Surviving Being Held Hostage & Sharing Your Story with Jessica Buchanan

#255: She survived being held hostage for 93 days in Somalia and is now sharing her story on social media to encourage others to share their stories too. Jessica Buchanan is a New York Times Bestselling 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 for 93 days. Jessica has been named one of the ‘150 Women Who will Shake the World’ by Newsweek, and her story was the most highly viewed 60 Minutes episode to air, to date. Jessica is a highly sought after inspirational speaker and her TEDx Pearl Street talk, ‘Change is Your Proof of Life’ has been the foundation for which she travels the world, inspiring audiences to access their resilience by identifying their own autonomy and chance in the middle of their own life-changing event. 

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