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- Jenni Awesome: Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you to this special live edition of the Jenny Awesome podcast. So today I have Natalia Nutting, who is part of the leadership, transformational leadership group that I've been a part of for the past couple of months. And we decided to take the time right now. we're working on a community service project and I I actually got some news recently and it's put more urgency on why we're doing what we're doing. So, Natalia, you wanna introduce yourself a a little bit? Tell us what you do. Natalia Nutting: Yeah. Well, thank you, Jenny, for this space for your podcast. It's awesome, just like you. I'm Natalia. Jenni Awesome: thank you. Natalia Nutting: I'm a storytelling expert, and I'm part of a leadership program with this incredible, awesome human, Jenny, and other incredible humans, and we set ourselves an extraordinary goal, something that I think none of us thought would be possible, and it is to help rescue children from child trafficking. This is something that in the past used to scare me to even think about it. I thought, how can I even support this cause? What can I do for something that will like never end in the world? I I saw myself so little and completely incapable of tackling this. And and just thinking about it just drove me to a space of hopelessness. But being amongst incredible humans like Jenny and other incredible humans with big visions and big hearts, we said, let's do what is feels impossible, let's do this. And we set ourselves the this goal to to raise $35,000 to support Jenni Awesome: Mm. Natalia Nutting: an organization that does the thing, that goes and rescues children, that that that is practically doing something in the world. And to support an organization that is out there in the front lines and we get to be the quiet leaders at in the background that bring money that is needed to do that in order to accomplish that. And what a what a powerful way to do this. At the beginning I I had my my doubts of trusts and who could be do who could be really doing this. And and so that was something that I had to break through in myself, the issue of trust, trusting that Jenni Awesome: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Natalia Nutting: people actually have the heart to make a difference. And once I overcame that and I said, okay, we're choosing this organization, Tim Thibault organization, I put the trust there. It's like, yes, I trust that people want to do great things in the world. Okay, let's support this organization. So we put our hearts together, we said we are going to raise thirty-five thousand dollars to support the Tim Tivor organization. With our team we call ourselves United Voices, and we have the aim to raise those funds in it by September third. Jenni Awesome: Mm-hmm. Natalia Nutting: And we're doing this with our heart. It and in in different capacities. One capacity is by raising our voices and reaching you if you're watching this podcast at this moment. Then this is for you. There's a reason why you're listening and you're watching us at this very moment. Maybe in the past you thought, yes, I want to support children. I know that there are things happening out there. How can I support? Well, here we come. Here is a way to support. So I wanna share a little bit, Jenny, if you allow me, why this is important for me personally. Yeah. Jenni Awesome: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I actually wanted to jump in really quick on something you said about why we chose to support Natalia Nutting: Yeah. Jenni Awesome: the Tim Tebow Foundation. And what was coming up for me as you were were saying that is, you know, because we have chosen to support the Tim Tebow Foundation, as we talk to more people, we are finding out about all of these other smaller local organizations that are also doing the great work. However, Natalia Nutting: Yeah. Jenni Awesome: Because Tim Tebow has done great things in other areas through sports, through the things that he's done in his life, he's able to have a greater impact on supporting the end of child exploitation and human trafficking. So Natalia Nutting: Mm. Jenni Awesome: we're we're not discrediting the smaller groups, just this is the one that we decided to go with and that is having it's they're paving the way for those smaller groups to be able to have those larger impacts. Natalia Nutting: Yeah. And personally I feel that through ourselves, through setting ourselves this goal, I suddenly saw so many people actually doing something about it. And finding that there are many organizations, like finding so many great humans that are putting themselves out there to support children in something that seems so dark and so impossible, like child trafficking. And in the past, I thought I saw child trafficking as something completely different, as like children randomly being kidnapped and like all these secret organizations. And it just brought in a level of secrecy that made me feel incapable of helping. And what what I why I thought, okay, I feel that now I can help, it was when I saw something, it was a film by Tim Thibault. Jenni Awesome: Mm mm. Natalia Nutting: A film that portrays this teenage girl that comes into her house after school, and you can see that she's exhausted, riddled with troubles, and all she hears as she comes in her house are her parents arguing upstairs. There's a fight going on, and so Jenni Awesome: Mm-hmm. Natalia Nutting: they have no idea that this girl came back home. They have no idea that this girl is going through her own issues. So it seems like any other day, and this girl goes to her bedroom, shuts the door, lies on her bed alone. No one to share her troubles with, no one to talk about it because in her family they're not listening to her. And so, bim, she receives a text message by a dude. And She's like, all happy. And it's like, he's the only one that talks to me, the only one that understands. And and the message says, Hey, how about you do it, you know, tonight one more time? And she's like, I don't know. And and and he says, let me get get you out out there. I wanna support you to get out of that family. No one's listening to you. I'm gonna support you. And so she feels he cares for me. This ends up being her going into a hotel room. Where a man comes in to have sex with her. And then this Jenni Awesome: Mm. Natalia Nutting: man puts the money in the bed. And then she feels empty, disgusted with herself, and comes back to see this dude that she's dating. And and and that is the way that this dude was supporting her. By bringing money to take her out of this house, this was the way. It's there's there's this made me understand that child trafficking is quite different from what I thought it was. That child trafficking is closer to home than we think it is. That we can do something in in a we can do something about it in a way that we we thought that was not possible. What that film made me see is that the disconnection that parents have with their teenage kids are conducive to child trafficking. That teens Are not relying in their parents and the people that care for them when they're