Elizabeth Molina: [00:00:00] Hello, my beautiful people, I'm Elizabeth Molina and I am your beauty guru. In this podcast, I will share with you all you need to know about beauty from the inside out. You will gain access to the latest beauty trends from head to toe mind. And so you will hear from experts themselves. The trendy influencers, celebrities, athletes and of course, myself on all things beauty. This is definitely the place to be biohacking, beauty, hacking, life hacking into the why for your beauty routine. Are you ready for your global obsession? Welcome back and happy hump day. And I'm so honored that you are spending some part of your Wednesday, hopefully with us here listening to today's interview. Today's guest is AnnaLynne McCord. She's an American actress, writer, director and producer. She is known for playing the vixen vamp and roles of darker nature. McCord first gained prominence in 2007 as a seeming add lord on the effects television series Nip Tuck, which I personally loved, followed by credits on the CW and nine 00 to one 00 TNT. Dallas Stalker on CBS Foxes Jerry Bruckheimer produced pilot Lucifer, top TV's comedy Let's Get Physical and ABC's Secrets and Lies. Her turn as a disturbed and delusional teenager in the 2012 film Excision was widely acclaimed for her role in Excision. McCord won best actress at Megalo International Week, a fantastic cinema in 2012. Anna's recent film, 68 Kill, won the audience award at the ASX ACW, and her performance has been hailed strong, fierce and powerful and is currently filming in New York City on Starz 50 Cent's show produced power prequel, raising Kanon during her free time, Anna has contributed to various charities stating that working with charitable organizations and giving back has been her saving grace as it has taught her how to rescue herself. She is the founder of The Love Storm, a campaign which raises awareness for those victimized by human trafficking and sexualized violence. In 2009, Anna was awarded a U.S. congressional honor by the Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, for her anti trafficking work in 2019. AnnaLynne was nominated for the best actress at Madrid's International Film Festival for her role in the Milkshake Girls, a short film about sex trafficking. In 2014, Anna revealed that she was sexually assaulted when she was 19 by a male friend. In March of 2015, while speaking at the United Nations in support with the U.N., WFP, a McCord announced her alignment with the NFL support, aunty's sexual assault and anti domestic abuse project. The No More Campaign in 2018, while undergoing MDR in neurological treatment for PTSD, Ana has limited memories of her years of childhood abuse resurfaced. She has since become an advocate for profound treatment and the remarkable transformation to which it has led her to be as intense speaker and advocate and activist and meditation leader. And it continues to engage audiences at colleges, events and private engagements with her transformative tools and candid outlook on sexualized violence, domestic abuse, human trafficking and slavery, which touches seven billion people, as well as obviously mental slavery.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:03:32] So there is no coincidence, guys, why Anna and I came together. We were supposed to do the podcast a couple of months ago, and I had some emergencies, and she was so nice to reschedule. We rescheduled twice, I believe, and it was about working out a movement because I was just so adamant about, oh, my God, I need to release this podcast. They need to be all the ten categories and then I can do other kinds of interviews. And then I realized that was just not working out. So we started talking about trauma and we started talking about trafficking, violence, domestic violence, just all of these things that are happening that we're not really giving a voice to. So we thought that this message was stronger. And obviously we're going to talk about a lot of things. You guys have to just stay tune in here. We we had an amazing conversation and you definitely have to watch if you're able to that video portion of this so you can see our faces and see what's happening in the background and you get to see her beautiful. So I'm going to leave you guys to it and I'm going to introduce our guest. Hello. Welcome to the podcast. I'm so excited to finally get you on. How are you doing, AnnaLynne?
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:04:33] I'm good. How are you?
Elizabeth Molina: [00:04:35] I'm good. I'm excited. As you can tell you guys, this is an audio and video podcast, so you're going to be able to watch us and see all of our faces. Mine. I look a little orange today, but that's OK. And you look beautiful as always. So I want to before I like let you talk, I want to just preface this like I was so excited to get you on the podcast and. You were so gracious enough to reschedule, I had something come up and you were so sweet, you're like, it's OK, life happens, like we'll make it work. And I think it happens for a reason. Everything happens for a reason, I don't think. And that podcast would have been about working out and meditation and which is great. They're great tools. And it's part of my beauty circle where I talk about movement and, you know, and being one with your body and meditating. And I was like, it's going to be great. She's this beautiful person inside and out and she's going to talk about it. And she has experiences that have brought her here. But today, we're actually going to detour from that original concept. If you're OK with it.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:05:42] Absolutely.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:05:43] About things that are. In my humble opinion, just more important. And you know, this is going to air after the date that we're going to talk about, but it's still things are still happening around the world. So before we get to that, I just kind of want to get to know a little bit more about you. We know that you are a well-known actress like your. Your credentials are pages long. You're stunning. And you know you're pretty famous. Right. So let's get into this just a little bit. How did you get into this business? Tell us, like, how you got started into it. What made you want to become an actress?
