Broken Open: From Silicon Valley to Street Kids in India

破解:从硅谷到印度街头儿童

Good Life Project

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2016-05-26

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Today's guest is Eileen Flannigan, the Founder and Managing Director of Girls on Fire Leaders, a non-profit that provides young girls in developing nations with personal and community leadership skills through immersive travel, experiential self-learning, authentic self-expression, and global connectivity. Eileen was a successful digital marketing strategist for large tech startups in Silicon Valley. But after two decades in this field, she began listening to the voice inside her that called her to make a bigger contribution to the world. When she turned forty, Eileen went to India and gave herself two guidelines: she would go alone, and she would follow her heart completely. For nearly two months, she hung out with street kids and young girls in brothels. Her time there set her life on a transformational course that blossomed into Girls on Fire Leaders, which now empowers adolescent girls all around the world. Don’t miss this inspiring and insightful look into the life and mind of an entrepreneur who left her familiar world to serve the world in a deeper way. In This Episode You’ll Learn: Why you don’t need to be an extrovert to be a leader.How her tendency as a kid to pay attention to the “underdog” manifested itself in surprising ways.The tension she felt between not wanting to destroy the life she had created, but wanting to do something that made a bigger difference.How Eileen literally followed her heart when she went to India.The story of how Eileen became involved with Kiva, and its connection to eventually quitting her job.The surprising insights Eileen gained about poverty through living and working with people in the slums.Why it’s so hard for women trapped in poverty to escape from it.Why people living under corrupt governments often don’t speak up for themselves.How leading Girls on Fire has impacted Eileen personally.How Eileen defines a “good life.”Mentioned In This Episode: Connect with Eileen: Girls on Fire Leaders | LinkedInKivaPortfolios of the Poor by Daryl CollinsRestore NYCGrab your spot at the Camp GLP at the Early Bird discount rate! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • I mean, this is the thing that I've always longed for, really.

  • I always felt like something was missing in my life, that there wasn't a purpose.

  • I had purposeful things going on, but the deep, like, this is what I'm meant to do in the world.

  • I feel like I'm on the track for that.

  • Today's guest is Eileen Flanagan.

  • So everything was going pretty good in her life.

  • She was going on about two decades in digital marketing strategy for big technology startups in Silicon Valley in New York.

  • And by all rights, from the outside looking in, she was living a good life and doing good work and making a nice living.

  • But there was this voice inside of her that just knew that there was something bigger out there, a bigger contribution.

  • She took some time and went to India, and instead of actually going on her, you know, planned trip, she abandoned the plan entirely and ended up literally just kind of like living and spending time on the streets with kids.