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BodCast Episode 93: Knowing No Limits with Leah Goldstein

Original Strength Bodcast

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Pursuing a Childhood Dream in the Israeli Defense Force

Exploring the guest's childhood aspiration to join the Israeli Defense Force, their family's covert intelligence background, and their experience as a pioneering female lead instructor in a specialized intelligence base training commandos.

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Speaker 1
So
Speaker 2
okay, so how did you go from from that, which is amazing, just that alone, that's that one thing. And then you decided to transition and join the Israeli defense force. Oh,
Speaker 1
I wanted to do that since I was seven years old, that was my dream. Like when I say James Bond, I wanted to work for the intelligence, right? You know, because many members of my family are involved in that type of work and everything was kind of a secret in my family, you know, my parents told us don't say anything on the phone. So kind of almost like they're, they're breathing us, they're grooming us to do that type of work, right? And we went every year back to the Middle East and I was, that was just my dream. I was going to do, you know, join the IDF, the Israel Defense Force, then from their transition into the police department and hopefully work something in the intelligence department. And that's exactly what happened. And,
Speaker 2
and when you were in the Defense Force, you became the first female and lead instructor, right? Yeah, yes.
Speaker 1
Yeah. Because they it was a selection base, right? Like they take about 360 soldiers that have a unique skill or something they think they might be able to use different departments. And from that 360 of us, we, they narrowed us down to five and I was part of that five. And in that five, they were going to, we were going to be sent to, you know, different intelligence bases throughout the country. And I actually went to a training base called Base 8, where a lot of the intelligence department, it's not only in Israel, but in the United States, in Canada, all over the world, they come there for training. And because my first language is English, I mean, for foreigners that came in, I trained them. And also, again, like you said, I was the first female instructor to train the commando.

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