Life Line - Stories of Changemakers for the SDGs

🎤 “Live life like practice. I think that is very different from what you were told when growing up. Somehow we expect ourselves to be successful from the start for some reason”.

💪 In today’s episode, you will be meeting Koyo, a visual artist who wants to develop empathy and understanding between people through storytelling. 

Koyo sees her life as a succession of experiments, where each experiment is a learning opportunity to improve the next one. Koyo has worked in a video game agency, designed a children’s book for the UN, trained herself to be a Montessori teacher, has been a freelance designer and is now working on her own projects. And that’s through this iteration process that Koyo came back to what made her happy as a kid: creating stories!

❤️ TIMELINE:

4' - Growing up surrounded by art & multimedia

10’ - Creating a safe space for people through art

18’ - Don’t aim for perfection, take action

30’ - The experience of becoming a Montessori teacher

39’ - 5 steps backwards, 20 steps forward: learning from the past to build your future

47’ - Understanding your core values to stay in the right track

Connect with Koyo:

Check out her artwork on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/letsgokoyo/

Check her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/LetsGoKoyo/videos

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/letsgokoyo

🎧 Where to listen?

YouTube: http://bit.ly/6koyoyoutube

Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/6koyoapple

Spotify: http://bit.ly/6koyospotify

Deezer: http://bit.ly/6koyodeezer

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🎤 “How do you reconnect anyone with his or her own power of action? For young people, it can be: okay, I actually have the power to decide of my own life. For citizens, it can be: okay, as a group, we have the power to make something change”.

💪 In this episode, you will be meeting Anne-Laure, who is, in my opinion, one of the best facilitators I know! Her mission is to help citizens connect with their own power of action. Anne-Laure shares with us how, early on, she took a path which was not for her and how she had to reinvent herself once she realised this. From that moment, she promised herself to support as many people as possible to take a path they build for themselves.

We speak about facilitation, participative leadership, purpose and the importance to create a safe space and encourage meaningful conversations in organisations. We of course speak about Knowmads Hanoi, Art of Hosting Vietnam and The Learning Hub, 3 key turning points in her personal reinvention in Vietnam! <3

👉 Connect with Anne-Laure via:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/al.romanet

Medium: https://medium.com/@al.romanet

Coliving El Capitan: elcapitan.fr

🎧 Where to listen?

YouTube: http://bit.ly/5alyoutube

Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/5alapple

Spotify: http://bit.ly/5alspotify

Deezer: http://bit.ly/5aldeezer

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Shomy - UNDP-Samsung Global Ambassador, Diana Legacy Award Recipient 2019, Co-Founder of Awareness 360.

🎤 “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”.

💪 In today’s episode, you will be meeting Shomy, a Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) activist from Bangladesh and co-founder of Awareness360, a youth-led organisation which 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 diarrhoea.

We discuss how Awareness360 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 for her nation by becoming the first and only Bangladeshi to have been awarded with the 2019 Princess Diana Legacy Award for her humanitarian work continuing Princess Diana’s legacy.

❤️ 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!

🎧 Where to listen?

YouTube: bit.ly/4shomyyoutube

Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/4shomyapple

Spotify: bit.ly/4shomyspotify

Deezer: bit.ly/4shomydeezer

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🎤 "If you don't have role models, be a role model!"

💪 In today’s episode, you will be meeting Yama, a Dutch-Afghan changemaker with many lives: from creating his own social startup (recycling car tyres to produce punching bags) to lecturing R&D at university, launching an inclusive investment fund, and much more!

Yama will share with us how all his different experiences ultimately connect towards his life purpose: to bring more diversity into the French startup ecosystem and to contribute to the development of Afghanistan.

❤️ TIMELINE:

4’ - Moving to Paris with a startup, lots of ideas, and no money

11’ - Growing up in The Netherlands as a refugee

21’ - Going back to Afghanistan to have an impact

27’ - The secret to networking: solve people’s problems & pay it forward

31’ - Bringing more diversity in the tech ecosystem

37’ - Launching an inclusive venture capital fund

45’- Recycling car tyres to produce punching bags

👉 You can continue asking him questions on his Ask Me Anything page, support his startup's crowdfunding campaign and connect with Yama on LinkedIn.

🎧 Where to listen?

YouTube.

Apple Podcasts.

Spotify

Deezer.

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🎤 "You have to DO. It will not be perfect but, at least, it will BE!"

💪 In today’s episode, you’ll be meeting Valentine, a young French social entrepreneur who created a unique kind of public speaking training to give a voice to the unheard. Valentine always wanted to make a difference but it took a succession of unexpected events for her to discover how.

Valentine explains that she had the chance to meet the right people at the right time, who helped her realise that she could actually be a social entrepreneur herself. We discussed the importance of public speaking and why it scares so many of us. And finally, Valentine explores with us her long journey to overcome this fear and how she’s now helping others to become more confident public speakers.

👉 You can connect with Valentine on LinkedIn or follow Toi-Même Tu Parles on Facebook.

❤️ TIMELINE:

4' - How she overcame her own fear of public speaking

9' - The importance to take time for exploration and reflection

21' - When the exploration is over and all the dots connect

31' - The best ideas emerge in the shower

35' - Creating an innovative pedagogy to empower citizens to speak up

51' - The challenge of creating a hybrid business model

🎧 Where to listen?

YouTube: https://youtu.be/J8DnPIFpgKM

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/2-valentine-everyone-should-be-able-to-speak-up/id1527007998

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7DuI9JL73Pt4JlEAg1mAdN?si=eFe2dCQaQc6Kp2_iluUBjA

Deezer: https://deezer.page.link/Vxi4L8skrQBcaW4R9

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🎤 "I want to be a dose of inspiration for other people!".

💪 In today’s episode, you will be meeting Linka Lin, an amazing human being who is a community builder, an entrepreneur, a mentor, a facilitator and a cheerleader for so many young changemakers in Asia-Pacific. She will share with us her long journey transitioning from English and Chinese translation to supporting young social entrepreneurs and innovators all around Asia-Pacific. 

🗒️ References:

You can contact Linka on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Join the Movers Programme here!

❤️ TIMELINE:

5' - Growing up in the Chinese countryside in-between 2 cultures

11' - Trying as many things as possible during university

21' - Adding value to the social entrepreneurship ecosystem in Hong Kong, through English translation

26' - The art of reverse engineering to create your own luck

31' - Developing your third person perspective to ask yourself powerful questions

35' - Are you a doer or a planner?

40' - Empowering youth social entrepreneurs and innovators in Asia-Pacific with UNDP

48' - "I want to spread kindness"

🎧 Where to listen?

YouTube

Apple Podcasts

Spotify

Google Podcasts

Deezer

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