TAKE THIS PERSONALLY: Empowering Human Trafficking Survivors One Bead at a Time
The Bobby Bones Show
Premiere Networks
4.8 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Ring True Co. is proving that businesses can be a force for social good. In this episode, we explore how the founders, Shannon and Amanda, are changing the lives of human trafficking survivors one piece of jewelry at a time. Listeners will learn how survivors are not just receiving help, they are gaining real-world skills, leadership opportunities, and confidence. From running internships in the Ring True office to developing their own roles in safe housing programs, these survivors are building futures they never thought possible. This episode is a heartfelt reminder that every small act of support can make a profound difference.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:17.1 | Take this personally. |
| 0:20.2 | With Morgan Heelsman |
| 0:21.9 | Now we are in part two of the series that I never saw coming |
| 0:25.7 | It's another sister business |
| 0:27.0 | These are women I've been working with for several years now |
| 0:29.5 | They created the company, Ring True, |
| 0:31.5 | and they did it to help human trafficking survivors. |
| 0:34.6 | I love their mission, I love everything that they're all about, |
| 0:37.0 | so it's time for you |
| 0:38.1 | guys to finally meet Shannon and Amanda. I'm excited to bring on two people who I've recently worked with |
| 0:51.5 | in the last few years. Their names are Shannon and Amanda, and they created |
| 0:55.3 | the company Ring True, which is incredible beyond just the jewelry that they make, which I'm going to |
| 1:01.1 | let them share that whole story. So guys, thanks for coming on. We are so excited to be here. Yay. Because |
| 1:07.6 | we're nerds. We've been like, not like we've been looking forward to this all day. |
| 1:12.1 | True. |
| 1:12.8 | Stop. I'm excited to have you guys on and share your whole story. So let's get into some background |
| 1:18.0 | first. Why did you guys create Ring True? What is the cause and motivation behind it? |
| 1:23.8 | All of that good stuff. So if for people who have never heard of our business, we work with human trafficking survivors. My sister and I will go to the safe home and will teach survivors who've recently been rescued out of human trafficking, how to make jewelry, and then we're able to offer them a job through our business. So it's incredible. It's work that the ladies can do inside the safe home while they're getting back on their feet. |
| 1:45.2 | They have a lot of programming that they go through like trauma therapy and they have a ton of different therapies. |
| 1:50.4 | Equine therapy where they're with horses and just like cool stuff that they're to get back on their feet. |
| 1:55.9 | But something that we realized was they'll come to the safe home with some of them, nothing but the shirt on their back. |
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