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🇰🇭 Monorom Tchaw is the Founder of Compost City, a social enterprise focused on environmental education and making composting easy for everyone in Cambodia. 🌱 Growing up in the city, she shares her journey connecting with the soil, with the food we eat, with farmers and with all the natural resources used in our everyday life.  🪴 She goes through how she started building her first home composting kits based on her own needs, and how it eventually became Compost City after improving her initial prototype, year after year. 👨‍🌾 She proudly shares how Compost City’s mission is evolving from only compost awareness towards making people connect with the soil and the food we eat. 💡 Finally, we discuss her overall life philosophy guided by non-violent communication and how she’s not trying to tell people what to think, but instead tries to make people think. This episode is also special because I’m co-hosting it with Linka Lin so you will hear 3 people, and it was also recorded on video, so switch to YouTube if you want to see our faces! :D 🗒️ REFERENCES: About Compost City. Connect with Monorom on Facebook. A Day in the Life of Compost City’s CEO (by Wapatoa). 🎧 Where to listen? YouTube. Apple Podcasts. Spotify. Google Podcasts. Deezer:  All platforms: https://www.lifelinethepodcast.com/post/43monoromtchaw 🙏 To support Life Line, you can: Share this episode and speak about Life Line to your friends! ❤️ Subscribe on your favourite platform. Leave a 5-star review on the Apple Podcast app. Leave your email for the weekly newsletter.  Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🇰🇭 In this Part 2 with Mélanie Mossard, hosted by Linka Lin, Mélanie dives deeper into her transition from unpaid Communication Intern to CEO of Impact Hub Phnom Penh and the different phases the organization went through after 7 years building the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Cambodia. 💪 She shares how her role has evolved from empowering the entrepreneurs, to empowering her team, and now empowering entrepreneurship-support organizations in Cambodia and other emerging markets. 🤗 She also shares Impact Hub Phnom Penh’s mission to showcase Cambodian entrepreneurs to the world and to become the best place to work in the country! ⚠️ Watch or listen to the full episode by searching "#42 Mélanie Mossard 🇫🇷🇰🇭 (2/2) - Building entrepreneurship ecosystems in emerging markets with Impact Hub Phnom Penh (Part 2)" wherever you are listening right now or by clicking here: https://www.lifelinethepodcast.com/post/42melaniemossard2. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🇰🇭 Mélanie Mossard is an ecosystem builder specializing in emerging markets, CEO of Impact Hub Phnom Penh, Onboarding Coach with Impact Hub Global and Fellow of Frontier Incubators. 🇰🇭 In this Part 2 with Mélanie Mossard, hosted by Linka Lin, Mélanie dives deeper into her transition from unpaid Communication Intern to CEO of Impact Hub Phnom Penh and the different phases the organization went through after 7 years building the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Cambodia. 💪 She shares how her role has evolved from empowering the entrepreneurs, to empowering her team, and now empowering entrepreneurship-support organizations in Cambodia and other emerging markets. 🤗 She also shares Impact Hub Phnom Penh’s mission to showcase Cambodian entrepreneurs to the world and to become the best place to work in the country! ⚠️ Watch Part 1 first if you haven’t yet :)) 🎧 Where to listen? YouTube. Apple Podcasts. Spotify. Google Podcasts. Deezer.  All platforms. 🙏 To support Life Line, you can: Share this episode and speak about Life Line to your friends! ❤️ Subscribe on your favourite platform. Leave a 5-star review on the Apple Podcast app. Leave your email for the weekly newsletter.  Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this teaser, Mélanie Mossard shares some of the main challenges that Cambodian entrepreneurs face and the importance of finding the right job, as we are spending 80,000 hours in our life working! For the full episode, search for "#42 Melanie Mossard 🇫🇷🇰🇭 - Building entrepreneurship ecosystems in emerging markets with Impact Hub Phnom Penh (Part 1)" wherever you are listening to or just click here: https://www.lifelinethepodcast.com/post/42melaniemossard1. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🇰🇭 Mélanie Mossard is an ecosystem builder specializing in emerging markets, CEO of Impact Hub Phnom Penh, Onboarding Coach with Impact Hub Global and Fellow of Frontier Incubators. 💪 Mélanie started her career as an unpaid Communication Intern and, 7 years later, became the CEO. Since 2015, Impact Hub Phnom Penh has supported 403 teams of 850+ people to grow their social enterprises, provided 245,000 USD in grant funding to 51 startups, ran 27 entrepreneurship programs, grew a team of 25+ people, and so much more! 