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From Exploitation to Redemption: Trafficked at 17, a Supernatural Encounter with God, and Overcoming PTSD and Anxiety · Witness the Wonder Christian Podcast: Supernatural Christian Testimonies, Miracles, and God Stories

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  I had an incident that happened while I was on stage.
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  I think this is where God started giving me a sense of
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  discernment to see how evil that life inside of those four walls
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  really was. I was on stage and I felt this
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  cold wind go through me as I went close to the customers to
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  pick up tips. Their faces were Gray like like
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  a clay Gray, and their eyes were just absolutely lifeless.
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  They just looked like they were just sitting there staring with
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  no smile, no, no life to them. It terrified me.
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  I backed away. I walked up the stage and went
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  back into the dressing room. I was brought to the hospital.
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  I couldn't speak. I couldn't even speak.
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  The hospital diagnosed me as having had a psychotic event.
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  What happens when what looks like opportunity is actually
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  exploitation? Today's conversation is with
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  Jeannie Roberson and her story is powerful.
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  She spent years in a world that gave her money and a sense of
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  power, but behind it there was addiction, trauma, and a deep
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  emptiness. Have you ever wondered if your
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  past disqualifies you from the life God has for you?
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  Maybe you felt like what you've walked through is just too much
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  for God to redeem. Well, today's conversation is
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  going to show you that that's not true at all.
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  Let's jump right into my conversation.
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  With Jeannie Jeannie. You have a very interesting
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  story, what you've gone through in your life.
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  Would you mind sharing that with us?
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  Sure, I'm delighted, first of all, that you've asked me to be
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  on your show. And yeah, it is an interesting
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  story, but it's not one that's uncommon, to be honest with you.
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  I was raised in a very dysfunctional home.
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  I'm the oldest of eight children and the only girl.
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  I have 7 younger brothers. I left home at 14, I met a man,
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  I got married at 15, I had a baby at 16 and I met my
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  trafficker who was a woman at a month after I turned 7 years
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  old. You said So what do you mean by
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  that? Well, this woman introduced
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  herself to me as an agent and said, I want to make a star out
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  of you. I'm going to put your name on
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  Marquis and your picture in the newspaper.
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  And she came to my house and brought me beautiful gowns with
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  sequins and rhinestones like nothing I'd ever seen.
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  They zipped up the side and she moved my furniture to the sides
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  of my living room and taught me how to dance, literally, how to
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  seductively take the dresses off, how to have the eye contact
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  with the customers and the stage present.
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  She taught me everything from the nuts and bolts of stripping.
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  And then I just turned 17 years old and I had this baby and I
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  thought I'd just been discovered and so did my mother.
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  I told my mother what was happening, that I just met this
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  woman. And my mother said, wow, that's
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  great. She brought her boyfriend and
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  all his friends to come and watch me dance and she thought
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  I'd just been discovered. So I really didn't have anyone
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  in my life pouring into me in any way to allow me to think
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  that this was something that wasn't good.
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  It all seemed good and but it was trafficking because it was
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  manipulation through grooming. And it's important that I say
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  that because I wasn't being forced by putting a gun to my
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  head or being caged or kidnapped.
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  I was trafficked and exploited for financial gain by this
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  woman. She couldn't have made a living
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  without having me and other girls, young girls my age, doing
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  what she was doing with me. And that's why it was considered
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  trafficking. Now, was I free to walk away?
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  I stayed in that industry until I was 20.
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  Over almost 22 years, I stayed in that industry.
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  So from 17 to. 30 off and on. I was 38 years old when I
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  finally came out of it. In the process of I first at 17,
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  I learned to drink every day. It was part of the job.
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  I found a power in myself that I didn't even realize I had.
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  As AI was a young girl, I couldn't even call myself a
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  woman. But there was a power there over
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  those men that I danced in front of.
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  They fed me money, they fed me booze, they complimented me,
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  they fed my ego. Really sucked you in.
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  Sucked you in exactly. And and it it, it's exactly what
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  it does. My sense of reality.
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  Outside of that world, there was no none.
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  The only reality that I really knew was those four walls, the
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  music, the customers and the stages.
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  That was my life. In fact, I say in my book
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  Shattered for Glory, I say, you know, the dancers were like the
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  sisters I never had, and the stage was my playground.
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  OK, so there might be someone listening that is in this same
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  type of a situation and maybe they don't, they didn't actually
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  realize that they was going down the path that they're in.
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  Like how long did you stayed in it for 22 years?
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  At any point did somebody come into your path that was trying
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  to lead you back out of that lifestyle?
