Episode 174-"Impossible Odds" Guest: Jessica Buchanan

Parenting Great Kids with Dr. Meg Meeker

Dr. Meg Meeker

Kids & Family, Education, Parenting, Self-improvement

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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DR. MEG MEEKER with guest JESSICA BUCHANAN Jessica Buchanan had just completed education advisory meetings in southern Somalia, and was in transit to a guest house where she would stay overnight before heading back home the next morning. She was in a convoy of three Land Cruisers – armed guards in the front, Jessica and her colleague in the middle with a driver and their security advisor, and armed guards in the back. After driving 10-15 minutes, they were cut off by another Land Cruiser, which smashed out all the windows and the windshield of their vehicle. Initially Jessica thought, ‘Wow, who drives like that?’ But then she heard the crack of the butt of an AK-47 on the car hood, and realized, ‘Oh boy, something bad is happening.’ Jessica Buchanan joins Dr. Meg in this “inspirational Life” episode of Parenting Great Kids, sharing details of her harrowing kidnapping experience, and ultimate rescue, which was widely reported in the news. Jessica faced and overcame impossible odds that not only changed and affected her life as an individual, but also as a parent to her children. FROM THE PRODUCER Thanks for listening to Episode #174, Impossible Odds, and for helping Dr. Meg’s parenting revolution reach more than SEVEN MILLION downloads! Please subscribe, rate and leave a review for us on iTunes! Get Social with Dr. Meg on Facebook & Instagram @MegMeekerMD Check out Dr. Meg’s parenting resources and tools! www.meekerparenting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies and your right hand will save me.
0:12.5	Psalm 138-7.
0:21.0	Welcome to Parenting Great Kids. This is episode number 174 and I'm your host, Dr. Meg Meeker.
0:28.0	You know, a friend's Michael with every podcast is to help you be the parent you want to be.
0:34.0	So I interview child and adolescent experts all around the world to help you understand your kids and why they do what they do.
0:44.0	You know, sometimes in life, the odds seem really stacked against us and it may feel like those odds are impossible to overcome.
0:54.0	But I have a story for you that you are going to want to hear.
0:59.0	My guest today is Jessica Buchanan, who was an aid worker in Somalia and was kidnapped by Somali land pirates and today she's going to tell us her heroing story.
1:11.0	So let's get to my conversation with Jessica right now.
1:17.0	Jessica, I'm so excited to have you on the podcast today. I appreciate your time. I've really been looking forward to this. So thank you for being here.
1:25.0	Thank you so much for having me.
1:27.0	A number of years ago, you were on a routine field mission in Somalia as an education advisor.
1:35.0	So can you tell us what got you to Somalia and what you were doing and what your life was like out in back in the US outside of doing this kind of work?
1:47.0	Sure. So I'm a teacher by profession and when I was finishing up my college degree, you know, you do a student teaching a stent and I decided to pick the furthest place possible.
2:01.0	And I found it there's must have been through.
2:04.0	Yeah, I think, yeah, it's a whole other story, but I, you know, I was born and bred to explore and to be adventurous, I think.
2:13.0	And so they weren't necessarily surprised at all. But my school had never had anybody, my college had never had anybody do their student teaching in Africa before.
2:22.0	And I was like, well, somebody's got to be first. So I found a school, an international school in Nairobi, Kenya, the Rosalind Academy.
2:30.0	That did did stuff like this and got the whole thing set up actually started this international teaching student teaching program for my school.
2:40.0	It's still going.
2:42.0	Yeah, yeah, I believe so.
2:45.0	And while the school is the University of Alley Forge.
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