Every Tiny Revival Purchase Stops Labor Abuse, Restores Victim’s Dignity - Lauren Holland

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Sex trafficking awareness efforts in March are strongly connected to the surge in demand

for commercial sex that coincides with major sporting events, particularly the NCAA March

Madness basketball tournament.

Advocacy groups use this time to target the increased, often hidden trafficking activities

surrounding these events, with campaigns designed to educate the public, law enforcement

and potential buyers, thank you in advance for keeping your eyes open and talking to people

in your sphere of influence about this horrific monstrosity, human trafficking.

A woman on a mission and dear friend and sponsor of our program that we highly respect will

be sharing about her ministry and how she is able to help rescue sex trafficked victims.

Let's join forces with this God-given mission.

Lauren Holland is a wife, mom of soon-to-be-four, and FIDM trained designer with over 15 years

of experience in the fashion industry.

When she learned the truth about human trafficking early in her career, she felt the deep conviction

that once she knew she was responsible.

A calling that led her overseas to work with women and children who were rescued from trafficking

and helped launch an ethical garment manufacturing company together.

That same conviction inspired her to create tiny revival, a faith-based children's brand

where she brings Bible stories to life through ethically-made, hand-painted clothing

that helps support the fight against trafficking and get the conversation started.

You guys are going to love this woman.

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I'm your host Tina Griffin, theme of this week.

And this is the home run episode is on the urgent topic of sex trafficking.

I'm with Lauren Holland, founder of Tiny Revival Clothing.

Lauren, long time no see. How you doing, sister?

Hey, long time.

So about 48 hours ago, I had you stomping the ground over at the National Religious Broadcasters

event. I remember your face when I first saw you at the exhibit hall for the first time.

You got that flight a week before the event coming from another full week of fashion.

I think in Atlanta and your face was like this when you saw me.

During the headlights.

What do I do? Where do I go?

And it was so fun. Just literally stomping on the show floor and meeting a bunch of booze.

Typically, I'm doing a bunch of interviews, but I couldn't find you half a time because

whoever grabbed in your arm left and right to get you on their programs,

you have a phenomenal story to tell.

You design and oversee every aspect of Tiny Revival from the hand painted artwork,

story driven collections to production, ethical manufacturing partnerships, marketing,

overall brand mission, and your several months pregnant with kid number four.

Yep. Is that all I do?

How are you doing all this?

Um, the Lord.

Oh my gosh.

Episode done. Everybody go to Tiny Revival and use Colatina to check out.

Girl, you blew my mind when we first started talking a couple of months ago,

as right before Christmas.

Everybody out there, if you want to hear the foundation of how she started this ministry,

her whole history of being in the fashion industry and Hollywood, New York,

just everything tied together and how God pulled her away from that and then brought it back to her

tenfold in his way, his timing, helping rescue sex traffic victims.

You got to go to counterculturemom.com, click on the show tab, search for Lauren and you will come

across her phenomenal episode and people responded massive to that episode with cleaning you out

basically on Tiny Revival website. So we got to go there again, revival.com.

But today we're going to talk about the why you do what you do, which is to help rescue

and bring awareness to sex traffic victims. So I'm done talking. It's all about you, my first

critical question. You've worked inside the global garment industry for a lot of years.

What are the hidden ways exploitation can exist in supply chains and why is ethical production so

critical in preventing trafficking? Yeah, so one of the other areas besides sex trafficking and even

coincides with sex trafficking because human trafficking is a whole conglomerate of activity,

is the labor trafficking that's happening in the garment industry specifically.

And that's one of the things that kind of people don't really think about that too much

with when you're purchasing products or when you're seeing things. And there can be a lot of

things going on as far as the global demand for super cheap clothing and for so much of it with

like fast fashion and rapid production demand on the facilities. Yes. We'll create this

excessive over time with holding of wages where they're actually holding their, you know,

whether it's their their identification paperwork or things like that locked doors, no breaks,

no food, no water. They have to be sleeping in the facilities. My word. And then of course,

there's like the whole child trafficking aspect of it as well. So I'm new to this corruption. I

have heard a little bit over the years, but I haven't walked where you walked or saw what you saw

and you saw this firsthand, which obviously God within three seconds tugged your heartstrings and

