Austin Shamlin, CEO and Founder of Traverse Project

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🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Austin Shamlin is the CEO and Founder of Traverse Project—a nonprofit organization that combats the human trafficking threat through data intelligence—where has pioneered data-driven methodologies to combat human trafficking. He is a former police executive who currently sits on the Advisory Board for the University of Houston’s Center for Research Excellence to Counter Human Trafficking, as well as the Board of Directors for Operation Path Forward—a nonprofit supporting those who serve America. Previously, Austin directed international counter-human trafficking operations for a nonprofit under the Tim Tebow Foundation and managed law enforcement operations for D.C. Public Schools. He has also worked as a government contractor in Afghanistan, Haiti, Iraq, and Somalia. He is a recognized speaker at Blackhat USA, DefCon, BENS, and other major conferences.

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0:00.0	Bruteforce. If it doesn't work, you're just not using enough.
0:25.9	You're listening to Soft Rep Radio, Special Operations Military News,
0:46.9	and Straight Talk with the welcome to the show. Today's
0:51.3	guest is pretty cool. We're going to talk about it in just a second.
0:57.2	You probably already know who he is because you clicked on the link and his name is in there.
1:02.2	However, I want to tell you about the merch store, soft rep.com forward slash merch.
1:12.4	Go check it out. We got new stuff coming out. So be one of the first ones to get it. Tag me in it, soft rep mafia, hashtag soft rep mafia on the internet. The other thing we have is our book club. And that's soft rep.com forward slash book hyphen club. In there, you can find all
1:17.6	sorts of reading material that has been designed and curated by the special operations,
1:21.5	guys and gals behind the scenes of soft rep for you who likes this world and this community that
1:26.4	we are in right now.
1:27.7	So without further ado, I have the Traverse, Traverse Project main man, Austin Shamlin on with us today.
1:38.3	And we're going to talk about the Traverse project.
1:42.3	Now, I'm doing the waves with my hands. If you're not, if you're listening,
1:45.1	I had to really work on the word Traverse. So, or Traverse, because I'm saying Traverse, right?
1:51.0	I'm from Utah. I'm so sorry, it's Traverse. And welcome to the show, Austin.
1:55.4	Thank you so much for having me today. No, it's cool. I'm glad that Cyrus Norcross, a mutual friend of ours, like,
2:01.5	yo, rad, you should get my man on and have him talk.
2:04.8	So shout up to Cyrus, right?
2:06.8	He's a great thing.
2:07.6	He's also, I noticed, on your team's profile.
2:10.4	If you go to the Traverse Project, Traverse.
2:15.0	Traverse.
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