EP 5- You are the Resolution- How to Make a Difference with Small Actions- Interview with Gena Bohl- Stopping Child Trafficking How You Can Help Even when You are Super Busy Mama

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EP 5- You are the Resolution- How to Make a Difference with Small Actions- Interview with Gena Bohl- Stopping Child Trafficking How You Can Help Even when You are Super Busy Mama

In this episode, Gena Bohl has joined the show to share how to make a HUGE impact with Small actions. Gena is a mom of 4 and been married for 23 years. She talks about how small actions can make a huge difference is HUGE issues in our communities. She is an advocate of Stopping Child trafficking and is making a huge impact. They also have their own production company called TG productions. She also works for an organization called The Women’s Center. She’s underneath a crisis and victim services.

The Impact

[3:59] My background is in anti-trafficking.

[5:49] A friend of ours had started an anti-trafficking organization and said, do you think you would want to do public awareness? Now I thought public awareness was public speaking which yes, I will do that. I could talk to the media, I could do social media stuff, I can handle all of that.

[6:27] Within 24 hours, I found myself sitting on the task force for anti-trafficking, not something that I had signed up for and I felt like I was in the middle of the ocean with no life raft.

[7:54] It’s so funny to look now and see this far into how even that knowledge of what I was learning about that for all the anti-trafficking and everything that I was doing there has come to play forward now into this abuse prevention and the cyber safety and the anti-bullying. Kind of how it’s the circle where all of this is just like entangled and you can’t touch more on without kind of touching the other.

What one person can do to make an impact and something that feels so big?

[11:27] You have to look at it like it’s this wheel. Each slice has a different thing. So there’s different areas within each of those things where a person can fit in. You just have to kind of what your wheelhouse is you’re laying on the track field.

[12:45] Non-profits cannot operate without funding, they just can’t. We operate on grants, we operate on people that are going to give. So if you’re a philanthropist, then please give to the organizations, give to the charities.

[13:59] If you’re a graphic designer reach out and say how can I donate my services and my time towards you?

[14:24] Those are small things, it’s also integral to making sure that the people that are running non-profits that are involved can continue to do what is it that God has called them to do and place them in these areas.

[16:59] If we could just come together and start to eliminate even just simple things, making sure the kids in these areas are being provided for and taken care of, we can help take away some of that vulnerability and then kind of stop that push that they feel from abusers and traffickers.

[20:45] Abusers and traffickers look for kids that are shamed. They will watch the playgrounds to look at, to find the kids that are ostracized and they will look for the ones that are in the foster care system and they will wait and they will groom them.

An Encouragement into a new season

[28:06] Changing the clock isn’t gonna magically make all of this go away and disappear. However, how we end one chapter is how we start the next.

[30:19] Keep moving forward and we’re going to do it stronger and it’s okay to be tired. Soldiers need to rest. It’s okay to rest. It’s okay to take time to grieve.

Key Quotes:

[9:25-9:32] “Prevention is so much easier to do than trying to fix and recover, and help and restore.”

Join Gena in her Facebook Group- Stunningly Strong

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2151042501588395/?multi_permalinks=5610189279007016¬if_id=1609262495466006¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic&ref=notif

Gena's Instagram is Stunninglystrong.gena

Gena's Twitter is GenaBohl

Gena's Email is [e-mail]

Gena's Blog: https://wordpress.com/view/stunninglystrong.com

Product Purchases & organizations that support ending child trafficking:

https://migliving.com/atrogers (Natural, clean products for inside out for your physical health- percentages of all purchases support the cause)

https://www.horacioprinting.com/pages/our-impact (Vision planning for 2021- percentages of purchases support the cause)

https://www.a21.org/ (A21)

https://ourrescue.org/ (Operation Underground Railroad)

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