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- President of FORSHAW Inc - Tom Forshaw
Welcome to the "Let's Talk About Sex...Trafficking" Podcast where you will learn how to spot, report, and prevent trafficking. Every week you will hear our guests share real facts, real stories, and real ways you can help eradicate trafficking in the United States by 2030. This week Safe House Project co-founders, Brittany Dunn& Kristi Wells, are joined by President of FORSHAW Inc, Tom Forshaw IV.
Tom Forshaw IV is the President of FORSHAW Inc, the largest family-owned distributor to the US pest management industry. Tom joined the business founded by his grandfather after completing his economics degree from North Carolina State University in 1994. Through the years, Tom has worked his way both “up and through” the organization working in warehouse, marketing, sales, and leadership roles.
From the beginning, Tom has championed a focus on customer service, culture, and conscious growth. Tom’s vision is to lead the FORSHAW Team to “supply confidence through our commitment to people, partners, and performance”. It is FORSHAW’s goal to be the most respected, nationally recognized pest management industry leader
The FORSHAW team and Tom are deeply committed to the pest management industry and its success. He has served on the board of directors for several national industry associations and has also served on committees that represented the manufacturing, distribution, and service sectors of the industry. Tom envisions FORSHAW making a difference by elevating the industry through like-minded partnerships.
Personally and professionally, Tom likes to push the boundaries in many ways. He is an avid reader of books relating to business practices and human psychology and is always working to better his organization and himself. He likes to spend his free time with his family surfing, boating, snowboarding, and traveling.
------Safe House Project's vision is to see communities across America unite to end domestic sex trafficking and restore hope and freedom to every survivor, while building a better future through preventing the spread of child sex trafficking. When everyone engages for change, we can eradicate child sex trafficking in America by 2030.
www.SafeHouseProject.org
- https://www.facebook.com/SafeHousePrjct
- https://instagram.com/safehouseproject
14 min - Author, Philanthropist, & Businesswoman - Mitzi Perdue
Welcome to the "Let's Talk About Sex...Trafficking" Podcast where you will learn how to spot, report, and prevent trafficking. Every week you will hear our guests share real facts, real stories, and real ways you can help eradicate trafficking in the United States by 2030. This week Safe House Project co-founders, Brittany Dunn & Kristi Wells, are joined by Safe House Project Board Member Mitzi Perdue.
Mitzi Perdue is a businesswoman, activist and author, She holds degrees from Harvard University and George Washington University, and is a past president of the 40,000 member American Agri-Women and was one of the U.S. Delegates to the United Nations Conference on Women in Nairobi.Mitzi was a syndicated columnist for 22 years, and her weekly environmental columns were distributed by California’s Capitol News and later, by Scripps Howard News Service, to roughly 420 newspapers. She wrote for the Academy of Women's Health and GEN, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News.Mitzi has been a Commissioner on the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. Presently, she is the founder and president of “Win This Fight! Stop Human Trafficking Now” an organization that raises funds and awareness for other anti-trafficking initiatives.------Safe House Project's vision is to see communities across America unite to end domestic sex trafficking and restore hope and freedom to every survivor, while building a better future through preventing the spread of child sex trafficking. When everyone engages for change, we can eradicate child sex trafficking in America by 2030.
www.SafeHouseProject.org
- https://www.facebook.com/SafeHousePrjct
- https://instagram.com/safehouseproject
23 min - Refuge for Women Founder - Ked Frank
Welcome to the "Let's Talk About Sex...Trafficking" Podcast where you will learn how to spot, report, and prevent trafficking. Every week you will hear our guests share real facts, real stories, and real ways you can help eradicate trafficking in the United States by 2030. This week Safe House Project co-founders, Brittany Dunn & Kristi Wells, are joined by Founder of Refuge for Women, Ked Frank.
When people ask Ked how Refuge for Women came about, the story boils down to one word: obedience. Through the course of a transition period in his life, Ked had three conversations with individuals that led him to a point where the vision for Refuge for Women was laid out in front in him. He and his wife, Michelle, felt like doing anything other than starting this ministry would be direct disobedience to God. Refuge for Women was not Ked’s idea, but rather God’s idea. Ked simply stepped out in obedience.
Professionally, Ked spent two and a half years working on staff at The Refuge, a recovery facility for men suffering from addiction to drugs and alcohol. It was there that he gained an understanding of addiction and the power of a faith-based program in showing residents a new path forward.
From there, Ked felt called to a pastoral position at Southland Christian Church in Lexington, Kentucky. At Southland, Ked worked alongside a co-worker with a vision for reaching women in the adult entertainment industry. It was here that Ked got his first exposure to women who had been sexually exploited. His heart broke and a deep discontent settled in his heart. Something was just not right. There didn’t seem to be a way out for any of these women. The seeds of Refuge for Women were being sown.
