Life Line - Stories of Changemakers for the SDGs

Nida explains how she first started the surfing movement in Myanmar by training kids from rural villages, on a beach she found randomly by looking for a life guard!

🇲🇲 Nida Soe is a surfer who led Myanmar’s first-ever surfing delegation at the South East Asia Games in 2019. 

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🇲🇲 Nida Soe is a surfer who led Myanmar’s first-ever surfing delegation at the South East Asia Games in 2019. 

🌊 As her surfing journey built her confidence and created so many opportunities, she believes that surfing can help the youth connect with their power of action and co-founded the Surfing Association of Myanmar to fulfil her mission.

🏄 She dreams to build a professional surfing ecosystem in Myanmar through which the youth can learn the values of hard work, develop their resilience, connect with the nature, get exposed to new opportunities and become professional athletes.  

💪 She shares how she organised the first surfing trainings in Myanmar, how she can identify the best surfing spots with Google Earth, how she collected half-broken surfing boards from all around the world and how she prepared the national surfing team for the SEA Games. 

Hope it makes you keen to start your own surfing journey! :D

❤️ TIMELINE: 

10’ - Discovering new surfing spots in Myanmar with Google Earth

15’ - Growing up as an athlete

27’ - Choosing between the national basketball team or pursuing university

34’ - Learning surfing the hard way on California’s beaches

49’ - Training the first wave of surfers in Myanmar

62’ - Representing Myanmar at the South East Asia Games 2019

88’ - Surfers’ connection with the oceans and the environment

106’ - Helping people understand complexity through data with Thibi

🗒️ REFERENCES:

About the Surf Association of Myanmar.

About the startup Thibi.

Connect with Nida on LinkedIn.

To read about her story, click here or here.

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Michael explains how Blue Dragon rescues Vietnamese children from human trafficking. Over the last 15 years, Blue Dragon has rescued 1,049 people from trafficking, sent 5,739 kids back to school & training, placed 359 teens in jobs, served 621,193 meals, built 210 homes for families, obtained legal papers for 13,518 people… and much more!

For the full episode, check "#35 Michael Brosowski 🇦🇺 - Rescuing Vietnamese children in crisis 🇻🇳" wherever you are listening :D

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🇻🇳 Michael Brosowski and his team at Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation are providing exceptional care to street kids in Vietnam, with the dream that every street kid has someone taking care of them. 

💪 They started supporting street kids in 2002 to lift them out of poverty and send them back to school. When they realized that street kids were a vulnerable target for human trafficking, they embarked on a journey to fight trafficking and rescue trafficked people. 

😍 Since 2002, Blue Dragon has rescued 1,049 people from trafficking, sent 5,739 kids back to school & training, placed 359 teens in jobs, served 621,193 meals, built 210 homes for families, obtained legal papers for 13,518 people… and much more!

👏 Michael shares how his childhood shaped his willingness to help other people, how he started this 20-year journey by teaching English to street kids in Hanoi with a group of volunteers and how Blue Dragon evolved over the years with more than 100 staff dedicated to making the lives of street kids better.

🤝 We also discuss his initial career as an ESL teacher, his love for Vietnam and his advice to everyone who wants to make a change: identify what you are good at and share it with other people!

❤️ TIMELINE: 

14’ - Trust as the key ingredient towards empowerment - ‘you get out of people what you expect’

28’ - From anti-poverty to anti-trafficking

47’ - It all started by teaching English to Vietnamese street kids

56’ - From a team of volunteers to a team of 100 staff in 15 years

95’ - Identify what you are good at and share it with other people

🗒️ REFERENCES:

The story of Luong.

More stories from Blue Dragon.

About Blue Dragon Children's Foundation.

Connect with Michael on LinkedIn.

Michael’s TEDx Talk - Winning the fight against human trafficking.

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This teaser is a masterclass to boost your employability skills! Carla shares how she built her own curriculum after dropping out of university to learn the skills that really mattered for her - those that would make her stand out in the job market.

For the full episode, search for "#34 Carla Mumar 🇵🇭 - Developing a growth, grit and hacker mindset" wherever you are listening right now :D

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🇵🇭 Carla Mumar is serving underserved students in the Philippines to help them develop a growth mindset and their « grit » so they can find a purpose and unleash their potential.

✅ Carla always believed that she could have a fulfilling life without ticking all the boxes and wanted to prove she could be successful without a university degree. 

🤩 She started her career as a call centre agent and then created her own curriculum to self-learn all the skills she needed to climb the corporate ladder and stand out in the job market.

💪 While she faced countless rejections, her hacker mindset and grit - passion and perseverance in service of a long-term goal - eventually led her to become a trainer and then founder of SCALE Solutions, to bring everything she has learned back to the community.

🎯 She shared how her life is an ongoing test and trial, where every job and experience was an opportunity to refine her purpose: to equip the marginalized youth with the skills they need to succeed and achieve their dreams. We discuss the unexpected start of SCALE Solutions, her mental health and wellbeing routine and explore her hacker mindset.

❤️ TIMELINE: 

8’ - Growing up outside of the box and society’s expectations

33’ - Disrupting her own education and hacking the system

51’ - How to develop a growth mindset

60’ - Fulfilling her purpose to serve underserved students with SCALE Solutions

100’ - Documenting her personal journey through a podcast

🗒️ REFERENCES:

About SCALE Solutions.