in trouble because parents and family members are not being fully present with them. They're Jenni Awesome: Mm-hmm. Natalia Nutting: in their own troubles. And so there are things that are happening to children, and they have no one to talk to, no one to rely to, and then they go look for help in the wrong places and they get into situations that they don't know. How to get out from. They are not Jenni Awesome: Yeah. Natalia Nutting: equipped. And it turns out to be that this is one of the forms. This is one of the forms. So this is a film by Tim Thibault. We can drop it here in the comments for whoever whoever is watching for you to watch it. Your teens can watch it, become aware of this. And so that is that is one of the reasons why I'm so invested in this mission. Because I care for connection and communication between parents and children. I care for children being empowered into speaking up what they want, their needs with their family members, with the people that care for the most, so that they don't go look for help in the wrong places and then end up in these situations. And so this is the reason why I'm personally invested in this. And through the Tim Tebor Foundation and through what we are doing. we can do something about it. There's many things that the Tim Tower Foundation is doing. It's one is raising awareness, like with this film. Two is supporting task forces to go and rescue children. three and they are picking up the the the the the the computers of the individuals that are trafficking images of children to in intervene and either capture these people or destroy this information, dis destroy the images and the footage of children that are that are being that are being replicated in in the market. so there's there's many things. So for this we are raising $35,000 which is very little but it still is a lot and we have the aim to do it within this month. And we are bringing a lot of passion. And so if if any of you watching, you you care about this, know that this is a path. You can support us, you can donate. All the donations go directly to the Tim Tivo Foundation through our Force United Voices, so through our link, and the donations that you put, be it $1,000, $500, or if you want to put through your organization, you wanna put ten thousand dollars and we achieve the aim. Know that any little you put, be it five dollars, it's also bringing momentum and energy to us as a team to keep on raising our voices, keep on fighting for this, to be heard. Because if you if you've always wanted to support a course like this, but you didn't know how to do it or through which organization, I want you to know that if you're listening, we care and we're doing this. So you can do it through us. Say yes in the comments or say rescue in the comments. We will send you the link for you to donate. Doesn't matter how much you donate, it's gonna support. And by September 3rd, you know that we will have those 35k for the Tim Tebow Foundation, and they can do so much with that. They've done so Jenni Awesome: Yeah. Natalia Nutting: much with so little, they haven't raised They they said w we haven't raised so much funds with a with a team like yours. So we know that we're making a huge difference and bringing a lot of momentum to them and and your support matters because it that money creates an impact. They can do stuff and it also creates the momentum in our team to keep on raising our voices. that that is my share, Jenny. thank you for for the space to do this. Yeah. Jenni Awesome: Yeah. Yeah. So the we're supporting the Tim Tebow Foundation to end child child exploitation and human trafficking. And I know Natalia Nutting: Yes. Jenni Awesome: his name has been all over the news lately that he was able to get legislation started so that he can do more work in this area, breaking down those barriers, keeping those kids from being saved. And you touched on a point about, you know, families, we just give our kids electronics. We give them tablets, Xboxes, switches. You don't know what all is out there. And if you were to really dig, you would find out that even like Roblox has had predators on it. I mean, there's predators in our schools, and that's supposed to be the safest place ever. So, while you you some people may think that this isn't happening in my area, I'm here in Kitsap County and I was on Facebook last night and I found that they recently arrested someone from Seattle who has been inappropriately messaging children. And the the conversation on Facebook was actually pretty gruesome because he was asking, like, how young do you like And he was talking about how young of kids he liked and and to me that's just awful and disgusting. But those conversations are out there. Those conversations are happening. And we need to be an informed group of people. We get to know that this is happening. And because we know, we can do something to stop it. So Natalia, I thank Natalia Nutting: Yes, yes. Jenni Awesome: you so much for sharing everything that that you are learning about why Natalia Nutting: Yeah. Jenni Awesome: why this community project is so important. Natalia Nutting: Yes. And also the message that we want to send out there to all of you listening, and you might be an adult listening, is that we get to be responsible adults for the future generations. We are the ones responsible. Anything that is happening to our children, even though they are not your direct children, we are responsible. And so this Jenni Awesome: Mm-hmm. Natalia Nutting: is how we are showing up as responsible adults to take care of all children. For the future generations. We have to, we must, we can step into that responsibility, that commitment for children to take care of them. It is why we are here. We are building the world. So let's show up that way. This is one way by supporting this cause is one way, many other ways there are. Be informed, start connecting with your children, start having those conversations so that they trust you. and not someone else. And and then if you want to donate to this cause, do it. Because that money that do do that you donate is also force that you're bringing into this and and you are being invested in this cause with with with money that you're putting in, then that is that is going to bring inspiration and force. You're going start talking about it. You're going to find that you are a great force in the world and it's a responsible way. Of supporting to end child trafficking and to start the conversation. So that's Jenni Awesome: Yes. Natalia Nutting: our mission. you will see the donation link either in the comments or here in the description or wherever. please just type in the chat if you're watching this video that you want to support, and we will provide you with the link of the Tim Tivo Phone Foundation, our specific link of United Voices. We are looking to raise. thirty five K by September third and you get to be one of those responsible or adults that donates so that kids can trust that we are taking care of them. Jenni Awesome: Well, thank you so much, Natalia. Do you have anything else you want to share before we sign off? Natalia Nutting: Donate. Jenni Awesome: Thanks, Natalia. Natalia Nutting: Thank you, Jenny.