Defiant Dreams with Sola Mahfouz and Malaina Kapoor

Self-Helpless

Crossover Media Group

Comedy, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Delanie Fischer is joined by co-authors of "Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education," Sola Mahfouz and Malaina Kapoor. What would you do if your education, autonomy, and freedom was stripped from you in an instant? Activists and friends, Sola and Malaina, share Sola's story of self-educating behind closed doors in the face of devastating threats, finding refuge in the United States to attend college, and becoming a quantum computing researcher despite all obstacles, odds, and fear. You will leave this episode with a shift in perspective, overwhelming gratitude, motivation to keep fighting for the life you want, and a desire to make an impact.

Plus:

+ What Sola told herself in times of intense fear and discouragement

+ THE quote that will forever change your relationship with education

+ How Sola and Malaina practice self-care (and what they do for fun!)

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0:56.2	I'm no good I taking good advice and I'm self-careless so don't tell me twice that lately I've been so stuck in my head
1:10.0	That I forget just about everything my therapist said maybe I'm self-helpless
1:19.0	Maybe I'm self-helpless
1:23.0	Maybe I'm self helpless.
1:27.0	Maybe we are all self helpless.
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