Raised & Redeemed

What's the difference between sex work and sex trafficking? What are the typical vulnerabilities that make someone susceptible to falling victim to sex trafficking? What is a day in the life like for someone who has been trafficked? How can you recognize and report pimps and traffickers? And finally, how can we stop the rise of the sex trafficking problem in America? We'll be discussing al...

Gabriella's testimony takes us through a battle with demons, PTSD, and a life-changing vision of hell while on psychedelic drugs. Her quest for peace led to an encounter with Jesus, but seeking answers on Google rather than in Scripture led her through a misguided detour into New Age spirituality. While at an Orange County revivalist event, she reluctantly brought home a Bible. It was then tha...

Elizabeth grew up in a Christian home, but rebelled into the wrong groups of friends, drug and alcohol abuse, and eventually exotic dancing. It was in the night clubs that she came into astrology and other New Age spiritual practices, and began opening even more portals to demons. One of which came in the form of her abusive ex-boyfriend, whom she finally escaped in the ultimate climax of her comi...

Today we're talking with Amanda Toro, host of the Daughters of Zion Podcast. Amanda has a heart-wrenching coming to Jesus story, starting with childhood sexual abuse from her biological father. This led to desires being awoken that she didn't ask for, over-sexualization from a young age, and all kinds of teenage rebellion. Wanting God, but unable to forgive her father, Amanda ran from the...

This week we're talking with Joshua Broome - Once famous for being one of the most successful adult film stars in the world, now famous for sharing the good news and redemption of Jesus. In this episode, Joshua shares how he scaled to the top of his career in porn, only to find that all the success, fame, and money still left him feeling empty and broken. Even to the point of wanting to take h...

Daniella grew up in a Christian home and was never interested in parties, boys, or any kind of sexual sin... but then she went off to college and began hearing fellow believers say, "You know you can have sex and not go to hell, right?" Rather than turning to the Word of God, she listened to her peers who clearly weren't reading their Bibles either. Before she knew it, her environmen...

Carol thought she knew all she needed to know about God when He seemingly left her prayers unanswered. She accomplished many amazing things on her own and it grew her pride in herself and in her New Age beliefs. Regardless of what she accomplished, though, Carol still felt miserable and decided to be more open minded as the next layer of healing... In this time, God began to send Christians her wa...

Rudy struggled with panic and fear from a young age, and it only got worse after his brother's death when a small group leader suggested he didn't make it to heaven... This led Rudy to running from God completely, and he quickly fell into the drug and party life. Until one night when he crossed meth and LSD and went on the trip of his life. Demons sent him into derealization and told him h...

With a failing marriage, addiction to marijuana, and life led by Jezebel, God began to speak to Melissa through pastors on YouTube. Having truly encountered the love of Jesus and conviction of the Holy Spirit, she gave up everything from her old life and began seeking the Lord. Melissa now evangelizes on the streets in Orlando and on TikTok, is the host of Disciple Culture, finishing her degrees i...

Chrissy spent many years looking for a savior in all the wrong places - drugs, men, money, and more. She didn't realize she had an addiction problem until numerous arrests and car accidents later. She tried to get clean a few times for her family's sake, but kept running, relapsing, and returning to her old ways. Finally, Chrissy got fully sober, married a man from the club she'd been...

After years of battling with anxiety, Corrine made a deal with God that if he helped her, she would give her life to him. Before she knew it, she was supernaturally experiencing him on stage in the club she was dancing at. She looked out into the audience and heard God tell her that he loved her, and every person in there. On that same day, she locked up her locker for the last time, drove off, an...

Welcome back for Season 3 of the podcast! On this episode, I have on my husband, Vitaliy, to discuss marriage after (my) promiscuous past. We talk about how I first told him my testimony, how we protect our marriage by protecting our triggers, how we survived year 1, and all the hardships, growth, and blessings along the way! DISCLAIMER: Naturally, I had technical difficulties for the first episod...

Hey Raised & Redeemed Fam, just wanted to let you know, I am taking a break for the Summer to get my head, heart, and health in order. 💕 Listen to today's episode to hear more about our 1-year milestones for the Raised & Redeemed podcast, the things I'll be focusing on this July, and what's to come for season 3! ---------------------------------------------------- 🎙️ Listen to...

