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In Detours, Elizabeth Smart explores how trauma can derail one’s path in life and shares her struggles with captivity, reintegration, and resilience. Using the metaphor of life as a road, Smart introduces four key “Rest Stops” for navigating life’s detours—grieving lost paths, embracing change, seeking connections, and redefining destinations. Through themes of hope, community, and self-discovery, she inspires listeners to find strength in their own journeys toward healing.

Life’s side roads often hold powerful lessons. Right Wrong Turns explores how the twists we didn’t see coming can become our greatest teachers. Through candid conversations, host Jen Morales talks with guests who’ve found clearer direction after detours they never imagined, and helps us see the threads of meaning and truth that make their stories matter for all of us. Each episode shares hard-won wisdom rarely heard publicly, connecting personal experience with broader ideas about how we navigate uncertainty, find meaning, and learn to shift each “wrong” step closer to our right path...

Have you had a detour in your life? It can be life-changing. To experience this at a young age further complicates things! Although this book is geared toward young and teen parents, anyone who has faced a detour will find affirmation and encouragement about life after a detour.

Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/detours/subscribe Keeping with the same format that I used to write my book (The Book of Osten), I sit down with the most interesting people I know. By letting them tell their story, I give my listeners a look at how a person's precisely fallen life events lead them to where they are today. Truth is stranger than fiction and everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is listen. I love getting to know people and strengthening relationships by hearing another person's side of the story. Follow me as I show the world through ...

Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/detours/subscribe Keeping with the same format that I used to write my book (The Book of Osten), I sit down with the most interesting people I know. By letting them tell their story, I give my listeners a look at how a person's precisely fallen life events lead them to where they are today. Truth is stranger than fiction and everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is listen. I love getting to know people and strengthening relationships by hearing another person's side of the story. Follow me as I show the world through ...

Ophelia Dahl has just buried her beloved father when she finds among his personal effects a blindsiding document. The mother Ophelia thought died thirty years ago isn’t dead after all—she abandoned her. But how could she, and where is she now? With some neighborly help, Ophelia’s going to find out. Beau Augustin is an acclaimed author and Ophelia’s childhood bestie turned teenage nemesis, still chafing after all these years.

Like every girl, Sarah Jakes dreamed of a life full of love, laughter, and happy endings. But her dreams changed dramatically when she became pregnant at age 13. Sarah's captivating story, unflinchingly honest and deeply vulnerable, is a vivid reminder that God can turn even the deepest pain into His perfection. More than a memoir, Lost and Found offers hope and encouragement. Perhaps you, like Sarah, find yourself wandering the detours of life. Regardless of how lost you feel, you, too, can be found.

Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny chart a course for China to return the Reddimus Society's fourth artifact! Along the way they meet old friends and make new ones, but a thief threatens to ruin their trip. Then, after an unexpected stop in Thailand, they meet a suspicious man claiming to work for the Reddimus Society. The Aldens wonder if someone close to them is working for the other side. Who can the Boxcar Children trust to help them?