Life Line - Stories of Changemakers for the SDGs

😍 We are welcoming back Linka Lin for the 3rd time on Line Line, after listening to her story on episodes 1 and 25!

🇨🇳 She previously shared with us how she reinvented herself, from being a Chinese-English translator to, now, a community builder, mentor, cheerleader, and youth advocate for thousands of youth in Asia-Pacific with UNDP. Her mission is to be a dose of inspiration for others and to spread kindness around her. 

😇 In this 3rd chapter, we dive deeper into who Linka really is. We explore how her identity evolves as she knows herself better and how she wants people to remember her. 

💪 We discuss her relationship with martial arts, why it’s more than a sport for her, and why enduring physical pain makes her a better person.

🙌 And finally, she shares about the books that helped her become a more action-oriented person and understand the world around her!

🗒️ References:

-Listen to the first episode with Linka.

-Listen to the second episode with Linka.

-About Atomic Habits, GRIT, The Courage To Be Disliked.

-Connect with Linka on LinkedIn.

-Connect with Linka on Goodreads.

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Shiropa shares how she decided to quit her job as a renowned journalist to pursue her dream to change the narrative around mental health in Bangladesh, by founding the social enterprise Moner Bondhu.

So far, they So far, they have:

👉 Benefitted more than 2 million people in Bangladesh

👉 Set up a 24/7 hotline during COVID

👉 Launched the first online course on mental health in Bangla language

👉 Created a physical wellbeing center in a factory for 8,000 garment workers

👉 and much more!

To listen to the full episode, search for "#39 Tawhida Shiropa 🇧🇩 - Providing mental health services for all in Bangladesh with Moner Bondhu" wherever you are listening right now, or you can click here!

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🇧🇩 Tawhida Shiropa is a social entrepreneur from Bangladesh providing access to mental health services for all with Moner Bondhu, and former journalist with The Daily Prothom Alo, the largest circulated newspaper in Bangladesh. 

😇 She shares her journey discovering the world of mental health as her mother struggled with depression, and how she started Moner Bondhu to break the taboo around mental health and provide relevant support services to as many people as possible. 

💪 “When you are in crisis, you can count on us” is their motto, and they have benefitted more than 2 million people in Bangladesh so far by providing counselors, a 24/7 hotline, the first certified online course in Bengali, physical centers in garment factories and much more.

✍️ We also go through her career as a renowned journalist for 11 years and how she had to prove herself 3 times, as an aspiring writer, as a youth and as a woman to find success.

🏆 She received multiple awards acknowledging her amazing work from UNDP, UN Women, YSEALI or Acumen.

🗒️ REFERENCES:

About Moner Bondhu.

Beautiful portrait of Moner Bondhu by Youth Co:Lab.

Connect with Shiropa on LinkedIn.

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Thuy Anh shares the journey of how she co-founded 4 social enterprises that are aimed to improve the lives of kids and the elderly - ALIGO Kids, ALIGO Media, Memory Love Book, and HASU.

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🇻🇳 Thuy Anh Ngo is a 4-time social entrepreneur from Vietnam on a mission to support kids and the elderly to enjoy a healthy and fulfilling life.

💪 After she refused an extremely high-paying job at Wall Street, she came back to Vietnam to launch ALIGO Kids, a platform that has taught key life skills and child sexual abuse prevention through educational cartoons for 70,000 children and families.

👵 Working with so many families, she also realized that while children have so many opportunities and are constantly exposed to new technologies, the elderly are left behind.

🤳 Thuy Anh and her team then distributed smartphones and conducted digital literacy workshops for thousands of elderly, and it quickly evolved to become HASU, an app helping the elderly to take care of their mental health, physical health and social relationships, that has been used by 12,000 people to date.

🥰 She shares how she has identified the issues she cares about and how it has evolved over the years, which translated into her co-founding 4 different social enterprises: ALIGO Kids, HASU, and also ALIGO Media and Memory Love Book that you will discover in this episode.

🏆 She was recently selected as Forbes 30 Under 30 in Vietnam and as Global Ambassador for Samsung Generation17.

🗒️ REFERENCES:

About HASU.

Connect with Thuy Anh on LinkedIn.

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Tutii Chilton shares his parenting philosophy, how he's trying to create an enabling environment for his 2 daughters to grow and follow their dreams. His 2 daughters were respectively representing Palau at the Tokyo Olympics and at the Dubai Expo 2020.

For the full episode, search for "#37 Tutii Chilton 🇵🇼 - What if the opposite was true?" wherever you are currently listening or just click here!

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🇵🇼 Tutii Chilton is an educator, sports for development advocate and storyteller from Palau, a small Island State in the Pacific. 