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:06:27] Well, there's the story that I always tell when I'm asked this question. And then there's the story that perhaps is more appropriate to the shifts that we're both making and this podcast experience. I could give you the easy. I was nine years old. I dreamed of being an actress. I grew up in a trailer park, and it was never going to happen. But then I made it happen. And voila, here I am, which is lovely and sounds great and fits the stereotype of, you know, stereotypical horae Cinderella story that we all know and love. And I am grateful for all aspects of that part. But it is a story. And this thing about stories is. There are lovely things to hear and read about, but who are you really and why are you really here matters more to me. So since we're doing what matters more on this episode, I without knowing it in my nine year old conscious mind, but certainly knowing in my spirit consciousness, I had a little mission I was embarking upon at nine years old, and I thought being an actress was the way to get me there. And I'm so grateful that I wasn't wrong, because it is it created a remarkable platform for me. But the mission that I am on that I came to planet Earth to accomplish is.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:07:48] For less about the nine year old children like me that were dreaming to be an actor and more about the nine year old children like me that were experiencing sexual abuse and experiencing marginalization, experiencing poverty, I kept all the boxes. I am here on this planet now because that little nine year old inspired me to stick around. I was suicidal. I was self harming. I was depressed. I was anxious. I would not be here if it hadn't been for the deeper meaning of of why my spirit consciousness knew I was here and my nine year old self was on this nothing. Because she she had the things that she wanted me to do that I'm only now just beginning to to realize. And so I dreamed of being an actress. That was the top layer of the story. And I did. I graduated from high school at 15 years old. I was homeschooled my entire education. So I never went to a normal school. And as a result of that, I was able to take the reins and get in control of my own education and graduate early, graduated with honors, all the things that make everybody in the world go, yeah. You're doing such a great job, I think. Have so congratulations.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:09:12] Like the world's smallest violin, the the emphasis that we put on education in college and the right schools is like, I want to shoot myself in the face. Like everybody's missing all of everything while they're so focused on my child. Going to an Ivy League school like that makes me feel good about yourself in your circles at church. And I'm so glad for you. And also, wherever you find joy, please find it. So you raise the vibration of this very low vibrational frequency that's in our world right now, but also really that that's your biggest focus. How about who is your child is a human being? Do you even know? Who are they? Who? Why did they come here? Why did they come here? Who are they? Of the spirit consciousness. There's a little essence inside of that beautiful little body that you keep telling them to cut their hair and wear the right clothes and make mommy and daddy look good, because we want to talk about you in our circles. So we feel better about ourselves because we're trying to pretend like we're not getting old and. Oh, well, we are because age happened, bitches. It's like it's just I'm a maybe you caught me on a cynical moment, but I'm just like I'm so over's raw.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:10:24] There's so many people, parents, children who need to hear this because they need to hear this. This is real. This is this is how we get to higher consciousness. This is how we start letting these little people who are going to be the future,
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:10:37] The future,
Elizabeth Molina: [00:10:38] We give them a chance to really be in their true spirit without breaking them. And this is how we get a better future. So I love this, what you just explained. So tell me more. I love this nine year old girl. Like I need to be friends with her,
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:10:52] Itemise, know I've got friends in there now. I like chicken. I'm like, hey, are you in there? Can we hang out? She she was an arrogant little thing. And I am obsessed with her. People were in Brazil to me half the time. Everyone was telling me I would never make it in my dreams. My dreams would never come through all this stuff. I was just I thought everybody was was a moron. I was like, where is this confidence coming from? Zaal Um, I'm so grateful that I was a little nine year old who who had much more of her shit together than I do now. I'm thirty four, but she got me she got me through a lot. And I think it was my it was perhaps that arrogance and childlike ignorance that allowed me to believe in something that we suppressed. As we become as adults, we push down and we end and we we squelch and squeeze the lemon dry of anything that resembles dreaming or imagination or creation or all the things that make our world beautiful. And when I look at the people in our world and the people that I was surrounded with as I became an actress, I did become successful. I did make it in Hollywood. And I this is the line I literally say to everyone, I live in a town of visionaries with no vision.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:12:09] I'm dealing with something right now where I'm doing something outside the box and I get a response that's redacting everything I've written and putting it into the structure of the format of the way it's supposed to be said and done, because this is how we do it over here at this corporation or this, you know, bureaucratic establishment. And and it's like, OK, so I'm going to do a speech for your bureaucratic establishment and I'm going to say it in a way that grabs your heart and shakes you to your core and makes you feel something because you're a human being. And in so many ways, we're not. And we numb ourselves. If we're not numb enough, I'm going to make you feel in ten minutes of your day you're going to be like, wow, I didn't sit through another humdrum speech. I actually got spoken to. I was seeing and I felt that I could see this person. They were showing me themselves. I got to actually be shown up for today. No, we're going to redact all that. We're going to make you do a structured, terrible, horrible stage, which I'm still going to change. But all that you tell
