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Character in a Digital World: The Talk Every Teen Needs
The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised. In a globally connected world where teenagers talk to chatbots, build friendships with strangers they’ll never meet, and live inside a digital universe of 5.5 billion people, one truth rises above all others:...
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Parents: These 5 Sextortion Facts Could Save Your Son’s Life (P3 Kids Podcast)
The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised. Sextortion has changed and parents need to know. Today’s cases almost always aren’t about teens harassing teens or isolated predators seeking victims. It is estimated that more than 70% of online exploitation…
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The Parenting Episode Every Family Needs in 2026
The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised. If you think your child is safe because they’re in your home… think again! Criminals from across the world can reach them instantly through the device you probably bought for them. Let’s candidly talk about the…
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On the Frontlines of Digital Warfare – Are Your Kids Safe?
The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised.Financial sextortion is not the “online danger” our kids grew up hearing about. It is a new, global, industrial scale crime and many young males across the U.S. are already being targeted. Most families have never…
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Financial Sextortion... Part 2 - Two Words That Can Change a Family Forever (P3 Kids Podcast)
The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised. The hideous tragedy of financial sextortion is that many THINK they know about it. The reality is that sextortion has changed dramatically in the past couple of years because of artificial intelligence and global...
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Financial Sextortion: Two Words That Can Change a Family Forever (P3 Kids Podcast)
The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised. The tragedy is this: parents may THINK their kids understandsextortion. Ask a teen and they’ll insist, “I know, Mom/Dad. I’m careful. I only talk to people I know, who know me, or who know afriend.” But that...
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Choices: In a World Shaped, and Sometimes Distorted, by Artificial Intelligence – P3 Kids Podcast
The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised. Every parent knows the goal: To raise a child who can make good (even great) choices. But today’s digital world isn’t the neighborhood we grew up in. It’s a maze of AI‑generated identities, animated avatars…
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Nudes Online – It’s a Trap! Talk to Your Teen About Sextortion (P3 Kids Podcast)
The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listenerdiscretion is advised. This may be the most important digital‑safetyconversation you may ever have with your teenager. Artificial intelligence and global internet access havecompletely changed sexting, online relationships, and the risks...
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When Love is a Lie: Falling for a Romance Scam (P3Kids Podcast)
The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised. Every year, thousands of Americans fall in love online and some lose everything. In 2025 alone, the FBI reported over $1.3 billion stolen through online romance scams, most targeting women ages 40 to 69. These…
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Why Some Kids Get Exploited: How Self-Worth Can Help Protect Them (P3Kids Podcast)
The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised. Today’s kids are growing up in a world where animation, AI, fantasy, and endless digital stimulation shape their emotions long before they understand what those feelings mean. Many very young children now receive…
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‘It Won’t Happen to Me’: Breaking Through the Denial About Online Exploitation (P3 Kids Podcast)
The podcast content may contain sensitive topics.Listener discretion is advised. Online exploitation of minors isn’t just rising; it may bethe fastest‑growing crime on the planet. In 2025 alone, the NCMEC CyberTipline processed over 21.5 million reports of potential online exploitation. That’s…
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The Power of Inclusion – Radicalizing Teens Online (P3 Kids Podcast)
The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised. When the nation woke up to breaking news about a 19‑year‑old from Ohio allegedly plotting an attack on the UFC Freedom event in Washington, D.C., most people saw a headline. But behind that headline was a terrified...
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I Believe in You — Talking to Your Teen About Digital Choices Shaping Their Future (P3 Kids Podcast)
On this episode of the Protect & Prevent Podcast (P3 Kids), Opal Singleton Hendershot of MillionKids.org, one of the leading voices in keeping kids safe from predators, looks at the most important conversation you can have with your teen and what to say. You are holding one of the most powerful...
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Capacity: With Over 5 Billion People Online is Your Child Ready? P3Kids Podcast
The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised. CAPACITY. It’s the single most important and often most overlooked factor in protecting children from online exploitation. Parents often ask, “What age is safe for a child to be online?” But age isn’t the real...
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FINANCIAL SEXTORTION: Words Every Parent Should Know
Financial Sextortion: Words Every Parent Should Know (and Never Have to Deal With) The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised. Financial sextortion is not a “rare online scam.” It is a heart‑breaking, fast‑growing crime that has already stolen the lives of…
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How to Recognize if You, or Your Child, are Being Groomed Online - P3 Kids
The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised. About 40% of relationships now begin online. Many turn into beautiful, healthy, lifelong partnerships. On this episode of the Protect & Prevent Podcast (P3 Kids), Opal Singleton Hendershot of MillionKids.org, one of...
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What every parent needs to know about CSAM (Child Sex Abuse Materials)
The podcast content may contain sensitive topics.Listener discretion is advised. A story broke recently that should shake every parent totheir core. In Southern California, the Riverside County Child Exploitation Team identified 500 suspects and arrested 42 individuals in a massive...
