#302 Hashi Mohamed: On Luck, Privilege, Talent

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 30 December 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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My guest today is Hashi Mohamed, one of the UK’s leading barristers, a BBC broadcaster and author on social mobility in Britain. His book is out now, called People Like Us. He is one of 12 children, Hashi came to the UK as an unaccompanied child refugee from Kenya in the summer of 1993 when he was just 9 years old. When he arrived he spoke basic English, attended failing school, raised on state benefits in a deprived area of North West London. Today, he is also a published author who attended Oxford University for his postgraduate degree and Bar School on a full scholarship. He is an incredible person, who inspires so many with his story of hope, ambition, success, resilience and adaptability. and I’m SO excited to share this episode with you! If you enjoyed, please do leave a review. You can buy Hashi's book here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781788161138

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0:57.1	Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-Alt Delete. My guest today is Hashi Mohammed. He is one of the UK leading
1:06.2	barristers, a BBC broadcaster and author on social mobility in Britain. His book, Like Us is one of the most eye-opening books
1:16.3	that I've read this year. I really recommend you getting a copy, especially if you love
1:20.3	reading memoirs about people's fascinating lives. He is one of 12 children and
1:26.1	Hashi came to the UK as an unaccompanied child refugee from Kenya in the summer of 93. When he arrived he spoke basic English, he went to
1:37.0	failing schools, he was raised on state benefits in a deprived area of London, and today he is a published author who attended Oxford
1:46.3	University and he is just one of the most incredible people to talk to about his journey because his book and his story
1:55.0	inspires so many people with his story of hope, ambition, success,
1:59.4	resilience and adaptability and we just got stuck in really talking about all of the above.
2:05.0	So I hope you enjoy this episode. I hope you go and buy a copy of Hashi's book
2:10.0	and I'm really excited to share this episode with you. So here it is and I'm really excited to share this episode with you.
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