Episode 34 Healing & Hope with Annie Lobert & Oz Fox

In this episode, John talks with Annie Lobert and Oz Fox. Annie is the founder and CEO of Hookers for Jesus and Oz is the lead guitarist for Stryper. Annie discusses the harmful effects of prostitution, sex trafficking, and sexual exploitation linked to pornography and the sex industry and what they're doing to help bring these ladies out of it. "We help women who have been negatively affected by the sex industry find hope, healing, and full restoration." Here's a sampling of what this episode offers … [01:30] - Annie's background and upbringing. [05:34] - How Annie & Oz met. [08:29] - What led Annie to become a sex worker. [09:45] - How Annie picked the name Hookers for Jesus for the organization. [12:43] - Reasons why people become sex workers. [13:30] - Physiological and psychological reasons for trauma. [16:30] - How Annie became a sex worker. [26:30] - Freedom from addiction and trauma. [27:45] - How Hookers for Jesus is helping women. [30:57] - Oz exemplifies what it means to be a husband. [34:52] - "The Pink Chair" [39:23] - Seeking the possible solution in all things. [41:23] - What Christians misunderstand about sex workers. [44:54] - Porn addiction generally precedes going to strip clubs and hiring prostitutes. QUOTES: "It's called complex trauma and that's where the person has been victimized over and over and over from childhood or from teenage years or when they first started getting trafficked and they never could escape the victimization." "Your brain has something called the amygdala. It's like the heart of your brain. It's the shape of an almond. And it's, it's probably the size, maybe of an egg, maybe a little smaller, but when you have a lot of trauma, it gets enlarged and it pushes out cortisol." "I believe that God has designed in our DNA to have a father, to have a mother. And if that's imbalanced in any shape or form, we don't. We don't actually have our emotions balanced because our households are out of order, right. Households out of order. And so our brain can't form in a stable, structured manner.." "As I got older, I started acting out, like I became oversexualized and that's very common with any type of disciplinary type of upbringing and sexual abuse." "We are helping rescue all these beautiful souls from the depths and the hooks and the abuses of the traffickers." "We have trauma therapy, we have horse therapy. They learn how to cook, they have their own personal trainers, they have group therapy. The girls have a choice if they want to come to church or stay home and read a book or watch a movie - they can do that. But our whole program is holistic in healing." "I just assist in whatever way I can. A lot of it, in the time I've been married to Annie, has been as being an example of a husband that loves his wife and would die for her." USEFUL RESOURCES https://hookersforjesus.net  https://tinyurl.com/FallenBook  https://www.facebook.com/annielaurielobert  https://www.facebook.com/ozfox  https://www.facebook.com/hookersforjesus  https://www.instagram.com/annielobert/  https://www.instagram.com/sirozfox/  https://www.instagram.com/hookersforjesus/  https://twitter.com/annielobert  https://twitter.com/SirOzFox  https://twitter.com/hookersforjesus  CONNECT WITH JOHN Website - https://thejohnhulen.com  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/johnhulen  Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/johnhulen  Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/johnhulen  LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhulen  EPISODE CREDITS Intro music provided by Tony Palacios - https://www.instagram.com/tonytonedog/ Outro music provided by Jeff Scheetz - https://jeffscheetz.com/