Life Line - Stories of Changemakers for the SDGs

In this teaser, Alinery shares her childhood growing up in her village in Mizoram (India), how she was the best at school and how all the dots connected for the birth of her social enterprise "Rochun: Pay It Forward".

For the full episode, please search "#16 Alinery Lianhlawng 🇮🇳 - Unleashing the talent of grassroots youth" wherever you are listening to Life Line :).

🇮🇳 Alinery Lianhlawng is a super inspiring social entrepreneur and Indigenous youth leader from the tribal community of Mizoram, in India. She founded Rochun: Pay It Forward which aims to empower youth from grassroots India through education to realize their full potential. 

📚💻 She has built 11 libraries, mentored hundreds of young people, implemented digital literacy programs and brought many international opportunities to her home State. 

🎧 Main link for this episode with all the references and platforms to listen: https://www.lifelinethepodcast.com/post/16alinery.

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In this teaser, Laraib shares the birth of Flare of MASHAL, her social enterprise that empowered 25,000 women to make informed decisions on family planning.

For the full episode, please search "#31 Laraib Abid 🇵🇰 - Bridging the gap in reproductive health" wherever you are listening to Life Line :).

🇵🇰 Laraib Abid is a sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) activist from Pakistan. She has lead actions on this cause from grassroots to policy level and developed the first mobile and web application, “Bridge the Gap”, allowing all youth to trace free and easily accessible SRH services available around them.

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🇵🇰 Laraib Abid is a sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) activist from Pakistan. She has lead actions on this cause from grassroots to policy level and developed the first mobile and web application, “Bridge the Gap”, allowing all youth to trace free and easily accessible SRH services available around them.

💥 She shares her journey launching Flare of MASHAL, which has empowered 25,000 women so far to make informed decisions related to family planning. Flare of MASHAL is a youth and women-led organisation advocating for equal rights in society and women’s empowerment through sexual and reproductive health.

💪 We speak about how she learned to grab life-changing opportunities such as volunteering, scholarships abroad or grants, which made who she is today, and how she lives against the tide, being a woman in tech, and a woman addressing a taboo topic in Pakistan.

🎤 “Sexual, reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is not one war, it's a seed from which so many things grow. Without SRHR, the problems of early age marriages, unhealthy pregnancies, issues between couples or abortion, grow. I always say that it's not about having a small family, it’s about having a healthy family. It's not about when you are going to have a child, but whether you are making a choice to have your family or if it's the peer or family pressure who's asking you”.

❤️ TIMELINE: 

4’ - Living against the tide

22’ - How volunteering taught her how to grab opportunities

48’ - The birth of Flare of MASHAL, to fight for sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR)

58’ - The importance of mastering storytelling to convince your audience

65’ - The situation of SRHR in Pakistan

76’ - Bringing her grassroots work to the policy level

🗒️ References:

About Flare of MASHAL.

Read her amazing interview with Youth Co:Lab.

Connect with Laraib on LinkedIn.

🎧 Where to listen?

YouTube.

Apple Podcasts.

Spotify. 

Google Podcasts.

All platforms: https://www.lifelinethepodcast.com/post/31laraibabid.

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For the full episode, please search "#30 Anahita Hosseini 🇮🇷 - Keep exploring, accepting & improvising" wherever you are listening to :).

🇮🇷 Anahita Hosseini is a multi-talented Iranian youth and a proud generalist who’s always the first one to say “yes” to new things and to take the lead when working on new projects.

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🇮🇷 Anahita Hosseini is a multi-talented Iranian youth and a proud generalist who’s always the first one to say “yes” to new things and to take the lead when working on new projects.

💪 She shares with us why she enjoys learning as much as possible, how she learned to be social and to take risks, and how she built her confidence and leadership skills by embracing her vulnerability. 

💥 She’s an economics student, pianist, singer, performing arts addict and has participated in many international competitions of mathematics and economics since she was 12 years old. 

🎯 She’s now studying her Master’s Degree, working at the United Nations Resident Coordinator Office in Iran, she’s an incredible volunteer with the Movers Programme, climate advocate, aspiring entrepreneur, and wondering whether she should keep being good at many things, or start becoming the best at one thing.

❤️ TIMELINE: 

10’ - Generalist vs. Specialist

25’ - As a generalist, you develop economies of scope and transferable skills

34’ - Learning how to be vulnerable and to take risks

47’ - Only through harms that you can learn how to deal with them

55’ - Learning how to be social and to collaborate with other people

73’ - Discovering the world of social entrepreneurship and finding a community of aspiring entrepreneurs

99’ - The struggle of Iranian students to study abroad and Anahita’s daily struggle as a women

🗒️ References:

Read a short written interview with Life Line.

Support her petition to support Iranian students to study abroad.

Connect with Anahita on LinkedIn.

Listen to her songs on Instagram.

🎧 Where to listen?

YouTube. 

Apple Podcasts.

Spotify.

Google Podcasts.

Deezer.

All platforms.

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For the full episode, please search "#29 Mahenaz Chowdhury 🇧🇩 - Building the slow fashion movement in Bangladesh" wherever you are listening to :).

🇧🇩 Mahenaz Chowdhury is a sustainable fashion, zero waste and gender activist on a mission to break stereotypes and build the slow fashion movement in Bangladesh. She founded the upcycled fashion label Broqué and is the Ambassador for Slow Fashion Bangladesh.

🎧 Main link for this episode with all the references and platforms to listen: https://www.lifelinethepodcast.com/post/29mahenazchowdhury.

