From Saddam Hussain terror to Oprah's couch

Sex, Body, and Soul

Kate Roberts

Education, Relationships, Sexuality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

My friend and fellow YGL (World Economic Forum Young Global Leader), Zainab Salbi is an Iraqi American women's rights activist, writer, and public speaker. She is the Founder of Women for Women, author of several books, and host of Through Her Eyes with Yahoo News and #Me Too, Now What? and her latest venture the podcast "Refined". We talk about her upbringing with her “uncle” notorious dictator Saddam Hussain, and her own personal sexual abuse as a vulnerable Muslim teenager forced into an abusive marriage. We muse about our similar pathways to becoming founders, immensely passionate about lifting up women and often feeling like imposters in our power fueled circles. Zaineb has more recently found peace in herself and found her chi and most recently has been fiercely advocating for our girls in Afghanistan. A true unstoppable inspiration.

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0:00.0	And so I grew up, you know, calling him uncle, but also, you know, it's a very confusing feeling, Kate, because you're calling him uncle.
0:09.0	The rules is for us to laugh when he laughs, to cry when he cried.
0:13.0	We always had to be on our best manners when he showed up.
0:16.7	And here is an uncle, but one that we feared.
0:21.0	Welcome to sex, body, and soul.. Welcome to Sex, Body and Soul.
0:23.6	I'm Kate Roberts, founder of the Body Agency,
0:26.7	and on this show, we talk about the marvel that is our bodies,
0:30.7	what they can do and what they need to thrive.
0:33.9	Ladies out there, our time is now.
0:36.7	Let's get to it.
0:38.3	Our next guest is my friend Zanab Salby.
0:42.3	She is a celebrated humanitarian author and journalist who founded and ran Women for Women International.
0:50.3	She's also the creator and host of several shows including Me Too, Now What, and Through Her Eyes with Zanib Salby.
0:58.7	Zanab is currently the host of Redefined Podcasts and Chief Awareness Officer at Fine Center and the co-founder of Daughters for Earth.
1:07.1	There is literally nothing my sister cannot do, and I am thrilled to welcome her
1:13.6	onto the show. Zainab, my darling love, welcome to the show. It's so good to see you.
1:20.8	It's great seeing you, Kate. What a pleasure to be in here and in a conversation with you. I'm so
1:26.8	excited. Well, we've known each other a
1:29.3	very long time. We've had adventures all over the world. We've been at the World Economic Forum in
1:35.1	Davos. We've been in Rwanda. We've been in China. We've literally and seen each other all over the
1:41.0	world in some crazy places. And I don't know whether you know this, but I
1:44.7	literally think that you are one of the most beautiful women I know inside and out. You just
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