💥 She goes through her journey coming from the French countryside to studying in an international business school, her time working in a salad factory or volunteering with Peruvian moms, and how she’s been creating life-changing opportunities for herself.  🚀 She shares how she has built her confidence to overcome her imposter’s syndrome and become the CEO and how, with her team, they turbocharged Impact Hub to lead change at a systemic level, guided by their vision of a more inclusive and sustainable Cambodia by 2040. PS: it's a special episode, we recorded the full video, check it on YouTube! :D 🗒️ REFERENCES: About Impact Hub Phnom Penh. Read "Re-Imagine Cambodia 2030" and get inspired by Cambodia’s amazing changemakers. Connect with Melanie on LinkedIn. 🎧 Where to listen? YouTube. Apple Podcasts.  Spotify. Google Podcasts. Deezer. All platforms. 🙏 To support Life Line, you can: Share this episode and speak about Life Line to your friends! ❤️ Subscribe on your favourite platform. Leave a 5-star review on the Apple Podcast app. Leave your email for the weekly newsletter.  Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jim Kouphokham shares how the idea of Xiang Miang (Technovator) was born from his drive to make a change in Laos and his passion for technology, and how everything started after they received a grant from YSEALI which allowed them to conduct their first bootcamps for youth! Listen to the full episode by searching "#41 Jim Kouphokham 🇱🇦 - Building the Do-It-Yourself movement in Laos with Xiang Miang and Makerbox Lao" wherever you are listening right now or just click on this link: https://www.lifelinethepodcast.com/post/41jimkouphokham. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🇱🇦 Jim Kouphokham is the co-founder of Xiang Miang, a youth-led social enterprise developing the entrepreneurial mindset and technology skills of youth. He’s also the co-founder of Makerbox Lao, the first public makerspace in the country, enabling the youth to build things by themselves and adopt a maker mindset instead of a consumer mindset. 💡 Coming from a difficult background, he studied hard to get a scholarship for Australia, where he was exposed to so many new ideas, opportunities and people that made him more creative, entrepreneurial and driven to make a change in Laos. 🤔 Throughout his studies, there was this one question that Jim kept thinking about: how can the youth in Laos also be exposed to these opportunities and be empowered to become problem solvers?  💻 He came back to Laos and started collaborating with schools to conduct the first entrepreneurship bootcamps, data science programs and technology trainings with Xiang Miang. ⚒️ This led him to launch Makerbox for the youth to have their own space to connect, build things with their hands, and learn about topics never heard of in Laos before. It’s a space built by makers, for makers and aspiring makers, for those who want to paint, build their own electric bicycles, discover the Internet of Things, play board games, or just have meaningful conversations! 🗒️ REFERENCES: About Xiang Miang. About Makerbox Laos. Connect with Jim on LinkedIn or Facebook. 🎧 Where to listen? YouTube:  Apple Podcasts:  Spotify:  Google Podcasts:  Deezer:  All platforms. 🙏 To support Life Line, you can: Share this episode and speak about Life Line to your friends! ❤️ Subscribe on your favourite platform. Leave a 5-star review on the Apple Podcast app. Leave your email for the weekly newsletter.  Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this teaser, Linka shares what she learned through martial arts that she also applies in her daily life: Learning how to handle physical or emotional pain. Learning how to pause and breathe. For the full episode, search for "#40 Linka Lin 🇨🇳 - Leadership starts with self-acceptance" wherever you are listening, or just click on this link: https://www.lifelinethepodcast.com/post/40linkalin. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

😍 We are welcoming back Linka Lin for the 3rd time on Line Line, after listening to her story on episodes 1 and 25! 🇨🇳 She previously shared with us how she reinvented herself, from being a Chinese-English translator to, now, a community builder, mentor, cheerleader, and youth advocate for thousands of youth in Asia-Pacific with UNDP. Her mission is to be a dose of inspiration for others and to spread kindness around her.  😇 In this 3rd chapter, we dive deeper into who Linka really is. We explore how her identity evolves as she knows herself better and how she wants people to remember her.  💪 We discuss her relationship with martial arts, why it’s more than a sport for her, and why enduring physical pain makes her a better person. 🙌 And finally, she shares about the books that helped her become a more action-oriented person and understand the world around her! 