After a couple rapes you kind of just Start to lose yourself, right? So then you don't even know when things are dangerous anymore because you detach from your emotions so far. He's talking about marriage and then I get gang rights and he beats the show out of me. It trained me that every time something really bad happened was something really good was about to follow. You get chemically addicted to then door fiends in the adrenaline And so you stay Yeah, yeah, yeah YeahSo how long did that that go on for? The abuse about six months or like the sex trafficking in the labor traffickingBecause he is also setting up fights for me in in managing those fights, but I was
Amanda Catarzi is a speaker, strategist, MMA fighter, and sex trafficking survivor.
After escaping her trafficker, Amanda dedicated 10 years to fighting sex trafficking. In her journey, she counseled the New Zealand Government, wrote federal legislation, and went undercover to expose trafficking rings.
Currently, she is the owner of the copywriting agency Inkery Co, where she and her team are passionate about helping others find their voice and using it effectively to make a positive change in the world.
Some of the topics we dive into are:
- The misconceptions about sex trafficking
- Childhood abuse within the family and church
- Growing up in a cult
- The impact of trauma and PTSD
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Grief and postpartum depression
- Domestic violence
- Post-traumatic growth
- Amanda’s experiences working with sexually abused and trafficked children
- Entrepreneurship and putting yourself out there as a content creator
- And lots more
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