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In Pursuit of Love: Rebecca Benders Journey from Trafficked to Triumphant

Published: Aug. 7, 2023, 8 a.m.

Today\\u2019s episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.

Rebecca Bender grew up in a small town, played varsity sports, made high school honor roll, and would have started college early except she got pregnant. She was a little ostracized. And a lot lonely. Then she fell in love \\u2014 kind of. She followed her knight in shining armor to Las Vegas only to be sold among three human traffickers.\\xa0

She was branded, thrown in jail, and hospitalized, her face broken in five different places. But she wasn\\u2019t kidnapped. And there was no duct tape involved.\\xa0

Now, Rebecca Bender is a mentor/survivor/expert flipping the script on who leads the fight to eradicate human trafficking. She\\u2019s blazing trails with the largest online school in the world for survivors. And, as an internationally recognized subject matter expert, she\\u2019s equipped the FBI, Homeland Security, and the US Department of Justice to spot this stuff before it gets any worse.

Check out the Rebecca Bender Initiative, the RBI Instagram, her personal Instagram and her book In Pursuit of Love: One Woman\\u2019s Journey from Trafficked to Triumphant, 2020.

Please note, this series includes details of sexual abuse. Listener discretion is strongly advised. If you, or someone who know, is a survivor of sexual assault, abuse, grooming, child abuse, or human trafficking, RAINN\\u2019s National Sexual Assault Hotline offers support at 800.656.HOPE (4673).

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