Hi, welcome back to our podcast, The Ugly Truth About the Girl Next Door. I'm Kate. And I'm Lori. And we're back. We are back. It has been a whole year. We are so sorry for that. And it feels really good today to be recording again and to feel kind of in this space. I can't believe it's been a year. I can't either. We've been very busy.

We didn't even on purpose tune back in right now when it was literally just a year. We were just like, we need to talk about these things. And then, oh my gosh, it's been a year. Yeah. Actually, my husband said that to me this morning when I said that we were recording today. He was like, has it been over a year? And I was like, I don't know. It hasn't been it hasn't even been a year.

And he was like, no, I think it was. And he was right. It was like has it been over a year and I was like I don't know it hasn't been it hasn't even

been a year and he was like no I think it was and he was right it was like dead on good job Patrick

giving him credit look at that I know right um but yeah it's been a year we've been really really

busy just super quick update um our nonprofit is doing really well um we're really so, so thankful and so grateful.

And we've been traveling the country doing training for child welfare professionals,

for law enforcement, for child advocacy centers, health care professionals, educators.

Yeah, people kind of across the gamut. And every single time we do a training,

we hear the same feedback. We hear people say, you know, I have seen this. I have seen a case like

this. I have had a child in my care that experienced this. But I couldn't ever really put a name to

it. And I certainly, I didn't know what to do with it and so what we hear though is people

saying okay now that I've had this training I will forever be a different social worker I will

forever be a different kind of teacher and yeah I mean that's everything right that's like

that's everything that is like the entire reason why we do what we do. Because unfortunately,

the things that we're going to talk about today and in this upcoming series is the reality

that that organized sexual abuse and family controlled human trafficking and human trafficking

at large is in fact happening everywhere across our country,

across the globe, in our own backyard, right here in western New York. It is in fact happening.

Happens more often and more seriously, I think, than people even recognize.

100%. And so yeah, that feedback from people across the country saying, okay, now I know what to do,

or now I at least have a starting point. Now I won't be shocked if a child comes to me and starts

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