Welcome to Fire Forged Leader - devoted to individuals wanting to lead in life! To Learn more more, visit www.FireForgedLeader.com ! Hey there, I'm Steve Baumgartner, and on this podcast you will learn tactics to lead in multiple different areas of life, as I focus on three primary arenas of leadership; At work, At Home, and out in the community! The interviews feature some of the most talented and creative leaders out there! Other times I fly solo, expanding on real life lessons that I lear ...
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Riaan Swiegelaar - No Other Choice, My Radical Encounter
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Send us a Text Message. As promised, Tyler's non-profit is: Stop the addiction start the healing: life changing, love, passion, and a helping hand! - Welcome (cross2bear.org) Summary Riaan Swiegelaar shares his journey from being involved in the occult and Satanism to encountering Jesus Christ and becoming involved in deliverance ministry. He expla…
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We Are Still F***ing Here!
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Send us a Text Message. Note: This episode is RAW! Please make sure your kids are not around if you listen to this episode. Guys, war, trauma, mental health and the rest is not pretty. Sometimes it's simply about just being here. Summary SFH (Still F***ing Here) is a clothing and apparel brand that has grown into a community of fighters and warrior…
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Dr. John Ross Jr. - Investing In Others! Filling the Void!
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Send us a Text Message. I've come down with a bad sickness since coming home from Australia. While in Australia however I am reminded of how much others have contributed to my success. Dr. John Ross Jr. is one of those men who have always been in my corner. Please check him out at his YouTube Channel for Dr. John's Maintenance Minute! (8) Dr. John'…
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Have Your Name Spoken! In rooms you're not in!
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Send us a Text Message. Summary Advocacy is when someone believes in your abilities and promotes you, even when you're not present. It can lead to incredible opportunities. The speaker shares a story of how he got to Australia through advocacy. He emphasizes the impact leaders can have by advocating for others and provides practical steps to become…
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Communication & Shared Expectation
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Send us a Text Message. Summary In this episode, Steve Baumgartner discusses the importance of communication and setting expectations in leadership, both at home and in the workplace. He shares his personal experiences with his wife and how their morning routine helps drive clear communication. Steve also talks about the importance of involving and…
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Send us a Text Message. Summary The Fire Forge Leader podcast explores the analogy of pool maintenance to leadership, emphasizing the importance of balance and integrity. Just as a pool needs chlorine to disinfect, leaders need integrity to cleanse the workplace and build trust. Maintaining a pool's pH levels mirrors a leader's need to balance empa…
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Language Corrupts Thought
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Send us a Text Message. Summary The podcast episode discusses the negative impact of politics on society and emphasizes the need for strong values and visions to counteract this. It highlights the divisive language used by political leaders and the role of media in perpetuating this behavior. The episode encourages listeners to disconnect from the …
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Send us a Text Message. Summary Leadership is not reserved for those with formal titles or high-ranking positions. It is a quality that resides in each and every one of us. True leadership is about influence, inspiration, and impact. It is about setting an example, showing empathy, and empowering others. Leadership can be demonstrated in various as…
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Scott Mann - Nobody Is Coming!
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Send us a Text Message. Summary The conversation explores the themes of meaning and purpose in leadership, leaving a legacy, the power of storytelling, the emotional impact of war, and the betrayal of veterans in the Afghanistan withdrawal. In this conversation, Scott Mann discusses the importance of building social capital and trust in communities…
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Storytelling: Gain Influence. Get Results!
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Send us a Text Message. Summary In this episode, Steve Baumgartner explores the art of storytelling within leadership. He emphasizes how a well-told story can inspire, motivate, and lead a team to greatness. Steve shares his personal stories and highlights the power of storytelling in building trust, bridging cultural divides, and increasing listen…
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Rejection Therapy - Learn how to push failure
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Send us a Text Message. Summary The episode discusses the concept of rejection therapy and how embracing the fear of rejection can lead to personal growth and resilience. The host shares examples of how he has applied rejection therapy in his own life, such as asking for discounts, reaching out to podcast guests, and seeking promotions. The benefit…
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Kristofor Healey: Leadership is in the hard call
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Send us a Text Message. Summary In this conversation, Steve Baumgartner and Christopher Healy discuss various topics related to law enforcement, leadership, and their personal experiences. Baumgartner shares his experience working on the southern border, dealing with corruption and drug trafficking. He also talks about blowing the whistle on his ow…
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Andrea Sampson: The Subtle ART of Storytelling
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Send us a Text Message. Summary Andrea Sampson, CEO of Talk Boutique and the Thought Leader Academy, shares her journey of unlocking the transformative power of storytelling. She discusses the impact of stories, the role of thought leaders, and the process of crafting compelling narratives. Her personal story of change and purpose is a testament to…
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We Must Do Better! Teach Your Children Why We Are Free!
