This week I sit down with Laila Mickelwait, a fearless warrior whose mission led to the removal of more than 10 million illicit videos of abusive, nonconsensual, and underage sex from Pornhub’s website, the resignation of several key executives, and a firestorm of negative press for the company and other corporate household names who continued to support their business activities. We also hear about Laila’s continuous fight to protect the vulnerable, and what it's like taking on industry giants. #JoinTheFight #EndHumanTrafficking #StopHumanTrafficking  About Laila Mickelwait Laila Mickelwait is founder & CEO of the Justice Defense Fund, where she launched the global #TraffickingHub movement, which now has more than 2 million supporters worldwide. She is a recognized authority on the subject and has spent more than 10 years fighting the injustice of human trafficking. Laila also works closely with the U.N. to assist individuals who are most at risk of being victims of trafficking. The #TraffickingHub movement is a global, nonreligious, nonpartisan, decentralized initiative to demand that Pornhub, the largest pornographic website in the world and the 10th most popular website overall, be held responsible for facilitating and profiting from the criminal sexual exploitation of countless victims. CONNECT WITH LAILA MICKELWAIT: Web: https://lailamickelwait.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lailamickelwait Twitter: https://twitter.com/LailaMickelwait Justice Defense Fund: https://justicedefensefund.org/ Like the show? We appreciate your positive reviews and comments. FOLLOW MARISOL: Podcast → https://marisolnichols.com/podcast/ Website → https://marisolnichols.com/ Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/marisolnichols Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/marisolnichols/ TikTok → https://www.tiktok.com/@realmarisolnichols Twitter → https://twitter.com/marisolnichols BUSINESS/SPONSORS/INQUIRIES ↳ [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oree Freeman continues her discussion with Marisol Nichols sharing her story of being sex trafficked as a young girl and how she found redemption along the way. This is an incredible journey that illuminates hope for future generations everywhere. About Oree Freeman  Born in Chowchilla State Prison, Oree Freeman was given up for adoption just after birth. At the age of 11 years old, she became a victim of sex trafficking. As a survivor and advocate, Oree's mission is to stand for and fight for all sex trafficking victims. By raising AWARENESS, encouraging HOPE, and helping individuals in discovering RESILIENCE within themselves, she has dedicated her professional life to fighting sex trafficking and working with survivors. Oree serves as an advocate for Saving Innocence where she helps to change the lives of young people. She is currently serving her second term on the CSEC (Commercially Sexually Exploited Children) State Advisory Board.  Oree has triumphed over some incredibly harsh challenges to becoming an outspoken advocate for women & children. She is currently pursuing her college degree, while offering interactive training for law enforcement personnel and professionals from other child-serving sectors. #jointhefight #endhumantrafficking #stophumantrafficking #painintopower  Connect with Oree Freeman Instagram: www.instagram.com/oreefreeman Website: www.oreefreeman.com Like the show? Please leave a review here. Your comments are appreciated. FOLLOW MARISOL: Podcast → https://marisolnichols.com/podcast Website → https://marisolnichols.com/ Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/marisolnichols Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/marisolnichols TikTok → https://www.tiktok.com/@realmarisolnichols Twitter → https://twitter.com/marisolnichols BUSINESS/SPONSORS/INQUIRIES ↳ [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oree Freeman shares her story of abuse and being sex trafficked as a young girl and how she fought back against incredible odds to ultimately triumph over them all! This is an incredible journey into darkness that illuminates hope for future generations everywhere. About Oree Freeman  Born in Chowchilla State Prison, Oree Freeman was given up for adoption just after birth. At the age of 11 years old, she became a victim of sex trafficking. As a survivor and advocate, Oree's mission is to stand for and fight for all sex trafficking victims. By raising AWARENESS, encouraging HOPE, and helping individuals in discovering RESILIENCE within themselves, she has dedicated her professional life to fighting sex trafficking and working with survivors. Oree serves as an advocate for Saving Innocence where she helps to change the lives of young people. She is currently serving her second term on the CSEC (Commercially Sexually Exploited Children) State Advisory Board.  