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🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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⚠️Trigger warning: This episode contains discussions of kidnapping, rape, and sexual abuse. Please listen with care.
In this powerful and deeply moving episode, Corrine sits down with Elizabeth Smart—child safety advocate, ABC News commentator, and founder of the Elizabeth Smart Foundation—for a conversation about reclaiming identity, breaking shame, and using your voice to help others heal.
Elizabeth shares the harrowing story of being kidnapped, raped, and held captive for nine months at the age of 14. She talks about the faith and strength that sustained her during that time, and the emotional moment when she was finally rescued and reunited with her family. She also opens up about how she found purpose after trauma, why she speaks so openly about sexual violence, and the message she wants every survivor to hear: You are not what happened to you.
Together, Corrine and Elizabeth talk about how to respond when someone discloses abuse, why believing survivors is the first and most powerful step, and how we can better educate kids on body autonomy, healthy relationships, and real consent—starting at home. Elizabeth also shares more about her nonprofit, the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, and the trauma-informed self-defense program Smart Defense, designed to help survivors reclaim their power.
Elizabeth's resilience and dedication to advocacy are truly inspiring. For more, visit elizabethsmartfoundation.org and follow her at @elizabeth_smart_official on Instagram.
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0:36.5 | Okay, Elizabeth, this is such a treat for me to be with you in person today. I'm sure you've |
0:41.5 | heard this a million times, but the coolest thing about this for me to meet you in person is that |
0:46.8 | I so distinctly remember praying for you. How old are you? I'm 37. Okay, I'm 40. So I was, whatever, three years older than you when your whole story was, you know, national |
1:00.0 | news. |
1:00.6 | And it's funny people will talk about like things that are really impactful. |
1:05.6 | You can remember like right where you were, what you were wearing. |
1:09.1 | And I remember that moment of being like, oh my gosh, that prayer was answered, you know. |
1:14.6 | So for anyone who doesn't have context or isn't familiar with your story, can you just share that? |
1:21.0 | And also, and then we'll totally get into like what you've done with that and what you're doing with your life now. |
1:26.2 | Yeah, of course. |
1:27.4 | So I was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. like what you've done with that and what you're doing with your life now yeah of course uh so |
1:27.8 | i was born and raised in salt lake city Utah um I was born into a loving kind wonderful family |
1:40.2 | um I'd say all of us growing up we were all pretty pretty close. I mean, we were definitely, like, |
1:46.9 | we were real siblings. We all teased and had our tiffs and whatnot. But, um, I'm second of six. |
1:56.1 | Oh, second of six. I didn't realize that. Yeah. Yeah, that's a big family. So, yeah, so I have, yeah, I's a big family so yeah so i have yeah i have a big |
2:02.7 | family um but for the most part like we we all cared about each other like none of us would want to see |
2:09.4 | someone else hurt right in our in our family and definitely as we've gotten older i think one of the |
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