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Meet the Women Who Left the Sex Industry to Make a Difference
Verily Magazine ^ | 2024 | Jacklyn Gilmor

Posted on 05/19/2025 12:58:45 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

“That's a hard transition,” Harmony Dust, the founder and executive director of Treasures, told Verily in a phone interview. Treasures is a survivor-led charity that helps women transition out of the sex industry and supports them in rebuilding their lives by offering support groups, emergency financial-relief, and life-skills coaching…

One evening in 2003, she found herself sitting in her car across the street from the club she’d recently quit, feeling like she was looking at a prison that had once trapped her. She found a stack of cards in her console offering a Bible verse from Proverbs 31: “Her value is far above rubies and pearls.” The verse struck a chord in her heart, and she wanted to reach out to her former coworkers who might be feeling as trapped as she once had. She began crafting hand-written notes on the backs of the cards and leaving them for the women to find:

“You are loved. You are valued. You are purposed. And support is available when you are ready!”

Meet Brittni De La Mora

In 2011, Complex listed De La Mora among the 100 Hottest Porn Stars, and in 2012, Maxim magazine named her one of the top 12.

It was December 2012, and for the past three years, her earnings had gone to her pimp. De La Mora needed to pay her rent, so she found a gig in Las Vegas. On the flight, she was reading her Bible and came across a passage in the Book of Revelation that describes a woman named Jezebel who leads people into sexual sin…

De La Mora had an epiphany. “The Holy Spirit just said,

‘Brittni, this isn't the life that I have for you. The life that I have for you will overflow with so much love, peace, and joy.’…”

(Excerpt) Read more at verilymag.com ...


TOPICS: Ministry/Outreach
KEYWORDS: ministry; redemption; sarahpalin; sex; trafficking

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1 posted on 05/19/2025 12:58:45 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Hard Transition. Interesting choice of words.


2 posted on 05/19/2025 1:04:18 PM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Adrianna Checknik (sp ?) - a former pornn star and then a “twix influencer” broke her back jumping at a performance. At the hospital, while they were trying to save her backbone and nerves, she lost her baby.

Nasty business.


3 posted on 05/19/2025 1:08:36 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Left the sex industry? What a Clown show.


4 posted on 05/19/2025 1:09:49 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The founder of this self help/ recovery group, Harmony Dust, is helping a lot of women decide how to leave that life.
That being said, Ms Dust may want to consider a name change.
The other name sounding just right for an ‘Exotic Dancer’.
We are not supposed to profile, but people do gain a first impression of you by your appearance and your name.


5 posted on 05/19/2025 1:17:34 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Robert A Cook PE

It’s Adriana Chechik. I hear she’s a very talented “actress.”


6 posted on 05/19/2025 1:35:07 PM PDT by samkatz
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Everyone should leave that industry.


7 posted on 05/19/2025 1:45:55 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

““That’s a hard transition,” “

Snicker... starting off the story with a bang.


8 posted on 05/19/2025 2:09:45 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...Low IQ morons also have t)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

TTIWWP


9 posted on 05/19/2025 2:15:59 PM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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To: bigbob

Afraid to Google their names... :-)


10 posted on 05/19/2025 2:48:13 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.

Jesus paid it all.


11 posted on 05/19/2025 3:08:31 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“Meet Brittni De La Mora”

i just INTIMATELY met her on google image search..


12 posted on 05/19/2025 3:15:23 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: ConservativeMind

Everyone should stop consuming it.


13 posted on 05/19/2025 3:16:55 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“Sex industry” is a stupid term. Why can’t they use “prostitution”?


14 posted on 05/19/2025 4:16:24 PM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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To: mowowie; Hatteras; bigbob; Bigg Red


15 posted on 05/19/2025 6:20:55 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: lee martell

Harmony’s mother was a hippie who named her “Harmony Star”

Dust was the surname of her first husband. So then she literally became “Stardust” - Harmony Star Dust. LoL

Anyway, now she is officially Harmony Grillo.


16 posted on 05/19/2025 6:23:00 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Not that she will ever care what I think, but in my opinion, Harmony Dust still sounds a little bit sleazy.
At least her given first name was not Angel.
She would have had a married name of
“Angel Dust!”


17 posted on 05/19/2025 6:36:40 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

I remember now from reading her testimony...Harmony went by “Monique” as her stage name. Interesting how her actual name sounds more like a stage name.


18 posted on 05/19/2025 6:41:47 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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