Hey guys welcome back to preview lines podcast.

This is Sarah, and today we come to you.

She's become a friend of mine, Desiree,

and I am so excited for you guys to meet her and hear her story.

I will do a trigger warning of this episode. We are going to be talking

about some heavy subjects when it comes to protecting our kids and safety of our kids when it comes online.

So if you are not in that head space today,

that is perfectly fine.

Download us and listen when you're ready,

but the importance of this episode is

this is a lived experience of a mom like us who is now using her voice to empower us and share her experience.

So Desiree, welcome. We're so glad to have you.

Thank you. I'm really excited to be here. So thanks for having me.

So welcome. Okay, so for our listeners, can you just give them a snapshot of why you're here today and we're talking about safety online when it comes to our kids?

Sure, I'll try to keep this brief. It's been going on for, I mean, gosh, we're going on eight plus years, I feel. So long story short, I was a mom blogger back in 2010 when that was just coming on the scene. I was kind of lonely, LA, we lived in Los Angeles,

and I was looking for other moms like me,

finding a community.

My blog was essentially a baby book for my kids and my first child was born in 2012 and then my daughter

came on the scene in 2015 and then when she was seven months old I received a comment on a blog post about her that was

really sexually explicit in graphic and just really jarring.

So that's kind of really a very brief synopsis

of why I'm here is just the possibility of child exploitation through the internet,

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