Elizabeth Smart

And that's not fair.

And I mean, it just makes me feel like...

That needs to change.

And I need to do something about it.

And everyone deserves the same attention that I received.

And everyone deserves their story to be heard.

And everyone deserves to come home.

Everyone deserves their chance at life.

When did you come to kind of that realization?

Obviously, this is this has been an ever evolving process for you, not only of how you have dealt with what happened to you and made sure you were OK and your family is OK.

What made like you come to this realization that, OK, now I need I need to take what's happened and like make something out of it?

And then specifically, what was there a case or a reason that drew you to the Native American community specifically?

So, like I said, I haven't always been as heavily involved in speaking out or advocacy as I am now.

But I mean, it kind of was baby steps.

It was kind of like wading into the pool because truthfully, when I got home, I needed to heal.

I needed to accept that my life was never going to be what it had once been.

I could never go back and be the girl that I was before I was kidnapped.

And so I had to really make peace with this new normal.

There was no going backwards.

I could only accept what was here and now.