ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Malala Fund and Our Place: Shiza Shahid
How I Built This with Guy Raz
Guy Raz | Wondery
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🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On October 9, 2012, Shiza Shahid’s life changed forever. It was on that day that 15-year-old Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman, capturing the world’s attention. Before long, 22-year-old Shiza found herself leaving her corporate job to join a recovering Malala and her father in launching the Malala Fund, a nonprofit that advocates for girls’ education across the globe.
Little did Shiza know, this venture was actually just the beginning of her entrepreneurial journey...
This week on How I Built This Lab, Shiza recounts the childhood experiences that forged her commitment to public service and advocacy—ultimately shaping her worldview and leading to her first encounter with Malala. She also discusses her pivot to the for-profit world with Our Place, the cookware company she co-founded in 2019 that’s both profitable and making an impact.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to how I built this early and ad-free on Amazon Music. |
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| 0:09.0 | New Year's is here, and with it brings the possibility of change. |
| 0:13.0 | As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful. |
| 0:17.0 | So as you head into 2023, LifeKit is a great resource to help you plan your life and tackle changes, both big and small. |
| 0:24.0 | Listen to the LifeKit podcast from NPR. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello and Happy New Year. I hope your New Year's is starting out great. |
| 0:31.0 | This week we are bringing you an episode from our archive. |
| 0:34.0 | It's a conversation I had with Shiza Shahid. |
| 0:36.0 | She was the director of the Malala Fund for a few years. |
| 0:40.0 | Before she went off to start a for-profit company, a company called R-Place that creates home goods, you know, pots and cookware and things like that. |
| 0:49.0 | Anyway, it's a really cool story about how somebody went from the nonprofit world to the for-profit world, and if that's you or not. |
| 0:56.0 | Either way, you will learn a lot from this episode, and I hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:01.0 | Hello and welcome to How I Built This Lab. I'm Guy Roz. |
| 1:06.0 | And for those of you who are listening to the lab for the first time, let me briefly explain what we do on this episode that is slightly different from our Monday show. |
| 1:16.0 | How I built this on Monday focuses on founders who created big brands that have become part of our culture in some way. |
| 1:25.0 | The lab is a place where we meet founders and entrepreneurs who are working on big ideas that could have a significant impact on the world. |
| 1:34.0 | This is also the place we talk to interesting content creators and even past guests from the show to catch up on what's been going on in their lives now. |
| 1:43.0 | So today, our guest is someone who, at age 22, helped to build one of the most visible nonprofit groups in the world, the Malala Fund. |
| 1:53.0 | Shiza Shahid grew up in Pakistan and was a student at Stanford when she first heard about Malala use of Xi. |
| 1:59.0 | Malala, of course, first came to public attention at age 11 when she chronicled her efforts to get an education in a part of Pakistan that was controlled by the Taliban. |
| 2:11.0 | Shiza soon became a mentor to Malala, and eventually with Malala's father, Ziyadin, built the Malala Fund into an international foundation dedicated to helping educate girls |
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