Hey friends welcome back this is Jessica Honegger founder of the socially

conscious fashion brand noonday collection and this is the Going Scared Podcast, where we cover all things

impact, entrepreneurship, and courage.

Today's guest is Gary Houghgan, and I am a long time friend and admire of his.

He is the CEO and founder of International Justice Mission, otherwise known as IJM.

IJM is the world's largest NGO dedicated to ending slavery around the globe.

Before founding IJM in 1997, Gary was a human rights attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, and you're going to get to hear more of his story today.

In 1994, he served as the director of the United Nations investigation in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide. He's the

author of a number of books. I've read every single one of them and the most

recent one is called the Locust Effect and it dives deep into how I Jam has created a model of ending slavery that's both totally unique and completely world changing.

Today's conversation with Gary also launches a special

series of shows that I am so excited for you to be a part of. This week and every

week for the next couple months we are going to be walking

through the message of you guessed it my new book imperfect courage we're

going to take this one chapter at a time and I'm going to

take you through the journey of what it means to live a life of purpose by leaving

comfort and going scared. And Gary carries this message so well.

He loves to talk about courage

and that's so much of what we spend time talking about today.

To get the most out of this podcast series, I would recommend that you hop on over to Amazon and purchase

imperfect courage. You are going to get so much more out of these interviews if you also can read along.

And for ordering now, for being an early adopter,

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