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Send us a Text Message. Summary The episode discusses the importance of educating children about the true meaning of Memorial Day and the sacrifices made by fallen warriors. It emphasizes the need for parents to have intentional conversations with their children and provides practical ways to engage kids in understanding the significance of the hol…
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Leading with Integrity: Overcoming the "That's Just the Way I Am" Mentality
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Send us a Text Message. Ever encountered a leader who shrugged off criticism with a dismissive "that's just the way I am"? It's a phrase that can poison a team's well-being and clamp down on growth. In a frank discussion on leadership pitfalls, I explore how this attitude fosters a toxic hierarchy, excuses unprofessional conduct, and blocks the pat…
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Drew Dudley: Leadership IS creating moments
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Send us a Text Message. Summary In this conversation, Drew Dudley discusses the impact of his TED Talk on everyday leadership and the importance of recognizing leadership in individual moments. He emphasizes the power of compassion, forgiveness, empowerment, and courage in creating positive change. The conversation also touches on the divisive natu…
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The Best Time to Plant a Tree: Cultivating Leadership Growth
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Send us a Text Message. Summary The Fire Forge Leader podcast aims to provide knowledge and tools around leadership strategies in the workplace, community, and family. The host, Steve Baumgartner, discusses the five worst traits that keep people from leading well: micromanagement, lack of transparency, inflexibility, selfishness, and indecisiveness…
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AMA: When to terminate, when to move on, overcoming pride
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Send us a Text Message. Summary In this episode, Steve Baumgartner and Dan DeLaiarro discuss various topics related to leadership, masculinity, and personal growth. They explore the importance of understanding and embracing masculinity, the challenges of being a leader in different environments, and how to navigate negative pride. They also discuss…
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Increase Your Impact! No one will remember your words!
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Send us a Text Message. Summary The episode discusses the impact of our words and actions on others and emphasizes the importance of creating positive memories and lasting impacts. It encourages self-awareness and reflection on how we make others feel. The host shares personal experiences and challenges listeners to compliment their spouse, spend q…
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Choose Wisely: The Power of Your Circle!
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Send us a Text Message. Summary The concept of being the average of the five people you spend the most time with is explored in this podcast episode. The host emphasizes the importance of surrounding yourself with positive and growth-oriented individuals. He shares personal examples of the people in his life who inspire and challenge him. The episo…
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Human Dignity - The Power of Love
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Send us a Text Message. Summary In this episode, Steve reflects on two stories from the Bible that demonstrate the power of meeting people where they are and showing them love and forgiveness. The first story is about Jesus washing the feet of Judas, the disciple who would betray him. The second story is about Jesus showing compassion to a woman ca…
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Engaged Fatherhood: Lessons Learned from Experience
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Send us a Text Message. Summary In this conversation, Steve Baumgartner reflects on the importance of family and shares lessons he has learned as a father. He emphasizes the need for patience and grace when dealing with children and the importance of leading by example. Steve also discusses the value of giving children agency and the importance of …
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Masculinity is Not Toxic! Fr. Michael Butler - Rebroadcast
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Send us a Text Message. Summary Father Michael Butler discusses masculinity and the importance of mature masculinity in various aspects of life. He shares his personal journey and the need for men's formation. Father Butler also highlights the objective characteristics of masculinity and the distinction between immature and mature masculinity. He e…
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Choosing Progress Over Perfection! Ditching Stress & Embrace Results!
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Send us a Text Message. Summary This episode explores the harmful effects of perfectionism and provides strategies for overcoming it. The host emphasizes the negative impact of unrealistic standards on mental health, relationships, and productivity. He shares personal stories and examples to illustrate the consequences of obsessing over perfection.…
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Unleashing a Predator's Culture: From Dusty Trophies to Lion Roars!
