Live, Lift, Love Podcast

In this episode, I'm joined by Sequoia Rhian (they/them), an actor, model, and coowner of Young Statements, a brand focused on reducing the number of children who are sexually and physically abused by highlighting the importance of consent. We start our conversation discussing Sequoia's life pre-COVID, including breaking through successfully as an actor, and their newly found success in being a hand model. From there, we begin our main discussion on the Young Statements brand and its inception. Sequoia shares the transition from initially selling cat toys with their business partner, to shifting into a new business model focused on teaching the importance of consent to both children and adults while empowering children. Sequoia shares their childhood experience of being physically and sexually abused as a child, finding out their father was a registered sex offender, taking the first step in speaking up, feeling alone and disconnected, and having church as a support system through the trauma. We talk abou