Trauma & Survival: Inside Elizabeth Smart’s Story Part 1

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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4.6 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In part one of Martha's conversation with advocate and bestselling author Elizabeth Smart, Elizabeth opens up about the reality of surviving domestic and horrific abuse twenty-four years after her high-profile kidnapping and rescue. She shares how she ultimately reclaimed her power through motherhood, faith, and bodybuilding, and introduces her new book, Detours: Hope and Growth After Life's Hardest Turns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:20.7	Music Welcome everybody to the Untold Story podcast. I'm Martha McCallum. It's great to have you with us.
0:35.5	And I'm very happy today to be joined by Elizabeth Smart.
0:41.3	I feel like we all feel like we know you, which might be annoying for you, but your face
0:46.6	and your story was such a big part of sort of the national understanding of what happened to you.
0:55.0	And I think for so many people, like I have little kids when this happened to you.
0:58.7	So we all just were praying and pulling for you to be rescued.
1:03.6	So I start with that and welcome.
1:05.9	It's good to have you with us.
1:06.9	Thank you for having me.
1:08.0	You're a mom now.
1:09.0	Yes.
1:09.6	You have three kids?
1:10.6	I do, yeah. Yeah. You're a mom now. Yes. You have three kids? I do, yeah.
1:11.4	Yeah.
1:12.9	You know, I guess every discussion with you that is around this book that you just wrote, which is called detours.
1:20.6	And it's your third book, I think, right?
1:22.9	So this is your third book.
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