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🗓️ 13 May 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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There is truly no better person to continue our special Resilience Series than Rebecca Bender. At a young age, Rebecca was sold into human trafficking. What transpired, and what she'll share with us today, is an unbelievable journey.
Join Rebecca and Jessica as they walk through the dire realities of this story, as well as discover the courage it takes to recapture your life and redefine your future.
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the Going Scared Podcast. This is your host, Jessica Honeger, founder of the |
0:06.2 | Social Impact Fashion Brand Noonday Collection. Well, we are nearing the end of our series on resilience, and I know that these conversations |
0:17.6 | during my hard days, my days when I seriously just wander around my house and think when is this all going to end or I am |
0:29.2 | driving around with my mask on and I'm thinking when is this all going to end. These conversations |
0:36.0 | from people who have risen back from difficulty in the most profound ways have inspired me towards hope on those days that have |
0:48.5 | been really hard. |
0:50.2 | And today's story is no different. |
0:53.2 | Today I am talking with Rebecca Bender. |
0:57.5 | Rebecca Bender was a varsity athlete |
0:59.9 | and honor roll student with a promising future when a young man pretending to be her boyfriend |
1:05.9 | lured her down a path that she never imagined existed. |
1:11.2 | For nearly six years Rebecca was beaten, brainwashed, told when to sleep and what to wear, |
1:18.0 | and was traded and sold across the underground world of sex trafficking in Las Vegas. |
1:26.0 | Forced into a sisterhood that she thought was family, |
1:28.9 | Rebecca didn't know a way out. |
1:31.6 | But in her despair, she found hope and she found the hope that she needed to survive. |
1:38.6 | Today we talk about Rebecca's story of escape and her decision to go back to the darkest places she had |
1:44.7 | known to help other women find freedom. Rebecca Bender now assists FBI and law enforcement across the country in some of their |
1:55.6 | toughest human trafficking cases throughout her nonprofit, the Rebecca Bender |
2:00.5 | Initiative. She's also the founder of Elevate Academy and lives with her |
2:05.7 | husband and four daughters in the Pacific Northwest and we talk about her newest |
2:10.9 | book in pursuit of love. |
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