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The Fierce Freedom Podcast

Mar 26, 2021

For this week's episode, podcast hosts Cat Jacoby and John Pulley have an open and frank conversation about the recent Atlanta-area massage parlor murders and whether or not it is a crime motivated by racial hate or whether there were other factors involved.

While we are not minimizing the plight of Asian-Americans in...


Mar 23, 2021

Did you know which products you use everyday are tainted by slavery and which aren't? In today's age, 60% of forced labor is associated with supply chains.

To shed more light on this, we are joined by Matt Friedman, Founder and CEO of The Mekong Club, a catalyst for change, inspiring and engaging the private sector to...


Mar 16, 2021

Marilyn first sang about them in 1949, and in today's market, 78% of all engagement rings contain them - we're talking about diamonds, and the industry behind them.

Most are familiar with the film Blood Diamond and its portrayal of conflict diamonds, which were mined by enslaved people and sold to fund rebel military...


Mar 9, 2021

This episode is Rebroadcast of Episode 37 which was both a past look at some of our favorite highlights and moments from the past year, and an exciting look towards some future developments, including sneak peaks of our new weekly video series Fierce Parenting and a new toolkit entitled "The Faces of Human Trafficking"...


Mar 2, 2021

We always love to highlight organizations that value people over profit, and there's no better way to do that than inviting Kristen King, an Organizer for Equal Exchange, which has been a leading pioneer in fair-trade productions and ethical production for the past 35 years.

Kristen breaks down what exactly "fair-trade"...