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  Actually, no, I can't say that there was anybody that tried to
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  lead me out of it. In the early years.
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  It was all I knew. I I didn't have an education to
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  go out and find another job and that there was no reason to.
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  I was making great money. Right.
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  The money, I would imagine really kept you there because
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  once you're making that kind of money.
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  You probably no. You can't find another job
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  making that kind of money. And I attempted to find other
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  jobs. I mean, I did.
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  I went to work for the cruise lines, which was a very
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  glamorous job. I sold Yadro and gifts in the
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  gift shops and I worked for the cruise lines.
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  I worked for a plastic firm. I tried different jobs and I
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  always ended up going back because of the money and the
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  ego. I won't say the ego, but it fed
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  my ego. It, it, it fed something inside
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  of me, but at the same time it drained me of something, You
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  know, there was no real love there.
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  It was, it was a it was a world that was dark.
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  And the longer I stayed in it, the darker it got.
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  My alcoholism raged and eventually I found a 12 step
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  program and by that time I was in, I think I was 27 by that
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  time when I entered the program. And a month before IA, couple
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  weeks before I celebrated my first year sober, I had an
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  incident that happened while I was on stage.
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  And I think that this is where God started coming in and
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  showing me, giving me a sense of discernment to see that how evil
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  that that life inside of those four walls really was.
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  I I was on stage and I felt this cold wind doors would be and.
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  As I went. Close to the customers to pick
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  up tips. It was like their.
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  Faces were. Gray like like a clay Gray.
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  And their eyes were just absolutely lifeless.
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  And and they just looked. Like they were just sitting
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  there staring, no smile, no, no life to that.
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  And it terrified me. I backed away.
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  I walked up the stage and went back to the dressing room and I
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  was brought to the hospital. I couldn't speak.
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  I couldn't even speak. And the hospital diagnosed me as
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  having had a sex spot at the back.
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  But what I believe is that God allowed me to see the evil in
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  the hearts of those men. They weren't dead.
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  Their souls were dead and and I'll never forget that
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  experience because it was something that stuck with me and
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  I knew I started realizing what that business was really about.
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  I wanted to get out. I didn't want to stay in that
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  business anymore. And I had married my husband,
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  who I met in the in the club. He didn't want me to leave.
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  I had my first daughter and I, I stayed dancing until I was 38
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  years old work, at which point I finally said I can't do this
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  anymore. I just walked to the club one
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  night and I looked at the girls and they had added poles and
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  they had added lap dancing and showers and all kinds of, it was
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  like a adult, adult Disneyland. There were so many rooms that
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  were being added. A lot of these things I wasn't
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  forced to do, but other girls, if they were willing, could do
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  these things. But I my struggle between trying
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  to remain sober and develop a relationship with God while I
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  was in this evil playground. I was so conflicted.
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  I just reached a point where I said I can't do this anymore and
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  I left not knowing what I was going to go to for a job.
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  I just walked out. And I said.
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  I'm not talking back. My husband slept.
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  He's like, what do you mean you quit your job?
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  You got to go to work. You know, you can't just quit
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  your job within a week. I found a little shock for rent.
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  And I ended. Up opening the shoe store and I
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  went into the sole business. Oh, that's awesome.
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  And play on words there I'm imagining.
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  I went into the sole business and I truly did because it was
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  as soon as I stopped dancing and as.
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  Soon as I went and I open the store.
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  I started. Things just started happening on
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  one day I I needed. To pay an invoice I need. $5000.
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  And a check came in the. Mail for $5000 and it was from
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  an old bank account that I had had and I had prayed about that
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  I prayed I. Said God if.
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  You intend for me to stay. In in business and not to.
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  Go back. I need your.
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  Help. I can't do this on my.
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  Own and I mean I just knew this was God.
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  There was no way that it could not be God.
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  You don't just thousand $5000 checks show up.
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  When you need. It when you need.
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  It exact moment that I want to take a moment to thank one of
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  protect what they've worked so hard to build, especially in
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  That's Christina Smith, official.com.
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  Things like that, you know that God started entering my life and
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  started showing me that I am here for you and keep trusting
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  me. And you know, I may not give you
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  what you need right when you need it, but I'm going to take
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  care of your basic needs. And that's what he did
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  continuously. So eventually my husband still
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  wanted me to dance and I did. I continued until I left that
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  club. But I left my husband and I went
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  to the Keys. And a month after almost three
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  weeks to a month after living there, we got hit with a
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  hurricane and it completely wiped out everything I had.
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  And now that brought me to a new point in my, in my faith journey
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  because I just couldn't understand why God would do it.
