2018-10-09
1 小时 5 分钟So at the age of 23, my guest today is Aynam Sabi founded Women for Women International, a grassroots humanitarian and development organization that is dedicated to serving women survivors of wars, by offering support tools and access to all sorts of life changing skills to help move from crisis and poverty to stability and economic self sufficiency.
Under her leadership as the organization's CEO until 2011, that organization grew from helping 30 women to more than 400,000 women in eight conflict areas and distributed more than $100 million in direct aid and microcredit loans, impacting more than 1.7 million family members.
She is also somebody who has been named as one of the hundred leading global thinkers.
Fast Company called her one of the 100 most creative people in business.
And she has a powerful new memoir, out now, called freedom is an inside job that is an exploration of her life, her journey, but also her awakening to the inner work that it takes to be of service with integrity and authenticity.
And a lot of this came from her stepping into and owning a secret that had followed her for the entirety of her life, something that she had no role in creating.
But it was a part of her early life, and for her to fully step into and own her work in the world, she needed to grapple with this part of herself.
We dive into that in a lot of detail in this conversation and explore how that has infused and mobilized the work that she's done in the world and also really profoundly changed her life.
Excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
There is this one story that you shared that I found really moving, and that was the story of a congolese woman.
Would you share that?
Well, yeah, I mean, Amintu is a woman who changed my life.
And in so many ways.
I mean, when I met her, she was 52 years old in doctor Congo, in eastern Congo.
She had just survived a horrible act of violence.
Militias attacked her village and attacked her home, particularly raped her nine year old, 21, 22 year old daughters.
Raped her, surrounded, you know, she doesn't know how many men, because they just surrounded her in a circle and just took turns raping her.
They forced her son to spread his mother's legs open, and when he.
And they actually asked him to rape her, and when he refused, they shot him on the foot.