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“I handed over my title as Miss Universe a good amount of years ago, and I remember walking off that stage feeling like I forgot something,” Demi Tebow advised Fresh News Digital in an on-camera interview.
She additionally survived a dramatic carjacking try — and felt endlessly modified by these experiences and others. She’s taken what she’s discovered and used it to assist others.
Speaking from Jacksonville, Florida, the spouse of Tim Tebow shared her give attention to discovering a stronger sense of private id amid change, uncertainty and worry — and serving to others to do the identical by a brand new e book, “A Crown That Lasts.” (See the video on the prime of this text.)
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“I left something, you know?” she mentioned about strolling off the stage that day after her Miss Universe time period was full.
“You know, you rush out of a hotel room and you’re like, ‘Oh, I’m forgetting something. Do I have my passport? Do I have my keys? Do I have my ring? Whatever that is. And you just feel like you forgot something.”
“I had to go through a process of untangling the roots of my identity, of uprooting weeds of doubt before I was able to plant new seeds of truth,” Demi Tebow advised Fresh News Digital. Her new e book is “A Crown That Lasts.” (Micah Kandros; W Publishing Group)
She added, “And I wasn’t able to fully figure out what I had forgotten on that stage when I handed over my title for probably a good year or two afterward.”
Tebow mentioned that after the conclusion of her year-long time period (2017-2018) of serving as Miss Universe, she “had to go through a process of untangling the roots of my identity, of uprooting weeds of doubt before I was able to plant new seeds of truth.”
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“Eventually I realized that I had left my identity on that stage alongside my Miss Universe crown, because I had attached my worth, my value to the thing that I thought made me important, worthy.”
“I believe we are called to strive for excellence.”
She added, “As believers, I believe that we are called to strive for excellence, chasing that corner office, that dream job, that next paycheck, that dream car, whatever that might be.”
And “it’s not like any of those things are bad, but it’s when we attach our identity to something that is temporary that we walk a real tightrope.”
That was her inspiration for her new e book, revealed this week on August 13.
“My book is titled ‘A Crown That Lasts,’ and while, ironically, my crown did not last, I know that I have been able, through the process that I have gone through the last couple of years, to find an identity that is rooted in not just something, but something that is eternal.”
“The major catalyst was the horrific carjack that I experienced at gunpoint.”
After serving as each Miss South Africa and Miss Universe, Tebow has been energetic as a philanthropist, entrepreneur and speaker, significantly in her give attention to serving to different girls perceive the way to deal with harmful eventualities after she survived an tried carjacking.
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It’s why she based a mission she calls the #Unbreakable Campaign.
“‘Unbreakable’ was born when I wanted to really empower college students with how to look out for themselves, how to be preventative in certain situations,” she advised Fresh News Digital.
“‘Unbreakable’ was born when I wanted to empower college students with how to look out for themselves, how to be preventative in certain situations,” mentioned Tebow in an interview with Fresh News Digital. (Micah Kandros)
“Growing up in South Africa, unfortunately, women and children face severe amounts of domestic violence and abuse, and [this] has really broken my heart for women all around the world.
“It began in my residence nation, and actually, the factor that serves as the key catalyst for me — rising ‘Unbreakable’ and wanting to succeed in extra girls around the globe — was the horrific carjack that I skilled at gunpoint.”
She shared the experience in vivid detail.
Demi Tebow spoke to Fresh News Digital about experiences in her life that have led her to charitable and philanthropic work. Her new book is “A Crown That Lasts.” (Micah Kandros)
“Shortly after I gained Miss South Africa, about three months later, I used to be on my option to an occasion because the official Miss South Africa … And I used to be stopped at a purple visitors gentle. And earlier than I might even blink, I used to be surrounded by 5 males, by a number of males, and a few of them have been armed.
“I knew not to go to the second destination.”
“You know, in a traumatic situation like that, it’s hard to react. It’s hard to know exactly what to do. But I knew two things. And it’s because my dad forced me to go on safety driving courses, on self-defense workshops” earlier in her life.
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“In that traumatic situation, I knew not to go to the second destination, because whatever is about to happen somewhere downtown, in some dark alley with [maybe more people present] is not going to be better than right here: broad daylight, peak-hour traffic with hundreds of people around me.
“And, so, I attempted to run away. I attempted to get out of that car. The man on my aspect of the car grabbed me, pushed me again into the car, mentioned, ‘Get in, you are going with us.'”
And that’s when she remembered “the second factor,” she mentioned.
Demi Tebow, along with husband Tim Tebow, has dedicated her time to helping others in need. (Tim Tebow Foundation)
“The throat. It’s clearly deadly. So please do not ever do this at residence. It’s completely simply for use in a life-threatening scenario. But I punched him as exhausting as I might in his throat, and that purchased me a split-second window of alternative to run away.”
“It really formed my coronary heart to proceed preventing for girls around the globe.”
“That incident was so dramatic,” she added. “But essentially the most dramatic a part of that story was working up that avenue in broad daylight … Nobody would cease to assist me.
“I remember looking over my shoulder, not knowing if I’m being chased and [about to be] shot in the back, not knowing what their intent was. I just knew that it was not good.”
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“That moment really broke my heart and made me never want to be one of the [people behind] the many car windows that I knocked on, begging, asking, yelling for help. I want to be the one girl that eventually stopped for me … to help somebody in need.
“And, you understand, I’ve devoted the final couple of years of my life and in such an enormous manner to make use of what I’ve with the place I’m to serve folks in want.”
Tim Tebow and Demi Tebow are active together in the fight against human trafficking. (Derek White/Getty Images)
And “it really formed my coronary heart to proceed preventing for girls around the globe,” she said.
“It began off with studying about what girls in South Africa face, but it surely has snowballed and grown into studying in regards to the battle in opposition to human trafficking, about preventing for survivors of human trafficking and having the ability to present for them.
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“My husband and I, when we first met, you know, being from two different countries, we didn’t necessarily always have a lot of things in common, but we had so much purpose in the fight against human trafficking.”
It is why, she mentioned, that for each our birthdays this yr, we have now chosen by alternative ways to battle in opposition to human trafficking by loving and caring for the victims and the survivors of human trafficking.”
Each yr Tim Tebow has been utilizing his early-August birthday to assist shine a light-weight on the wants of others, as he did final yr as properly, as he has advised Fresh News Digital beforehand. The Tebows work to boost consciousness in regards to the disturbing developments and development of human trafficking — estimated to be a $150 billion trade, with some 50 million folks trapped in bondage, Tebow and his workforce have famous.
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