631: Amanda Catarzi | Overcoming Cult Life and Sex Trafficking

Amanda Catarzi survived a cult-dominated childhood and abuse at the hands of sex and labor traffickers. In the years since, she has helped law enforcement bust trafficking rings, written federal anti-trafficking legislation, and worked to save countless victims.

What We Discuss with Amanda Catarzi:

• 70 percent of human trafficking victims are women, and 30 percent are men. • They usually die (overdose or violence being primary causes) within seven years.

• How Amanda's upbringing in an isolated cult • that matched teen brides with middle-aged men and preached absolute male dominance over them programmed her to consider abusive relationships normal. •

• Why moving to the other side of the country didn't turn out to be an escape from the childhood traumas that haunted Amanda • , but just the next chapter of her abuse by expert manipulators.

• How training as an MMA fighter was the perfect cover for this abuse as no one questioned Amanda's bruises and black eyes • when her "coach" trafficked her out to violent johns.

• How Amanda escaped this dire situation and has used her experience to help legislators and law enforcement save other trafficking victims • (especially children), and what we can do to help stem the tide of abuse that may be going on in our own neighborhoods in plain sight.

• And much more...

Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/631

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