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What happens when your big dream is dashed? Just for example, say your goal in life was to participate in the Summer Olympics, but you don’t ultimately qualify to represent your nation at the upcoming games -- what do you do? Do you just let the dream die, then tuck your medals into your scrapbook with your junior prom photos?

If you are Simidele Adeagbo you learn a new sport in 100 days so you can compete in the Winter Olympics. And the sport she chose, the skeleton, involves jumping onto a small bobsled, then barreling face down, head-first through an ice chute down a mountain side at 80-100 miles per hour. In 2018, Simidele made Olympic history at the Winter Games, as the first Nigerian Winter Olympian, and the first African and black woman to compete in skeleton at the Olympics.

About REFUGE Talks

The Refuge for DMST and the good people of Central Texas built a place of hope and healing for child survivors of sex trafficking. We’d like to return the favor and build a place of hope and healing for the world.

With REFUGE Talks, we ask great performers, thinkers and doers to have an inspirational video conference call for the girls in our care. This regular series with uplifting segments from a wide variety of speakers intends to inspire not just the girls recovering at The Refuge Ranch, but a whole world that suddenly knows a little more now what isolation and trauma feels like. Now every one of us is hoping to be a survivor.