<p>In this bonus episode of <em>Fracture to Flourish</em>, host Bryce Butler shares an extended conversation with John Richmond, an attorney who has spent more than twenty-five years working at the intersection of prosecution, policy, and survivor care in the fight against human trafficking.</p><p>Every system tells a story about the people inside it, and some of those stories are harder to see from the outside. In Season Two, John&#39;s voice helped shape the larger conversation about what connects foster care instability to trafficking vulnerability: the isolation, the unmet need, the way certain systems create the exact conditions that exploitation requires. But there was more to that conversation than what made it into the season.</p><p>In this bonus episode, John reflects more fully on how he came to understand trafficking not as an inevitable byproduct of poverty, but as a choice, one that can be interrupted. He walks through what the grooming process actually looks like, why victims sometimes defend their traffickers, and what twenty-five years of this work has taught him about where real change comes from. His answer to that last question isn&#39;t about policy. It&#39;s about survivors.</p><p>It&#39;s a conversation about the economics of a system built on exploitation, and about what becomes possible when people decide to stop treating harm as something that just happens.</p>