Jessica Buchanan is a teacher, author, humanitarian, speaker, and survivor. On October 25, 2011, while on a routine field mission in Somalia, working as the Education Advisor for her non-governmental organization, Jessica was abducted at gunpoint and held for ransom by a group of Somali pirates. In this episode, Jess outlines the true story of the kidnapping, and delves deep into how she chose unwavering mental strength. Jess recounts how she met herself in the desert, and the process of mending the relationship with her intuition post-rescue.

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