Jamie Mustard
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But then three years later, I go forward six feet because I endured so much pain.
If there's one thing I was good at, that was very painful is I can endure pain like no one you've ever met.
I can endure it.
I can steal myself.
I just think that if you are willing to slide back a lot and then try it slightly differently to the point where you're 10 years in and you know you're going to fail, but you change it just a little bit because you're analyzing and you're curious, you can do impossible things.
Yeah, I mean, it's surreal.
You know, it's surreal and it doesn't feel like a victory.
It feels there's a lot of survivor's guilt.
People act like it's in my past, like it's this thing that I conquered that's 40 years ago.
But really, Jordan, it's not in my past.
This happened to thousands of kids on four continents over 40 years, and we're all aging out.
And this is the story of the kids of the religious paramilitary.
And even with Going Clear, and even with what Leah showed, Leah Remini, the story of the lost children of Scientology has never been told.
And I really do believe if people knew what happened to us in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, what happened to us kids in that environment, they would stop it.
I feel like even if you looked at what just happened in Gaza, it was just too many dead kids that all these people that would never speak out against Israel, and I want to get to the politics of it, started speaking out against it.
Why?
Too many dead kids.
It's like a tolerance for the suffering.
There's a line for the suffering of children.
And I felt that our story being hidden