Elizabeth Molina: [00:13:17] Or this is this is your night.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:13:19] This is what this is to me. Thirty four year old Annalyn channeling the nine year old Anna. Yeah, the irony is that the changing the structure to fit the inside the box for all of the people who they think need to hear this inside the box, but all of those people would much rather be at a dive bar having a beer with me, talking the way I would talk to them in my speech as I wrote it in. And it's is like this crazy, ironic thing where we walk around, we live in these circles, we wear these masks. And I don't mean COVID 19 masks. We wear masks as who we are. And and I went into an industry where I thought the masks that I was going to wear were on set in costume and hair and makeup. But what I found was that everywhere I went, you had to perform. I was performing more off camera than I ever was on camera. I was I was smiling on the red carpet that this life that everyone told me was so great and I was miserable. I was I was using sex as a vice because sexuality had been used against me. And I started to use it for myself, but it was still technically being used against me by me. You know, I was harming my own body. I was in situations where I was provoking really dangerous sexual experiences to just get a high to get a feeling, to get a dopamine hit, to feel anything at all, because I was so fucking numb.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:14:38] I mean, it just literally all of the things behind the behind the veil, behind the mirage, you know, where I was living them out. And and I got to a point at a very early point of. Life where I was over it, I wanted to quit, I call it my young life crisis, I was being offered the show and I don't, you know, and I said, no, I don't want to do this show. I don't want to be an actress anymore. I called my old acting partner in New York, who is a good friend and an incredible humanitarian. And I said, Jess, I'm done. I'm out. I don't want to live in L.A. I don't want to be in this town. I want to be in this industry. It's not what I thought it was when I was nine years old. I you know, I I'm going to move back to New York to work at Starbucks and find a new passion. And she's like, well, no, you're not, because that's stupid as fuck. She was last me because I embellish her words. She's very sweet and kind. And she would never tell me something stupid as that. But she essentially ran a very nice politically correct way, was telling me, yeah, I was this stupid, this like so. So she said, you have such a platform, you have such an opportunity with what you're about to embark on to change the lives of other individuals you've never even met.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:15:57] Are you going to give up on all of that because you don't like that people are a little bit egotistical and the only place they're egotistical is in your town. They're not eager to. So you could mystikal in New York City, you're really like the like. So some of the most elitist people in the world. So she changed her mind. We went to Cambodia where I had my entire world turned upside down. I met survivors of human trafficking and these little girls who I thought, you know, I'm going to go help some kids in another country and be such a good person. The girls changed my whole life and saved me. It was not it was completely the other way around. They saved me in a million ways. And I know that I know that this is so very personal to you. But, you know, the fun of the of survival and what that what that state creates and living in that and then surviving that and then healing from that and coming out of that, it's such an incredible journey. And I had a little six year old little girl, a little three year old little girls who are looking at me with more forgiveness and more grace and more compassion and in their short little lives that have been so, so horribly traumatized than I had and all these years of living in a free country and all the things, you know. And I was really, really impacted by that. Wow.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:17:27] I mean, I'm like, just take me on your carry on and like, let's go do something, because this just sounds like beyond life changing. But before we move and move forward, because this is what we want to talk about today, really, like this is the real conversation that needs to be heard, that needs to be spread out to millions of people so that we can make a difference. One person at a time, a voice at a time or millions at a time. Guys, it's up to you. Share this if you really want to help us with this mission. But can I know or can we know what was that straw that broke your back in? How what was that like? I'm done. I'm done.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:18:10] Yeah. Well, I'll tell you, it's ironically surrounding human trafficking, which was something that was not yet my cause. And I was on the set of a film I did called Fired Up. And it was it was such an ironic moment to happen in life. And this historic aspect of it, there was a massive writers' strike that was going on because of the switchover from the pre digital age to the digital age and who was going to get what types of percentages and all the things when when suddenly people were streaming things online and half the world's like, no one's going to watch anything streamed online. Langan's, that's so not going to be the thing. And then the other half of the world made a lot of money in the stocks because everybody watches things streamed online. But so at that point, back in 2008, I was finishing up Nip Tuck on Fox, and I watched at all times. I was going to say I was very proud of being to be on that show. That was a lot of fun. Sorry. My cat is trying to make an appearance. Hi. What would you like to do, Chloe? Because you're about to walk all over. Mommy's OK. I'm going to just pick you up. This is Chloe. I know. So Nip Tuck, we got shut down temporarily because of the writers' strike, because we ran out of scripts so the writers couldn't write any more of our scripts and continue the season.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:19:48] So in the interim, I did a film called Fired Up about like a comedy about cheerleaders and the whole thing. And I mean, I worked with some very at the time because they were 12. I hope I hope it's because they were 12. Some very vapid individuals in the in the same mall that I had been in the process. And I had met with the director and Mike, who was I was in talks about doing this film that centered around the story about human trafficking. It was an incredible film. It was so amazing. It was so well-written. It was so enthralling and action packed and entertaining while highlighting an issue that nobody in the world was talking about back then. Because when I got involved with this issue 13 years ago, no one was talking about this. They have no idea what human trafficking was. The writers strike happened. The film got canned. It got shelved. Money pulled out. So essentially it got canned. It wasn't going to be able to they weren't going to be able to complete the rewrites. So it just got shelved. And so I'm doing this movie and I'm sitting in the makeup chair and I'm hearing like, oh, my God, Gołąbek you. They didn't have parents for less than fifty thousand dollars. And my manager never let that happen. You have to, Tozzer. Oh, my God.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:21:08] Totally like totally. And I'm like, what am I doing with my life? I had this whole moment where it was just like if it was a movie, it's just like everything slows down into like slow motion. It's like, all right, well, my heart be like, oh, God, no. What have I done? I was there all my whole existence away, so. I was I was having this existential crisis. I get off of the thrown out and I was just like it wasn't even a thought. It was just like, no. Like, I I'm I'm I'm I'm fired up and I'm around kids my age. And I want to knock them out because they're literally like they thought that the other cheerleaders thought that we were actually really at war with each other. And I was like, okay, well, I was hired to act. I don't know about you guys, but I don't think that I actually hate you in real life because, oh, gosh, it was I literally went to shake one of the girl's hands and she just like stared at me while she was on her sidekick like her. And I was like, OK, so you're going to shake my hand because my head is not going to stand here and hang in the air and not get shaken. So I just kept my hand there until she finally was like shakes my hand. I was coming off of this acclaimed show with adult humans who go home after work to their families and actually treat people with some human decency.