Today's episode is with Chris McKenna, founder of Protect Young Eyes.

Chris discusses his journey from an early exposure to pornography to creating an organization

focused on digital safety for children. He highlights his passion for helping parents,

schools, and communities create safer digital environments through education and resources. Chris

walks us through how to have discussions about pornography with children to reduce shame and secrecy,

and the importance of addressing these issues from a young age. With that, let's jump into the conversation.

We hope you enjoy this episode of Consider Before Consuming.

Okay, well, thank you so much for being here with us today, Chris.

Can you tell us a little bit about protect young eyes, why you decided to start

it, who you are? Yeah. Well, I'm a dad. I've got kids. I'm walking this journey in the tech world

as a father of a college-age daughter, but then I have three middle school boys.

So I'm raven the thick things there.

Protect young eyes wasn't anything I ever intended to be working on, Natalie.

I'm supposed to be a partner in Ernst & Young right now.

At least that's what I thought I would be doing, right?

How many of us have those forks in the road, right?

But I was also, you know, as a child, like a lot of men my

age, I was exposed to pornography at a young age and really didn't know what to do with it.

It awakened a lot of curiosities inside of what is already a fairly compulsive personality that I

have, right, running after things. And that was a thing

that my brain didn't really know what to do with as a eight or nine year old boy. And then

there comes the internet and all of the accessibility and affordability, right, that triple

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