Welcome to episode 211 of Live Happy Now.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us today.

If you're a regular listener to our podcast, you already know that we're fond of talking about work.

But this week, we're taking a slightly different approach to the topic.

As founder and board chair of the Skies Family Foundation,

Suzanne Skies has worked in developing countries to support innovative education and job creation

programs. She has compiled the stories of the fascinating people she has met around the world

into a book series called My Job, People at Work Around the World.

She says that along the way, she's learned a lot about the way our jobs affect us and what

we can learn from them.

Suzanne, thank you for joining us on Live Happy Now.

It's really a pleasure to have you as a guest today.

I'm happy to be here.

Well, I think a great place for us to start is for you to tell us, first of all,

what the Skies Foundation is all about. We call ourselves the world's tiniest charitable foundation

with the mightiest ambition to end poverty around the world within our lifetime. We come with

the premise that there are enough resources for all,

but that equal opportunity for all is not being implemented. We really are, in terms of our budget

and our staff size, tiny. We're always the smallest in the room. It's all family. A couple of family

are working as part-time

staff members and the rest of us are just volunteers on the board or helping with events

or grant partner selection. But our specialty over time, we've been around for 15 years and

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