How What You Buy Can Change The World w/ Leila Janah

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🗓️ 14 June 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Leila Janah is a human dynamo and one of the most exciting voices in the world of social entrepreneurship. After starting her career in management consulting, she quit to pursue her passions full time and has founded TWO companies. The first is Samasource, a non-profit that lifts people out of poverty via hiring them to do data work - and their clients now include the likes of Walmart, eBay, Google. And more recently she started LXMI a luxury skincare brand that sources rare ingredients from poor countries and thereby helps lift women out of poverty. Oh - and in case she didn’t have enough on her plate she’s also the author of the forthcoming book Give Work, the thesis of which is that giving work is the most powerful solution for ending global poverty.

Today on the podcast,

* She tells the story of sending Reid Hoffman a message on LinkedIn (which he replied to)

* Why it’s limiting and ultimately a non-solution to operate from the idea that handouts are the answer to poverty - why “giving work” is the real answer

* The power of surrounding yourself with the right people

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Can I just say I love that music?
0:07.0	Hey everybody, how's it going?
0:09.0	I'm Chase Jarvis.
0:10.0	I want to welcome you into that episode of the Chase Jarvis live show here on Creative Live.
0:14.0	You know this show is where I sit down with the world's top creatives, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders.
0:20.0	And if I do anything well, I think I'm darn good at unpacking their brains to help you
0:24.5	live your dreams and career and hobby and in life.
0:27.5	My guest today is Lila Janna.
0:30.2	Right now you're saying if you are anywhere near the social entrepreneurship world, you know
0:35.1	her name.
0:36.2	She is a human dynamo in that space. After starting a
0:39.0	career in management, she bailed on that shit to pursue her passions, like many of you
0:44.0	are listening. And that passion full time has created not one, but two companies, first of which
0:50.6	is a company called Sama Source. That's probably where you know her from, a nonprofit that lifts people out of poverty via hiring them to do, actually, to say data work might be the right way of talking about.
1:02.7	I was going to say to do digital work, but I think it's focused largely on data, data entry.
1:07.8	And these folks are from poverty-stricken countries.
1:10.4	She does an amazing job
1:12.0	of connecting that unused resource with the needs that we have here in the West and also
1:17.0	helps the companies and the economies in those countries kick ass. And more recently, she
1:21.7	started a company called Luxmi. That's LXMI. This is a luxury skincare brand that sources really rare ingredients from same earlier said poor countries, thereby lifting women out of poverty in those countries.
1:35.9	And it's also, there's some really amazing resources that those countries have actually in the ground that we don't have access to.
1:43.0	And in this case, she, as if she didn't have enough in her play to having started two companies focused on social good, social entrepreneurship.
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