Owning Your Darkness as a Path to Freedom: Zainab Salbi
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
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🗓️ 9 October 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Zainab Salbi (http://zainabsalbi.com/) is a humanitarian, author, and global change-maker. At the age of 23, Salbi founded Women for Women International, a grassroots humanitarian and development organization dedicated to serving women survivors of wars by offering support, tools, and access to life-changing skills to move from crisis and poverty to stability and economic self-sufficiency.
Under her leadership as the organization’s CEO (1993-2011), the organization grew from helping 30 women upon its inception to more than 400,000 women in 8 conflict areas. It also distributed more than $100 million in direct aid and micro credit loans that impacted more than 1.7 million family members.
But, the whole time, she was living with a huge, dark secret. In her new book, Freedom is an Inside Job, (https://amzn.to/2pnnPou) she shares how owning our darkness along with out light is the unlock key for self-healing and global transformation. And, in today's conversation she shares how this realization awakened her to the need to own her own dark family secret in order to heal herself and serve at a higher level.
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| 0:00.0 | So at the age of 23, my guest today is Aynom Sabi, founded Women for Women International, |
| 0:08.1 | a grassroots humanitarian and development organization that is dedicated to serving women |
| 0:12.8 | survivors of wars by offering support, tools, and access to all sorts of life-changing skills |
| 0:18.0 | to help move from crisis and poverty to stability and economic self-sufficiency. |
| 0:22.7 | Under her leadership as the organization's CEO until 2011, that organization grew from |
| 0:28.6 | helping 30 women to more than 400,000 women in eight conflict areas and distributed more than |
| 0:34.4 | a hundred million dollars in direct aid and microcredit loans impacting more than 1.7 million |
| 0:40.3 | family members. She is also somebody who's been named as one of the 100 leading global thinkers, |
| 0:46.6 | fast company called her one of the 100 most creative people in business. And she has a powerful |
| 0:52.8 | new memoir out now called Freedom is an Inside Job. That is an exploration of her life, her journey, |
| 0:58.4 | but also her awakening to the inner work that it takes to be of service with integrity and |
| 1:04.0 | authenticity. And a lot of this came from her stepping into and owning a secret that had followed |
| 1:10.5 | her for the entirety of her life, something that she had no role in creating, but it was a part |
| 1:16.2 | of her early life. And for her to fully step into and own her work in the world, she needed to grapple |
| 1:22.5 | with this part of herself. We dive into that in a lot of detail in this conversation and explore |
| 1:27.5 | how that has infused and mobilized the work that she's done in the world and also really profoundly |
| 1:32.4 | changed her life. Excited to share this conversation with you. I'm Jonathan Fields and this is |
| 1:37.4 | Good Life Project. |
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