460 Days in the Darkness of Somalia | Amanda Lindhout | Ep. 468
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What prompted Amanda and her family to relocate to Vancouver Island?
Okay, got the red smoke.
Mother! Smoke! Okay, west of the smoke. I'm looking at danger close now.
Captain Clearheart
I so deeply want to get up and double check his work. Trust, right? Once it's gone. But here's the thing. I've trusted him in the past.
Oh no.
And it didn't go my way. And so once trust is gone.
Michael.
It what? It never
goes your
way. Oh what are you on the uh what are you on the road for? I mean I know you guys are making your way from B C where you where you
We're we're just relocating within the province, so we're moving to Vancouver Island. Um a place called North Saanich, which is really close to Victoria.
My wife has a friend, female how what's the appropriate way to say this? Sorry. No, it she I wanna say previous MMA fire. Sorry, sir, if I'm incorrectly describing. She is a police officer very I think she might be on Vancouver Island, actually. And if that is the case, I will link you guys up.
Yeah, please.
She's a badass.
Cool.
Why did Amanda keep choosing dangerous war‑zone assignments?
She tries to rip my face off when we train jujitsu and it's I did nothing to her at all. I don't deserve any of the aggression she comes at me with. But she is gnarly. Um and I'm pretty sure That's where she lives and works.
Okay. Well if that's so, yes, please, connections would be great.
I get confused sometimes 'cause there's a Vancouver, Washington as well. But they lives there. Yes. And then it's not that far from Vancouver, BC, so yeah, people could really probably benefit. Why the move though?
Well, Nelson is a beautiful place, as you know. Um, but it's in the middle of frickin' nowhere. So
kind of is
Um, it is part of what makes it really special and nice, but you know, I've been there for f we've been there for five years and I'm just on the road a lot. I do a lot of public speaking and it's a slog to get in and out. So we have to drive four hours to the Kelowna airport, which isn't a major airport, so then there's usually a connection flight. And you know, in some months like May was it for us because I think I had like six different flights that month. So that was six separate trips to Kelowna, eight hours round trip each, and I just went, No, we can't do this anymore.
Would it almost be closer to go to Spokane? You obviously have to cross through the border. Yeah,
yeah, and we've used Spokane too. We've sort of utilized all that's available in the area. Yeah, why not? Nelson is just too remote. So we were like, where can we move that's beautiful in pristine nature near a good airport? And it wasn't really clear to us for a while. We were just kind of like sitting thinking about it. And I have a uh one of my best girlfriends lives on Vancouver Island. And I was kind of reminiscing about some nice memories there and thought, Oh my God, Vancouver Island, that could be the place and so Yeah, that's it felt good, it felt right.
I mean, life's kind of an adventure anyway.
Mm-hmm.
What's the worst case? It's not right and then you find another place that might be right.
Yeah, exactly. I think flexibility is really underrated. People are people really like structure and routine and that works for some people. I've always been a super flexible and adaptable person. And so the idea of moving um is exciting to me. Yeah. Yeah. I've moved a lot in my life.
You have lived a lot of life in your life so far. Your story is pretty I don't know the correct word. It's wild and fascinating, but for l largely the wrong reasons. Um, not that you were making bad choices, but you found yourself in some situations that were Pretty utterly horrendous, or a situation that was for sure. How did you find Nelson?
I don't know, testing my own boundaries and I had traveled around the world a lot, crossing a lot of borders, and yeah, I think my my ability to be with danger just increased over time. I had spent time in Afghanistan and Iraq and
There's traveling the world and there's time in Afghanistan and Iraq and then Somalia. Those are two very different things.
Yeah.
Do you truly view it as reckless now?
Oh God, yeah. Yes. I mean, I'm forty-five years old now. And looking back on this younger version of myself, I mean, I I've accepted it.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What prompted Amanda and her family to relocate to Vancouver Island?
0:01–1:15
2
Why did Amanda keep choosing dangerous war‑zone assignments?
1:15–11:11
3
How did Amanda’s early experiences shape her willingness to take risks?
11:11–30:34
4
What was the plan and outcome of the escape attempt from captivity?
30:34–1:26:39
5
How did Amanda finally get her chains cut and what happened when she was moved to a new group?
1:26:39–1:40:41
6
What was the experience of being taken to the hospital, meeting her mother, and receiving a Complex PTSD diagnosis?
1:40:41–1:54:25
7
How did Amanda navigate the trial of her captor, the courtroom testimony, and the aftermath of the legal process?
1:54:25–2:18:31
8
What role did plant medicines, ayahuasca, and later life choices play in Amanda’s long‑term healing and return to public speaking?
2:18:31–2:51:51
Speakers
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