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  But I didn't want to ask why I had to.
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  I mean, I'm stood in the midst of all of this rubble and my
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  life was just shattered. Everything around me was gone.
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  I mean, I had the watch I was wearing, the diamond earrings I
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  was wearing. You know, I had the few things
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  that I left when we evacuated, but everything was gone when I
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  came back. And I think that's the point
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  where God really started to show me who he was.
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  He allowed me to use my store that I was opening as a stomping
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  ground for people who had lost their homes.
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  I decided to create a housing board and so anyone who needed
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  to find a home, they could come in and look at the board.
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  Anyone who had a home that was already repaired or ready to
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  rent, they would come in and sign their information on the
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  board because at that time the newspaper only came out twice a
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  week in the keys where we were living.
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  And it was frustrating. I mean, I had lost my home and I
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  didn't know what to do in between those days when I wanted
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  to look for a house or someplace to rent for my daughter's and
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  myself to move into. And I had this.
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  So I think that was a place where God started showing me
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  that, you know, material things don't matter, people do.
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  And I found a great joy. The Red Cross discovered me and
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  they heard about what I was doing and they came in and
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  convinced me to attend their classes and become a volunteer.
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  So I remained a Red Cross volunteer for over 20 years,
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  assisting with floods and more hurricanes and things like that.
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  And I found a joy that I, I had no idea was even out there.
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  The greatest joy is in helping other people and sharing my
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  faith. And little by little, God
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  started giving me more and more, you know, of my heart's desires.
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  And I'll share one story with you.
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  So, for example, I had lost this home in this hurricane.
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  And I built my life in the Keys. I stayed there for a few years.
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  And finally, it was time, you know, I was in a position where
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  I could move on. And I had a house built in Port
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  Saint Lucie, where I live now. And shortly after having that
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  house. Built, I decorated it and
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  furnished it. Builder came to me and he said,
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  you know, said this is you did a beautiful job at this house.
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  He said I don't have a month. He said if you about me to show
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  people the house. Because people sometimes have a
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  hard time reading architect designs.
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  I'll pay your mortgage and your taxes and insurance on this
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  house until my model is completed.
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  Well it took him a year and a half to complete his model and
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  for a year and 1/2 he paid my mortgage.
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  You talk about God giving you back 10 unfold.
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  I mean, that's a story that I've clung to in my life.
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  There are so many ways that God shows us that he loves us.
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  And if we just open our eyes and start relating and recognizing
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  when it's him, things don't happen by coincidence.
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  No, they do not. And not $5000 checks and a
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  builder saying I'm going to pay your mortgage for a year and a
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  half. You know you.
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  I mean, it's only God that can allow those kind of things to
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  happen. And I started and life wasn't
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  perfect. I mean, I still now I'm out of
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  dancing and yes, I'm trying to get on with my life.
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  And you know, we have our ups and downs.
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  I had a battle with cancer and overcame that.
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  And you know, I mean, we go through things, but I suffered
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  PTSD. That's another, another story.
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  I suffered PTSD so badly after coming out of that industry and
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  the trauma that I went through from different circumstances
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  that happened throughout my life and I didn't realize I had PTSD.
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  I was diagnosed with anxiety attacks and, and given the wrong
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  medication and the fear that I had was so great.
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  I couldn't sleep on a second floor.
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  It got to the point where I wasn't able to sleep in my own
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  house at night. If I heard something happened
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  outside, I would think somebody was being harmed or a gunshot or
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  something happened. And I would get my keys, get in
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  my car, which I always kept a pillow and a blanket and ready
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  in case I had to, you know, flee.
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  And I would go to a hospital parking lot and I'd recline my
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  seat and spend the night in the hospital parking lot.
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  And the minute daylight would come, I'd feel so guilty, not
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  understanding why I was going through that.
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  And I had friends that were somewhat aware of this
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  situation. I suffered and they would, I had
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  one friend, she would put the key under her mat and say, if
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  you really feel like you cannot stay by yourself, I want you to
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  come to my house. Don't sleep in your car in the
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  parking lot. So, you know, and then she
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  started this particular friend and then she started
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  recommending that I, I read Psalm 91 and I really attribute
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  Psalm 91 to healing me because there were a couple of things
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  that happened. My mother had passed and that
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  same year I had been reading this Psalm 91 and I started
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  visualizing myself in the corner of this big wing, this big white
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  wing. And I just visioned myself safe
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  and warm and protected like nothing was going to hurt me.
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  And for the first night I stayed in my house, I woke up on the
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  couch. I didn't sleep in my bed.
