The first of a two part episode, community organizer, healing support specialist, motivational speaker, author, and poet Tracy Stanton joins Cookie for a raw chat about her time as a former sex worker. She gets candid about childhood abuse, drug dealing turned use, incarceration, and self discovery through therapy. She dissects everything from sex work misconceptions, obsession with validation as a stronghold in the industry, to the importance of personal accountability and the dangers of bandwagon societal expectations.