Transcript
A (0:00)
Welcome to the proven podcast, where we don't care what you think, only what you can prove. On this episode, we talked to Paul Hutchinson, a multimillionaire who's saving children. This episode hit me hard in ways that I can't possibly explain. One of the things that I learned from this episode is that one in three children who are trafficked, assaulted or abused sleep in their own beds at night. He spent the last decade hunting down these individuals that do it. And this episode alone can save your child's life. The show starts now. All right, everybody, welcome back to the show. Paul, I'm excited to have you here.
B (0:28)
Ah, thank you, Charles. Super excited to share with you and your audience today.
A (0:32)
So for the four or five people who don't know who you are and don't know about your business success and your personal success, kind of give everybody a quick debrief. Who are you? What have you done?
B (0:42)
Well, quick background. In my early 20s, I had a very successful company that helped people overcome anxiety, depression, PTSD, addictions, childhood trauma. Sold it at 29 years old for $20 million. A lot of that went into real estate investments. I, I'm the co founder of Bridge Investment Group, John Pennington. And I built that to about 4,000 employees, about 20 billion in assets under management. I retired almost a decade ago, turned it over to a whole bunch of people that knew how to run it better than me. I'm still an owner, still a founder. It's now over 50 billion in assets under management. A whole other part of my life that is completely separate from that, but kind of in the same line is I. Years ago, I was recruited to help lead undercover child rescue missions for kids that are, are, are being trafficked in some of the most horrific places and the horrific situations you can imagine. I led undercover child rescue missions for more than 10 years. 70 missions in 15 countries and more than 7,000 children through our foundation and others that we helped to fund were rescued and returned with their families. I am the primary investor and executive producer behind a movie called the Sound of Freedom. About two and a half years ago, it came out as the number one independent film in the world. We only spent 14 million on the film, but did almost 300 million now in, in box office sales. The money is not important. What is important is more than 100 million children are now safer now because their parents have awareness. 70 million plus parents have seen that film and, and it's not only created awareness with them, but it's created a general topic of discussion wherein good people everywhere are standing up saying, no, we're not going to. We're not going to stand for anything less than full transparency with the Epstein situation. We. We need to clean this up globally. We can disagree on save the well, save the trees, whatever. We can all get together on this one thing. Children are not for sale. And what do we need to do as responsible adults to keep our own children safe and to fix this situation with kids around the world?
