Erika Rothenberger on Surviving Assault & Rewriting the Law | REAL Mentors Podcast | Ep. 74
About this episode
Erika Rothenberger shares her harrowing experience of surviving an assault and her journey to change the law in Pennsylvania regarding strangulation.
She had the corner office, the MBA, two kids, a husband, and the suburban dream. Then a stranger punched her in the face, threw her to the asphalt, and strangled her until she blacked out in a parking lot at 8 a.m. on a Tuesday. Most people would've stayed a victim. Erika Rothenberger decided to change the law instead.In this episode of The REAL Mentors Podcast, host Sean Martin sits down with Erika Rothenberger—civil engineer, corporate director at Henkels & McCoy, keynote speaker, author of Audacious Expansion, and the woman behind "Erika's Law," a bill pushing Pennsylvania to make strangling a stranger a felony instead of a misdemeanor. They go deep on the brutal 2022 attack that nearly killed her, the backyard moment where she chose to thrive instead of break, the childhood trauma she'd been burying for decades, and the exact frameworks she uses to rebuild identity after devastation. This isn't a story about "staying positive." It's a blueprint for what to do when life hits you in the face—literally. What You'll Learn in This Episode:✅ The minute-by-minute story of Erika's attack by a stranger in a quiet Pennsylvania suburb—and the survival instinct that saved her life✅…
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