Judith Matloff: ...the importance of staying calm in a life-threatening situation

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, we’ll get some advice on what we need to do to survive in an increasingly dangerous world. Our guest is Judith Matloff, who’s a veteran international correspondent who instructs others on how to survive hostile environments.

Over a 40-year career as a journalist, she’s covered stories around the globe and her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Forbes, and The Los Angeles Times, to name just a few.

Judith has developed protocols for digital, gender and physical security, and consults for leading organizations like the State Department and the United Nations. She’s the author of the new book, How to Drag a Body and Other Safety Tips You Hope to Never Need.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.6	I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black.
0:15.9	On this episode, we'll get some advice on what we need to do to survive in an increasingly
0:20.4	dangerous world.
0:22.0	Our guest is Judith Matloff, who's a veteran international correspondent who instructs others on how to survive hostile environments.
0:29.6	Over a 40-year career as a journalist, she's covered stories around the globe,
0:33.9	and her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Forbes,
0:38.2	and the Los Angeles Times, just to name a few.
0:40.9	And Judith has developed protocols for digital, gender, and physical security.
0:45.6	And she also consults for leading organizations like the State Department and the United Nations.
0:51.5	And she's the author of the new book, How to Drag a Body and other safety tips you hope to
0:57.7	never need.
0:58.7	Judith, thank you so much for joining us.
1:00.9	It's a pleasure.
1:02.4	We have all been thinking about COVID-19, obviously, in recent months, and I know it's
1:07.1	been at the forefront of your mind as well.
1:09.3	It has upended our lives, and I'm wondering
1:12.1	what observations you have to share about it and how we've responded to it. Well, you know,
1:18.1	it's such a good question because it is an extreme crisis. It's for a lot of people, it's probably
1:26.6	the worst crisis they've ever encountered.
1:29.5	And the coping mechanisms to deal with it are very, very similar to the one that foreign
1:36.2	correspondents deploy when they're covering crises like war.
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