THE WERK Season 3 Episode 01: Leading With Love with Zainab Salbi from The Werk

THE WERK Season 3 Episode 01: Leading With Love with Zainab Salbi

1 hour 3 minutes Posted May 3, 2022 at 7:04 pm.

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Zainab Salbi is a celebrated humanitarian, author, and journalist. Oprah Winfrey identified her as one of the 25 women changing the world; People Magazine and Foreign Policy Magazine called Zainab one of “100 Top Global Thinkers”.

Zainab is the co-founder for DaughtersforEarth.com, Chief Awareness Officer at FindCenter.com, and host of Redefined podcast. Zainab is also the author of a few books, including the national bestseller Between Two Worlds and her latest Freedom Is an Inside Job. She is also the creator and host of several shows, including #MeToo, Now What? on PBS, and Through Her Eyes with Zainab Salbi at Yahoo News.

Zainab started her career when she was 23 years old as the founder and former CEO of Women for Women International, an organization to help women survivors of conflicts. She built the group from helping 30 women to reaching nearly half a million women and raising 146 million dollars in aids and microloans to help them and their families rebuild their lives.

In This Episode:

Zainab's origin story and the things that shaped her life: war and fear.
Zainab's family's proximity to Saddam Hussein and the events that led her to leave her home in Iraq to come to the United States.
Leaving her arranged marriage and the vow she made to help women around the world.
How she started Women For Women International.
The journey Zainab took to connect to the Divine and deepen her spiritual practices.
The importance of spiritual practices.
Why we need to begin owning our shadow while advocating for others.
How Zainab has hard conversations with people who need to do the work.
Leading with feminine values and Zainab's vision for the future.
The intention for starting Find Center.

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