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Thank you so much for listening. Gloria Masters is a former teacher and child and adolescent therapist from Auckland, New Zealand. Over the last several decades and through her incredible professional life, she has worked deeply to change the

future for our youth. But it wasn't until a few years ago that she began dedicating

her life to a new mission, using her own horrific childhood experiences as a trafficked

sex slave and all that came next in her healing journey to bring awareness and change to the world.

We are so grateful for all of Gloria's efforts and her willingness to share today on what came next.

I'm Gloria Masters.

I live in New Zealand.

I was born and bred in Auckland, New Zealand, which is one of our biggest cities.

I am an ex-teacher, an ex-shrink, a mother, quirky, very loving and kind, but I'm the child now. I wasn't able to be for 16 years.

I do speaking events. I speak about my life as a sex trafficked slave for 16 years. What that experience did to me and what I was able to emerge through. So I'm seen as

a bit of a light for those who haven't yet been able to find theirs. I was born in a family

as the youngest girl. From the time I was born, I was sexually, physically and emotionally abused and that

went on for 16 years. What happened through the growing up years was I was trained by my grandmother

to be the best child sex slave I could be. From the age of five, she was training me,

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