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:22:30] And it was weird to be thrown into this mix of 20 somethings who I just never been around, humans who acted like that. And now I was going to do a show called Nyota, went out with a bunch of 20 somethings who I was so afraid we're going to act like that. And thankfully, I had a lot of cool humans on that show, but that was a very different experience and definitely had some flavors of the previously mentioned. But but for the most part, you know, we had each other's backs. But, yeah, I was I was like, nah, not not into it. And as a result of that experience, I, I that was kind of the that was the the overt straw that broke the camel's back kind of thing. I was like, no, no, I, I signed up to be a lesbian. And this is not what I want to do. What I was like. And then and then I did go on the show and then I did experience, you know, quite a bit of success as it is determined by the society and culture that we live in the very in the box version of success, where you want to kill yourself in your best, but you don't tell anyone about that because you're too busy smiling on a red carpet and making everyone think everything's all great.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:23:42] So that was the kind of success I achieved. I would continue on with the suicidality being a part of my narrative for many years after that period and would ultimately end up in PTSD treatment. When the older I got and the safer I got in my world and my life, the more I slowed down. You and I discussed this like the when you slow down, you're you're getting to a safer point and you are inviting and the healing that ultimately can occur if you if you allow it. I wanted to get over whatever it was that was creating these negative cycles, these horrible relationship dynamics and all these things. I had no idea what I was going to discover. I did ayahuasca in 2017, which is a plant medicine that I highly recommend, but give fair warning. It's not for the faint of heart. So it's something to really decide I'm going to surrender. I did not surrender at all, and therefore I went to hell. But if you do, if you decide to surrender and then actually let yourself release control something, I did not know how to do it. That's time you can have a you can have an immediately life transforming journey. Mine took about 13 months, 13 months after ayahuasca. I had childhood memories of sexual abuse return that were latent for almost 30 years.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:25:08] And they return during the ceremony or like after like in bits and pieces. I'm just curious,
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:25:14] Almost 13 months to the day I was in it, I ended up in a as a result of ayahuasca, I started making lifestyle changes that I, I don't think I otherwise would have made. And as a result of the lifestyle changes, I got safer in my own personal space. And then things started to bubble up, but I didn't have any attachment to what they were. They were all body stuff and energetic stuff. And then I realized that some of them were causing me PTSD, like panic attacks, things that sound very not positive. They're awesome. They're amazing. We love panic attacks. You know why? You know why we love panic attacks? Because they are alerting us to something that is wrong and need your attention and pay a fucking attention to it. So I paid a fucking attention to that and I went episode.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:26:05] Oh, Regan, good episode. Because you are literally we're entering a new age, a new world, a new time, new dimensions. Vibrations are raising high. People are no longer wanting to be in that little box, that little box, and who knows where, what like how many hundreds of thousands of years ago. That doesn't work anymore. You cannot use that same structure today. It doesn't work. So you are saying things that somebody needs to hear right now. Today they're listening. Listening to this conversation. And they're like, yes, yes. Oh, my God. I feel that to the core. I'm going to go get help. This is not something to be shameful of all of these symptoms that we feel, even if it's a cough or a cold sneeze, an allergy, whatever, it can be superficial. It can be like deep inside, like some some kind of like what's going on. I want to eat. I need to feed myself, comfort food, because I'm feeling something. These are all, like you said, wonderful, because there are signs of like, hey, it's like a flag there. Like, I need attention. Come to me. Come to me. And you with your platform are sharing this message because for a long time we were in this box and they were telling us, no, that's shameful. Hide that sign, hide it, hide it, bury it, take medication, hide it. You don't need to know about that side. And then one day it hits you and you're like, what happened to me? Had I seen all those signs, my car would not have been destroyed. Check endin like him on. I should attracted put the fluid in. I should have done that. Oh, the gaslight like wow. Oil change. Right. Those little things. If you don't pay attention, what happens? Right. And so I love that you're saying that because this is what we need to hear. And I love that we're not talking. Movement is great. Meditation is great. And there are tools to use to get there. But our last our initial interview was going to be about that. But, yeah, it's so important. And so I'm so thankful that you are just on fire.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:28:09] And I am a little fired up today. Oh, I love. But I won't say I'm fired up about meditation and my practice because those have been massive tools for my healing with when I went in when I began treatment from that those panic attacks that were I'm grateful for those panic attacks because they highlighted the issue that I needed to look at. And I was refusing to do so because I was taking care of everything else and everyone else and not myself. And my body kept saying, how well do you want me to get? Because I'm all going to get loud. I'm going to make you sick. I'm going to do whatever it takes to stop you in your tracks and slow you down. And what it did was it sent me into a depression for six straight months that I didn't think I was ever going to get out of, because because my body knew that anything intense, I was going to still laugh off, joke it morbid humor right away. But depression, I couldn't see a future for myself. I couldn't see a way out. And that was my body and mind got clever and said, you know what, let's depress her. Let's depress the shit out of this bitch. Because if she gets depressed enough, she's a she's a go getter and she's a mover and a hustler, and she's not going to be able to go get anything. She's not gonna be able to move and she's not gonna be able to hustle.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:29:22] And she'll finally pay attention to the needs that are going on inside this body of hers that she's been ignoring for thirty years. And I'm so grateful to my depression. I'm so grateful to my remarkably incredible brain and consciousness that did this for me that said hello. Whatever it takes, we're going to get your attention. And I coincided MDR, which is eye movement desensitization and reprocessing and very, very, very powerful tool for post-traumatic stress disorder. It is used for war veterans by the United States government. That's what we offer our vets. And it became popular for survivors of sexual and domestic abuses. And I started that treatment that coincided that with Kundalini and ngonyama breathwork hall tropica breathwork, really intense breathiness. I just did one last night and it was beautiful and releasing and clearing. And it is, like you said, with the oil change check engine light, this is maintenance. You don't do just like a one off thing like this is my work now. This is our job and here I am healed. No, you until you die, you're healing. And you literally go into if you believe in the. Clive, you're going into the next. I wish it to heal, so this is a lifelong journey of self investigation, cultivating silence, looking at the parts of you that you don't want to see and asking, why are you here? Hello, panic attack.