1 hr 5 min
Zainab Salbi: Helping Women Survive War to Collaborating with Women Healing the Earth How We Change the World
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In Episode #12 of How We Change the World podcast, I talk with Zainab Salbi, the celebrated humanitarian, author, and journalist Oprah Winfrey identified as one of 25 women changing the world and Foreign Policy Magazine called one of “100 Top Global Thinkers.”
Zainab is an Iraqi American woman who grew up in Baghdad in an atmosphere of peace and prosperity until the age of eleven, when two simultaneous events changed her life forever. First, the Iraq-Iran war exploded around her family, and Saddam Hussein directed Zainab’s father to oversee Iraqi civil aviation and serve as Saddam’s personal pilot, thrusting her unwilling family into the dictator’s inner circle. She writes about these harrowing eight years in her riveting memoir, "Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny:Growing up in the Shadow of Saddam Hussein."
The trauma inflicted by these conditions inspired Zainab to spend her life helping women survivors of conflict through Women for Women International, a non-profit organization she founded at the age of twenty-three. Women for Women has reached nearly half a million women and raised 146 million dollars in aid and micro-loans to help families rebuild their lives.
In early 2022, alongside Jody Allen, Zainab co-founded Daughters for Earth, a new fund and campaign that aims to inspire all women to engage in climate change action by mobilizing $100 million for on the ground, women-led efforts to protect and restore the Earth. (See more below)
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MORE ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Zainab Salbi has frequently been named as one of the women changing the world by leading publications ranging from Newsweek to The Guardian. President Bill Clinton identified her as one of the 21st century heroes to Harper’s Bazaar. Watkins Magazine identified her as one of the top 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in 2020.
She is the author of four books, including her most recent: Freedom is an Inside Job.
Zainab has been Chief Awareness Officer at FindCenter.com, and host of Redefined podcast. Zainab is also the author of Between Two Worlds and her latest Freedom Is an Inside Job. She is also the creator and host of several shows, including #MeToo, Now What? on PBS, and Through HerEyes with Zainab Salbi at Yahoo News.
In Episode #12 of How We Change the World podcast, I talk with Zainab Salbi, the celebrated humanitarian, author, and journalist Oprah Winfrey identified as one of 25 women changing the world and Foreign Policy Magazine called one of “100 Top Global Thinkers.”
Zainab is an Iraqi American woman who grew up in Baghdad in an atmosphere of peace and prosperity until the age of eleven, when two simultaneous events changed her life forever. First, the Iraq-Iran war exploded around her family, and Saddam Hussein directed Zainab’s father to oversee Iraqi civil aviation and serve as Saddam’s personal pilot, thrusting her unwilling family into the dictator’s inner circle. She writes about these harrowing eight years in her riveting memoir, "Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny:Growing up in the Shadow of Saddam Hussein."
The trauma inflicted by these conditions inspired Zainab to spend her life helping women survivors of conflict through Women for Women International, a non-profit organization she founded at the age of twenty-three. Women for Women has reached nearly half a million women and raised 146 million dollars in aid and micro-loans to help families rebuild their lives.
In early 2022, alongside Jody Allen, Zainab co-founded Daughters for Earth, a new fund and campaign that aims to inspire all women to engage in climate change action by mobilizing $100 million for on the ground, women-led efforts to protect and restore the Earth. (See more below)
LISTEN & SUBSCRIBE:
✨Spotify:https://spoti.fi/3ifDKo2
✨ Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3VMWh91
FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA:
✨Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/changetheworldpod
✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/changetheworldpod
✨Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/changeworldpod
CONTACT & MORE INFORMATION:
🌎 Website: https://www.howwechangetheworld.co
_______________________________________
MORE ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Zainab Salbi has frequently been named as one of the women changing the world by leading publications ranging from Newsweek to The Guardian. President Bill Clinton identified her as one of the 21st century heroes to Harper’s Bazaar. Watkins Magazine identified her as one of the top 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in 2020.
She is the author of four books, including her most recent: Freedom is an Inside Job.
Zainab has been Chief Awareness Officer at FindCenter.com, and host of Redefined podcast. Zainab is also the author of Between Two Worlds and her latest Freedom Is an Inside Job. She is also the creator and host of several shows, including #MeToo, Now What? on PBS, and Through HerEyes with Zainab Salbi at Yahoo News.
1 hr 5 min