Magnificent Midlife

Meet the remarkable Jessica Buchanan, the NYT bestselling co-author of Impossible Odds, a memoir that details her 93 days held in the desert by Somali land pirates, and her dramatic rescue by US Navy SEAL Team VI. I am so inspired by Jess and found this such an empowering story of survival against truly impossible odds that can help all of us cope better under duress. We talk about: How Jess finds the strength to keep telling her survival story to the world. How she fell in love with Africa and met her husband. Her work as an aid worker in Africa and particularly in Somalia. How she kept herself going day to day with nothing in the desert. Anger management in the desert when she wasn’t allowed to show any emotion. How she survived the ordeal and even found herself in the desert. Meeting the Navy seals who rescued her and finally realizing she was the hero of her own story. The story of the night she was rescued. Jess’s President Obama story. The difficulties of surviving survival and trying to rebuild a