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  I slept on the couch. But my friend called me in the
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  morning and she said, are you OK?
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  And I said yes. I said actually I said I watch
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  the sunrise when I'm in my house.
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  I slept. And she said I was up all night
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  praying for you. That's.
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  What we need, we need friends that'll like be there for us.
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  She was the one that recommended that I, I, I pray and meditate
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  on Psalm 91. And you know, I used to not be
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  able to fly. I couldn't.
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  And I heard the Holy Spirit say to me, I have great plans for
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  you. And if you don't overcome this
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  fear, I can't do with you what I need you to do.
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  And. That's a great segue.
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  Yeah, As God, he takes the things that we walk through and
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  he turns them around and he uses them.
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  He doesn't waste anything. So how does he now using that
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  what you walked through all those years in the club today?
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  Oh, I have such a passion for those girls that are still in
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  that business. My heart aches for them because
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  I know it's on the other side of those walls.
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  And I wish so much that I could just embrace the mole and just
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  say, listen. Just just listen to me.
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  There is a God out there that loves you and he's just waiting
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  for you to come to him. And you know, I've written this
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  book, Shattered for Glory, Human Trafficking Survivors, Journey
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  to Freedom, and it journals it, it, it journals my, my journey
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  in the adult entertainment industry and my journey with
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  God. And you know, I have strip club
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  ministries that are, these are groups of women that are in
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  churches that go into these clubs and they bring dancers,
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  you know, little bags of goodies, candy or lipstick or
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  whatever. And I had one of these
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  ministries purchase 20 books from me and they actually took
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  these books and she sent me a bath, showed me a picture, sent
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  me a text message with a picture of the baskets in my book in the
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  baskets. So they have gone out to the
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  first clubs and are in the hands of some dancers.
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  And I'm, Oh my gosh, just think what God could do, you know,
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  because it's important. I think that others can relate
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  to our story, you know, and my story is not just a faith-based
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  story, it's a secular story. It's for Christians, yes,
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  Christians need to know what they need to do to help.
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  These women need love. Absolutely.
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  These women need to be recognized.
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  You know, they all think that they're worthless.
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  Deep down inside, I felt like I was worthless.
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  I tried to commit suicide and God wouldn't let me die.
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  Had a plan. For you.
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  I was, I was above my body looking down and, you know,
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  after a suicide attempt and, you know, just happened that I guess
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  I called my stepmother and she called EMTs and they broke in
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  the house and I watched them work on my body.
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  And the next thing I knew all I woke up in the hospital, but God
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  was not going to let me die because he has a purpose for our
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  lives, whether that was mine, but he has a purpose for yours.
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  He has a purpose for yours. He has a purpose for everyone's
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  life. And it's it's we just have to
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  call on him, ask him to come into our hearts, change us, show
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  us what is our purpose? Why are?
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  We really here. We're not here to suffer.
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  We're not. He didn't put us here to be in
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  pain. Sometimes I think we go through
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  some things. He allows things into our lives
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  just like a loving father. Just cleanse a child, you know,
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  we need to learn, you know, and sometimes it takes learning
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  through trials to become a humble person, to be able to
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  change and recognize. I don't want to live like that
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  anymore, right? We have to hit that bottom,
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  right? I hit many bottoms before I
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  finally came around. I.
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  Was going to ask you what when you were in the clubs, what was
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  that turning point like? Like there had to be a moment
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  like you said you saw God in that moment in those Suns faces.
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  Was that like that the turning, the ultimate turning point?
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  Because you said you did continue dancing.
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  I did continue dancing a few years after that.
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  The turning point where I actually left the industry was
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  that as I continued to dance, I dreaded going into the club.
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  Every time I went to work, I dreaded was it where I wanted to
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  be and one night I I went to work and I just I looked at all
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  these beautiful, you know, fast naked laying over these bats
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  lost full memory. And then I we had some careless
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  about it and just laundry and the club, you know, just seems
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  like their art. I just felt I could feel the
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  heat closer that we come to go, the stronger our sensitivity
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  because because we're battling an old life and a new life
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  that's trying to find this. And you know, my my new life was
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  because was hot and it was good things while the enemy is trying
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  to clue in the bondage of that lifestyle.
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  And one night I just said I can't save my heart and I just
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  left and I never went back. So it definitely messed with
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  your identity as like going up things that you're on by.
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  Obviously it's identity issues. I'm sorry.
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  I'm sure I buy the workforce out in the process.
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  Why don't we do that? Identity as far.