Hey you guys, today we’re talking to @anaempowers, a faith-based life coach, podcast host of the Living for Christ Podcast, and someone who has recently been saved from the New Age. Anastasiya grew up in a family who considered themselves to be Russian Orthodox Christians. However, there was virtually no talk of Jesus in her home and even littler understanding of the Bible. This led to her later s...

What’s up you guys, today we’re talking to Rachel Pitari, otherwise known as @faithfulllmama on TikTok, about how she went from agnostic, to New Ager, to believer in Christ. She tells about the demonic encounters she had, numbing with weed to sleep at night amidst the sleep terrors, finally seeking God the New Age way, but then ultimately coming to Christ when she realized only the name of Jesus c...

Today we’re talking to Brittni De La Mora, a wife, mom, author, and founder of Love Always Ministries. Little would anyone know, Brittni used to be a pretty famous porn star who was addicted to drugs and dead in her sin, but then God began revealing himself to her… Today we’re talking about how she left the industry, the spiritual darkness she felt there, getting free from the spirit of lust, and...

Hey you guys! I’m fan-girling pretty hard right now because today’s interview is with one of my biggest inspirations, Lindsey Maestas! She is host of the Living Easy Podcast, founder of The Wife Project, a marriage and intimacy coach, and also just an overall social media superstar. Today we discuss healing from past relational hurt as a married woman, and experiencing the fullness of love and int...

Hey you guys, today we’re speaking with Briana Petty, founder of Flourishing Faith Ministries and soon to be a licensed Christian counselor. In a world growing increasingly focused on deliverance, we have a conversation today about our experiences with it, and how we’re learning to not focus so much on the dark side but to instead claim our authority in Christ. Yes, demons are real and we have to...

Today I'm answering your questions from a recent Q&A! I'll be going into how I've gotten free some from of my fearful Ex-New Age legalism, the rise of false deliverance ministers in the church, the extent to which Christians can be afflicted by demons, growing in marriage (with a husband who's still learning how to spiritually lead), and learning how to partner with God's K...

Despite growing up in a Christian home, Sierra didn’t quite understand the love and truth of Jesus, and it led her to filling the voids with boys, parties, drugs, and eventually the all-too-trendy New Age spirituality. God gradually gave her the eyes to see the darkness in those things, and she accepted Jesus to be her Lord and savior one day in the middle of her shift at her college juice bar. #n...

Today we’re talking to Chad Logan, founder of The Hope Project, a certified recovery coach, and podcast host of Real Talk with Chad Logan. After experiencing different childhood traumas and abandonment, Chad began coping with substances from an early age. His life grew darker as the substances became harder, and after numerous times of moving across the country and still finding himself there, he...

What’s up everybody, today we’re talking to Eva Hope all the way from Australia about how she found Jesus and came out of the New Age. After some scary demonic encounters and dreams from her young son, Eva was a desperate mama trying to keep her babies safe with energy cleansings and New Age practices… but the torment continued.  It wasn’t until she finally began to call on the name of Jesus and h...

Hey everybody, today we’re talking to Devin Bower, and man, God just so perfectly timed this episode because we’re talking about the miracles, healing, and love of Jesus today and I personally need more of that. Today Devin is telling her story of being born into a Catholic family who almost aborted her to stay on par with the religious code, but by God’s grace, she was given a chance at life. She...

Today I’m speaking with a sister in Christ named Kacy and it actually marks her one year anniversary of walking with the Lord and her first time sharing her testimony. Kacy was living the fast life, full of rebellion, and wanting nothing to do with the God her family worshiped. She ended up marrying her drug dealer, fell deep into the New Age, and then found herself working in the entertainment in...

Today we’re speaking with Sarah Weingarten, otherwise known on YouTube as @SarahSpeaksUp, about her testimony of being freed from a spirit of rebellion, alcohol abuse, suicidal thoughts, the New Age belief system, and more. Jesus first saved her at age 19; she was on fire and living for him, but the devil subtly creeped in and convinced her the world was better. After years of trying to fill herse...