Today's conversation is with Sage Hancock.

Sage is the director of impact for the Malou Foundation and executive director of the

Elizabeth Smart Foundation. Sage joins us to discuss sex trafficking. We explore what it is,

how it happens, and what we can all do to confront it.

Additionally, we highlight ways in which trafficking can take place that may differ from commonly held assumptions, including through the camming industry.

Listen to learn more about how you can get involved in preventing abuse and sex trafficking by utilizing resources like the

on-watch training, Rays, and more. We hope you enjoy this episode of Consider before consuming.

Well, Sage, thank you so much for being here with us today. We're super excited to share with our

audience the work that you and your

teams are doing at the Maloof Foundation and the Elizabeth Smart Foundation. As we kind of dive right in,

can you tell us a little bit about how you got involved in this area of work in the first place?

I mean, it started a little bit back in college where I knew that if I was going to spend

40 plus hours a week doing something, I really wanted it to be geared towards something good.

So I really focused a lot on looking into the nonprofit space and looking into the healthcare

space.

From there, I really dove a little bit more into health care, actually, and I started working for a health care nonprofit.

And it was something that I just saw a lot of passion behind specifically women's rights.

In every nonprofit I was in, I noticed that there were just things that I noticed, like you guys, you see sexual

abuse, you see trafficking in healthcare. And going into that, it was just a passion that really

ignited in me. And I started working for a much bigger nonprofit a few years later. And there was

just something missing. There was something

missing in my passion. And so when Elizabeth and her team reached out to me, it was something

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