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Adoption with The Dave Thomas Foundation’s CEO Rita Soronen

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is the only public nonprofit charity in the United States that is focused exclusively on foster care adoption. Through its signature program, Wendy’s Wonderful Kids®, the Foundation funds adoption professionals, known as recruiters, who are dedicated to finding loving, permanent homes for children waiting in foster care. The Foundation works…

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Financial Beginnings, Financial Literacy with Dr. Melody Bell

Financial Beginnings was founded in Portland, Oregon in 2005 to fill an education gap that existed in local schools. Despite a growing need in educating young people about personal finance, few area schools at the time offered financial literacy curricula. Founder and CEO, Dr. Melody Bell, was inspired to launch a financial literacy nonprofit. Through…

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Latasha Dayes Good Hair & Scalp Health

Good Hair & Scalp Health Latasha, The owner of Snakx Beauty Spa. With over 19 years’ experience and 15 years as a business owner. Latasha prides herself on her standard of excellence in both high fashion and classical hairdressing. Living by the theory “Healthy Hair is Paramount,” Latasha strives to provide guidance to her clients…

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King Cas Ajani – Stories Boys Don’t Like to Tell

King Cas Ajani, an author, actor, playwright, producer, motivational speaker and learning mentor. King Cas, as an emotional wellbeing and development Coach, also works with young men of color who have suffered childhood sexual abuse trauma, but are often silenced by the fear of their masculinity being brought into question. Ajani and Alison Jaye sit…

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Dr. Lois Lee – Children of the Night – Saving Children from Trafficking – Audio

Dr. Lois Lee Children of the Night Children of the Night is a privately funded non-profit organization established in 1979 with the specific purpose to provide intervention in the lives of children who are sexually exploited and vulnerable to or involved in prostitution and pornography. Dr. Lois Lee, Founder and President is the world’s leading…

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Christine Cesa – Sex Trafficking, It Is Happening All Around Us. Spotting The Signs, Be Vigilant

Christine Cesa a survivor advocate of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, works in the Emergency Department. Christine is an important part of the trauma team responding to patients and providing emergency services. Christine has been a critical part of equipping and educating medical staff. Through this work, many survivors of human trafficking have been identified and provided assistance that…

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Annie Joubert – Hookers for Jesus, From Sex Trafficking to Jesus (and Everything Inbetween)

Annie Lobert  Founder of Hookers for Jesus Annie, author of the book Fallen: Out of the Sex Industry & Into the Arms of the Savior Annie’s story is one of overcoming and survival.  In Fallen, Annie tells her remarkable story of surviving sex trafficking with sixteen years in the sex industry, breaking free, finding healing,…

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Laura Scott – The Childless by Choice Project

Laura S. Scott, is the happily childfree author of Two Is Enough and Producer of The Childless by Choice Project documentary. Which is a research project, a book, and a documentary that explores the motives and the decision-making process behind the choice to remain childfree. Having conducted a survey of almost 200 childless by choice…

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Childless Not By Choice, A Journey of Infertility – Stephanie Phillips, World Childless Week Founder

Stephanie was inspired to start World Childless Week after recognizing the need for a global campaign that supports those who are childless not by choice. She admins several Facebook groups including Childless Path To Acceptance for those past the point of trying to conceive. Stephanie is also writing a self-help book about being childless not…

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Love Again, Live Again. Don’t Shut The Door!

According to Alfred Lord Tennyson, “it’s better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all”. But what do you do when you have loved and been hurt? What do you do when you have loved and been disappointed? What do you do when you have loved, given your best to the…

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