The Only Way Forward is Back with Jackson TerKeurst

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Jackson TerKeurst was born in Liberia and by the age of 7 was a war orphan living in dire circumstances. So how did he end up as an entrepreneur, leader, and now author? Join us for an inspirational conversation about identity, overcoming, and redemption from Jackson's new book, The Only Way Forward is Back.

In this episode, we discuss:

Cultural differences
How challenges like poverty and food insecurity impacted your first experiences in the States
How did your trauma manifest in your behavior at home?
How did your family help heal those impacts?
Discuss the additional unique challenges that being adopted as a teenager may have presented during your early months and years in your new family.
Discuss how you’ve worked on answering "Who Am I?" across the chapters of your life?
What were the helpful or healing experiences that went into pulling all those parts of your identity together to create today’s Jackson TerKuerst, husband, father, son, brother, entrepreneur, and now author?
What would you say to parents or caregivers who are in the thick of it right now, walking with a child who is struggling to figure out who they are and where they belong?

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Chapters

1. The Only Way Forward is Back with Jackson TerKeurst (00:00:00)

2. A brief overview of the path that led you to international adoption. (00:01:33)

3. When you were traveling with the boys’ choir in the States, you mentioned a few times about feeling overwhelmed by the cultural differences between your home at the orphanage in Liberia and the churches, schools, and homes you experienced in the US. (00:10:56)

4. Can you talk a little bit about the trauma impacts? When you were adopted and learning how to live with your new family, how did those earlier life challenges also manifest in your behavior or thoughts? (00:14:36)

5. What types of things did your new Mom, Dad, and sisters say and do that helped heal those impacts? (00:20:49)

6. Can you discuss the additional unique challenges that being adopted at 16 may have presented during your early months and years in your new family? (00:25:19)

7. You ask, “Who am I?” It’s a great self-reflection for the reader, but it’s also a profound tracing of your identity development. Can you tell me more about how you’ve worked on answering that question across the chapters of your life? (00:30:37)

8. What were the helpful or healing experiences that went into pulling all those parts of your identity together to create today’s Jackson TerKuerst, husband, father, son, brother, entrepreneur, and now author? (00:33:52)

9. What would you say to parents or caregivers who are in the thick of it right now, walking with a child who is struggling to figure out who they are and where they belong? (00:38:08)

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