Ex-Cop: Do THIS to See If a Predator Is Stalking Your Daughter (Nate Lewis)

Wellness + Wisdom Podcast

Josh Trent

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 913 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

How do we protect our children from predators hiding in plain sight?

Josh Trent welcomes Nate Lewis, Child Protection Advocate and Founder of The Innocent, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 778, to expose the devastating reality of modern child exploitation, what every parent must do to safeguard their family, why innocence is no longer protected in our culture, how social media have become the new predators, and what it takes to raise grounded, resilient children in a digital world designed to distract and divide.

In This Episode, Nate Lewis Uncovers:

[01:20] How to Protect Your Children

How we can preserve the innocence of a child.
Why we need to protect children differently in the age of technology.
The importance of community support.
Why the next generations are going to make radical changes.

Resources:

Nate Lewis

[05:10] Humanizing The Investigation Process

How 756,000 children go missing in the US every year.
Why Nate's team coaches law enforcement on a new approach to investigation.
How law enforcement often sees sex workers as criminals, not as humans.

Resources:

756 Dark

[09:50] The Importance of Children's Innocence

Why innocence is not celebrated anymore.
How some parents don't allow their children to be children.
Why children are distracted by screens so that parents can rest.
How Nate made it his priority to show up for his children.

[15:50] How Can You Protect Your Children from Online Threats?

Why parents need to learn how to protect children online.
How child's identity is tied to how many friends or followers they have.
The biggest dangers online for young children.
Why not giving children a phone doesn't prevent them from online threats.
The importance of teaching boys respect towards women.

[22:20] Cultivate A Safe Relationship with Your Children

How children's safety starts with the parents building a safe relationship with them.
Why parents need to meet their children where they're at.
The importance of building trust in our children instead of fear.

[27:40] Adulthood Doesn't Start at 18

Why children don't become adults at the age of 18.
How life experience is what makes a person an adult.
Why Nate always wanted to have deep conversations with his parents.
How many parents don't have the emotional faculty to hold difficult conversations with their children.
Why parents have the responsibility to find tools to make them better parents.
How it's common for parents to mess up the order of priorities.

[32:20] Why Children Get Trapped in Sex Trafficking

Why children need to make their social media accounts private.
How it's traumatizing for girls to receive photos of male genitalia.
How many of the girls who are sex trafficked fall in love with strangers online.
The importance of a male role model in children's lives.
Why child molesters choose children where the father isn't a threat.

Resources:

Jack Reynolds

[39:35] Social Media Puts Your Children in Danger

Why AI is not searching for online predators.
How the algorithm pushes old men to meet young girls.
Why the people who create social media platforms don't have a moral compass.
How children are recruited for sex trafficking mostly through Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram.

Resources:

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[48:20] Getting Back to The Old Ways

How Josh got addicted to pornography.
Why we need to stop blaming our parents.
How having a difficult conversation is still easier than having our children fall into the hands of a sex predator.
Why children should know who can or cannot see the private parts of their bodies.
What made Nate decide not to be on social media and not have a TV at home.
The importance of having a dedicated family time.

[54:10] Your Kids Don't Need a TV

How Josh teaches his children respect.
Why we need to remove chaos from life and go back to a simple life.
How parents can entertain children without using any screens.

[58:20] Advice to Fathers

Why almost no father is truly ready for fatherhood.
How the most important thing for parents is to act from a place of love.
Why children's brains don't perceive reality the same way as us.
The importance of comforting our children when they're upset.

[01:01:50] In Order to Heal, You Have to Feel

How anger can help us find the solution.
Why Nate hasn't figured out why there is evil in the world.
How he copes with anger and sadness.
Why not drinking alcohol helps him deal with his emotions.
The importance of feeling our emotions.

[01:09:05] The Injustice in Child Sex Trafficking

Why Nate carries hate and anger inside him because of the evil he's seen happening to children.
How we need to get the power back to help children against predators.
Why judges often only give a 2-year sentence to sex predators, even though they should get 25 years.
How many officers don't understand the importance of crime prevention.
Why some people in power are not supporting the human trafficking resolution.

[01:19:05] Why Do Evil Things Happen to Innocent Children?

How we can help make a change.
What brings Josh peace.
How we can't ever understand why evil exists.
Why death is not the end and our suffering on Earth is worth it.
How humans default setting is to love.
Why the world is also full of light and kind people.

Resources:

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"756,000 children go missing in America every year. Nearly 80% of victims are girls, and most of them get into trafficking because they fall in love with a guy. He knows how to manipulate them." — Nate Lewis

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About Nate Lewis

Ex-Cop: Do THIS to See If a Predator Is Stalking Your Daughter (Nate Lewis) Nate Lewis is the Founder of The Innocent, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and preserving the innocence of children inside the United States, with a focus on child sex trafficking, exploitation, and sexual assault.

With a robust background as an Executive at a leading global anti-trafficking organization, Nate has honed his expertise in both international and domestic anti-trafficking operations, working with law enforcement agencies worldwide.
Nate's 20+ years of traveling and living abroad in more than 40 countries have profoundly shaped his passion and understanding of human trafficking.

These experiences have given him valuable insights into the global and domestic dimensions of trafficking and exploitation, fueling his commitment to address these issues on a national level.

Through his leadership at The Innocent, Nate is instrumental in driving critical initiatives to create safer communities inside the United States. His deep passion for justice, combined with his extensive experience and global perspective, positions him as a key advocate in the battle against child sex crimes.

Transcript

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0:00.0	There is evil out there doing horrific things to innocent children.
0:04.3	We pose as children online, so we're a young girl, and we're pretending to be 11.
0:09.0	I can't tell you how many times we get a direct message into our inbox.
0:12.4	And the first image is the grown adults, male genitals.
0:18.0	That is a layer of innocence that just got taken from.
0:22.6	756,000 children go missing in America every year. Imagine 756,000 children gone.
0:31.5	Our mission is to protect and preserve the innocence of children here in the United States.
0:36.3	Nearly 80% of victims are girls.
0:38.5	Most trafficked girls get into trafficking because they fall in love with a guy. He knows how to
0:44.5	manipulate them. Up to 70% of male sex offenders, they themselves went through childhood sex abuse.
0:50.9	Parents, if you're curious, go under your kids' followers and start looking at them.
0:54.9	Here's some identifiers. How do we teach our kids how to be safe online? The number one place
0:59.2	that children are recruited online is and then that's the top three in order. I'm trying to
1:06.5	stay calm about this, but you're either for protecting children or you're not for protecting
1:11.5	children. We're talking about an elected official in law enforcement. I'm not going to call
1:15.2	this person out, but this person knows who it is if they're listening right now. Who is it?
1:23.5	What does it truly mean to preserve the innocence of a child? Wow.
1:27.8	I think there's that sense of wonder inside of a child.
1:32.0	You know, like it's like this trust.
1:34.5	They, you know, they believe in things that are hard for adults to believe in.
1:39.2	You know, there's there's just this, I don't even know, it's like a commodity that they have that is just pure, pure, really.
1:47.4	And that innocence is something that once it's gone, it's hard to get back.
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