The Exodus Cry Podcast

On this episode of the Exodus Cry Podcast, Benjamin sits down with Katarina MacLeod to discuss how she entered prostitution, the abuse that led her on that path, the horrific incidents she experienced while in it, and her journey to healing afterwards. Katarina is the Founder & Executive Director of Rising Angels Awareness & Restorative Care in Canada. She is also a survivor of sexual &amp...

This week on the Exodus Cry Podcast, Benjamin Nolot sits down with Andrea Heinz, a Canadian feminist who, at the age of 22 and with tens of thousands of dollars in debt, entered prostitution in Edmonton, Alberta. After seven years, she left prostitution in 2013. Andrea is now an accomplished writer, advocate, and filmmaker working to raise awareness about commercial sexual exploitation. On this ep...

Exodus Cry founder Benjamin Nolot sits down with actress, model, and influencer Paris Berelc to discuss how she became an anti-trafficking advocate. Paris began her career at the age of 14 and is best known for her roles as Skylar Storm in the Disney XD series Mighty Med and Lab Rats: Elite Force, and Alexa Mendoza in the Netflix sitcom Alexa & Katie. Paris has been a vocal advocate on social...

This week on the Exodus Cry Podcast, we sit down with Katelynn, a brave survivor of image-based sexual abuse who shares her story in hopes of changing laws and helping others who have had their trauma immortalized on porn sites. In 2008, Katelynn agreed to make a video with her boyfriend for him before he moved. Two years later, that video was posted repeatedly to sites like Pornhub. For 13 years,...

This week on the Exodus Cry Podcast, Benjamin Nolot sits down with Exodus Cry’s Digital Content Manager, Olivia Burnett, to discuss childhood exposure to porn and the harmful side to purity culture. Olivia joined the Exodus Cry team in 2021 as we launched the Protect Children Not Porn campaign. She shares her experience learning about the intersection of porn and trafficking, and the sobering stor...

This week on the Exodus Cry podcast, Benjamin Nolot sits down with Brittni De La Mora, a former teen porn performer who now runs a nonprofit called Love Always Ministries, which helps people get free from porn, both as consumers and performers. Brittni discusses how her own abuse and neglect as a child played a huge role in her decision to enter porn at 18 years old. After a few years, she found h...

This week on the Exodus Cry Podcast, Exodus Cry CEO Benjamin Nolot sits down with Heidi Olson, a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner with years of experience treating child victims of sexual assault. She shares heartbreaking stories of young patients who have been brutally assaulted, most often by other kids. Heidi discusses the increase in child-on-child sexual assault not only in her hospital but acro...

This week on the Exodus Cry podcast, we sit down with Sheila Wray Gregoire, author of The Great Sex Rescue, and host of the Bare Marriage podcast. We examine our culture's current sexual framework and the lessons we teach about sex, especially within the Christian sphere, and how these can sometimes do more harm than good within the context of marriage and relationships. She and Benjamin discu...

Join us as Uldouz Wallace, an actress, writer, producer, and activist, shares how her life was turned upside down after a private video was leaked online and ended up on Pornhub. In 2014, Uldouz was part of the infamous iCloud hack that leaked intimate images and videos of 100 celebrity women. The video and images in question had been sent by her ex-boyfriend in an iMessage in an attempt to bribe...

Join us as Exodus Cry Founder, Benjamin Nolot, talks with Don Brewster, Co-Founder of Agape International Missions (AIM), to discuss why he sold his house and moved to Cambodia to fight child sex trafficking. Don and AIM’s work were featured prominently in Exodus Cry’s award-winning film, Nefarious: Merchant of Souls, which reached millions of viewers worldwide, and this led to exponential growth...

Trigger Warning: This interview includes frank, explicit, discussions about rape, sex trafficking, and suicide ideation that may be triggering to some. Listener discretion is advised. In this compelling podcast episode we hear from Cristina, a sex trafficking survivor who, for the first time publicly, shares her story of being trafficked by the GirlsDoPorn producers. In brave vulnerability, Cristi...

