Coming up on the Mark Devine show, surviving survival is not a linear process.

It is two steps forward and ten steps back and you just don't know what's going to trigger

you from day to day and this is very universal for anybody who's experienced trauma, big

to your little team.

Hi, I'm Mark Devine and this is the Mark Devine show. On this show, I explore what it means

to be fearless through the lens of the world's most inspirational, compassionate and resilient

leaders. My guests include notable people from all walks of life, martial arts grandmasters,

military leaders, high powered CEOs, even kidnapping survivors. Each episode distills

the remarkable experience of my guests and brings you actionable insights to help you create

the most compassionate and courageous life possible. Today I'm going to be talking about

overcoming and possible odds, trusting intuition, speaking our truth, surviving, harrowing experiences

and overcoming the trauma that follows survival. The word survival derives from the Latin

Super Viver, literally which means to live beyond. Our guest today exemplifies survival

in all aspects of that word. Just as it can be canon on October 25, 2011, while on a routine

field mission, if serviced in Somalia, as an education advisor, she was abducted at gunpoint

and held for ransom by a group of Somali privates for 93 days forced to live in the desert

and deplorable conditions starved and terrorized by gangsters, her health steadily deteriorated.

Then on January 25, under order by President Obama, she was rescued by our SEAL Team 6. Her

ideal is detailed in her New York Times bestselling book Impossible Odds, the kidnapping of

Justin Buchanan, and her dramatic rescue by SEAL Team 6. She's been named one of the

150 women who will shake the world by Newsweek, and she's now highly sought after inspirational

speaker, and her TEDx Pearl Street talk Change Your Proof of Life has been the foundation

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