Warning: This episode contains references to human exploitation and is only intended to be heard by adults aged 18 and over. If you are likely to find this distressing, emotionally triggering or challenging,  please consider carefully how you might want to engage with this episode. We’ve provided links for support agencies in the description below. Stay safe. 

Welcome to this week’s episode where we talk to Christina Meadows.

Christina is the Director of Operations and Rescue at the Nashville Anti Human Trafficking Coalition in the US. 

Losing her family unit through her parent’s divorce at the age of 15…an older male and female befriended Christina and began building a family unit of their own.

They slowly isolate Christina and gain her trust…and when a bond had formed…they introduced her to her trafficker.

Eventually marrying her trafficker, Christina was trafficked across the country and sexually exploited for 23 years.

In a cycle of exploitation, drug abuse, anger and fear, Christina ends up in prison for 3 and a half years after accepting charges on behalf of her trafficker. After her release, the cycle begins again.

At the age of 40, Christina finds herself in a sober living community with a new sponsor…enter the Nashville Anti Human Trafficking Coalition.


If you’d like to learn more about Christina and the Nashville Anti Trafficking Coalition visit their website at www.nahtcoalition.org  

For the full video interview with Christina, visit and subscribe to the official Illustro Consultancy YouTube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@illustroconsultancyltd

If you or someone you suspect is a victim of modern slavery or other forms of exploitation or abuse, please see the list of support agencies and reporting lines below.

Your call could save someone’s life…including your own.  

Stay safe. 


Support agencies and reporting lines 

UK emergency 999 / non-emergency 112, Europe emergency 112, US emergency 911 (A full list of global emergency telephone numbers can be accessed on Wikipedia at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emergency_telephone_numbers) 
UK National Domestic Abuse Helpline: 0808 2000 247
Childline 0800 1111
Crimestoppers UK 0800 555111
UK Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline 08000 121 700
Migrant Help 0808 8010 503
Rape Crisis England & Wales 0808 5002222

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