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🇧🇩 Mahenaz Chowdhury is a sustainable fashion, zero waste and gender activist on a mission to break stereotypes and build the slow fashion movement in Bangladesh. 

♻️ She founded Broqué, the first upcycled fashion label and textile recycling innovation lab of Bangladesh and is the Ambassador of Slow Fashion Bangladesh. She’s fighting every day to reduce the water impact of the fashion industry, to make fast fashion companies accountable and to encourage citizens to transition to slow fashion. 

💥 She also launched Broqué to break the stereotypes when it comes to gender by designing gender-neutral clothes and by empowering people to celebrate their difference - “Broqué is not a brand, it’s a lifestyle”.

💪 She shares how she grew up in an artistic environment, worked in human resources department for a few years before starting her slow fashion advocacy, through Broqué, articles, exhibitions and workshops throughout Bangladesh.

❤️ TIMELINE: 

6’ - A proud sustainability scientist & zero-waste designer & artist

29’ - Finding her why and celebrating her difference

41’ - The birth of Broqué, its philosophy and its first collection

57’ - Developing a gender-neutral brand to break the stereotypes

68’ - The negative impacts of the fashion industry

78’ - Broqué is not a brand, it’s a lifestyle

88’ - Becoming the Ambassador for Slow Fashion Bangladesh

94’ - How to educate yourself on the fashion industry and take action

🗒️ References:

To explore the universe of Mahenaz.

Visit the shop of Broqué.

“Bangladesh - The quiet frontier of sustainable fashion”.

Connect with Mahenaz apu on Linkedin.

Join the Slow Fashion Movement.

Compare Ethics tool.

🎧 Where to listen?

YouTube.

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Spotify.

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All platforms.

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For the full episode, please search "#28 Kelly Vo 🇻🇳 - Creating opportunities, unleashing potential" wherever you are listening to :).

🇻🇳 Kelly (Tuyen) Vo is a connector, community builder and podcaster proudly born in Saigon, Vietnam, who’s passionate about bringing opportunities and resources to those who need it the most. If you’ve been following Life Line, she is the perfect example of a social gardener!

🎧 Main link for this episode: https://www.lifelinethepodcast.com/post/28kellyvo.

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🇻🇳 Kelly (Tuyen) Vo is a connector, community builder and podcaster proudly born in Saigon, Vietnam, who’s passionate about bringing opportunities and resources to those who need it the most. If you’ve been following Life Line, she is the perfect example of a social gardener!

👏 Kelly is currently the Head of the Philanthropy Services Department at the LIN Center for Community Development, a non-profit on a mission to increase citizen participation and enhance the broader non-profit ecosystem in Vietnam. She also launched her podcast, Dear Our Community, where she invites doers in the community to inspire her audience about life purpose, happiness and social impact.

💪 We discuss about her difficult childhood, how she was the first one to go to college in her family, how one mentor changed her outlook in life, and how she progressively connected the dots, one experience at a time, to understand her life purpose and become to the go-to person in the social impact ecosystem in Vietnam. 

❤️ TIMELINE:

7’ - Growing up without role models…

17’- … but by being the best at school

26’ - Find someone you can call a mentor

36’ - Discovering a new world through volunteering

41’ - Life is a succession of trials and errors until you connect the dots

48’ - Joining the LIN Center, a non-profit that supports non-profits

60’ - Start with why

67’ - Being curious about people and showcasing their stories through podcasting

🗒️ REFERENCES:

Connect with Kelly on LinkedIn.

Check Dear Our Community Podcast (in Vietnamese) here.

Check the LIN Center here.

To read about Kelly, check this amazing written portrait of Vietcetera.

🎧 Where to listen?

YouTube.

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🇮🇳 Amit Jain is the co-founder of Mitti Ke Rang, a social enterprise working towards generating livelihoods for women in India. They train women entrepreneurs to start small businesses and support them to sell their handicrafts across the country. 

😄 Amit says he’s always happy - nothing can make him unhappy, except 2 things: when his customers are not satisfied, and when the women entrepreneurs don’t receive money on their bank accounts.

🙏 We discuss his journey escaping poverty, finding a decent job and building Mitti Ke Rang, his gratefulness to all the people who supported him throughout his life and his drive to give back to them.

💸 We go through the evolution of Mitti Ke Rang over the years, from a local charity project in Pune to a national organisation, and the transition from being donation-based to their current social enterprise model.

💪 Amit is a people’s person, always curious and questioning everything, a proud budget traveler and he’s also a good friend of Shomy (Episode 4 - I turned my pain into my life purpose) and Edward (Episode 19 - Financing grassroots innovators) ;)

❤️ TIMELINE: 

3’ - Fighting to get a first job

8’ - Starting Mitti Ke Rang to give back

18’ - Partnering with the right co-founder

20’ - If you have a problem, just try and fix it

28’- Keep being curious, keep learning and unlearning, keep connecting with people

42’ - Restarting Mitti Ke Rang from scratch to support grassroots women entrepreneurs and get money in their bank account

62’ - Mitti Ke Rang’s secret e-commerce recipe

74’ - Celebrating small victories

🗒️ References:

To order from Mitti Ke Rang and support them, it’s here: http://mittikerang.org/.

Connect with Amit on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amit-jain-9a4699a3/.

🎧 Where to listen?

YouTube: 

Apple Podcasts: 

Spotify: 

Google Podcasts: 

All platforms: https://www.lifelinethepodcast.com/post/27amitjain.

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