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:30:42] Why are you happening? We don't ask why? Why don't we ask why we're so? Because someone's already answered a question we all have to ask. They said, you know what? You got this issue. I got a pill for it. You got this thing. I got a drink for it. You got this thing I got to do to suck for it. Like anything you want, anything you want to not have to think about. Why, you might need to ask the question why. We've got a we've got a tour of, you know, any kind of medicinal anything that you want right here, almost over the counter sometimes. And I was I didn't I didn't drink. I didn't do drugs. I never smoked up until I was 30 years old. I never drank a drip of alcohol. I do love a little bit of wine these days. I'm not going to lie. But but my vice was. I use sex against myself because that's what I was taught to do as a child. And I continued that abuse against myself and I had to detox. And now I'm learning about all of these practices, sacred sexual practices, ANCSA types of rituals that are modernized now for us to use today. I use orgasms. I get myself off thinking about how I'm going to change the world in the future like I do these manifestation orgasms. The wild thing, first of all, it's not sexy to be like, let me think about how I'm going to change the world while I'm like rubbing one up, you know? Sorry, guys.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:32:09] I'm I'm very like I'm beauty is like all things to me. And one of the most beautiful things you can do is pleasure yourself. And I love that. I really love that. But I used to think about really toxic things. And our minds are incredibly powerful. So it's visualizing with one of the most powerful energies. The orgasm is life. Force is creation. You created life. You're a little girl like you made a human in your body. That is one of the most insane things that we can do. And no one thinks about it like that. But like a human person grew inside of you, there was nothing. And then there was a fucking human person like that's wild to me. That's so wild and it's bizarre. But think about if you have the energy in your body to grow a human person, how powerful must that energy be when harnessed? So I harness the energy of what it takes to create a human person, and I'm using it to create the life I'm going to live. Ten years from now, two years from now, two weeks from now, I'm pulling in the one I'm calling in these things that are beautifying my life in the way I define beauty, which is at the very end of my life when I take my last breath on this planet and I breathe no more on earth and I turn back into stardust, what what did I do? What is the legacy that I left? Who? Who did I help? Who do I love? Who loved me? Where did I lay down my life for something bigger than me? That's beauty in the world to me, and the the tactics that you had to use to be able to get you and your little girl out of that horrible situation that you experienced all those years ago when you were taken and literally held against your will for months.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:34:16] The the acting performance you had to pay, the sacrifice you had to make because of a little girl and I know you weren't making them a half as intensely for yourself as you were making it for that little one taken away from you. Right. Right. So this is what this is what we're capable of inhumanity. And we are not just capable of it with our own biology. I don't have any personal children. Every child in this world, yours included, matters to me because they are the future of this planet. And the beauty of human beings is our ability to want better for someone else than we even have for ourselves. There's something profoundly beautiful in that song. And I'm I'm so grateful to you. I'm so grateful that you created this platform that you're shining a light on true beauty.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:35:07] I love your flow chart. I was looking at them. I was like, OK, OK, wait a second. So I am super, really way. Amazing guide. Add water and take. I've got water and everything everywhere at all times. Anyone who knows me knows I'm a water fiend. Yes, I drink Chongjin water. Y'all ionize the water molecules so that it absorbs into my pores. I'm like crazy about water. Obviously, I'm crazy about spirituality. Sleep is something that I work very hard on. But sleep has been difficult. Trauma kids, all the kids notoriously have difficulty with sleep. So it's a dance. I use brainwave technology. I use nighttime meditations. I used to wake up 40, 50 times a night in my three or four hours of sleep window that I would actually get. I'm grateful to say that turning on a meditation really quickly can put me back to sleep, which I never used to be able to fall asleep again. So that's an area I'm working on. But I love I love your beauty flow chart. It makes me really happy. I was like, this is so cool. This is a little reminder of like, hey, look at celebrate the wins, the joy. I'm a joyful person now. I used to get I could not stand people who were happy. I was like you. Why are you so happy now? I'm just like it's a love or.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:36:26] Oh, I love that. I know. I love that you loved it. And you found some find it helpful because that's why I created it. I wanted people to have those wins. I wanted people to see that they could do it. And it was easy. And that's why there are ten categories so that you could like feel positive about it. So I, I love it. And I love that you love it. And I love that you love water. Everyone who knows me as well, like I have water everywhere. I get a picture like it's just so good for you. But OK, we I mean, I feel like we could talk for hours and hours and go off on every tangent possible. And like I. I need to meet your nine year old. I know she's here.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:37:07] Yes, I'll bring her out.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:37:09] Just bring her out. And she give me like my five year old and we just have fun. I mean, these are like our babies ourselves, like our younger selves. Yes, a five year old. But I want to talk about the love storm.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:37:22] Yeah.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:37:24] Tell us about that, because human trafficking, as we spoke, is very dear to our hearts. Sexual violence is also like something that you and I have experienced and we have been very open about this, sharing our experiences with the public. And by sharing our messages, people can feel, you know, safe to maybe share their story and start the healing process, because that's really where it starts. When you let it out and you welcome in that healing, it's a good burden. But then the whole opens up and you can let in that light. And it is not as rainbows and butterflies and crystals that people say it's it's it's hard work. It's a lot of also, like you said, meditation. There's so many tools out there. Yum, yum, d-r. I think it's called REI. I always go. It's such a great therapy. There's so many different things. And I have to send you something for sleep, which I think is going to be great for you. It works on your nervous system. It's been amazing for me. Like it actually like makes your nervous again, makes it like act normal again, meaning like, wow, is it normal? But like sometimes we know it wasn't heavy trauma.