Life Line - Stories of Changemakers for the SDGs

🇳🇵 Bindu Bhandari has been a climate advocate all her life, from her hometown in rural Nepal to the global stage, with her purpose to increase youth participation in climate decision-making processes. 🌱 She shares her early influences, how she started taking climate action through the youth-led organization CliMates, and her transition from veterinary sciences to full-time climate advocacy by wor...

Sochenda Aok, known as the "zero waste girl" is a young environmental content creator on a mission to inspire Cambodian citizens to adopt zero waste lifestyles. With 100K followers on Facebook and 60K on TikTok, Sochenda has inspired a generation of young Cambodians to take environmental action in their personal lives. When I asked Cambodian youth who is their environmental role model, many (if no...

🇰🇭 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 comp...

🇰🇭 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 empow...

🇰🇭 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 thro...

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...

🇰🇭 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 24...

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 Mia...

🇱🇦 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...

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 . Ho...

😍 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 s...

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 👉...

🇧🇩 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 m...

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 :) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...

🇻🇳 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....

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 !...

🇵🇼 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...

💪 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...

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 for...

💪 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 volun...

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 li...

🇲🇲 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 eco...

Michael explains how Blue Dragon rescues Vietnamese children from human trafficking. Over the last 15 years, Blue Dragon has rescued 1,049 people from trafficking, sent 5,739 kids back to school & training, placed 359 teens in jobs, served 621,193 meals, built 210 homes for families, obtained legal papers for 13,518 people… and much more! For the full episode, check " #35 Michael Brosowski 🇦🇺...

🇻🇳 Michael Brosowski and his team at Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation are providing exceptional care to street kids in Vietnam, with the dream that every street kid has someone taking care of them.  💪 They started supporting street kids in 2002 to lift them out of poverty and send them back to school. When they realized that street kids were a vulnerable target for human trafficking, they e...

This teaser is a masterclass to boost your employability skills! Carla shares how she built her own curriculum after dropping out of university to learn the skills that really mattered for her - those that would make her stand out in the job market. For the full episode, search for " #34 Carla Mumar 🇵🇭 - Developing a growth, grit and hacker mindset " wherever you are listening right now :D Or clic...