told you, here's what I want you to help expose through the fashion line. But you're doing it as

like a fist to say and say and take this. And I love that aspect of what you're doing because

people love having conversations over your garments. But when you're walking the the floor and

seeing all this go down, are you saying that even the workers besides the little to no wages

sleeping at the facilities, you were talking in the first episode back in November, December,

about how a lot of these garment factories would burn down to the ground people that were

killed as a result because of the poor conditions of even how they make the clothing pennies on

the dollar. And then of course, these different clothing companies are making bank on selling something

by marking it up really high. They have you seen where these workers are also trafficked like

sexually or abused as well physically because of the conditions that they're in. And if they have

been, tell us more about that. So within these factories, you have mainly men that are in control

over them. And one of the biggest ways that they force and coerce the workers to continue working

is by not only threatening their families, but they'll also do bodily harm to them as well.

So whether that's sexually or just physical abuse, I've kind of seen the whole gamut

of that force and coercion part of trafficking in the garment industry as well.

Unreal. So and you've been all over the globe doing this with Tiny Revival, the beautiful clothing

that God gave you ideas for creative ideas. You would then get them hand painted. It's just

phenomenal. My question with all the collections that you have at tinyrevival.com, a proceeds from

every sale goes back to sex trafficking victims to help get them freed, to get them back on their

feet, to get them employed and have great consistent employment and safe conditions. Have you

been able to get workers in those poor, horrific sex traffic conditions into factories that are

making your clothing where they're in a safe environment? Yeah. So part of the work that I

did when I started the ethical garment manufacturing company was specifically to provide a place

for employment for those that were at risk or being rescued out of trafficking. And one of the

things that I saw when I was working overseas with them is that you begin to return the dignity

back to a person when you give them a safe environment, security. When you start treating them

with respect, it helps restore their identity and gives them something to work towards that gives

them hope. And so it was really great to be able to see these women in these safe working conditions

really let their guard down and start being able to work through their trauma and be able to

start being proud of what they were doing and find that dignity back. That's so phenomenal.

Have you been able to witness the people share your faith? Are they are able to get connected

with local churches all because of what God had you do with this tiny revival clothing company?

Yeah. And part of the different manufacturers that I work with, I'm sure really that they also

have outside programs going on. The one that I worked with specifically when I lived overseas,

they did connect with different Bible studies and things like that. The one that we're currently

working with, they do a gamut of different classes and provide different things to the workers,

whether that's teaching about finances, health, hygiene, child providing childcare, just different

ways that they can come alongside and support in addition to employment.

I love what you do, girl, because this is something that you are passionate about fashion.

You're passionate about having people know who Jesus is. You love children. You love design

and being creative. You love helping others. You like and love and are passionate about

rescuing people that are in need and need the Lord. And God gave you such a unique ministry

with all of those things wrapped up into a perfect package where your job isn't even a job.

It's a mission of vision. And I bet you're like me where you wish you could skip sleep at night.

And then some days maybe. But I just, you are a living testimony to anybody out there listening

or watching right now thinking, I am really good at this or I'm really good at that or I really

want to do that someday. But how is that serving God when I really want to be used by God? God

gave Lauren the mission of vision through fashion. It doesn't have to be the fake glitz and glamour

that Hollywood and New York has sold for the last how many decades. Making you think that in order

for you to do anything fashion, you had to sell your soul to the industry and sell your soul to Satan.

You do not. Lauren's a perfect example of that. We're going to do a short commercial break when we

come back. How we can support Lauren. Grab her cue to tire. Get the conversation started through

our children, babies, teens, toddlers, everybody wearing her goods. And the people will say, oh my gosh,

where did you get this? And you can share with them tiny revival dot com code Tina at check out for

10% off of any order ever from here on out till the rapture happens. And then you can share with

them the phenomenal story behind why Lauren does what she does through the cute little tire on your

children that it goes to rescue sex traffic victims. More with Lauren right after this.

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Lauren, we are back. A lot of people think or say this out loud to other people.

Trafficking. Too big of a fight. How can we even combat it? Where do I get started? How do

we even know people are being trafficked? And so they don't do anything and they stay on the bench

or they live in fear. We can't. God is absolutely making it clear right now and He will hold us

accountable someday on. You knew trafficking was happening. What did you do to help stop it?

