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Hello and welcome to how to Take Over the World. This is Ben Wilson. On today's episode, we are talking about Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc is a name that many people have heard and a lot of people don't know that much about. It's an amazing and frankly miraculous story. One of the most improbable

stories of all time is what I think. As I have read in history, I have never heard a story like this.

Of someone who should have been nowhere near the levers of power. She was a French girl. She was

a peasant girl from the middle of nowhere and she eventually rises to, she calls herself the chef de guerre, the essentially like the commander in chief, the leader of the armed forces and completely turns the tide of a war. It's an incredible story about persistence, about vision. It's a story that forces us to reckon with the

divine, I think, which is really interesting. It's a story of a great woman and the difficulties

and the contradictions that that entailed in medieval Europe. It is both a great war drama,

and at the same time, it's a shockingly small and personal story about a 16

year old girl and her convictions and beliefs and I also think it's a masterclass on how to

motivate others and how to inspire them in a cause I have loved learning about this story

and I think you'll love it too before we we get started, I want to give a quick shout

out to Elle LeMay, who convinced me that this was a story worth telling and helped me with

the research and writing on this episode. She's great. You can find her on Twitter at L underscore

Lee Mae. I've linked her Twitter profile in the show notes, so go give her a follow. And let's

do it. Let's dive in to the story of Joan of Arc after this word from our sponsors.

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