EP. 22: Stephanie Page | Stories Foundation, Freedom Truck Executive Director

Steph and I chat about using business to empower people to fight human trafficking through what they purchase.  We also talk about how Stories Foundation came about how and the Freedom Food Truck is not only raising awareness, but is supporting organization who are fighting human trafficking.

2:09: Stephanie takes us back to 2012 and shares the story behind Stories Foundationand the Freedom Truck.

Book:  Passport Through the Darknessby Kimberly L. Smith

Kimberly L. Smith is the founder of Make Way Partners

"I remember looking out the window and saying to God, 'This isn't okay that children are being forced to do these horrific things and they're being taken advantage of and exploited.' I remember Him, it's like He said to my spirit, 'You're right. It's not okay. What are we going to do about that?' It was one of those moments where all of my excuses of when I'm done having babies or when we have more money or when we have more stable jobs or when we can pay our bills better, they just didn't matter when you think about the reality out there in the world."

Mark Batterson's Coffee Shop: Ebeneezer's

Eugene Cho: Q Cafe (closed due to location change) and One Day's Wages

6:27 "I started with what I had."

6:45 Steph shares about the early days speaking at small events and small groups to raise awareness of human trafficking.

"As Christ followers, we have been set free from sin. I think Satan is the greatest trafficker. Christ has purchased our freedom. We are free. And he [Satan] manipulates us, coerces us, lies to us, plays on our emotions, tells us we need these other things and traffics us into sin....We have been set free from that, so as Christians, I think, it is our greatest responsibility to be about freedom, both spiritual and physical."

9:01 Stephanie shares about acquiring the food truck, which is known as the Freedom Truck.

13:28 Steph walks us through what to expect when you walk up to the Freedom Truck

14:41 "I started Storieson the very optimistic belief that people would want to make a difference in this issue and that they would RISE UP.  The truck has proven that to be true.  People, if they're given an opportunity, they will choose to make a difference."

16:45 Steph shares some of what she has learned about human trafficking since 2012.

"When you look at sex trafficking. We have sex trafficking. We have child sex trafficking, because we have pornography, because we have an over sexualized culture, because we have sexual addiction.  When you start...to say pornography is a reason for child sex trafficking, child sexual abuse, child sexual exploitation that's going to strike some chords of shame...When shame is revealed people want to hide."

"Traffickers look for vulnerabilities to exploit."

 

Grace Enough Podcast SHOW NOTES continued

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You can learn more about Stories Foundation at www.storiesfoundation.org and find her writing at www.stephaniempage.com as well as on Facebook and Instagram.

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