So there is something we can do. How can everyday purchasing decisions, even in our clothing,

actually reduce demand for exploitative labor? So I totally get it because when I first learned

about the issue, I felt like, you know, the billions of dollars, what can I possibly do,

or it's often hard to relate, you know, my one purchase at this one place is that really going

to make a difference in the global economy. But market response to behavior with people.

And so it's really just about your own personal convictions. You're in your own personal

responsibility. And that's why when I felt such a personal responsibility about it, I had to do

my own part, whether or not, you know, it was big to me, small to me, like whatever it was.

And so we don't have to be perfect at it. We don't have to solve the entire global issue in a day.

But choosing fewer better items and supporting brands that are committed to ethical production,

valuing quality over quantity, that all reduces the pressure that drives exploitation in this industry.

I don't even know what to say to that. That was a mic drop moment right there.

Girl, just watching you at NRB, it was so easy to see how people were drawn to who you are because

you glow in person. Jesus shines right through you. And what's funny is, the less you say, the more

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to pray that your ministry, business blows up because families, women by most of the clothing for

our children in our home. And for us to know, we're supporting a cause like fighting sex trafficking

while we're doing the daily mundane duties with raising our children in our home. That's all I

need to know to know that yes, it matters who I support and who I give my cash to because it's

God's money. Absolutely. I want to support. Yeah. You're getting me all fired up again. Come fly

back and go get more. Girl, you often talk about dignity being restored through meaningful work.

Why is providing safe, fair employment such a powerful form of prevention and restoration?

Yeah. So I talked a little bit about that few minutes ago. Yeah.

But yeah, I think it's the fact that in these places of exploitation where they were exploited

doing work or sexually exploited, giving them a safe environment. Obviously, it's not going to

heal the trauma alone, but it gives them that it replaces their vulnerability with stability,

which brings them hope that they're going to be able to provide for their families. They're

going to be able to provide for their children. The more that they also have a safe economic

opportunity, they're far less vulnerable to exploitation again or in the first place.

Absolutely correct. And an evening is it stops that generational curse of now their children will not

also be in that horrific work environment that like slave driving in more than one way. I never

knew it was that bad until I met you with the corruption of the fashion garment industry. You

also read it off a couple of companies that pay these people pennies on the dollar and rip off

customers that we don't know about that. Honestly, some of them, I know so many people that buy

from these different websites. Yeah. I mean, it all comes down to the fact of like being aware when

you're making a purchase that if something, if you're buying a shirt for three dollars,

like just put some thought into that. Like, what did it actually take someone to make that three

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business owner, how do you help families teach your children about compassion, justice,

and valuing human life in age-appropriate ways? Obviously with them wearing your goods.

Yeah, so for me and my kids, what I do is, you know, I teach them to value people over

possessions. And so I don't think we need to introduce our children to the idea of human

trafficking. I think we should protect our children from sexual issues. But modeling empathy at

home, whether that's just being kind to people on the street, having generosity to the, you know,

homeless person on the corner, my son does not let me drive past one without pulling over and

giving them a dollar. But people that see children that grow up seeing that modeled in their home

develop a natural sense of justice and compassion. And it becomes something about who they are,

not just something they have to learn later. And I think with tiny revival and what I wanted to

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where their heart is. And having these pajamas as a way to start the conversation of, you know,

you may not feel very hopeful right now, but God has these promises and he's always faithful.

And you can start those from the clothing that they're wearing. It just provides such a beautiful

opportunity to create that environment where children are hearing and speaking truths over themselves.

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And the neat thing I love about what you have, girl, even adults can grab your goods. Like I want to

be in that. You can't tell me that person would not literally sleep better at night wearing these

cute, flowered pajamas. Are you kidding me? They're very comfortable. Yeah. And you've got a lot of

great story behind what you do. Ways that people can give back. Tell us about your Easter line. How

can we get it? Where can we go? And what's new? Yeah, so I'm really excited about the Easter stuff

because not only do we have the sleepwear, but we also have a few day wear options for boys and girls,

which is perfect for them to wear for Easter, but also throughout the whole rest of the year.

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