Beyond Your Limits

EP 30: Effectively Combatting Human Trafficking, with Navy SEAL Mike "Fulli" Fullilove

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Retired U.S. Navy SEAL Senior Chief Michael “Fulli” Fullilove is the Operations Director of DeliverFund, a non-profit dedicated to the elimination of human trafficking. Fulli has 20 years of experience operating as a SEAL across multiple SEAL Teams. He led cross functional teams conducting complex special operations throughout the Middle East. He has worked in a variety of project and program management positions working across cultures to achieve operational goals, and spent five years at a Naval Special Warfare command where he was responsible for combining multi-intelligence disciplines with special operations expertise to defeat hostile networks. | Over the course of his career Mike deployed 3 times to Iraq, twice to Afghanistan, and once to Kosovo, in addition to numerous other locations. He is the recipient of the Bronze Star Medal with Valor, The Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and numerous specific commendation medals. During his deployments, he worked with senior level foreign government leadership and focused on countering violent extremist organizations, human and physical infrastructure development for operational purposes, and personnel recovery. Following retirement, he provided operational consultant services to military, government and faith-based clients.

4:17 I'm going to introduce our topic today of human trafficking with an expert in the field and a current active champion in the field of human trafficking.

6:05 I went back to the teams where I was part of a unit specialized in targeting and operations and Intelligence Fusion. And really what we're doing was focusing on violent extremist networks, and really trying to take a network approach as opposed to playing whack a mole, which, up to that point, you know, the military is very good, you kill one bomb maker, and the next one builds plays.

10:58 Traffickers only look at their victims as commodities, they are not viewed as humans, they are not viewed as viable beings with a life of soul or anything else, they are simply a can of soup.

16:21 And it's something that I think is alarming for a lot of people because you never see it. You never touch it, you never feel it. You never actually see it. And if you see it, you don't know what you're even looking at.

44:06 That's a really really important point that goes to Stephen Covey's circles of influence in circles of concern today most people on social are focused on their in their circle of concern, like Oh, I'm really interested in this topic and they waste their time learning about stuff they literally can have no effect on

46:11 hey, that little piece, right? You make it better. And frankly, that's the that should be the goal, to leave things a little bit better than the way you found it.