Listen to her podcast “A Dose of Intensity”.

Connect with Carla on LinkedIn.

Great TED Talk to understand “Grit”.

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In this teaser, Ashreen Mridha shares some of the impact stories of Deshi Ballers that keep her going along the years, despite all the struggles and challenges.

For the full episode, please search "#33 Ashreen Mridha 🇧🇩 - Women’s empowerment through basketball" wherever you are listening to Life Line :).

🇧🇩 Ashreen Mridha is the former captain of Bangladesh national basketball team and co-founder of Deshi Ballers, a women-led organization on a mission to: 

-empower women and girls through basketball;

-advocate for equal rights for women to access sports;

-and promote basketball in a cricket and football-dominated country.

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🇧🇩 Ashreen Mridha is the former captain of Bangladesh national basketball team and co-founder of Deshi Ballers, a women-led organization on a mission to: 

-empower women and girls through basketball;

-advocate for equal rights for women to access sports;

-and promote basketball in a cricket and football-dominated country.

🏀 She walks us through her journey from discovering basketball as a school kid to creating the first university’s women league and joining the first-ever national women team.

💪 She shares how basketball taught her the values of teamwork, care and discipline, how she grew the Deshi Ballers community and her dreams to set up the first national women’s basketball league in Bangladesh!

Hope you are as excited as me to learn more about empowerment through sports! :)

❤️ TIMELINE: 

12’ - The pioneer of women basketball in Bangladesh

25’ - Basketball teaches you teamwork and discipline

36’ - A good coach can train you to get better, a great coach can change your life

46’ - Learning from the San Antonio’s Spurs through the Global Sports Mentoring Program

56’ - The birth of Deshi Ballers and its recipe for success

73’ - Impact stories of Deshi Ballers

94’ - Empowering the next generation of women basketball players in Bangladesh

🗒️ REFERENCES:

Follow Deshi Ballers on Facebook and Instagram

About the Global Sports Mentoring Program.

Netflix’s show about coaching - The Playbook.

Connect with Ashreen on LinkedIn.

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In this teaser, David Nguyen shares about his giver and pay-it-forward mindset, the ingredients for a great story, and explains why he would slap his younger self!

For the full episode, please search "#32 David Nguyen 🇨🇭🇻🇳 - Spreading joy, one movie at a time" wherever you are listening to Life Line :).

🇨🇭🇻🇳 David Nguyen is an award-winning filmmaker and movie director from Switzerland with Vietnamese roots. 

🥳 David makes movies to spread joy and put a smile on our face and to convey values such as hard work and perseverance, so we discuss how he created his own crazy, poetic and optimistic style over the years, why he has a give first mindset, and his role in society as a film director. 

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🇨🇭🇻🇳 David Nguyen is an award-winning filmmaker and movie director from Switzerland with Vietnamese roots. 

💪 He is the best film director I’ve ever met and worked with, whether it’s for his passion, creativity, craziness or talent - he has everything and that’s why his movies were screened in so many international film festivals all around the world! (Gässli Film Festival, Schweizer Jugendfilmtage, Fribourg International Film Festival, PÖFF SHORTS, Liverpool International Film Festival, and many more!).

🎥 David shares how he’s always been following this passion: he had his first camera at 5, started to make his own movies and he never stopped until today.

🥳 David makes movies to spread joy and put a smile on our face and to convey values such as hard work and perseverance, so we discuss how he created his own crazy, poetic and optimistic style over the years, why he has a give first mindset, and his role in society as a film director. 

So grab a drink and enjoy the interview with David! I recommend you to watch on YouTube for the full experience, or at least to watch his movies below in the references ;)

🎤 “Some people say… I'm too kind, that maybe it's a bit dangerous because I'm too nice and I can't say no sometimes. Last time, I was helping a group of kids, they have a dancing crew and they just asked me if I could help them make a video, and I said yes! I don't know why, because I think I saw myself in them, struggling before, and I wanted to be the person that I dreamed to meet back then, someone who can help me. And also because this person I dreamed to meet, I also met! When I was younger, when I was learning, I always had a teacher or I always had someone who came and who gave me a big gift, you know, so, so big, I was so embarrassed... how to say thank you? And they just told me that it doesn't matter, just enjoy and just pursue your career”.

❤️ TIMELINE: 

9’ - Playing with his first camera at 5 years old and making his first movies

25’ - The best way to network is to make friends and help people

40’ - Helping people with giver mindset, avoiding people with taker mindset

49’ - Conveying the values of perseverance and hard work through his movie “Open Minded”

68’ - His role in society as a filmmaker and movie director

75’ - Making movies is an ongoing experimentation

94’ - Tips for aspiring filmmakers: grab a camera, record, show it to your friends, until you find your own style

🗒️ REFERENCES:

Visit the world of David on his amazing website.

Follow him on Instagram for funny & crazy videos.

Watch & share his latest movie “A Very Good Impression (Delhi Hip - Acco)".

Watch & share his movie “Open Minded".

Watch & share his movie “The Learning Hub - The Movie” (with me!).

Connect with David on LinkedIn.

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