🤠 He is passionate about philosophy and defines himself as a “contrarian” as he’s always reflecting on this question: « what if the opposite was true? ».

💪 His love for philosophy made him become a professor at the Palau Community College for more than 15 years, during which he kept asking his students: “what if the opposite was true?”. What if Palau was self-sufficient? What if Palauan youth were role models for other youth across the world? What if Palau was narrating its own story to the world?

🎤 "Relationships are more important than being right".

🎯 Tutii has also been engaged with the Olympic Committee of Palau for the last 20 years to develop sports as a means for youth empowerment and for putting Palau on the global map. You never know, what if Palau brought back an Olympic gold medal in archery in 2024?

We discuss his long quest bringing his 2 passions - philosophy and sports - together, finding his purpose to make people think, and finding his community which was just around the corner in Palau.

Enjoy this super cool episode and how it makes you think! 

❤️ TIMELINE: 

10’ - Creating an enabling environment for his daughters

19’ - Empowering Palauan youth to think, take action & solve problems by themselves

51’ - Which community do you belong to?

61’ - Empowering youth through new sports in Palau

81’ - Being ready for the future

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💪 Shaan Suhas Kumar is a gender, climate and youth empowerment advocate. We discuss her life-changing experience with Teach For India, where she discovers the education crisis in her country by teaching in low-income communities. We discuss her transition being a model to live her childhood dream and inspire others with her climate advocacy.

🇮🇳 She walks us through how she became Miss Earth India 2017 and her following journey exploring climate action, social entrepreneurship and now gender equality. Shaan shares with us what she learned along the way becoming a public figure and her plans for the future to keep on learning and inspiring others!

❤️ TIMELINE:

5' - Realizing the flaws of India's education system with Teach For India

19' - Following her intuition & starting small to create a documentary on Teach For India alumni

26' - Going back to her dreams of being a model

38' - Developing her environmental and climate advocacy

47' - Becoming Miss Earth India 2017

68' - Stop thinking that you haven't done good enough

71' - How to receive criticism

81' - APYE and Jagriti Yatra: 2 life-changing experiences

104' - The dots will connect... be patient!

👉 Reach out to her on Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn.

👉 References: we speak about Teach For India, Climate Tracker, Miss Earth, Asia Pacific Youth Exchange, Jagriti Yatra, World Merit and Wedu.

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In this special episode, we will reflect a bit on why and how "trust" plays a role in reconnecting with our power of action. All the Life Line guests have received trust in their journey, and this trust enabled them to believe in themselves, to feel motivated and capable, and to be accountable for the world they want to see. The most beautiful thing? They all pay it forward, they all "trust it forward" to the next generation.

Only when someone trusted you, when no one else did, that you can understand the transformative power of trust. Enjoy!

And here are a few questions for you to take away in 2022:

• Who trusted you when no one else did?
• Who trusted you when you didn't even trust yourself?
• Who are you trusting that no one else does?
• Who are you trusting that don't even trust themselves?

Share your #TrustStory with us :)

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💪 Shomy Hasan Chowdhury is a Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) activist from Bangladesh and co-founder of Awareness 360, a youth-led organization that aims to empower youth across the world to do community service. Shomy shares why she decided to dedicate her time and energy to ensure that no one dies from diarrhea.

We discuss how Awareness 360 started in a burger joint and now has 1500 volunteers in 20+ countries. We discuss what are important milestones in her life that shaped who she is today and finally, she shares with us her love for Bangladesh and how she wants everyone to know about this amazing country!

🇧🇩 Shomy has received many recognitions for her social work of over a decade, notably the President’s Volunteer Service Award (Gold) in 2012 from President Barack Obama for her outstanding contribution to community service. She has also brought pride to her nation by becoming the first and only Bangladeshi to have been awarded the 2019 Princess Diana Legacy Award for her humanitarian work continuing Princess Diana’s legacy. She is currently serving as Global UNDP-Samsung Ambassador.

🎤 “I felt like I really need to step up, take action, go out there and tell people that: look, I lost my mom four days ago because of this, so please take these things seriously so that you don't lose the people you love. So that's pretty much when it started and ever since I continued my WASH activism”.

❤️ TIMELINE:

4' - Growing up doing community service and meeting Barack Obama

11' - The beginning of her WASH Activism

18' - The birth of Awareness 360 in a burger joint

23' - Why being empathetic shaped her activism and social work

32' - On a mission to leave no one behind, starting with sex workers

41' - Representing Bangladesh on the global stage

👉 You can contact Shomy and follow Awareness360 on Facebook!

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