Malala Yousafzai on Being “Malala”
Alive with Steve Burns
Lemonada Media
5.0 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, you were kind of not a great student for a minute there, right? |
| 0:09.6 | College, I was prioritizing, like, hanging out with friends till like 3 a.m. |
| 0:15.0 | And I was saying yes to every invitation because I felt that I wanted to be everywhere. |
| 0:19.9 | And I was like, I want to be at every gathering, every event, every dinner, party. |
| 0:23.6 | Hey, there you are, come on in. Good to see you. Welcome to Alive. |
| 0:43.8 | All right. Here's a question for you. |
| 0:47.2 | Would you say that you are brave? |
| 0:57.0 | Mm-hmm. Yeah. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm making tea. You want tea? |
| 1:06.0 | Um... |
| 1:09.0 | I would like to say that I am brave, |
| 1:12.8 | that I am a person who does hard, scary things in the world. |
| 1:18.0 | But if I'm being honest, |
| 1:22.3 | there are many times where I feel very much the opposite. |
| 1:25.9 | You know? |
| 1:27.3 | You know. |
| 1:30.0 | So I've been wondering what bravery even is, |
| 1:34.1 | what it means to have courage. |
| 1:39.2 | You know, I kind of grew up thinking |
| 1:40.3 | that true courage |
| 1:42.5 | is something only very special people have, right? |
| 1:46.2 | That it's the people who never waver, who never hesitate. |
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