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:38:33] You stay stuck in that pattern and you need to press that little reset button. It is really hard sometimes to do that. So I'm going to send you that. I remember. But oh, Glenfield, how did you start this? How did you wake you woke up and you're like, OK, I'm awake now. I'm healing. I'm freaking breaking this box like f this box. I don't live in these little parameters like I am more this nine year old came back and she's like, you were here for something. You are here for a mission. We're going to trigger you. We're going to press all your buttons. Like you said, we're going to make you so depressed that you have to do something. So how do you go from all of that where you have repressed memories, right. Like you don't even really know. You just knew that you had this tool. You're beautiful, you're gorgeous. And a lot of times I will tell you, like women who have experienced this at a young age, like myself as well, we use that because someone took our power and
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:39:28] And we want to get it.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:39:29] That happens is we we completely let people keep us taking the power or we think that we're taking it back by giving it out, because now we're in power, but we're also hurting ourselves in the process. Yes, that's what I would go. Yeah, I know. Well, too.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:39:46] Yeah, I for thirteen years, I work fighting human trafficking with an organization that has a ground team in Cambodia. And I with the exception of Covid, which has been really hard for me, it's the first time in a decade that I haven't been to Cambodia. I go every holiday. I bring Christmas and Santa Ana sleigh. I come in with all the Christmas presents and all the things, and I'm with my girls. And it's an incredible experience every time. And I tend to go a couple of times a year. This work was piece by piece, chipping away at obviously my personal journey and getting into where those memories could finally be realized. But the the major shift and the reason for the launch of the campaign, the love storm, was because it had become the amalgamation of the fight I was doing on the outside, this work that is so important. And I am so grateful to everyone in the field fighting human trafficking. But we have had modern we have had slavery in our world for thousands of years. We have not eradicated slavery because we keep doing the same things, expecting different results. And in some circles, that's called insanity. So I was like, you know what? I've been called insane and I'm super cool being insane in certain ways that put me outside the box.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:41:11] But when it comes to actually being stupid, like I'm not in it, I try to do the same thing and expect different results. We learn from history that we don't learn from history. I want to be the exception to that rule. And what what the amalgamation of this tangible fights in human trafficking and spinning our wheels as we have. And anyone who's worked in this field, they can tell you a lovely speech at a party. But at the end of the day, they're exhausted, they're burnt out, and they're seeing very little change on a large scale. And it's it's it's heartbreaking because we're doing it the wrong way. We're we're trying to clean up the outside while the inside it's all nasty and mucky. I wouldn't invite you over and I probably will invite you over, but I wouldn't invite you over to a dinner party, lets you see my beautiful lawn with all my roses. And then the inside has got laundry all over the place in my disgusting house, has never been cleaned on the inside. Like, what am I going to have you eat on the ground? Like, I have to clean up the inside. We need to clean up the inside. We need to fight slavery from the inside out. We have mental prisons, seven point eight billion of us.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:42:21] No one is exempt. A certain point in our. Lives at any point. It can happen, but at a certain point it will happen that you will be enslaved to a school system, to a belief about yourself, that you're not good enough, not pretty enough, not wealthy enough, not successful enough, not smart enough, not whatever enough to be who you actually are just as you are. That is slavery. And slavery is an idea. You can't kill an idea. You got to have a better one. And the better idea for me is freedom. That starts with personal freedom. We don't end human trafficking of forty eight million people with seven point eight billion people are enslaved inside their own minds. It will never happen. So we have to take personal responsibility. The love storm is an invitation that if you never, ever set foot into the world of fighting human trafficking, may you, at least as a human being, show up for yourself and end the slavery of your own mind. May you at least break the chains, the invisible, as they are inside your head that tell you you're not enough because you fucking are. So the love storm is a fierce love because I don't do pansy love. We are storming the planet with love. And my love is ferocious, like a tsunami or a hurricane.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:43:37] So it's called a love storm for a reason. And the event itself actually features a meditation. So the connecting dots between all of this work, all of what I've done for 13 years, what I learn from the girls who were the survivors that I thought I was going to help, that changed my life. What I learned from them was forgiveness. I learned compassion. I learned love. I didn't believe in those things. I didn't understand those things. And I certainly did not want to extend those things to traffickers and pimps like my girls told me to sister. No, we forgive the trafficker. We forget that. But I'm like, no, I'm from I'm from America. And we get really big guns and we blow things up. That's what Americans do. So, no, we don't forgive and we don't love. And the girls like no, sister, we don't kill the trafficker. We don't kill the pimp. We forgive them. I'm like, I don't like this lesson. And I know a decade or so later, I have memories of childhood sexual abuse come back and the healing process the way out of my suffering, the way out of my slavery was to find compassion for the person who sexually abused me because he was a little boy who never wanted to hurt anybody when he was a little two, three or four year old child.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:44:48] Then somebody did something to him and the system failed him. Where did we go wrong? Where do we go wrong, where we began creating traffickers and creating bullies and rapists and abusers? Because we had to create them. They did not come here as children. Children are innocent and perfect. We did this and we have to be the ones to undo this. So the love storm is an invitation to take personal stake in the fight to end slavery from the inside out. That means modern day slavery, fighting human trafficking, bringing the hands together of all these little organizations that are like tiny little waves on the ocean. I want a fucking tsunami, right. But if you aren't involved in that aspect of it and you just want to help with the idea of slavery, you can do that in your own home. You can do that in your own home, in your body, in your mind, and break those chains. So I invite you to love storm yourself or join the movement at w w w dot the love storm dot com and and love storm the world with me. That's what we're doing. That's what Tony Tony connected me with you. And Tony has been love storming the world since the day he was born. He's such a love storm.