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The Fierce Freedom Podcast

The Fierce Freedom Podcast aims to shine light on all aspects of modern-day slavery by sharing compelling conversations with individuals who are using their passions and talents to fight human trafficking and exploitation. By telling these stories, we hope to both educate listeners through spreading awareness and to inspire individuals to rise up and fight within their sphere of influence.

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39:13

Reducing Stigma & Avoiding Burnout for Support...

The Fierce Freedom Podcast ·

2024/10/01

How can those seeking to support survivors of trauma do so in a way that honors that individual, helps reduce stigma around addiction, and avoids burnout? We are joined by Julie Bates-Maves, PhD, LPC Professor, Clinical Mental Health Counseling The University of Wisconsin-Stout who shares lessons from the field and recommendations for professionals in clinical and direct support settings as well as important reminders for non-professionals who want to offer care. If you'd like to check out Julie's

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40:15

How Can We Identify & Respond to Cult Abuse?

The Fierce Freedom Podcast ·

2024/09/24

How prevalent are cults? And how is cult abuse similar to the coercion found in human trafficking cases? To learn more, we invited Dr. Lalich, the Founder and CEO of The Lalich Center on Cults and Coercion, which provides a collaborative approach and safe spaces for survivors through courses, workshops, and discussion groups. She shares about her own experience breaking free of a cult, and how she began her journey towards recovery to help create safe spaces and resources for others who had gone

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18:09

Why Teaching Consent Matters at Every Age

The Fierce Freedom Podcast ·

2024/09/10

Did you know that one in 5 women and 1 in 16 men experience sexual assault during their time on college campuses? On today's episode your hosts Cat and Mark discuss why assault is so incredibly prevalent on college campuses and why many often go unreported. They'll also chat about some practical ways to incorporate talking about consent and body autonomy with your kids from a young age, how you can find support in reporting, and also some wellness reminders for you and your family. If you'd like to

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04:31

Transforming the World by Empowering the Most Vulnerable

The Fierce Freedom Podcast ·

2024/07/30

Today's guest Audrey Walters Moore is CEO of Lift Up the Vulnerable (LUV) whose mission is empowering the most vulnerable to become change agents in their own communities towards the prevention of trafficking and other forms of oppression. Audrey gives a little history of the communities in South Sudan and Sudan where LUV works to address the root causes of exploitation in regions which have often been ravaged by war and a history of colonization. Audrey also shares about how LUV finds

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44:39

Building Safer Communities through Restorative Justice

The Fierce Freedom Podcast ·

2024/06/25

Today's guest Dana Brown is dedicated to building a safer communities by discouraging crime, restoring victim well-being, and emphasizing direct offender accountability through his work as Director of Eau Claire Treehouse and as the former Director of Restorative Justice. He shares about how this work takes place through ongoing relationships with youth and cites the importance of support for professionals within schools and the criminal justice system to be trained with restorative justice concepts

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36:37

How GameSafe is Using AI to Stop Online Predators

The Fierce Freedom Podcast ·

2024/06/12

Today, typical teens spend hours on social media and gaming apps, looking for fun and connection but sometimes stumbling upon s**ual groomers and predators, looking to entice and entrap youth through their devices. Today's podcast guest David Everitt is working to create a world where kids are safer online and adults have tools in place to foster healthy and relevant conversations with youth about navigating the pitfalls of an ever growing ai and digital landscape through his brand new software,

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48:25

How Angel Wings Healing Center is Providing Wholistic...

The Fierce Freedom Podcast ·

2024/05/21

Today's guest Angel Slawinski is working to connect survivors of sex trafficking with wholistic healing for their mind, body, and spirit, through the Angel Wings Healing Foundation, a ministry that supports survivors in their post-treatment healing journey by offering them to participate in a 3 month transition program which includes a 4-day exclusive healing retreat. Angel shares about some of the highlights of these programs and about her God-given vision for a retreat center in central WI where

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57:44

Called to Foster

The Fierce Freedom Podcast ·

2024/05/07

Today, there are 400,000 children in foster care in the U.S., these youth are at significant risk to be trafficked or exploited because of factors related to their involvement with this system. Today's guests Jamey and Sarah McIntosh are advocates with The Forgotten Initiative, which is helping support the foster care community through awareness, encouragement, and advocacy. They share about their journey to grow their family through fostering and adopting, how they navigate both the "very hard" and

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45:23

The Dirty Dozen List 2024 Revealed: Accountability...

The Fierce Freedom Podcast ·

2024/04/16

For over a decade, the team at NCOSE (National Center on Sexual Exploitation) has been holding 12 mainstream entities like Apple, Spotify, Discord, and Roblox accountable for facilitating, enabling, and even profiting from sexual abuse and exploitation through their annual campaign, The Dirty Dozen List. To share about this year's list, we had the privilege of speaking with Tim Nester, Senior Director of Communications at NCOSE, to share more on why this year's companies made the list and more

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23:24

The Kids Online Safety Act: Should You Support It?

The Fierce Freedom Podcast ·

2024/04/02

We haven't seen significant legislation to protect kids online for the last quarter of a century, this bill could change that. On today's podcast we're talking about Senate Bill 1409, "Kids Online Safety Act" (KOSA) which, if passed, would be among the most significant kids’ online safety statutes since the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 2000. Upon its passage, this bill would allow parents to sue social media companies and other online platforms if they do not sufficiently shield

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