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Hello, beautiful people. Today we're talking to Erica Smith. She is a sex educator, speaker,

writer, consultant, and the creator of the purity culture dropout program. Hello, Erica.

Hi. Thanks for having me. I'm so excited to talk to you. First

of all, we're both from Philly. So I feel like I know you already. Perfect. Yeah, there's a certain

pride that we all have coming from that city. Yeah. You still an Eagles fan? I mean, I don't

care about sports at all, but I'll rep the Eagles till the day I die just out of Prince's. I

appreciate more that Princess Diana loved the Eagles jacket and wore that everywhere.

Yeah, that's very funny.

That's a funny little bit.

Hold that off beautifully.

Yeah.

Yeah, so I really wanted to introduce you all to Erica because it's interesting.

She's not coming from purity culture herself, but she is coming from,

and she can explain this herself as well, a background of 20 years of sex education.

So this heart that she has for purity culture survivors and for healing us in this broken area really

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