The Ellen Fisher Podcast | The Fastest Growing Closet Crime | rescuing children from modern day slavey w/ Tim Ballard @theellenfisherpodcast | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
CALL TO ACTION: Andrew and I are doing a special call to action. Right now your donation can have double the impact. For every donation to O.U.R. Rescue made through here:, we will match it up to $10,000. Which means together we can raise $20,000 for OUR Rescue. We will be making our match donation in August 2022, so if you are listening to this sometime between now and august, you have time for your contribution to make two times the impact. CLICK HERE TO DONATE: my.ourrescue.org/theellenfisherpodcast
Also, join the Abolitionist Club which is their exclusive community of monthly donors ranging from $5 a month on up. The recurring monthly revenue is so helpful because it allows them to budget effectively from an organizational perspective: ourrescue.org/abolitionist-club
The selling of people, human trafficking, is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world, with 27 million enslaved, 6 million of them children. So many of us aren’t aware of how wide spread this issue is, because it’s not at the forefront of the media, and we think it doesn’t happen where we live. But this is the closet crime that is exploding and rising all around us at astronomical rates.
Tim Ballard, a former special agent and undercover operator for the Department of Homeland Security and also former CIA, shares what we need to know about child trafficking. He’s an abolitionist, NGO specialist, activist and philanthropist, and is the founder and president of O.U.R. Rescue that rescues children from child sex trafficking and sexual exploitation and has assisted in the arrested of thousands of predators.
This episode is heavy, sobering, and challenging, but important to hear. Be aware when starting this episode that we discuss some very heavy topics, but that there is a reason and goal in mind: how to protect our children and support those who are rescuing children from slavery and exploitation.
In this episode we cover:
- What human trafficking is and what it looks like both in the US and internationally.
- Tim’s background and what lead him to this line of work as a life long mission
- Why human trafficking isn’t on the forefront of media attention
Online explicit material and how O.U.R. Rescue helps facilitate tracking down predators and finding the abused children
- The process of rescuing children currently enslaved in different parts of the world
- Tim’s recent trip to Ukraine and how when a country is in crisis it puts children at risk of being trafficked
- The rise in normalizing pedophilia and sex with minors
- The dangers of social media and smart phones for children
- The new documentary coming out soon around what O.U.R. Rescue is doing in Ukraine called “Good Friday”
- The best way for us to support and help O.U.R. Rescue’s efforts to rescue children from exploitation and slavery
WHERE TO FIND TIM BALLARD
Website: ourrescue.org
Instagram: instagram.com/timballard89
DONATE to O.U.R. Rescue HERE: my.ourrescue.org/theellenfisherpodcast
Join the Abolitionist Club: ourrescue.org/abolitionist-club
WHERE TO FIND ME:
Get my ebooks: ellenfisher.com/ebooks
My instagram: instagram.com/ellenfisher
LISTEN to these episodes on Apple Podcast or Spotify: link.chtbl.com/ellenfisherpod
Family YouTube channel: youtube.com/c/ellenfisher
CALL TO ACTION: Andrew and I are doing a special call to action. Right now your donation can have double the impact. For every donation to O.U.R. Rescue made through here:, we will match it up to $10,000. Which means together we can raise $20,000 for OUR Rescue. We will be making our match donation in August 2022, so if you are listening to this sometime between now and august, you have time for your contribution to make two times the impact. CLICK HERE TO DONATE: my.ourrescue.org/theellenfisherpodcast
Also, join the Abolitionist Club which is their exclusive community of monthly donors ranging from $5 a month on up. The recurring monthly revenue is so helpful because it allows them to budget effectively from an organizational perspective: ourrescue.org/abolitionist-club
The selling of people, human trafficking, is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world, with 27 million enslaved, 6 million of them children. So many of us aren’t aware of how wide spread this issue is, because it’s not at the forefront of the media, and we think it doesn’t happen where we live. But this is the closet crime that is exploding and rising all around us at astronomical rates.
Tim Ballard, a former special agent and undercover operator for the Department of Homeland Security and also former CIA, shares what we need to know about child trafficking. He’s an abolitionist, NGO specialist, activist and philanthropist, and is the founder and president of O.U.R. Rescue that rescues children from child sex trafficking and sexual exploitation and has assisted in the arrested of thousands of predators.
This episode is heavy, sobering, and challenging, but important to hear. Be aware when starting this episode that we discuss some very heavy topics, but that there is a reason and goal in mind: how to protect our children and support those who are rescuing children from slavery and exploitation.
In this episode we cover:
- What human trafficking is and what it looks like both in the US and internationally.
- Tim’s background and what lead him to this line of work as a life long mission
- Why human trafficking isn’t on the forefront of media attention
Online explicit material and how O.U.R. Rescue helps facilitate tracking down predators and finding the abused children
- The process of rescuing children currently enslaved in different parts of the world
- Tim’s recent trip to Ukraine and how when a country is in crisis it puts children at risk of being trafficked
- The rise in normalizing pedophilia and sex with minors
- The dangers of social media and smart phones for children
- The new documentary coming out soon around what O.U.R. Rescue is doing in Ukraine called “Good Friday”
- The best way for us to support and help O.U.R. Rescue’s efforts to rescue children from exploitation and slavery
WHERE TO FIND TIM BALLARD
Website: ourrescue.org
Instagram: instagram.com/timballard89
DONATE to O.U.R. Rescue HERE: my.ourrescue.org/theellenfisherpodcast
Join the Abolitionist Club: ourrescue.org/abolitionist-club
WHERE TO FIND ME:
Get my ebooks: ellenfisher.com/ebooks
My instagram: instagram.com/ellenfisher
LISTEN to these episodes on Apple Podcast or Spotify: link.chtbl.com/ellenfisherpod
Family YouTube channel: youtube.com/c/ellenfisher
