Hey Chris, it's Kat here. I'm coming to you from Berlin. I just finished an hour-long session of

Chantine Mantras and I thought I would pass along all those good vibrations to you and your listeners.

So I would like to say, loka, samasta, suki no, ba van to. May all the living beings everywhere

be happy and free. Have a good one out there.

If you'd like to send me a voice memo to be played at the beginning of the podcast, you can send it to

Christopherassistantatgmail.com. Just use your phone, record a voice memo, keep it under 30 seconds

please. To the point, let me know where you are, what you're doing. Maybe why you listen to the

podcast or whatever else you want to share with the world. Non-self-promotional. In other words,

I don't care if you have a set of DVD courses that you're trying to push. This is not the place for that,

but just let us know who you are and what's happening out there in your world and I will

throw that up at the beginning of the podcast. This episode is fucking awesome. I have to say,

I feel not to pat myself on the shoulder here because I don't really think this has a whole lot

to do with me or any work I'm doing or anything, but some amazing people have made themselves

available and have decided to tell their stories on this podcast recently. Man, I am so touched

and honored and bewildered. Anyway, this episode is Rayanne Irving. She sent me an email a few months

ago, basically telling me a bit about her life and said she'd be willing to share it on the podcast

and I wrote back and said, are you sure? And she is and she was and she drove all the way to Los Angeles

from Vancouver. I know she had some people see along the way so it's not like she drove all the way

down here just to do the podcast, but this was certainly part of her trip and I'm very grateful to

her for doing it. Rayanne, as you will hear, is a woman who's had a very full life so far, very

adventurous, very challenging in places. A good part of what we talk about in this conversation

is her experience of having been involved in the sex trafficking world. I don't want to call her a

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