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🗓️ 1 August 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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On this episode of The Jon Gordon Podcast, Jon sits down with Caleb Altmeyer for an eye-opening and urgent conversation about the realities of online safety, human trafficking, and what it truly takes to protect the people we love. Caleb shares personal stories from the front lines, including the shocking truth about how 80% of human trafficking cases now begin online, the tactics predators use to groom victims, and why the relationships we build at home are the first line of defense.
You’ll learn practical strategies every parent needs to know, including monitoring tools, the crucial importance of knowing who your children talk to online, and how deep conversations about value and trust can change lives. Caleb also unpacks the myths and hard facts about sex trafficking in America, If you care about family, community, and making a lasting difference, this powerful episode is a must-listen!
About Caleb,
Caleb Altmeyer is the Founder and CEO of Helping Captives, an anti-trafficking organization headquartered in the Pacific Northwest, and Bikers Helping Captives, a motorcycle ministry bringing trafficking awareness and hope to the streets.
In 2006, Caleb was an addict, a high school dropout, and unable to hold a job or relationship. But after a life-changing encounter with God in 2007, everything shifted. For over 15 years, he has dedicated his life to ministry and nonprofit leadership—helping over 500 sex trafficking survivors, raising millions to fund Gospel-centered initiatives, and leading thousands into a relationship with Jesus Christ.
He has launched successful enterprises for the ministry, including a coffee company, thrift store, and large-scale outreach events. Caleb has also helped provide transitional housing, food distribution to families in need, and the remodeling of a schoolhouse to house trafficking survivors. He’s currently working to transform a closed-down strip club into a center for emergency and stabilization care for victims.
Caleb is a Christian, husband, father, speaker, and community leader. His greatest passion is helping people discover their calling to impact culture for Christ.
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0:26.9 | certified.com. Now let's jump into today's episode. Hey, this is John Gordon with the John |
0:33.8 | Gordon podcast. And today, my guest is Caleb Altmeyer. Caleb, how you doing? |
0:38.5 | Good, buddy. |
0:38.9 | How are you doing? |
0:40.2 | I'm doing great. |
0:41.3 | You know, we're gonna talk about two really big |
0:45.0 | and important topics today. |
0:46.6 | The first one, and make sure you stay for the second one, |
0:49.8 | because that's really big as well. |
0:51.5 | But the first one is keeping your kids safe online. Talk about that. |
0:56.9 | Is it dangerous online? Yeah, online can be dangerous. I'm not going to lie to you. It can be. |
1:02.4 | You know, most of human trafficking, the grooming happens online now, but 80% of all human |
1:08.7 | trafficking grooming cases start online. |
1:11.6 | And so a lot of the ways that we can keep our kids safe online, the number one way is, first, |
1:17.6 | you just need to know who your kids are talking to. For some reason, parents forget that our |
1:23.6 | number one job is to be their parent, not their best friend. And our goal is |
1:28.1 | parents is to raise kids to one day maybe be our best friends, adults that we want to spend |
1:32.2 | time with and connect with and do life with. But when they're kids, we need to keep them safe. |
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