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An Important Discussion With Your Son: Financial Sextortion
The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised. We’re suggesting a different kind of conversation about social media — one that goes beyond rules, restrictions, and arguments about screen time. For years, families have wrestled with what to allow, what to block,...
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Runaway Reality: What Parents (and Teens) Need to Know
The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised. For more than a decade, Million Kids has carried a mission that no family ever wants to need. It is the Million Kids Missing Kids program. It began with heartbreaking conversations:parents sitting across from us,...
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Talking to Teens About Healthy versus Unhealthy and Dangerous Online Relationships
THE WORLD HAS SHIFTED… Have you noticed? And whether we’ve noticed or not, our kids are alreadyliving in a new reality. Today, 5.5 billion people are online. Nearly all of themhave access to the same powerful tools your family does including 5G speed, global money transfer, geolocation tracking,...
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A Conversation Every Mom Must Have: How Self‑Worth Protects Our Daughters
(The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listenerdiscretion is advised.) This week, our team dug into two recent cases of sextrafficking involving young girls and women. These cases were so brutal and heartbreaking they make you stop in your tracks. As we read and analyzed them, one...
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Are Our Kids Really Being Targeted Through Digital Warfare?
(The podcast content may contain sensitive topics.Listener discretion is advised.) How serious is it? Are terrorists, pedophiles and extremistsactually targeting our kids? The short answer: Yes! The tactics are far more sophisticated than most families realize. On this episode of the Protect &...
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Vanished: The Connection Between Missing Minors and Sex Trafficking
(The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listenerdiscretion is advised.) Every day in America, kids disappear and for too many ofthem, the danger begins the moment they walk out the door. Missing and runaway minors are among the highest at risk victims of sex trafficking, and the…
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Is There Such a Thing as Digital Morality?
(The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised.) What about digital empathy, digital ethics, or even digital reputation? These questions matter more than ever,because many teens genuinely believe the online world operates by different rules. I once had a group…
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The Voice Inside: Building Self‑Esteem That Predators Can’t Break
(The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised.) Why do some seem to kids walk through life with confidence making solid choices, trusting their instincts, and resisting pressure while others feel defeated, insecure, or easily pulled into risky situations? After...
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The Illusion of Knowing: Why Your Kids Trust Strangers Online
The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised. Do you actually know what the internet says about you? More importantly do your kids? Most young people are under the illusionthey can “spot a predator.” They’ll roll their eyes and insist, “I’d know if someone was...
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The "Friend of a Friend" Trick Used by Predators
Five very dangerous words being used by predators to trap kids online. And most kids would say: “It won’t happen to me.” Almost every teen will tell you they can “spot a predator.” They’re confident they’ll recognize danger, avoid blackmail, and outsmart anyone tryingto sextort them. And most of...
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Protect & Prevent - Do you know these terms and why they matter to your child's online safety?
Most parents have never heard of many of them but predators, cartels, and global scam networks use them every single day to target kids. If you don’t know what they mean, your child is already at adisadvantage. FINANCIAL SEXTORTION: The fastest‑growingonline crime against minors — run by...
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Protect & Prevent - Why It is Called "Digital Warfare"
Most people have heard the word “sextortion.” Almost no one understands how radically, and dangerously,it has evolved. Parents are still relying on advice from five, ten, evenfifteen years ago… while predators have upgraded to AI‑driventactics, global money‑transfer systems, geolocationtools, and...
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Protect & Prevent - Part 2 Healthy children and recognizing dangerous online behaviors
The podcast may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised. Countless kids regularly unwrap their very first phone, tablet, or gaming device and in an instant, they step into a digital world most parents never had to navigate at their age.For many families, this is the first time...
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Protect & Prevent - Creating healthy relationships with your child while recognizing online dangers
The podcast content may contain sensitive topics. Listenerdiscretion is advised. This holiday season, millions of kids unwrapped their veryfirst phone, tablet, or online device. And with that gift came something far bigger than mostparents realize: instant access to a world of 5.5 billion people...
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Protect & Prevent - If you could have a conversation to save a teen's life, would you do it?
The podcast contains sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised. In just the past few years, more than 40 young people, mostly boys ages 13–17, have taken their own lives after becoming victims of financial sextortion. They were not reckless kids. They were victims.Many were some of the…
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Protect & Prevent - Project Never Again: Defeat Sextortion with Education
(The podcast may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised.) What if the bad news you don’twant to hear is the very thing that could save a young person’s life? Would you listen, really listen, during the time it takes to learn? What if one fact… one warning… one moment of…
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Protect & Prevent - NEVER AGAIN Should We Lose Another Child to Sextortion
(The podcast may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised.) This is a very important podcast and one that every parent, teacher, coach, and faith-based leader should hear. Yes. It happened again. In November, a West Virginia 15-year old teen boy took his own life after becoming…
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Protect & Prevent - A Unique Conversation with Your Kids About Life and Social Media
(The podcast may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised.) None of us chose the time, place, or circumstances we were born into and yet we spend our entire lives navigating the ripple effects of those beginnings. And while we rarely control when our story ends, we do have power...