🗒️ References: -Listen to the first episode with Linka. -Listen to the second episode with Linka. -About Atomic Habits, GRIT, The Courage To Be Disliked. -Connect with Linka on LinkedIn. -Connect with Linka on Goodreads. 🎧 Where to listen? YouTube. Apple Podcasts. Spotify. Google Podcasts. Deezer. All platforms. 🙏 To support Life Line, you can: Share this episode and speak about Life Line to your friends! ❤️ Subscribe on your favourite platform. Leave a 5-star review on the Apple Podcast app. Leave your email for the weekly newsletter.  Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shiropa shares how she decided to quit her job as a renowned journalist to pursue her dream to change the narrative around mental health in Bangladesh, by founding the social enterprise Moner Bondhu. So far, they So far, they have: 👉 Benefitted more than 2 million people in Bangladesh 👉 Set up a 24/7 hotline during COVID 👉 Launched the first online course on mental health in Bangla language 👉 Created a physical wellbeing center in a factory for 8,000 garment workers 👉 and much more! To listen to the full episode, search for "#39 Tawhida Shiropa 🇧🇩 - Providing mental health services for all in Bangladesh with Moner Bondhu" wherever you are listening right now, or you can click here! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🇧🇩 Tawhida Shiropa is a social entrepreneur from Bangladesh providing access to mental health services for all with Moner Bondhu, and former journalist with The Daily Prothom Alo, the largest circulated newspaper in Bangladesh.  😇 She shares her journey discovering the world of mental health as her mother struggled with depression, and how she started Moner Bondhu to break the taboo around mental health and provide relevant support services to as many people as possible.  💪 “When you are in crisis, you can count on us” is their motto, and they have benefitted more than 2 million people in Bangladesh so far by providing counselors, a 24/7 hotline, the first certified online course in Bengali, physical centers in garment factories and much more. ✍️ We also go through her career as a renowned journalist for 11 years and how she had to prove herself 3 times, as an aspiring writer, as a youth and as a woman to find success. 🏆 She received multiple awards acknowledging her amazing work from UNDP, UN Women, YSEALI or Acumen. 🗒️ REFERENCES: About Moner Bondhu. Beautiful portrait of Moner Bondhu by Youth Co:Lab. Connect with Shiropa on LinkedIn. 🎧 Where to listen? YouTube. Apple Podcasts. Spotify. Google Podcasts. Deezer. All platforms. 🙏 To support Life Line, you can: Share this episode and speak about Life Line to your friends! ❤️ Subscribe on your favourite platform. Leave a 5-star review on the Apple Podcast app. Leave your email for the weekly newsletter.  Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thuy Anh shares the journey of how she co-founded 4 social enterprises that are aimed to improve the lives of kids and the elderly - ALIGO Kids, ALIGO Media, Memory Love Book, and HASU. To listen to the full episode, search for "#38 Thùy Anh Ngô 🇻🇳 - Helping the elderly to enjoy a healthy and fulfilling life with HASU" wherever you are listening or click here :) Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🇻🇳 Thuy Anh Ngo is a 4-time social entrepreneur from Vietnam on a mission to support kids and the elderly to enjoy a healthy and fulfilling life. 💪 After she refused an extremely high-paying job at Wall Street, she came back to Vietnam to launch ALIGO Kids, a platform that has taught key life skills and child sexual abuse prevention through educational cartoons for 70,000 children and families. 👵 Working with so many families, she also realized that while children have so many opportunities and are constantly exposed to new technologies, the elderly are left behind. 🤳 Thuy Anh and her team then distributed smartphones and conducted digital literacy workshops for thousands of elderly, and it quickly evolved to become HASU, an app helping the elderly to take care of their mental health, physical health and social relationships, that has been used by 12,000 people to date. 🥰 She shares how she has identified the issues she cares about and how it has evolved over the years, which translated into her co-founding 4 different social enterprises: ALIGO Kids, HASU, and also ALIGO Media and Memory Love Book that you will discover in this episode. 🏆 She was recently selected as Forbes 30 Under 30 in Vietnam and as Global Ambassador for Samsung Generation17. 🗒️ REFERENCES: About HASU. Connect with Thuy Anh on LinkedIn. 🎧 Where to listen? YouTube. Apple Podcasts. Spotify. Google Podcasts. Deezer. 🙏 To support Life Line, you can: Share this episode and speak about Life Line to your friends! ❤️ Subscribe on your favourite platform. Leave a 5-star review on the Apple Podcast app. Leave your email for the weekly newsletter.  Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tutii Chilton shares his parenting philosophy, how he's trying to create an enabling environment for his 2 daughters to grow and follow their dreams. His 2 daughters were respectively representing Palau at the Tokyo Olympics and at the Dubai Expo 2020. For the full episode, search for "#37 Tutii Chilton 🇵🇼 - What if the opposite was true?" wherever you are currently listening or just click here! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🇵🇼 Tutii Chilton is an educator, sports for development advocate and storyteller from Palau, a small Island State in the Pacific.  🤠 He is passionate about philosophy and defines himself as a “contrarian” as he’s always reflecting on this question: « what if the opposite was true? ». 💪 His love for philosophy made him become a professor at the Palau Community College for more than 15 years, during which he kept asking his students: “what if the opposite was true?”. What if Palau was self-sufficient? What if Palauan youth were role models for other youth across the world? What if Palau was narrating its own story to the world? 🎤 "Relationships are more important than being right". 🎯 Tutii has also been engaged with the Olympic Committee of Palau for the last 20 years to develop sports as a means for youth empowerment and for putting Palau on the global map. You never know, what if Palau brought back an Olympic gold medal in archery in 2024? We discuss his long quest bringing his 2 passions - philosophy and sports - together, finding his purpose to make people think, and finding his community which was just around the corner in Palau. Enjoy this super cool episode and how it makes you think!  ❤️ TIMELINE:  10’ - Creating an enabling environment for his daughters 19’ - Empowering Palauan youth to think, take action & solve problems by themselves 51’ - Which community do you belong to? 61’ - Empowering youth through new sports in Palau 81’ - Being ready for the future 🎧 Where to listen? YouTube. Apple Podcasts. Spotify. Google Podcasts. Deezer. Main link. 🙏 To support Life Line, you can: Share this episode and speak about Life Line to your friends! ❤️ Subscribe on your favourite platform. Leave a 5-star review on the Apple Podcast app. Leave your email for the weekly newsletter.  Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

💪 Shaan Suhas Kumar is a gender, climate and youth empowerment advocate. We discuss her life-changing experience with Teach For India, where she discovers the education crisis in her country by teaching in low-income communities. We discuss her transition being a model to live her childhood dream and inspire others with her climate advocacy. 🇮🇳 She walks us through how she became Miss Earth India 2017 and her following journey exploring climate action, social entrepreneurship and now gender equality. Shaan shares with us what she learned along the way becoming a public figure and her plans for the future to keep on learning and inspiring others! ❤️ TIMELINE: 5' - Realizing the flaws of India's education system with Teach For India 19' - Following her intuition & starting small to create a documentary on Teach For India alumni 26' - Going back to her dreams of being a model 38' - Developing her environmental and climate advocacy 47' - Becoming Miss Earth India 2017 68' - Stop thinking that you haven't done good enough 71' - How to receive criticism 81' - APYE and Jagriti Yatra: 2 life-changing experiences 104' - The dots will connect... be patient! 👉 Reach out to her on Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn. 👉 References: we speak about Teach For India, Climate Tracker, Miss Earth, Asia Pacific Youth Exchange, Jagriti Yatra, World Merit and Wedu. 🎧 Where to listen? YouTube. Apple Podcasts. Spotify. Google Podcasts. Deezer. 🙏 To support Life Line, you can: Share this episode and speak about Life Line to your friends! ❤️ Subscribe on your favourite platform. Leave a 5-star review on the Apple Podcast app. Leave your email for the weekly newsletter. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special episode, we will reflect a bit on why and how "trust" plays a role in reconnecting with our power of action. All the Life Line guests have received trust in their journey, and this trust enabled them to believe in themselves, to feel motivated and capable, and to be accountable for the world they want to see. The most beautiful thing? They all pay it forward, they all "trust it forward" to the next generation. Only when someone trusted you, when no one else did, that you can understand the transformative power of trust. Enjoy! And here are a few questions for you to take away in 2022: Who trusted you when no one else did? Who trusted you when you didn't even trust yourself? Who are you trusting that no one else does? Who are you trusting that don't even trust themselves? Share your #TrustStory with us :) Share this episode with your friends, if you liked it! <3 More episodes on our website. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

