Elizabeth Smart launches new podcast that focuses on survivors

Flashback: Smart was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City home in 2002 when she was 14 years old by a man who used to work as her family's handyman.

• She was missing for nine months before she was recognized while walking down the street with her abductors, Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee.

What she's saying: "It is very important for our listeners to understand the magnitude of not just the stories, but of the people themselves — what they've been through," Smart told the New York Times.