Driving Freedom Podcast
Welcome to Driving Freedom, a TAT Podcast! As TAT works to educate, equip, empower and mobilize members of the truck, bus and energy industries to combat human trafficking as part of their regular jobs, we wanted to create a podcast that would serve as a helpful training tool to one of the largest mobile armies of eyes and ears out there on the roads seeking to recognize and report this heinous crime. Each short episode is designed to refresh critical issues learned and keep this life-saving informationtop of mind.
Episodes
32 episodes
Survivor Leader Spotlight: Ele DeRomano
Elesondra DeRomano is the founder of STARS Toledo. Standing Together Against Real Slavery (STARS) is a survivor-based organization dedicated to supporting and empowering young women who have experience...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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19:00
Calling all Movers and In-Home Delivery professionals with Jeff Schimmel of Atlas Van Lines
Would you know the red flags of human trafficking to look for if you were a professional in an industry that was routinely entering homes? Would you be able to recognize signs of trafficking inside a residential brothel or other residence where...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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20:52
Survivor Leader Spotlight: Joy Friedman
Joy Friedman is the Sexual Assault Street Outreach Advocate for the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center, a wraparound non-profit whose mission is to empower Native women and families to exercise their cultural values with integrity, and to...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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22:48
No Buyer = No Victim: the Necessity of Addressing Demand
The demand for commercial sex is directly tied to human trafficking. Hear from TAT's own Louie Greek as we drive into how movies and culture have influenced what it means to be a man. We also dive into how men spend their free time together as ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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21:28
Vacating records with Beth Jacobs
Today's episode focuses on a key challenge that survivors face after getting out of "the life". Oftentimes survivors of human trafficking have extensive criminal records from their time being trafficked and those records can prevent them from o...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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18:59
Undercover Operations with Sgt. Dan Nash
One way victims of human trafficking can find a way out of “the life” is through interventions by ethical law enforcement. In this episode of Driving Freedom, we hear from retired Sgt. Dan Nash, who shares his wealth of knowledge and compassion...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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22:51
Labor Trafficking with Rafael Bautista
On this episode we dive into a topic not yet covered on Driving Freedom: labor trafficking. Transportation was number 10 in the list of Top 10 Industries associated with labor trafficking victims in the US on temporary visas that were reported ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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20:06
The Healing Journey with Courtney Baldwin
What happens after that call is made? Can someone survive and thrive after such a traumatic past? Yes! Hear from two survivor leaders about their journeys of healing through art and how this creative activity has helped others. Courtney Baldwin...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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18:02
The Black Experience with Human Trafficking
Dr. Nissi Hamilton, CEO of A Survivor's Voice of Victory, shares with us about racism and the systems it has created which lead to vulnerabilities with African Americans, Latinx, Indigenous and Asian women and girls that make them targets of tr...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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21:40
Vulnerabilities to Trafficking: The LGBTQ2IA+ Community with Wade Arvizu
In June, which is Pride Month, we want to acknowledge and work against the difficulties and discrimination faced by those in the queer community, which can make someone more vulnerable to trafficking. It’s ok to disagree with people, but no mat...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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22:26
Vulnerabilities to Trafficking: Immigrants and Refugees with Lutheran Social Services
Traffickers exploit any vulnerability they can find in their victims, whether that is trauma from past violence, isolation from support networks, language barriers, lack of familiarity with their surroundings, or simply their hopes and dreams f...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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21:40
Vulnerabilities to Trafficking: Foster Care with Survivor Advocate Joise Feemster
Anti-sex trafficking programs and organizations across the US report that survivors on their caseload are overrepresented by youth or young adults from the foster care system. Some programs even report as high as 85% of the survivors getting se...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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21:22
Vulnerabilities to Trafficking: Homelessness with the National Network for Youth
Unlike adults without consistent housing, youth are often pushed into homelessness directly, because of an already traumatic situation -- whether that is violence in the home or rejection by their family. Fresh off one traumatic situation, they...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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22:17
How to recognize grooming with the NJ Coalition Against Human Trafficking
Trafficking doesn’t happen instantaneously. Traffickers manipulate and trick their victims into thinking they want to be there or it’s their fault. This makes it much easier than trying to keep someone locked up against their will. This also me...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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20:58
A Non-OTR Driver's Perspective on Human Trafficking with Tim Taylor
What if you are not an over-the-road driver or spend every night at home? Could you still be in a place to recognize and report human trafficking? Yes, local and regional drivers are still very much in locations to potentially intersect with vi...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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22:50
Human Trafficking In Canada: A Survivor's Perspective
Wondering about the prevalence of trafficking in Canada? Join us as we examine the issue of trafficking in Canada with a powerful survivor interview which highlights the reality of the situation, including a personal account of her experiences ...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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19:15
Pornhub and sexual exploitation with NCOSE's Jake Roberson
Pornography is inextricably linked to sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. In 2020, TraffickingHub, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) and a New York Times article spotlighted the stories of individuals who were sex traffick...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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22:17
Empowering Freedom with Kevin Ficke
You may have heard of a boomtown -- a town experiencing rapid growth due to prosperity -- in this case, prosperity due to oil. Have you heard how this sudden prosperity has also led to some unintended consequences related to human trafficking? ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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20:04
Victim Recovery with Professional Driver and Harriet Tubman Award Winner, Arian Taylor
“You are my hero.” That’s the sentiment we often hear when it comes to our Harriet Tubman Award winners, and it is who we know professional drivers to be. The Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT) Harriet Tubman Award, presented by Protective Insu...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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21:11
A Trooper's Perspective on Potential Trafficking Cases with Trooper Zach Heard
How do I know when to suspect human trafficking? In this episode, Trooper Zach Heard of the Illinois State Patrol shares his experiences roadside, so that we can be better informed on what behaviors could indicate trafficking. As a Commercial V...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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21:16
Racism and Human Trafficking ... a Conversation with Survivor Leader Tanya Gould
We launch into one of our biggest conversations yet on this episode -- racism and human trafficking. Tanya Gould shares about her experiences as a black woman and what that has meant, not only for her own experience as a survivor of domestic se...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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20:34
Driver to Driver with Barry Holland and Antonie Sadler
Who better to have on our Truckers Against Trafficking podcast about professional truck drivers combating human trafficking than two professional truckers against trafficking themselves! Antoine Sadler, a Walmart Road Team Captain, and Barry Ho...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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21:11
The Importance of Calling the National Human Trafficking Hotline with Megan Cutter
Why call the NHTH at 1-888-3737-888 to report a tip when so many competing hotlines and reporting agency numbers abound? In this episode, Director of the National Human Trafficking, Megan Cutter, joins TAT to discuss the critical work hotline a...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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19:19
Familial Trafficking with Liz Williamson
What is familial trafficking, and what can we do about it? According to The Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative, almost half of the identified cases of child trafficking begin with some family member involvement. These children often continu...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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21:13