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🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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You will not believe the story you're about to hear. As we continue our special Resilience Series, we're honored to welcome Jessica Buchanan. For 93 horrific days, Jessica was held hostage under brutal conditions. In her journey to survive, she learned an incredible amount about who she was, and how to live fully — even when that seems impossible.
Today, both Jessica's walk though what captivity can teach a person, and how fully accepting the current, difficult, realities can actually help us move forward in life.
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the Going Scared Podcast. This is your host, Jessica Honeger, |
0:05.3 | founder of the Social Impact Fashion Brand Noon Day Collection. Well, we have another incredible conversation today in our resilience series. |
0:19.6 | These conversations have grounded me, encouraged me, and really given me some practical strategies on how we can rise strong right now. |
0:29.0 | One of the themes that I have picked up on as I've talked to each one of the people we've |
0:34.7 | interviewed so far in this series is this idea of accepting what is. We have to be |
0:41.1 | able to accept what is before we can move through, before we can rise up, |
0:48.0 | we have to be able to accept what is. |
0:52.0 | And the more quickly we can accept what is, the more quickly we can become agents in the middle of our stories, |
1:00.0 | where we can be empowered in the stories that we have been given. |
1:06.2 | This conversation today with Jessica Buchanan |
1:09.3 | is such a good example of this idea that we need to be able to accept our current realities |
1:16.8 | before we can move and exhibit empowerment and agency in our stories. |
1:25.6 | Jessica has an incredible, incredible story, honestly, |
1:29.8 | this conversation. |
1:39.2 | It's, oh, well. conversation it's well just get ready it's going to impact you in your soul in your soul on October 25th 2011 while on a routine field mission working for an NGO in Somalia, |
1:49.4 | Jessica along with another colleague, they were abducted at gunpoint and held for ransom by a group of |
1:56.9 | Somali land pirates for 93 days. As you'll hear Jessica was held outdoors in deplorable conditions, |
2:06.7 | starved and terrorized by more than two dozen of these gangsters, what they call land pirates. |
2:15.0 | You can read about her ordeal documented in her New York Times best-selling book, |
2:20.0 | Impossible Odds, the kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan in her dramatic rescue by Seal Team 6. |
2:28.1 | I met Jessica just a few months ago at a Noonday Collection Trunk Show and immediately clicked with her and you'll hear our story in this conversation. |
2:38.8 | Jessica now lives in DC which is where I met her and she speaks about her ordeal in multiple venues and |
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