The final piece of the puzzle for Refuge for Women came into place when one of Ked’s best friends bought a piece of land to build a new home for his family. When Ked learned that the land had an old farmhouse, he simply could not shake the idea of it from his mind. After a conversation, both men were astonished that they had been given the same vision...this farmhouse was indeed to be used for ministry. Refuge for Women had found a home!
Refuge for Women was birthed out of that very same farmhouse in a rural area outside Lexington, Kentucky. Ked founded Refuge for Women in 2009. In the years since, Kentucky has established a strong 3 phase program. One of Ked’s major strengths has been bringing together faith and intellect to build a program that is solid on both fronts. Refuge for Women has seen great success and is expanding the program to other cities outside Kentucky. Currently, Refuge for Women has open locations in Kentucky, Texas, Nevada,Illinois, and Ohio. Sites to open in the next 12 months include Texas Gulf Coast, and Southern California.
------Safe House Project's vision is to see communities across America unite to end domestic sex trafficking and restore hope and freedom to every survivor, while building a better future through preventing the spread of child sex trafficking. When everyone engages for change, we can eradicate child sex trafficking in America by 2030.
www.SafeHouseProject.org
- https://www.facebook.com/SafeHousePrjct
- https://instagram.com/safehouseproject
29 min - Founder of Rescue America - Allison Madrigal
Welcome to the "Let's Talk About Sex...Trafficking" Podcast where you will learn how to spot, report, and prevent trafficking. Every week you will hear our guests share real facts, real stories, and real ways you can help eradicate trafficking in the United States by 2030. This week Safe House Project co-founders, Brittany Dunn & Kristi Wells, are joined by Founder of Rescue America, Allison Madrigal.
Allison Meier Madrigal is Founder and President of Rescue America. As the establishing visionary and lead executive in charge of strategic growth and expansion, Allison is responsible for cultivating major donor relations, strategic government relationships, and national anti-trafficking strategic partnerships. Prior to founding Rescue America in 2014, Allison spent over ten years in corporate America where she managed $4M in insurance premiums and a $10M sales territory before breaking away to create and launch an IVF insurance product, Vitality Solutions, resulting in a first-of-its-kind insurance product that reimburses those for whom IVF does not result in live birth. Allison contributes a wealth of business strategy, development, finance, and outside-the-box thinking to the organization, and is a fierce risk- taker when it comes to doing her part to bring the Kingdom of God to earth. Allison graduated from the University of Nebraska with a degree in Marketing and received her MBA from the University of Houston.
------Safe House Project's vision is to see communities across America unite to end domestic sex trafficking and restore hope and freedom to every survivor, while building a better future through preventing the spread of child sex trafficking. When everyone engages for change, we can eradicate child sex trafficking in America by 2030.
www.SafeHouseProject.org
- https://www.facebook.com/SafeHousePrjct
- https://instagram.com/safehouseproject
23 min - Survivor Leader & Advocate - Julie Whitehead
Welcome to the "Let's Talk About Sex...Trafficking" Podcast where you will learn how to spot, report, and prevent trafficking. Every week you will hear our guests share real facts, real stories, and real ways you can help eradicate trafficking in the United States by 2030. This week Safe House Project co-founders, Brittany Dunn & Kristi Wells, are joined by survivor leader, Julie Whitehead.
Julie Whitehead is a survivor of 31 years of abuse, including child sexual abuse, domestic violence, and sex trafficking. Dr. James A. Chu, a nationally recognized researcher and professor of psychiatry at Harvard University, describes Julie’s experiences as, “one of the most egregious histories of lifelong abuse I have encountered.”Julie was raised in the picturesque town of Bountiful, Utah to a religious middle-class family and community. To most people, she appeared to be a typical happy child, but things were never quite as they seemed.At four years old, someone close to Julie started sexually abusing her, which lasted until she was in her early teens. While one form of abuse ended, Julie was emotionally and physically abused for the next 12 years by her then-husband, who often encouraged her to take her own life.With her marriage unraveling, trying to raise three children, and desperate to find hope, Julie started working as a preschool teacher in an upper-class community of northern Utah. It was during this time that a student’s father befriended Julie and slowly gained her trust, promising her a new life of peace and hope—only to betray her. This man was a sex trafficker.Every weekend for the next five months, Julie was trafficked in multiple U.S. states, out of the country, and even in her own home, where she was repeatedly threatened, drugged, and raped. On weekdays, she returned to her regular routine: taking care of her kids and working in the community. Julie lived two different lives until, one day, someone finally noticed her and helped her escape.Despite 31 years of trauma, Julie is recovering and finds hope in the future with her husband, Barry, and six children. Today, she’s an advocate for survivors of abuse and sex trafficking and inspires others with her remarkable courage. She’s also an active speaker who focuses on bringing victims out of the shadows.Julie and Barry serve on an advisory board for the Malouf Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization in northern Utah dedicated to fight child sexual exploitation. They consult on a variety of initiatives for the Foundation including OnWatch™, a free digital training that raises community awareness of sex trafficking in the United States.Through her experiences in middle-class America, Julie reveals the hidden aspects of abuse and darkest parts of sex trafficking, proving no one is immune to this American epidemic.------Safe House Project's vision is to see communities across America unite to end domestic sex trafficking and restore hope and freedom to every survivor, while building a better future through preventing the spread of child sex trafficking. When everyone engages for change, we can eradicate child sex trafficking in America by 2030.
