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Join Up Dots -  Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)

Podcast 503: Jasmine Burton: Inspiration To Create The Best Sanitation For The World

Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Interview, Motivation, Online, Businessinterview, Education, Businesscoaching, Entrepreneur, Lifestyle, Income, Business

51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest entrepreneur joining us on the Steve Jobs inspired top rated Join Up Dots business podcast interview, is a lady who is content to tackle something that so many people would have ignored, or left for someone else to do. Tackling the worlds water and sanitation issues, and creating a lifestyle that is totally under her own control. In 2014, her senior design team won the Georgia Tech InVenture Prize Competition, the largest undergraduate invention competition in the United States, for their design of an inexpensive mobile toilet, SafiChoo. And along side her team at WishWash she has taken her specific design passion, and set out to improve women’s health by means of redesigning WASH infrastructure (such as toilets and menstrual hygiene products) in and for the low income communities of the world. As according to UNICEF, 2.6 billion people lack hygienic sanitation facilities and 768 million people drink unsafe drinking water and, of these people, women and girls are disproportionately burdened by poor sanitation and water inequities. Big bold movements towards a better way of living for so many people. Success that is so much more than something personal. But it wasn’t always plan sailing, and as she says openly “Over the past few years, I have struggled to find my place in the fight for social justice. I have always been angered by unfairness and injustices and, in the back of my mind, I thought that I would evolve into a radical and fearless protesting activist; however, when the time came for me to consciously take strides in defining my role in this space, I was paralyzed by fear and, quite frankly, embarrassment.” She was trapped by smallness of thinking, and smallness of actions. But unlike so many people she found her way through the issues and now is becoming more of who she was born to be. She is an activist, a campaigner, and lady who loves to inspire and be inspired by a world that so many of us ignore on a daily basis. So how did she first come up with the design, and knew it was good enough to persist with even when the obstacles came her way? And looking back, was there a key moment that allowed her to stop acting small, and become the biggest version of herself she could be? Well let's find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only sanitation entrepreneur Jasmine Burton

Transcript

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0:00.0

When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be

0:05.1

but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling. Join up dots features

0:10.4

amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.

0:15.0

This is your blueprint for greatness.

0:18.0

So here's your host, live from the back of his garden in the UK, David Ralph.

0:22.8

Yes, hello there everybody and welcome to join up dots.

0:30.2

This is episode 503. I'm David Ralph and one of the brilliant things about this show is I never know where I'm going.

0:37.0

So I was sitting here ready to record with today's guest thinking that she was in America and she threw a curveball at me and

0:45.4

she's in Africa so we're gonna touch on how she's moved from there to there

0:49.0

what she's doing and it's gonna be a good show today because she is

0:52.4

somebody that I suppose she's tackling something that so many people would have ignored or left for someone else to do.

0:59.0

She's tackling the world's water and sanitation issues.

1:03.0

In 2014, her senior design team won the Georgia Tech Inventure Prize competition,

1:09.0

the largest undergraduate invention competition in the United States,

1:12.0

but their design of an inexpensive mobile

1:15.2

toilet called Safichu. Now alongside her team at Wishwash, she's taken her specific design

1:20.6

passion and set out to improve women's health by means of

1:23.8

redesigning wash infrastructure such as toilets and menstrual hygiene products

1:28.8

in and for the low-income communities of the world as according to UNICEF 2.6 billion people lack

1:35.1

hygienic sanitation facilities and 768 million people drink

1:39.9

unsafe drinking water and of these people women and girls are disproportionately

1:44.8

burdened by poor sanitation and water inequities. Now big bold movements

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