19. Tracy Walder is a sorority girl turned CIA counter-terrorism spy

All The Wiser

Kimi Culp

Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.9 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Tracy Walder left behind a childhood of bullying and headed to USC where she studied history and held leadership positions in her sorority. When a recruiter from the CIA invited her for an interview her junior year, the "up-for-anything" bubbly blond jumped at the opportunity. Little did she know a year later, she would be placed in the counter-terrorism center in the weapons of mass destruction unit and regularly attending meetings with President Bush and the head of the CIA George Tenet. She departed for the middle east and by the age of 25 had already learned how to tail people, interrogate suicide bombers and gather life saving intelligence, all while witnessing death and destruction up close. Her career continued to take her to unexpected places where she was challenged at every level. Her message to girls everywhere: don't try to change who you are to fit what you think the job wants you to be.

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1:08.8	I believe in the power of storytelling to inspire us all to think
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1:19.9	stories you have ever heard, people who have been to the brink and back, stories of survival
1:25.7	against all odds, and whose lives have been changed in unthinkable ways.
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1:51.5	shout out. Today's episode is with Tracy Walder. Fresh out of college, the bubbly blonde USC
1:58.2	sorority girl, join the CIA Counterterrorism Center for Weapons of Mass
2:04.0	Destruction. Less than a year into the job, she found herself in the heart of the 9-11
2:09.8	war room, standing side by side with then-president George W. Bush and gathering intelligence
2:16.3	on the world's most dangerous terrorist.
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