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  As when I worked in the clubs and your identity is as much
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  miles you got. You know what I mean how to
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  transition that at some point we need to recognize your own their
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  own. So I really started to recognize
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  my own guy or my own words. I think during that time when I
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  went to that hurricane and I started helping people and I
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  have lost all the material things in my and that's when I
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  really started to bro in my face and then God showing me through
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  examples of. Giving me that builder.
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  Who paid my mortgage? It was.
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  It was the ways that God showed me.
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  As I've gotten older, my face has increased and I think I rely
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  on God for service and God is using me today.
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  He's using me. I volunteer with an organization
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  in Palm Beach called Place of Hope and he's brought me from
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  strip joints to the followings of marijuana where we do huge
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  fundraisers that help to build these communities, these little
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  houses that to help to educate age out youth from the cost of
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  share system. Because these are the kids that
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  are the most successful and educating the public, which is
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  really important. This generation of moms and
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  dads. They need to understand that
• 23:31
  when there's these games that the kids are involved in and
• 23:34
  what they're learning at school, you know, just something so
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  important that parents aren't in tune with what their kids were
• 23:41
  doing. I share an example in terms of
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  because that is really my heart. I I've.
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  Taken what? God has given me and I want to
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  give it a plan. I feel like it's so important to
• 23:54
  get in a rant. I have joy in my life like I've
• 23:57
  never had before. I mean, and people, people say
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  to me, I fear it. They say like you are such a
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  fight, you know, and you know, and the light is is the Holy
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  Spirit saw me just shaming through because that's not me.
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  You know, it's not me. It's not.
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  God has done in me. You know, no matter how DMS you
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  think you are, you're not. Right.
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  Right. Just you know, it's never too
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  far gone. You're not.
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  Yeah. And it's like, where do I start?
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  Get out your days. What do you want?
• 24:38
  Help you know if someone's watching something and maybe
• 24:44
  they're where you were, they're in the strip clubs they've got
• 24:48
  is just cause them to stumble across this podcast today one
• 24:53
  right and what would you say to that but.
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  What I would say. To you, you are in this industry
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  and you sub of the process. I am an example of what you can,
• 25:03
  what you can pass. I am an example.
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  I lived in a project. I lived in NAFTA.
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  I suffered. I suffered great.
• 25:13
  I suffered so many things that so many people suffer and they
• 25:16
  don't talk about. Then when I felt like I was
• 25:19
  useless and and I can be used for anything, I wasn't even good
• 25:22
  enough to be a mother. I go home was.
• 25:25
  There And when I got on my knees and I prayed and I reached out,
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  I put 1 foot in front of the other, I just did the next
• 25:31
  right. Thing and I just.
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  Kept walking and praying and trusting that he was going to
• 25:36
  help me and he did it and he took some people out of my life
• 25:40
  and he brought into my life. But every single.
• 25:43
  Thing you've got that brought me different wine and today and it
• 25:48
  can do the same. It's just been so good.
• 25:52
  Thank you so much for coming and being on witness.
• 25:55
  The weather insurance testified. Thank you for I appreciate it.
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  If they want to get your bus, can you tell them the name of
• 26:00
  the book again and how they can connect?
• 26:02
  With you, yes. The name of my book is Shaft for
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  Glory, Human Trapping Survivors, Journey to Speak Out and you can
• 26:10
  reach me at Shatter for glory.com.
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  Jeanie's story is a beautiful example of how God meets us in
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  our darkest places and how He can rebuild a life that feels
• 26:22
  too far gone. Maybe as you were listening, you
• 26:24
  saw parts of your story in hers. Maybe there are things in your
• 26:28
  past that you're still carrying, things that make you feel
• 26:30
  disqualified, like God could never use you because of what
• 26:34
  you've walked through. But what you walk through does
• 26:37
  not disqualify you. In fact, it does just the
• 26:41
  opposite, and it definitely doesn't keep you from God's love
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  or from the life that He's planned for you.
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  The Bible says that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord
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  shall be saved. And if that's you today, I just
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  want to take a moment and pray for you, God.
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  I thank you that you are God who restores.
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  Nothing is wasted in your hands. I pray for the person listening
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  right now who feels broken or disqualified, that they would
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  begin to see themselves through your eyes, that they would
• 27:18
  understand how deeply you love them.
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  And if they don't have a personal relationship with you,
• 27:24
  give them the courage to call out to you to ask for your
• 27:28
  forgiveness, to receive the gift of salvation that you paid for
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  on the cross, and to trust you with their next step.
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  Lord, I pray all this in your name, Jesus name, Amen.
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  If you prayed that today, I'd love to hear from you.
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  You can drop me a comment below or send me a message.
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