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:46:02] He is. He is. I'm so grateful to him and for meeting you. And this message really. I literally I usually speak so much that I'm just like mostly quiet because you're either reading my thoughts and just answering or you're just saying things that I've been thinking for a long time and I didn't have anyone else to like. Your radical your thoughts. What are you doing? How can you think like this, having the wrong people around, right.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:46:32] Or just people who are or just accidentally ignorant because there are ignorant people and then there are people who just just don't know. And that's an accidental ignorance.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:46:43] Yes. But then there are people who actually don't want to know.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:46:46] Yes. Yeah. Those sort of.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:46:49] Yeah.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:46:49] I love having come out about them.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:46:53] Oh, God, you're invited. Let me know.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:46:56] They're my favorite. I love to just rip the carpet out from underneath those people that all that show I mean, love I have.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:47:04] Oh, well, it's going to happen one day. And I would love to see that because that would be a challenge. I know the person and.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:47:10] Oh, so send me a Zemlyak, honey.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:47:15] That would be awesome. Ok, so tell us a little bit more like how can people get started in this, Lofstrom? Because I'm like, where do I sign up? How do I go to Cambodia with you? What what do I need to do? Like sign me up? And everyone listening right now got so much like their clubs are overflowing with not just information, but also love. Every single word that you had said is going through their bodies, through their cells, are probably pausing this screen shotting this going back to that. They're going to quote it. They're going to tag us on Instagram and all the other forms. But the most important thing is sharing this message. And unfortunately, we're not going to get this out for human world trafficking day, but that's OK, because it's still happening every day. Unfortunately, human trafficking is very lucrative. And I'm not saying this to go into the business of it, but this there's so much like you said on the inside that you have to change, not just on your mind, but there's just so much that has been the system has created this, and we have to break that box, that system to to to start dismantling what atrocities have been made in the world, in the universe. So I am like my soul is so deeply touched and just like on the same like how do we what do we do? Like, let's but like let's get the stuff and let's just start going in there
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:48:38] And just shooting. Yeah, well, there's a you know, there's always room for a McColley moment, like bring out the sword.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:48:46] But yeah. Yeah, you know, we'll deal with LA. We'll do the love bomb like a love.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:48:50] Yeah. Well, love Bomu. Exactly. But yeah. So if you if you'd like to join the movement, we have a little button you can click on. Go to the W WW dot, the love storm dot com click join the movement. It gives you an opportunity to let us know if you'd like to see the love storm come to your town. We're doing it virtually right now because there's a lovely little COVID 19 virus that once we fully open back up, it is a global tour. It's a global campaign. And we had launched it on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day back in twenty twenty before Covid hit us so hard. And we had 22 cities around the world that we were intending to visit. We do still intend to visit those cities and those communities to bring this message, bring the connecting dots for other organizations to be able to link arms and continue this fight on the outside. And we invite you to show up so that we can learn about this from the inside out. So the love storm dot com at the love storm. Give us the follow on on social or you can find me at the Annalyn McCord. Social and I'm always updating about these things.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:50:00] Awesome, OK. And we're coming we're wrapping up the session because, you know, we're going to do a live eventually. We're going to do a live and we people have can have more questions. And I'm respectful of your time. My time, because time is precious and we are on a mission to storm up the world with a lot of love. And I'm so excited that we connected so to things that I always ask my guests. And I'll ask the first one, what is one thing that you would have told your younger self before? Like from today, like today, what would you have told your younger self? Like any piece of advice and this doesn't have to be about beauty, it just anything that you're like, this is what you need to hear.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:50:38] Well, I wouldn't have told her. I would have asked her, how do I stay just like you? How do I stay and wonder of it all? How do I stay a dreamer? How do I stay? Childlike and kind and loving and trusting. Even when I'm being subjected to horror, how do I do that? Because I'm going to forget and I'm going to get really, really hurt because I forget. And it's only in the moments in my thirties when I remember to be like you that I'm going to get it together again. Can you tell me now how to just stay just like you?
Elizabeth Molina: [00:51:15] Oh, I'm so. That's a beautiful, beautiful question and message. And I'm sure that all of the listeners we have so many listeners from different ages, some people in high school, some grandparents who listen. So this this fits for everyone, because I think that's the part that we're missing. That character that we spoke about earlier, that little human, that little child that we keep on trying to make them fit into the mold. Boy, say I don't have emotions. Don't do this, girls. Make sure you suck in your stomach. Make sure you're like really cute and you have your pigtails and your nails and all these things. We're making them into something that they're not. And so I love that you're reminding us to connect, to stay true to that, stay more aligned to that person, because wonderful things will happen to you.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:52:00] Yeah.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:52:01] Thank you for that. And then last but not least, I had ragtime. Oh, mazing guests on the show. And I found that the more amazing the people, the more humble they are. And they don't really love to brag about themselves. Now you get to brag about yourself. Tell me about I know you have a podcast. I want to hear about that, too. But like this is a time where you get to Tommy Élisabeth, like I taught my cat how to eat with a spoon.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:52:29] Oh, that would be something to brag about for sure.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:52:34] You bought those buttons where like she gets to speak, you know. Have you seen those yesterday?