Oree has triumphed over some incredibly harsh challenges to becoming an outspoken advocate for women & children. She is currently pursuing her college degree, while offering interactive training for law enforcement personnel and professionals from other child-serving sectors. #jointhefight #endhumantrafficking #stophumantrafficking #painintopower  Connect with Oree Freeman Instagram: www.instagram.com/oreefreeman Website: www.oreefreeman.com Like the show? Please leave a review here. Your comments are appreciated. FOLLOW MARISOL: Podcast → https://marisolnichols.com/podcast Website → https://marisolnichols.com/ Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/marisolnichols Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/marisolnichols TikTok → https://www.tiktok.com/@realmarisolnichols Twitter → https://twitter.com/marisolnichols BUSINESS/SPONSORS/INQUIRIES ↳ [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Child predators are more sophisticated and creative than ever before. In Part 2 of Child Predators, Twisted Minds, Sheriff Christopher Swanson and Marisol Nichols discuss how predators exploit their victims' vulnerabilities. From the complexities involved in bringing these twisted minds to justice to great tips on how to keep our families safe, this episode has it all. Sheriff Christopher Swanson is Sheriff of Genesee County, Michigan’s 10th largest police force, He is the founder of the Genesee Human Oppression Strike Team (GHOST), a specialized unit focused on combating crimes of human trafficking and drug offenses. He and his team have arrested more than 100 individuals for sex trafficking throughout the US achieving a 100% conviction rate of trafficking offenders. Sheriff Swanson and Marisol Nichols have successfully worked together on sting operations that successfully brought child predators to justice. Sheriff Swanson is a licensed paramedic and certified Medical Examiner Investigator and has led special protection teams for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and Vice Presidents Al Gore, Dick Chaney, and Joe Biden. A career police officer for more than two decades, Sheriff Swanson’s agency is one of the few agencies in the State of Michigan with dual police officers and paramedics assigned to road patrol. He earned a master’s degree in Public Administration and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan. Connect with Sheriff Christopher Swanson Instagram: @Chris_Swanson262  Web: https://www.swansonleadership.com/ FOLLOW MARISOL: Podcast → https://marisolnichols.com/podcast Website → https://marisolnichols.com/ Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/marisolnichols Instagram → https://instagram.com/marisolnichols TikTok → https://www.tiktok.com/@realmarisolnichols Twitter → https://twitter.com/marisolnichols BUSINESS/SPONSORS/INQUIRIES ↳ [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the Marisol Nichols Podcast, Marisol and Sheriff Christopher Swanson breakdown the tactics used by human traffickers to lure children. Hear the chilling insights of how these predators operate and how we can protect our children from them. This is an important episode that every parent or concerned citizen should listen to. Sheriff Christopher Swanson is Sheriff of Genesee County, Michigan’s 10th largest police force. He is the founder of the Genesee Human Oppression Strike Team (GHOST), a specialized unit focused on combating crimes of human trafficking and drug offenses. He and his team have arrested more than 100 individuals for sex trafficking throughout the US achieving a 100% conviction rate of trafficking offenders. Sheriff Swanson and Marisol Nichols have successfully worked together on sting operations that successfully brought child predators to justice. Sheriff Swanson is a licensed paramedic and certified Medical Examiner Investigator and has led special protection teams for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and Vice Presidents Al Gore, Dick Chaney, and Joe Biden. A career police officer for more than two decades, Sheriff Swanson’s agency is one of the few agencies in the State of Michigan with dual police officers and paramedics assigned to road patrol. He earned a master’s degree in Public Administration and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan. Connect with Sheriff Christopher Swanson Instagram: @Chris_Swanson262  Web: https://www.swansonleadership.com/ FOLLOW MARISOL: Podcast → https://marisolnichols.com/podcast Website → https://marisolnichols.com/ Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/marisolnichols Instagram → https://instagram.com/marisolnichols TikTok → https://www.tiktok.com/@realmarisolnichols Twitter → https://twitter.com/marisolnichols BUSINESS/SPONSORS/INQUIRIES ↳ [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this all-out episode, Host Marisol Nichols talks with TV personality, activist, and producer Jeannie Mai Jenkins, and director & activist Sadhvi Siddhali Shree, about their impactful work together on the award-winning films, Stopping Traffic: The Movement to End Sex Trafficking (2017) and Surviving Sex Trafficking (2022), and their mission to end human trafficking.   