62 Billion Visits a Year. A Crime Scene Hiding in Plain Sight.

Host Justin Forman sits down with Laila Mickelwait, Co-Founder and CEO of the Justice Defense Fund, for a conversation that exposes how one of the internet's most-visited websites became a global engine of child sexual abuse and trafficking, and how a movement of 2.3 million people helped bring it down.

In 2020, P*rnhub was the fifth-most-trafficked website on Earth. 170 million visits a day, 62 billion a year, enough content uploaded annually to watch nonstop for 169 years. None of it was verified for age or consent. All of it was profitable. Buried inside were tens of millions of images and videos of real children being raped and trafficked on camera.

Laila Mickelwait found out how. She founded the Trafficking Hub movement, forced P*rnhub to remove more than 50 million images and videos, and helped push Visa, Mastercard, and Discover to cut ties with the platform. Today, as Co-Founder and CEO of the Justice Defense Fund, she funds strategic civil litigation that lets trafficking survivors take on billion-dollar corporations in court, and she's just getting started.

Key Topics:

• How a single upload test exposed P*rnhub as "a crime scene, not a p*rn site"
• The multinational corporate structure behind P*rnhub, MindGeek, and a hidden majority shareholder
• Why Justice Defense Fund targeted the credit card companies, not just the platform
• The role of public pressure, journalism, and civil litigation working in tandem
• Survivor stories including Serena Flaitis and the human cost behind the numbers
• How impact investors use charitable dollars to fund justice for trafficking survivors
• Finding common ground across ideological lines to build a coalition big enough to win

This is not one company's problem. It's a business model built on unverified, unaccountable abuse, and it won't end until the financial incentive does. The resources to fight it already exist. The question is who's willing to deploy them.

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Tim Tebow's father was at an underground pastors' conference in a country where faith isn't allowed. Men walked in and began auctioning four little girls. He emptied his wallet, about $1,250, and bought their freedom. Every other person at that table had a good reason not to. That story is where this episode starts, and it is why Tim Tebow is in this fight.

Tebow and Wes Lyons come at human trafficking from two directions. Tebow's foundation works on prevention, rescue and long-term survivor care, and he argues trafficking is a worth problem before it is a policy problem. Lyons is a general partner at Eagle Venture Fund, which built the first venture funds designed to seed a counter-trafficking industry. His answer to where the victims are is uncomfortable: 90% pass through healthcare, on average 15 to 18 times, before anyone identifies them. One entrepreneur they back has trained 6,000 frontline doctors and nurses to notice, with a rollout across 5,000 hospitals planned. Both men land in the same place from opposite ends.

Go further: join our Human Trafficking premiere event on August 27, with the entrepreneurs and investors in this fight: https://solving.org/human-trafficking-watch-party/

Links

Tim Tebow Foundation - https://www.timtebowfoundation.org

Look Again, by Tim Tebow - https://www.amazon.com/Look-Again-Recognize-Worth-Confidence/dp/1400254205

Wes Lyons, Eagle Venture Fund - https://www.eagleventurefund.com/team/wes-lyons

Eagle Freedom Fund - https://www.eagleventurefund.com/freedom-fund

The Human Trafficking Fund - https://solving.org/trafficking/

All episodes - https://solving.org/podcast/

About the show

Solving the World's Greatest Problems is a community of entrepreneurs, investors, givers and ministry leaders taking on the root causes of the world's deepest suffering. We have identified more than 30 of the world's greatest problems, and we fund the breakthroughs happening right now.

Why We're Solving the World's Greatest Problems

There are 1.8 million nonprofits in the United States and only about 4,500 publicly traded companies. That gap is the whole problem — too many good hearts, not enough coordination. In the first episode of Solving the World's Greatest Problems, co-founders Henry Kaestner and Justin Forman sit down together to launch a bold new chapter of the movement they started eight years ago.

Henry Kaestner and Justin Forman co-founded Faith Driven Entrepreneur and Faith Driven Investor, growing a global movement across 130 countries and 55,000 foundation course participants. In this launch conversation, they trace the journey from stewardship to generosity to investing — and cast vision for why the next chapter isn't about giving more, but deploying differently.

Key Topics:

• Eight years of Faith Driven Entrepreneur and Faith Driven Investor, and the cultural moment behind it
• Why "build first, then give" — and why investing was never the first move
• The story of Dave Munson, who built his own leather casket to proclaim the Gospel
• Dylan Wilk's reversal from helicopter commutes to a 600-job makeup company
• The upstream problem: why 1.8 million nonprofits can't out-coordinate 4,500 companies
• Illuminations and the race to translate Scripture into every living language by 2033
• Why the name "Solving the World's Greatest Problems" is intentionally audacious

This isn't a rebrand — it's a reordering. God doesn't need anyone's five loaves and two fish. He wants the people who hold them, deployed toward the fight He's already in. Eight Funds are live right now, and more foundation courses are launching every month this fall.

Watch the full episode on YouTube or continue to stream audio on your favorite podcast platform. Then join the solvers at solving.org.