Harmony (Dust) Grillo: Survivor, Founder, & Author
Consider Before Consuming
Fight the New Drug
4.8 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of child sexual abuse and sex trafficking. Listener discretion is advised.
This week’s interview is with exploitation and trafficking survivor turned UCLA honor student, Harmony (Dust) Grillo. Today, Harmony is the founder of Treasures, an outreach and support group to help women and girls who are entrenched in sexual exploitation find freedom.
Harmony speaks with podcast host, Garrett Jonsson, drawing from her own personal experience of being abandoned at a young age and lured into the commercial sex industry from her “Romeo pimp.” Armed with a Master’s Degree in Social Work, Harmony sheds light on the impact of a pornified culture and the lives of women trapped within it. Her memoir, Scars and Stilettos, details her harrowing account of moving from victim to survivor to liberator, and can be found at iamatreasure.com.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up people. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm Garrett Johnson, and you're listening to Consider Before Consuming, a podcast by Fight the New Drug. |
| 0:20.2 | Before we jump into this conversation, we want to let you know that during this conversation, |
| 0:24.0 | we discuss childhood sexual abuse and sex trafficking. |
| 0:28.3 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:31.3 | Today's conversation is with Harmony Dust Grillo. |
| 0:35.4 | She was a victim of childhood sexual abuse at a very young age, |
| 0:40.0 | and unfortunately, the sexual exploitation didn't stop there. |
| 0:45.0 | Harmony's experience is eye-opening and inspiring. |
| 0:49.1 | Despite the years of sexual exploitation, she went on to become an honor student at UCLA. She earned a |
| 0:56.2 | master's degree in social work. And as you'll hear in this conversation, she's passionate |
| 1:01.3 | about assisting other women and girls in their journeys of healing and transformation. |
| 1:08.0 | In 2003, she founded Treasures, which does outreach and support to victims of |
| 1:15.4 | sexual exploitation. Meeting harmony was so cool. After meeting her in person, I was able to read |
| 1:23.1 | her memoir, Scars and Stilettos, which is a very insightful read. With all that being said, |
| 1:29.8 | we hope you enjoy this episode of Consider Before Consuming. Well, we are sitting here with Harmony, |
| 1:39.4 | Dust, Gorillo, and we are currently in DC at a conference, a coalition, and it's a coalition |
| 1:48.3 | to end sexual exploitation. And we're sitting down with Harmony because she was just on a panel |
| 1:54.2 | of four women just talking about their experience. And so we were fortunate enough to connect with you, Harmony. So |
| 2:03.4 | thanks for being here. My pleasure. Thank you for having me. It's, it's our pleasure. We, |
| 2:07.5 | as you were kind of talking on the panel, our team was just like, wow, we need to talk to her. |
| 2:16.4 | She has an amazing experience and has amazing insight like, wow, we need to talk to her. She has an amazing experience and has |
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