This episode delves into Benjamin Nolot's brand new book, Raised on Porn, available Thursday, April 13. This book was ten years in the making. Benjamin Nolot spent the last 16 years of his life investigating and documenting the global sex trade, trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, and the sexually destructive behavior that pervades our culture. In each of these, he discovered pornogra...

In part 3 of this 3-part podcast, Benjamin Nolot and Helen Taylor discuss Exodus Cry's new porn industry exposé miniseries, Beyond Fantasy, diving into the difficult topic of abuse porn featured in the third episode of Beyond Fantasy, "Hardcore." Through a bold examination of a porn genre rife with choking, slapping, degradation, and sexual assault fantasies, Hardcore spotlights porn...

Netflix’s new documentary Money Shot: The Pornhub Story is currently trending. It highlights the work of anti-exploitation advocates, including Exodus Cry. This film certainly tells a story, just not the one you’d expect if you’d been following the case against Pornhub that’s been unfolding very publicly over the past three years. This week's episode is Exodus Cry's honest response to the...

In part 2 of this 3-part podcast, Benjamin Nolot and Helen Taylor discuss Exodus Cry's new porn industry exposé miniseries, Beyond Fantasy, specifically talking about the "teen" genre of porn featured in the first episode of the series, "Barely Legal." In "Barely Legal" porn industry insiders reveal how producers cast aside ethical boundaries to create content which promotes the fantasy of sex wit...

In part 1 of this 3-part podcast, hear from Benjamin Nolot and Helen Taylor as they unpack Exodus Cry's new porn industry exposé miniseries, Beyond Fantasy. The porn industry creates endless images and videos that are consumed by billions worldwide, yet surprisingly little is known about how this culture-shaping content is made — or at what cost. Beyond Fantasy is a documentary miniseries that tak...

Benjamin Nolot and Helen Taylor give the inside scoop about the trials and successes of the global #Traffickinghub campaign that held Pornhub and its executives accountable for distributing and profiting from criminal image-based sexual abuse, including videos of rape, child abuse, and sex trafficking. In early 2020, after one of Exodus Cry's directors published "Time to Shut Pornhub Down" in the...

In the first Exodus Cry Podcast episode after a three year hiatus, Benjamin Nolot and Helen Taylor jump straight into discussing the vital connection between porn and sex trafficking. Benjamin unpacks how his discoveries about the porn industry over the last 8 years culminated into the launch of what eventually became the viral, global #Traffickinghub movement. Benjamin Nolot is the CEO and Founde...

Liz Walker is an accredited sexuality educator, speaker and author, dedicated to culture shifting initiatives that respond to pornography harms on children & young people.

Sex trafficking survivor Christina Rangel, the founder and director of Extreme Love Anti-trafficking (ELAT) at Bethel Redding church in California, talks about what it was like being sold for sex and how she found freedom.

Our interview with Christina Rangel, a survivor of sex trafficking and the founder and director of Extreme Love Anti-trafficking (ELAT) at Bethel Redding church in California.

Gene McConnell is one of America’s foremost experts on shame & its impact on addiction recovery as well as one’s personal perception that affects all other relationships. His message helps identify and interpret the adverse consequences of societal trends that are engulfing our increasingly sexualized culture.

In Cambodia, thousands of children are victims of sexual exploitation every year. Don Brewster provides an update on Cambodia stats, speaks on the issue of demand reduction, pornography, the history of Cambodia, as well as exciting new developments at AIM.

In this episode Exodus Cry’s Director of Outreach and Intervention, Helen Taylor continues with an exciting update about the intervention efforts that Exodus Cry undertook during the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.

In this episode Exodus Cry’s Director of Outreach and Intervention, Helen Taylor provides an exciting update about the intervention efforts that Exodus Cry undertook during the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.