💪 Shomy Hasan Chowdhury is a Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) activist from Bangladesh and co-founder of Awareness 360, a youth-led organization that aims to empower youth across the world to do community service. Shomy shares why she decided to dedicate her time and energy to ensure that no one dies from diarrhea. We discuss how Awareness 360 started in a burger joint and now has 1500 volunteers in 20+ countries. We discuss what are important milestones in her life that shaped who she is today and finally, she shares with us her love for Bangladesh and how she wants everyone to know about this amazing country! 🇧🇩 Shomy has received many recognitions for her social work of over a decade, notably the President’s Volunteer Service Award (Gold) in 2012 from President Barack Obama for her outstanding contribution to community service. She has also brought pride to her nation by becoming the first and only Bangladeshi to have been awarded the 2019 Princess Diana Legacy Award for her humanitarian work continuing Princess Diana’s legacy. She is currently serving as Global UNDP-Samsung Ambassador. 🎤 “I felt like I really need to step up, take action, go out there and tell people that: look, I lost my mom four days ago because of this, so please take these things seriously so that you don't lose the people you love. So that's pretty much when it started and ever since I continued my WASH activism”. ❤️ TIMELINE: 4' - Growing up doing community service and meeting Barack Obama 11' - The beginning of her WASH Activism 18' - The birth of Awareness 360 in a burger joint 23' - Why being empathetic shaped her activism and social work 32' - On a mission to leave no one behind, starting with sex workers 41' - Representing Bangladesh on the global stage 👉 You can contact Shomy and follow Awareness360 on Facebook! 🎧 Where to listen? YouTube. Apple Podcasts. Spotify. Google Podcasts. Deezer. 🙏 To support Life Line, you can: Share this episode and speak about Life Line to your friends! ❤️ Subscribe on on your favourite platform. Leave a 5-star review on the Apple Podcast app. Leave your email for the weekly newsletter. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nida explains how she first started the surfing movement in Myanmar by training kids from rural villages, on a beach she found randomly by looking for a life guard! 🇲🇲 Nida Soe is a surfer who led Myanmar’s first-ever surfing delegation at the South East Asia Games in 2019.  For the full episode, search for "#36 Nida Soe 🇲🇲 - Leading the first wave of surfers in Myanmar" wherever you are listening on click here to access all the links! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🇲🇲 Nida Soe is a surfer who led Myanmar’s first-ever surfing delegation at the South East Asia Games in 2019.  🌊 As her surfing journey built her confidence and created so many opportunities, she believes that surfing can help the youth connect with their power of action and co-founded the Surfing Association of Myanmar to fulfil her mission. 🏄 She dreams to build a professional surfing ecosystem in Myanmar through which the youth can learn the values of hard work, develop their resilience, connect with the nature, get exposed to new opportunities and become professional athletes.   💪 She shares how she organised the first surfing trainings in Myanmar, how she can identify the best surfing spots with Google Earth, how she collected half-broken surfing boards from all around the world and how she prepared the national surfing team for the SEA Games.  Hope it makes you keen to start your own surfing journey! :D ❤️ TIMELINE:  10’ - Discovering new surfing spots in Myanmar with Google Earth 15’ - Growing up as an athlete 27’ - Choosing between the national basketball team or pursuing university 34’ - Learning surfing the hard way on California’s beaches 49’ - Training the first wave of surfers in Myanmar 62’ - Representing Myanmar at the South East Asia Games 2019 88’ - Surfers’ connection with the oceans and the environment 106’ - Helping people understand complexity through data with Thibi 🗒️ REFERENCES: About the Surf Association of Myanmar. About the startup Thibi. Connect with Nida on LinkedIn. To read about her story, click here or here. 🎧 Where to listen? YouTube:  Apple Podcasts:  Spotify:  Google Podcasts:  Deezer:  All platforms: https://www.lifelinethepodcast.com/post/36nidasoe. 🙏 To support Life Line, you can: Share this episode and speak about Life Line to your friends! ❤️ Subscribe on your favourite platform. Leave a 5-star review on the Apple Podcast app. Leave your email for the weekly newsletter.  Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.