Hey, welcome to another episode the Craig Rochelle leadership podcast where we're incredibly passionate about helping you become a leader that people love to follow.

Today, I've got a fantastic guest who's been a friend for probably about 20 years. She's an international author, speaker and world class leader.

The founder of A21, an organization helping rescue people out of human trafficking and propel women, building leaders all over the world.

She's author of the brand new book. How did I get here? A dear friend, let's now go to the interview I did with Christine Kane.

Look, Chris, welcome to the podcast. Hey Craig, I am so honored to be here with you.

I'm embarrassed that I haven't had you on before. You're like my favorite friend that I haven't tapped into your wisdom just yet.

I'm super excited to introduce our audience to you, those that don't know you.

So thank you again. Congratulations on your book. How did I get here? I hear it's impacting so many lives all over the world already.

Yeah, I feel so awesome. And I feel like I've been on your podcast because I listened to it every single week.

So I feel like I'm definitely part of your community. Let's say that.

Amy, I love you and Nick and we love your team so much. And so it's been honored to partner with you for years and years.

I want to ask you more about the book in a bit. But first of all, let's dive into some leadership, Chris. You are never still.

You're one of the most active, crazy, energetic, entrepreneurial, ministry, impacting leaders on the planet.

And so I'm interested. Is there something you've been focusing on recently that's taking up a big part of your heart and energy?

Well, Craig, we obviously nick and I together lead 821, so a global anti-human trafficking organization.

And in the midst of a pandemic, let me tell you the one thing that has not stopped and that is injustice.

And that is trafficking. We actually have more survivors in our care now during this pandemic than we have ever had in the 14-year history of 821.

And so like everybody else, we have had to learn to pivot. What do you do when you have 19 offices in 16 countries around the world

during a global pandemic and traffickers are still active and people are still being trafficked?

So we have had to learn how to pivot during this season, how to still continue to rescue, see people rescued, how to reach the vulnerable,

how to restore survivors. And it has been, it has tested us.

But I've got to say, we've dug deep and our team is unbelievable. We've got hundreds of staff around the world.

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