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Send us a Text Message. Summary This conversation discusses the transformation of a struggling plant through the creation of a winning culture. The host shares his experience of taking over a plant with poor performance and low morale, and how he turned it around by focusing on culture. The conversation highlights the importance of setting incremen…
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You Are Qualified - Overcoming Self-Defeating Thoughts
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Send us a Text Message. Summary In this conversation, Steve challenges the notion that qualifications are necessary for success. He discusses the fallacy of qualifications, highlighting the limitations of degrees and the high cost of education. Steve also explores the idea that titles and positions should not define one's abilities. He emphasizes t…
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Steering Through Storms: Mastering Leadership in Times of Crisis
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Send us a Text Message. Summary Leadership in crisis requires understanding, preparation, and the development of key traits. Crisis can occur in various contexts, including the home, workplace, and community. To prepare for crisis, leaders can conduct risk assessments and simulations. Key traits for operating under pressure include emotional intell…
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Ask More Questions - Drive Quality Relationships!
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Send us a Text Message. Summary In this episode, the host discusses the importance of effective communication in relationships and the tendency to let ego drive conversations. The host shares a personal experience of a conversation with a friend from Lebanon, highlighting the need to listen and understand rather than assuming and imposing one's own…
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Dominate the Day - Unlocking Your Productivity!
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Send us a Text Message. Summary In this episode, Steve shares his personal journey of escaping a stagnant and purposeless life and finding fulfillment through accomplishing tasks. He emphasizes the importance of planning and introduces his own system called 'Dominate the Day.' Steve explains how he uses a notebook to prioritize tasks and projects, …
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Send us a Text Message. Summary In this episode, Steve emphasizes the importance of belonging to a tribe and the benefits it brings. He discusses how people with a stronger sense of group identity are less impacted by adversity and recover more quickly. Having a tribe also gives us a sense of purpose and support. Steve shares his own experience of …
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Creating Culture: Open Door
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Send us a Text Message. Summary In this conversation, the speaker discusses the importance of creating an open door culture in both professional and personal relationships. The speaker shares a personal experience of being challenged by a subordinate and how he handled the situation. The main themes explored include challenging authority, the impor…
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Send us a Text Message. Summary In this conversation, Steve opens up about his personal experience with low-grade depression and anxiety. He shares how these feelings affected his work, his coaching business, and his relationships. Steve then introduces cognitive-based therapy (CBT) as a solution to address dysfunctional thought patterns and behavi…
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Unveiling Your Personal Epic: Discover Your Unique Journey in the Bible! 📖✨ with Jeff Tiegs
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Send us a Text Message. I want to pre-apologize for my audio, please don't let that distract you...I found an issue with my mixer after recording :( I tried to clean it up the best I could. 2 Free Courses Jeff has given the listeners! Please make sure to go out there an give Skull Games a monetary gift for his generosity! Protect Your Family Course…
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Unleash Your True Purpose: The Ultimate Guide to Discovering Your Life's Mission 🔍
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Send us a Text Message. Summary In this conversation, Steve discusses the importance of finding purpose and mission in life. He highlights the common trend of setting New Year's resolutions without a deeper understanding of personal motivation and purpose. Steve shares his own struggles with purpose and how it affected his engagement with his work …
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Send us a Text Message. 🌟 Unleash Your Inner Hero in 2024! 💪 Be Your Own Superstar and Conquer the New Year! Tonight we are changing the calendar from the year 2023 and entering into a new year. Most people when looking at the new year sit in one of two camps: Camp 1 is 100% full on energy, thinking they are going to change the world starting Janua…
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Pain Equals Power with Ray "Cash" Care
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Send us a Text Message. As many of us are reviewing our vision and goals for 2024, no matter whether we are working our tactics by quarter or longer, we all could use a bit of motivation to move us into the new year. Ray “Cash” Care is a Navy SEAL veteran with multiple tours and other numerous overseas security details. Upon leaving the SEALs, Ray …
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Protecting our MVPs with Kevin Metcalf
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Send us a Text Message. I have had thousands of conversations with many men over time, however I can only think of a few of these who have had such an impact on my life as this man has. The conversation that you are going to hear in this episode originally aired on October 28th, and it took my beliefs that I had from movies on the big screen into a…
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Get Back In The War! with Nick Lavery!
