When you get passionate about making a difference when you're young and you see this now I think with the rise of teenage activists in America as well

It's all consuming. It is a sense of right and wrong and a deep passion about fighting injustice.

And that was me growing up. You know, my friends were sneaking out to parties and I was sneaking out to protests.

I'm Carly Zaken.

I'm Danielle Weisberg.

Welcome to Skim from the couch.

This podcast is where we go deep on career advice

from women who have lived it.

From the good stuff like hiring and

growing a team to the rough stuff like negotiating your salary and giving or

getting hard feedback. We started the skim from a couch so what better place to talk it all out than where it began on a couch?

Today we welcome Shiza Shehead to Skimmed from the couch. She is a social

entrepreneur activist and investor. Before founding Now Ventures, a seed Fund for Mission Driven Companies, and Our Place, an e-commerce

company, Shiza co-founded the Malala Fund.

Listeners may know Malala's story.

I'm sure you do.

She was a student and an advocate for girls education in Pakistan and survived being shot in the

head by the Taliban.

Malala then became one of the most powerful voices for peace in the world.

And by her side, Shiza Harness the power of Malala's story and created a global non-profit

to advance the education of girls around the world.

Shiza has focused her life and career on making the world a better place and we are

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