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Protect & Prevent - The Numbers are Staggering As Online Crimes Against Children Rises
(The podcast may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised.)For more than fifteen years, I have spent my life combating child sex crimes, especially online exploitation of minors. People say, it is all so negative. Nobody really wants to hear about it, and even more people seem to...
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Protect and Prevent - Part 2: Talking with Your Teens About Global Online Tech
The podcast may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised.Part 2 - Many times parents find it difficult to talk with their teen about the risks of online communication. The teen is often defensive (fearing they may lose access to their device). Or they may meet you with "Oh…
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Protect & Prevent - Part 1: Talking to your Teen About Online Global Technology
(The podcast may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised.) Many times parents find it difficult to talk with their teen about the risks of online communication. The teen is often defensive (fearing they may lose access to their device). Or they may meet you with "Oh Mom/Dad, I…
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Protect & Prevent - Part 3: What you need to know about Teens, Character AI and Chatbots
(The podcast may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised.) **IF YOU KNOW A TEENAGER WHO IS USING CHARACTER AI OR OTHER CHARACTER BASED CHAT BOT AND YOU HAVE NOT USED IT – YOU MUST HEAR THIS PODCAST** Multiple research reports indicate that more than HALF of U.S. teenagers use...
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Protect & Prevent - Part 2: What you need to know about Teens, Character AI and Chatbots
(The podcast may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised.) Character AI and other character based interactive chat bots are now a way of life for many teenagers. Yet, few adults have any working knowledge of these technologies and even more concerning the negative impact they can...
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Protect & Prevent - What you need to know about teens, Character AI & Chatbots
(The podcast may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised.) This is the first installment in a critical new series exploring the rise of AI chatbots among teens — with a spotlight on a recent research study conducted by Heat Initiative and ParentsTogether Action. We are deeply...
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Protect & Prevent - Sex Trafficking Ring on Figueroa in L.A. Taken Down by Feds (Part 2)
*The podcast may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised. This podcast is part 2 of a two part series. Operation Broken Blade In August 2025, the U.S. Federal Government agencies including DOJ, FBI, and IRS joined with the Los Angeles Police Department to arrest 11 members of the...
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Protect & Prevent - Sex Trafficking Ring on Figueroa Corridor n L.A. Taken Down by Feds Part 1
*The podcast may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised.This podcast is a two part series. In August 2025, the U.S. Federal Government agencies including DOJ, FBI, and IRS joined with the Los Angeles Police Department to arrest 11 members of the Hoover Criminal Street Gang for…
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Protect & Prevent - Creating Christian Leadership for Teenagers Living in a Globally Connected World
We may be living in THE most important time in all ofhistory. Especially if you are a pastor,or Christian leader working with youth. Why? Because in 2022 the entire worldwas connected by 5G high speed internet at the same time as new technologieswere introduced including AI, geo location…
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Protect & Prevent - Should Schools Be Allowed to Monitor Students' School Accounts or Devices Social Media Interactions?
This past week we saw a story in the Associated Press with an interesting headline. “Students have been arrested for false alarms from AI surveillance." The story relates an interesting situation. It seems a 13-year-old girl made an offensive joke while chatting online with her classmates, which...
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Protect & Prevent - What You Need to Know About Scam Farms if You Meet Someone Online
Romance Scams have created more than $105 BILLION dollars in losses for the year ending 2024. Almost every victim of a romance scam would have sworn that it would not happen to them. Most people think they will know if they are being taken in by someone they have never met. What few of us realize...
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Protect & Prevent - The Role of Schools in Combatting the Financial Sextortion of Teens
The following may contain sensitive topics, listener discretion is advised. For the past few years, the Million Kids Team has explored the challenges related to global financial sextortion of our kids. It is truly a pandemic with many victims and many kids who pay the ultimate price. One of the...
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Protect & Prevent - What the heck is a "nudify" app and why should you care?
In August 2024, the Million Kids research team came across an article that discussed a case where five 8th grade boys in a Beverly Hills Middle School were expelled for creating and sharing deep fake nude photos of female classmates. In this situation, the students accessed “nudify” apps and used...
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Protect & Prevent - Connection Between Global Scam Farms & Violent Sextortion of U.S. Teens
Warning: This podcast explores subjects that may be sensitive to some. If you or someone you know is in crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (US) or a local mental health professional. This podcast looks at how people in developing countries, access, groom and exploit U.S. teenagers...
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Protect & Prevent - An Overview of Financial Sextortion and the Link to Teen Suicide
Warning: This podcast explores the impact of suicide in the context of financial sextortion. If you are experiencing thoughts of self-harm, we encourage you to seek help—support is available. If you or someone you know is in crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (US) or a local mental...
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