Melissa Unfiltered - a podcast where nothing is off limits. As a Mom with three adopted kids, I dive into foster care system failures, realities of Mom life, homeschooling, sexual abuse cover ups, domestic violence and any issues that get me fired up each week.
My perspective is unfiltered, fearless, and usually different from the mainstream narrative.
Join me as I question and expose our cultures “accepted” truths, shine a light on the uncomfortable, and explore topics through a lens that’s without boundaries and uniquely mine.
Parents: This Sex Offender Loophole Should Terrify You
I thought I understood how the sex offender registry worked. Then I learned about a loophole in Illinois law that left me completely stunned. Someone can be convicted of certain unauthorized recording offenses involving a child and, under current Illinois law, that conviction does not necessarily require them to register as a sex offender. So how is a parent supposed to know? In this episode, I'm digging into Illinois Senate Bill 2381, the effort to change that law, and the arguments being ma...
29 Sept 2026
Trafficked in a Cult. Now She Hunts Predators.
What happens when a child trafficking survivor goes undercover online pretending to be a 12-year-old girl? What Kim Kelley told me about what happened next is something I think every parent needs to hear. Kim says she is a child trafficking survivor and child safety advocate who was born and raised inside the Children of God cult. She describes growing up in a world where trafficking, exploitation and coercive control were all she knew. Today, she has taken what she survived and turned it int...
24 Sept 2026
What's Really in Your Beef? Inside America's Meat Industry.
Do you REALLY know what's in the beef you're feeding your family? Most of us walk into the grocery store, grab a package of ground beef or a steak, and never think twice about what happened to that meat before it reached the shelf. But after this conversation, you might start asking a few more questions. In this episode of Melissa Unfiltered, I'm sitting down with cattle farmer and meat processor Ben Gamble inside his USDA-inspected processing facility to talk about what REALLY happens to our...
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