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:52:43] Yes, I have not done any of that
Elizabeth Molina: [00:52:46] Brag about anything you want is what I'm saying, like the floor is open to anything, like there is no structure here.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:52:53] Ok, well, one of my wellness practices, breathwork led me to half them off. And he does breathwork. That leads you into ice baths. I am notoriously the coldest person on earth and an ice that sounds like my worst nightmare. So what did I do? I decided let's challenge ourselves and I will totally brag about this because I am incredibly proud of myself. Not only did I start doing ice stats every day back in October of last year, I changed my vascular system. I do not get cold anymore. In fact, I run quite hot. I like literally my vascular system had just gone dormant because it was used to me putting on coats and blankets and all this stuff. And now I'm like, it's all in here. And everyone's like, it's winter beds and you're in the Hamptons or there's snow. Like, why are you saying it's hot? Two or three months ago, I broke my own record. 20 minutes in the ice bath. Whoo! I do. I should. I posted it. I posted the whole video on Instagram because I was talking about the mental health aspects of this. And one of my this is the braggy part for me. One of my gurus, who's an incredible yoga teacher extraordinaire in New York, Eddie Stern. He called me and he said, I want you to know that a minute eight and something, whatever, whatever on the video, because it was the 20 minute, you know, of me doing this.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:54:19] He said, you slipped into bliss. And I started crying. It was such a beautiful moment because it just it it's it was impossible to describe. It was just a perfect moment, and it brought tears to my eyes. And this is someone who, like, trained in India and, you know, he's like he knows all the amazing chants and like leads these things. And I was just. And then the world to me that that he saw something that yogis, as you know, aspire to that I was able to do for myself, for that little nine year old girl inside of me, to to bring her into just ultimate joy and bliss in a space where my mind is not yelling things at me. And I'm just in silence. And it's wonderful and it's freezing cold that I didn't know it because my energy field was heating up. That water is so hard. It was like I could feel the outline of my energetic field in the water, just heating the water. It was wild. And I try to explain it. And then you see me just get less and less coherent on the video because you literally get high like you get must. Like you should not drive a motor vehicle after doing this because you literally can't function properly. But it's amazing. Definitely.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:55:31] Check that out a little piece of it. But now I'm going to have to watch the whole thing.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:55:35] Yeah, there's a there's a little time one, but there's an actual video and you can just fly through. And I try to I try to walk people through what I'm feeling. And then I just like I'm just goodbye, everyone. I'm in heaven.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:55:46] Oh, my gosh. That was cool. You've inspired me because I am you sound like me. I'm the coldest person ever. Yeah. And maybe perhaps my.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:55:54] It's your vascular system. It's dormant. Yeah, it's it's gone dormant because it's like, oh, well, you know, Elizabeth going to put a big warm coat on me so I don't need to warm her up. And I, I do you know, I went on the podcast actually because of all of those he invited me on. I was like, fangirl so hard. But I literally go on there and we were talking about it. And it's you talk like you start talking to your to your autonomic nervous system. And all the doctors and scientists are like, you can't tell your autonomic nervous system. And I'm half as like, yes, I can watch me. And he does. And he he's I mean, he's incredible. But the but what I do when I'm in the cold, I say, OK, body. You're cold, but I'm not the body, I'm not my spleen, I'm not my liver, I'm not my elbow, I'm not my skin, I'm not my body, I'm not my brain. I'm the consciousness beneath between like inside, right beneath it all. So consciousness doesn't get cold. What's going on? I am not cold. My body is cold. So I still my consciousness. I'm like, heat my body up, warm it up, stop shivering. And you see me on the video and I'm like, shivering, stopped. And my body starts and I start going into a space where I'm feeling fine and a really cold tub. That tub is about forty three degrees temperature like Fahrenheit. So fucking cold is shared by anything under 60 is just like hubba, hubba, hubba. Yeah, but but totally this has been transformative, like life changing for me. I just looked at the time I actually have to go, but I know I could talk to you forever.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:57:36] I guess I have a podcast, too. It's called Unzipped. It is my old Niños, you know, co-star, because I did say yes. And I do. And I and I did do that over five years. And my old co-star and I, she and I got someone talked about us behind our back screen, created a feud between the two of us without us realizing it. We hashed that out on episode one of the show. I hated her for five years. And now we're doing a podcast together. So we talk about that on episode one. And then all of the episodes are us diving into topics where we just ask you to come on beyond that, share with us what's going on. You have to come, obviously, on the show and tell us your story. Right now, she is going on mat leave because she's about to have a break. She created a human in her body. And we've been talking about how God is good and he will be here in a couple of weeks. So after that, at some point, I would love to have you on. But see all of your listeners, you are so beautiful because I see your soul. I don't have to see your faces and your know what clothes you wear in cars you drive. But I don't measure your beauty by that. I measure it by the starlight you're made of. And I can see that sparkling all the way from here. So I'm so grateful to be able to be a part of your journey for this lovely little period of the sidecars. Thanks for having me.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:58:47] Thank you so much, Anna. And everyone don't crash. When you go watch her video, we will do so. I appreciate you for coming. Have an amazing day and we will talk soon. Bye. All right, guys, thank you so much for tuning in and listening to this amazing conversation and these amazing topics that sometimes we don't want to talk about. We only want to talk about what's really beautiful on the outside and on the surface. But these are things that are happening every day. If you are interested in checking out the love storm campaign. Please do so. I'm going to put the links in the bottom. Also, check out Anna's podcast. And if you haven't already subscribe to this podcast, I don't know what you're waiting for, because I have to tell you that they're going to be some amazing guests coming and amazing conversations that you do not want to miss. Please share this episode with at least five people, you know, have them subscribe. And if you haven't already, tell people that, hey, this is a podcast worth listening to. So, guys, until next week. See you then. Bye.
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