Today's guest promises to be one of the most riveting guests we have had.

It was six years ago, the woman you're about to hear from, dodged machine gunfire as she carried her three children while pregnant with a fourth across the Syrian border into Turkey.

Her husband, now the top-ranking American commander in ISIS, paid a human trafficker to take his family to a bus stop.

From there, they were on their own. This story is very complicated.

This mother of four small children was radicalized at a very young age.

She believed in Jihad in the name of Allah and it was her mission.

Her husband was an American from Texas. He was her partner in terror and they traveled the world hoping to recruit radicals while they raised their sons, same time to be holy warriors.

But something changed because while living here in America, he went to prison and a window opened.

Today's podcast asks several questions and attempts to have them answered.

What drives a young, intelligent, beautiful person to become radicalized?

And if it does happen, is it possible for that person to de-radicalize themselves and seek redemption?

The story is going to attempt to answer these questions. It's not only a literal journey spanning multiple countries, multiple war zones, time zones, but it is also an internal journey of the mind and the heart as she grapples with breaking free of her radical ideology and extremist husband.

Today she works with organizations to help counter violent extremists. She uses her past experience to try to de-radicalize those that have become radicals.

She works in prisons, she works with U.S. law enforcement.

Today's episode, The Islamic Terrorists' Wife.

So I want to get into your story from really the beginning.

But I have to address the elephant in the room first.

There are these ISIS wives, if you will, that we have seen that are trying to get back into their own country and be normalized.

And I haven't believed any of them. I believe you. But I haven't believed any of them.

Why should anyone believe you? I mean, that's your journey is night and day.

Why should they believe me?

I think I'm an open book. I definitely am.

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