Curriculum · 24 volumes - The Brave Series

“Explicit Movement, my nonprofit, covers many different topics about sexual integrity for youth and equipping parents and church leaders on guiding young people. In 2019, the Lord spoke to my heart: this is the year I want you to add anti-sex trafficking to what you cover.

We did an island-wide Oʻahu conference called LISN, an awareness and prevention event about sex trafficking happening with our local kids in Hawaiʻi. About 500 people came from the community. It was free. At the time, 99 percent of pastors I talked to had no clue this was happening to our own local kids. Parents didn’t know either. There was a myth that trafficking victims were coming into Hawaiʻi from other nations. The truth was it was happening here, to their own children and youth.”

“About a month after the conference, I was in the shower and a vision started to appear before my eyes. It was a publication. The title was blurry, but the subtitle was clear: ‘Protect yourself from sex trafficking.’ I saw pages open like a magazine, with graphics and articles.

I had a conversation with God. I said, ‘What is this you’re showing me?’ He said, ‘This is a publication for teenage girls to empower them and equip them on how to protect themselves from being trafficked.’ My response was, ‘That is brilliant, you are so smart. I don’t know if there’s anything like that.’ Then He spoke back: ‘Michele, I want you to do a secular version and a Christian version. If you do it with excellence, it’s going to go global.’ I was excited, but under my breath said I didn’t know about the global part. I knew it was an assignment in my heart.”

“My team and I worked on the project for about two and a half years. We published Brave & Beautiful for teen girls in the summer of 2022. The interesting thing: one year before it was published, I started getting emails and texts from leaders in 20 nations. Cambodia. Africa. South America. Asia. They said things like, ‘I heard about this publication, we want it for our nation.’ I said, ‘How did you hear about it?’ Through the grapevine. My second comment: ‘We’re not done yet.’ Their response: ‘We already know we want it. Can we translate it now, whatever you have so far?’

A royal lord from UK Parliament contacted me because he wanted it for the UK. Miraculous things started happening. God was showing me that I really did hear from Him in the shower, because He was the one making it go global.”

“The reason it is full color, beautiful, and creative is because God put a qualification on it that it needed to be excellence and quality. Every child or person who gets it needs to believe they are worthy of something quality. It felt right to honor them that way.”

“We were unexpectedly interrupted in the fall of 2024. I met the former retired Deputy Superintendent of the Hawaiʻi Department of Education. She said she believed the entire state of Hawaiʻi public schools needed this. I got to present it to the current Superintendent Hayashi. After my presentation, he said he wanted to roll it out statewide. But public schools don’t separate boys and girls, so we needed a co-ed version. We paused Brave & Bold and put the gas pedal on Brave Together.

For a whole year Phyllis Unebasami joined our team and wrote all of the teacher lessons for the Brave Together co-ed version. She is a top curriculum designer in our state, and a wonderful Christian woman. The Hawaiʻi Brave Together three-article booklet was reviewed and approved by the Hawaiʻi Department of Education for the state’s Sexual Violence Prevention Initiative.

After finishing Brave Together non-faith in October 2025, we went back and finished Brave & Bold in faith and non-faith versions. We are done now. Just the last Brave Together Faith volumes 3 and 4 shipping in the next month, and then everything is available.”