Founder of One’s Purpose Reveals How Traffickers Groom Families
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Stand up for what is right for your children, be a voice for them, protect them, listen to them. They're our future, and we need to educate and equip them to not walk in fear, but to walk boldly, confidently. Joni Wilkinson is a resilient, faith-driven survivor, speaker, and the founder of One's Purpose. Drawing from her journey of overcoming abuse and trauma, she leads a movement to combat human trafficking while creating spaces for healing, restoration, and purpose through outreach, discipleship, and community impact.
What are you doing to kind of raise awareness?
When I was lost and broken, like, does anybody see me? Does anybody care? And so we go to the streets and we, you know, whatever we can do, just meet the person, love on them, pray with them, encourage them. Are you ready for resources? Do you need help? What's going on? Just being there and showing up.
What personal experiences led to the creation of One's Purpose?
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Chicago was the lead. Usain Bolt is the fastest man on the planet. You can live your dream. Welcome back to another amazing episode of the Living Your Legacy podcast, the Whitman & Power edition. For Inside Success, I am Ray Gutierrez. I love naming all of our brands. Joining us today is Joni Wilkinson. Did I pronounce that correctly? You did. Good job. Impressive. Oh, yes. Right. First try. You are the founder of One's Purpose. Yes.
How does grooming and manipulation occur in human trafficking?
That is quite, quite the name, quite the title. What is One's Purpose?
That's what I thought. I'm like, what kind of a name is that? But in 2015, 2014, I was spending time with God, journaling, and the name One's Purpose kept coming. And I'm like, okay, yeah, every one person has a purpose. How do we motivate, inspire, and encourage people to live out their purpose? Well, what is the purpose of life? All these things. And I'm like, okay. So I thought it was gonna be a cute store where I could encourage and motivate people. And, you know, do hoodies and shirts and things like that and get the money and donate it to somebody doing something. Right. Well, then got out a different plan.
Oh, no.
I mean, oh, yes. My daughter and I got to my daughter was 14 at the time. We got to go through an experience with a level three sex offender. Oh, boy. Who I didn't know was a level three sex offender trafficking 11 to 14 year olds. in washington oregon california and texas yeah and his mom was in on it wow so um business that's terrible yes it was a whole you know i knew him two years of grooming All the things, right, where you just don't expect it. And luckily, he was arrested one night on the way to my house. And I'm like, being arrested for what? You got pulled over. Like, how is it that serious? And that's when I found out that he was a level three sex offender and all these things. And I instantly was sick, started throwing up.
I'm like, oh, my gosh.
Talk about how you fell into that dark void without even knowing, without even realizing for folks that are listening so they can start recognizing the red flags right away.
And remember, this person knew me for a good two years, so they knew all my insecurities, the trauma, all the ways to weasel in. But just being aware of, you know, where are you lacking, where are you void, you know, and having not a person fill those, but having a purpose, having a relationship with God and knowing, you know, when something sounds too good to be true. Right. It probably is. It probably is. Or when your daughter is like, there's something weird, mom. I don't like him. I'm like, oh, what do you mean? He's so nice. Because to me, he was like Mr. Romeo. And behind my back, he was doing things with my daughter I didn't know about.
Sure.
So don't be too trusting.
Trust your gut. Yeah, definitely trust your gut. Trust your intuition, especially for a mama bear that's just awoken and you're fighting the good fight here.
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