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Send us a Text Message. Nick Lavery has been through a lot, like getting shot in the face and taken shrapnel to the back. In Afghanistan his leg was tore up by an Afghan soldier by one of the guns in the back of a pickup to the point where he had to shove a ball of gauze up inside his leg to stop the bleeding while passing out multiple times and ta…
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From Anchor to Asset: Unveiling How to Lose the Anchor! 🚀
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Send us a Text Message. So many times in my life, my past mistakes or even the mistakes of generations have weighed heavy on me like an anchor tied to my neck. It weighs me down and continues to take me farther down into the depths. But it doesn’t have to be like this….there is a choice to overcome the mindset that keeps us there. In this solo epis…
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From Political Prisoner to US Navy Seal: Freedom is a Gift with Drago Dzieran
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Send us a Text Message. Most times us Americans don’t realize how great this country really is. Drago Dzieran really helps us to understand how great this country is through his accounts of growing up in socialist Poland with a father who was a communist leader, but having a loving Catholic mother who raised him better. His childhood was much diffe…
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Act Upon the World! Proven framework to take control of your life!
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Send us a Text Message. This is the highest-ranking solo episode that I have on the podcast. Find more episodes here: www.FireForgedLeader.com Have you ever felt like a raft in the middle of an ocean, just flowing back and forth where the wind and waves take you? I’m sure you have, we all have at one time in our life or another…it’s part of the hum…
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Why Demanding College Degrees is Outdated in the Modern World
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Send us a Text Message. Find more great episodes at: www.FireForgedleader.com Find Steve on all the socials: @FireForgedLeader.com Summary This conversation challenges the preconceived notion that a college degree is necessary for success. The rising cost of college and the oversaturation of degrees are highlighted as issues. The effectiveness of t…
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The Toxic Truth About Holding Onto Anger
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Send us a Text Message. 👇 Visit the site 👇 www.FireForgedLeader.com 👇 For Great Gifts 👇 www.2ndChapterCreatives.com Summary In this conversation, Steve discusses the destructive nature of anger and shares personal examples of uncontrolled anger. He explores the psychology of anger and the negative consequences it can have on relationships and menta…
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What's on Your Headstone?
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Send us a Text Message. This episode is all about Living a Legacy! For more great content visit www.FireForgedLeader.com We can't just write down a legacy and expect that it's going to happen, we have to live our legacy by making the right decisions at the time that are pointed in the right direction. Support the Show. To interact more with Steve, …
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Toxic Masculinity is a Myth!
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Send us a Text Message. There is no such thing as toxic masculinity, just as there is no such thing as toxic femininity. We like to slap labels on everything we touch, but this is dangerous as we are raising our children, because we are teaching them (especially our sons) they are inherently bad. We own characteristics, that can be good and bad, we…
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[Solo] Send Me! AKA - Take Up Your Mission
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Send us a Text Message. A friend of mine Ben Owen loves this verse from Isaiah 6:8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!” I’m going to spice it up a bit though, with some of my own wording….as these are the words that I feel when I hear him speak this verse! In a mom…
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Step Into the Fray [Part 12] - Men's Work - Ryan Michler
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Send us a Text Message. Ryan is the founder of the Order of Man movement. This is an organization that I am personally associated with. It's one that I've seen many men come into and become much more than they started. In the "Step Into the Fray" series, we hear many statistics that would suggest that there is men are driving the demand in traffick…
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Step Into the Fray [Part 11] - Technology Expert - Hannah George
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Send us a Text Message. FILTER is a digital well-being and online safety curriculum designed to empower young people to set boundaries, create good habits, and achieve healthier relationships with technology. Through smart phone and social media literacy training, we truly believe we can change the way these devices are impacting students, prevent …
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Send us a Text Message. This is a recap of Week 05 in the Human Exploitation/Trafficking Series named "Step Into the Fray" This series has interviews with Lived Experience Experts, Parents of Survivors, Warriors on the front lines, people in the healing business, and experts in Technology. In this episode I recap the guest from Week 05, introduce t…
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Step Into the Fray [Part 10] - Healer - Jessica Lamb
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Send us a Text Message. Jessica is a nationally recognized survivor leader that has built a national network of tattoo artists & removal specialists who provide services to survivors of commercial sexual exploitation, former gang members, and overcomers of self-harm and addiction. Jessica trains in Iconography, the history of human-trafficking tatt…
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