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broken cycle media. Resources and source material are linked in the episode notes. Thank you so much for listening. Cheryl Hunter is a television writer and producer as well as a survivor advocate.

Her efforts have been seen on NBC, CNN, Dr. Oz, the TED Talk stage,

and many more major media platforms. But her journey of sharing about her traumatic abduction

and assaults did not begin immediately. On this episode of What Came Next, listen to Cheryl share what propelled

her to finally be open about her trauma and what compels her to continue to speak out on

behalf of victims everywhere.

My name is Cheryl Hunter.

I, like so many people, overcame something in my past

and decided this is the thing that I'm going to use to propel me forward.

Today, I am an author, speaker, news commentator on television, and I am committed to helping

people reframe their relationship to adversity. I think my loved ones would describe me as funny,

ferociously loving, passionate, resilient.

A lot of fervor, a lot of fire.

I don't like to go halfway.

I grew up in the Colorado Rockies on a horse ranch that was in the really remote rural part of Colorado, not the ski area part.

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