Episode 110: The Cave, How a Pediatrician Helped Save Syrians and Herself w/ Dr. Amani Ballour

The Whole View with Stacy Toth

Cloud10

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Pediatrician and advocate Dr. Amani Ballour joins Stacy to share about her life growing up in Syria, fighting her own revolution, and the lessons of overcoming the odds in a war-torn country. Her story has been shared in both the award-winning documentary and newest memoir, The Cave, where she became the first and only woman to manage a hospital in Syria. Dr. Ballour’s experiences underscore the critical issues faced by civilians in war zones and she and Stacy discuss what we as individuals can do to make an impact for similar global issues. Find Dr. Amani Ballour: X.com/AmaniBallour Instagram.com/amani_ballour Facebook.com/AmaniBallour The Cave: A Secret Undersground Hospital and One Woman's Story of Survival in Syria Don’t forget to subscribe to this channel and visit realeverything.com! If you haven't yet unlocked ad-free content, checkout patreon.com/thewholeview. Your subscription goes to support this show and gets you direct access to submit your questions! We also want to give a big thank you to this week’s sponsors! Indeed.com/WHOLEVIEW | Get a $75 sponsored job credit BonCharge.com | Use code WHOLEVIEW to get 15% off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I always said I'm just a human being who witnessed and go see everything around us who see these people who need help and this is just a responsibility to help each other so I just started to help.
0:17.0	Welcome to the whole view I'm Stacy Toth of Real Everything I'm here each week to dive
0:21.7	deeper into how we can find
0:23.1	happiness and health inside and out their self-love, body
0:26.0	sensitivity, and discovering new ways to be our best selves. Before we get
0:29.7	started, a reminder, this podcast is for general educational purposes and is not intended to diagnose
0:34.5	advise or treat any physical or mental illness and while Dr. Amani is a medical doctor, she's not yours.
0:40.7	So we always recommend that you
0:45.0	to always recommend that you see a licensed health professional accordingly.
0:45.0	I am very excited to introduce you to today's guest,
0:48.9	Dr. Amani Belor.
0:50.7	I feel like I am talking to an actual hero and I am excited for you
0:58.0	listeners to meet her. Amani is a distinguished Syrian pediatrician activist and author, and Dr. Buller's profound experience
1:08.5	were captured in the Oscar nominated and twice Emmy Award winning documentary The Cave and her new
1:15.7	memoir The Cave a secret underground hospital and one woman's story of
1:19.7	survival in Syria is now an editor's pick on Amazon and I personally read it and really enjoyed
1:27.4	it. I think that you listeners are going to really love her story and she is recognized internationally for advocacy work for
1:37.0	women's and children's rights, especially under the harrowing conditions of the Syrian
1:41.5	war and Dr. Brelor's experiences
1:45.0	underscore the critical issues faced by civilians and war zones,
1:50.2	particularly for women and children, and these crises are not only unthinkable, but they are happening.
1:59.0	And right now in Ukraine and Israel and Gaza, we know that these things are happening and still happening in Syria as well.
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