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Choosing Opportunity in the Impossible
Jessica is an expert in impossible circumstances. What on the outside appears to be limited options and impossible circumstances can be a chance for opportunity with the right mindset.
Hi, I'm Jessica Buchanan
I'm a kidnapping survivor, New York Times and Amazon Bestselling Author, motivational keynote speaker, and expert in finding opportunity in the impossible.
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 choice in the middle of their own life-changing event.
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New York Times Bestseller
Impossible Odds
The kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six
A harrowing and heartwrenching memoir of humanitarian aid worker Jessica Buchanan’s kidnapping by Somali land pirates, her three months in captivity, her rescue by the SEAL Team Six, and her husband’s extraordinary efforts to help bring her home.
How To Survive Survival
In Surviving Survival, kidnapping survivor and New York Times bestselling author Jessica Buchanan asks the deeper question that comes after trauma, loss, and heartbreak: Now what? Through raw honesty, soulful reflection, and powerful storytelling, Jessica shares her own journey of rebuilding a life after surviving the unthinkable—and introduces readers to others who have turned their deepest wounds into a force for good.
A Guide to Turning Life's Hardest Moments into Meaningful Contribution for the World