This episode carries a Trigger Warning: Viewer Discretion Advised. Jeannie Mai Jenkins is an American television host on the syndicated daytime talk show, The Real, where she has won and received multiple Daytime Emmy Award Nominations for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host. As a fashion expert, she is frequently featured on television programs such as Today, Extra TV, Entertainment Tonight, and Insider. She has also appeared as a host for E! as well as a red-carpet host for the American Music Awards and as a correspondent for the Miss Universe Pageant. Sadhvi Siddhali Shree is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker known for her activism to end human trafficking with an emphasis on the survivors of sex trafficking. She is a US Army veteran where she served as a Combat Medic on the frontlines of Iraq, the first female Jain monk in North America, international speaker, author, and advocate for social justice. Sadhvi earned her bachelor’s degree in Communications from California State University and holds the positions of Director of the International Society of Human Unity, and Spiritual Director of Siddhayatan Tirth. She is deeply committed to the anti-violence, civil rights, gender equality, anti-trafficking, and youth movements.  Jeannie Mai Jenkins Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejeanniemai/?hl=en   Sadhvi Siddhali Shree Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siddhalishree/?hl=en  Web: https://siddhalishree.com/   FOLLOW MARISOL: Podcast → https://marisolnichols.com/podcast Website → https://marisolnichols.com/ Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/marisolnichols Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/marisolnichols TikTok → https://www.tiktok.com/@realmarisolnichols Twitter → https://twitter.com/marisolnichols   BUSINESS/SPONSORS/INQUIRIES ↳ [email protected]     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this tell-all episode, Marisol Nichols, together with Kerri Kasem, multimedia personality and founder of the Kasem Cares Foundation, unveils the reason that led her to become an undercover operative hunting predators who prey on women and children.  This episode carries a Trigger Warning: Viewer Discretion Advised. Kerri Kasem, a multimedia personality, producer, and writer, has anchored music, talk and entertainment programs for radio and television for 25 years. In April of 2014, she formed Kasem Cares Foundation, a non-profit organization which has successfully passed numerous bills throughout the US to stop elder abuse. Kerri has produced and/or hosted shows for MTV USA and MTV Asia, National Lampoon®, Sprint., America’s Funniest Home Videos, Coming Attractions on the E! Network, FOX News, and UFC programs. She has also co-hosted morning shows on radio, been featured in dozens of magazines, and has made guest appearances on The View, Good Morning America, Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, Extra, The Doctors, Piers Morgan, Good Day LA, Fox and Friends, Greta Van Susteren, among others. Kasem founded the Kasem Cares Foundation to establish and fight for the rights to have visitation and reasonable access to an ailing parent, especially when under the care and control of an uncooperative spouse or sibling. The Kasem Cares “Visitation Bill” has been passed in 12 states with 9 other states adopting a version of the Kasem Cares bill making a total of 21 states to enact some form of this legislation. Among her many humanitarian awards, Kerri was awarded the prestigious Presidential Volunteer Service Award. On April 27, 2014, her father Casey Kasem’s birthday, she was awarded a Certificate of Congressional Recognition for her foundation’s “dedication to fighting elder abuse and protecting the integrity of the family unit through advocacy.” Connect with Kerri Kasem and her organization, Kasem Cares Foundation Instagram: @KerriKasem Web: www.KerriKasem.com Like the show? Please leave a review here. Your comments are appreciated. Follow Marisol on social: Instagram: @MarisolNichols TikTok: @RealMarisolNichols Facebook: www.facebook.com/marisolnichols Twitter: @MarisolNichols Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices