abuse, sexual violence, county lines, homelessness, mental health systems, and life after survival - this podcast asks the questions too many rooms are still avoiding. With voices from lived experience communities, NGOs, government, journalism, frontline work, and systems change, Silence Serves The Wrong People challenges tokenism, names what needs naming, and makes space for the voices that should have been centred all along. Because silence serves the wrong people. And we’re done being quiet.