www.SafeHouseProject.org
- https://www.facebook.com/SafeHousePrjct
- https://instagram.com/safehouseproject
16 min - Survivor Leader, Author, & Leadership Trainer - Ria Story
Welcome to the "Let's Talk About Sex...Trafficking" Podcast where you will learn how to spot, report, and prevent trafficking. Every week you will hear our guests share real facts, real stories, and real ways you can help eradicate trafficking in the United States by 2030. This week Safe House Project co-founders, Brittany Dunn& Kristi Wells, are joined by survivor leader, author, and trainer, Ria Story.
Like many, Ria faced adversity in life. Ria was sexually abused by her father from age 12 - 19, forced to play the role of his wife, and even shared with other men. Desperate to escape, she left home at 19 without a job, a car, or even a high school diploma.
Today, Ria is a motivational leadership speaker, TEDx Speaker, and author of 11 books, including Leadership Gems for Women. Ria’s background includes more than 10 years in administrative healthcare with several years in leadership and management including working as the Director of Compliance for a large healthcare organization. Ria is a certified leadership speaker and trainer.
Ria founded Fearfully and Wonderfully Me, empowering women to become the leaders they are destined to be. Ria shares powerful leadership principles and tools of transformation from her journey to equip and empower women, helping them maximize their potential in life and leadership.
www.riastory.com
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Safe House Project's vision is to see communities across America unite to end domestic sex trafficking and restore hope and freedom to every survivor, while building a better future through preventing the spread of child sex trafficking. When everyone engages for change, we can eradicate child sex trafficking in America by 2030.
www.SafeHouseProject.org
- https://www.facebook.com/SafeHousePrjct
- https://instagram.com/safehouseproject
28 min - Let's Talk About Sex...Trafficking Podcast Pilot
You are tuning into the "Let's Talk About Sex...Trafficking" Podcast with Safe House Project co-founders, Kristi Wells & Brittany Dunn. Every week you will hear our guests share real facts, real stories, and real ways you can help eradicate trafficking in the United States by 2030.
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Safe House Project's vision is to see communities across America unite to end domestic sex trafficking and restore hope and freedom to every survivor, while building a better future through preventing the spread of child sex trafficking. When everyone engages for change, we can eradicate child sex trafficking in America by 2030.
www.SafeHouseProject.org
- https://www.facebook.com/SafeHousePrjct
- https://instagram.com/safehouseproject
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OnWatch | Combating Trafficking Through Education
OnWatch™ is a survivor-led education platform designed to empower you to spot, report, and prevent trafficking where you live, work, and play. Through true survivor experiences, industry experts explain the key indicators of trafficking, as well as how you can support a survivor’s path to freedom.
Survivor identification is only at one percent in the United States. However, you can help break the cycle of exploitation and protect future generations by recognizing and reporting suspected trafficking. You can enable healing for survivors and give them hope for the future.
The OnWatch Podcast features survivors, non-profit organizations, community activists, and corporate leaders to talk about their work and the strength we have when we unite under the common vision of ending trafficking in America.
Learn more at IAmOnWatch.org
#IAmOnWatch
OnWatch is powered by Safe House Project & the Malouf Foundation
Discover how survivors and industry leaders are working together to deliver relevant, innovative, and impactful solutions to combat sex trafficking in the United States.
www.SafeHouseProject.org
www.malouffoundation.org
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About Let's Talk About Sex Trafficking
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You are tuning into the "Let's Talk About Sex...Trafficking" Podcast with Safe House Project co-founders, Kristi Wells & Brittany Dunn. Every week you will hear our guests share real facts, real stories, and real ways you can help eradicate trafficking in the United States by 2030.
Learn more at www.SafeHouseProject.org