17 Years of Trafficking Couldn't Silence Her | Marjorie Saylor

For 17 years, Marjorie Saylor lived through different forms of exploitation, abuse, trafficking, addiction, and trauma. Today, she uses her lived experience to fight for survivors and help change the systems that once failed her.

In this powerful episode of The Cherished Lounge, Kate Ouimette-Wedell sits down with nationally respected survivor leader Marjorie Saylor for a deeply personal conversation about survival, faith, freedom, motherhood, and turning lived experience into lasting change.

Marjorie opens up about childhood sexual abuse, religious abuse, domestic violence, running away from home, and the circumstances that made her vulnerable to years of exploitation. She shares her experiences in the adult industry, labor trafficking, coercive control, and a forced pregnancy, as well as how becoming a mother ultimately became part of her journey toward freedom.

But escaping was only the beginning.

Marjorie went on to become a survivor leader working in human trafficking advocacy, survivor services, legislation, and policy reform. Kate and Marjorie discuss holding sex buyers accountable, demand reduction, survivor-centered legislation, and why the people who have lived through exploitation need a voice when policies affecting survivors are created.

This is a story of survival, but even more importantly, it's a story of purpose, faith, resilience, and what can happen when a survivor finds her voice and uses it to fight for others.

Marjorie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marjorie-saylor

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