From Club Kid to CEO and World Hunger Activist

从Club Kid到CEO和世界饥饿活动家

Good Life Project

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2016-03-21

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This week, our in-depth conversation features Cathy Burke, speaker, author, and global change maker has served as CEO of The Hunger Project Australia for nearly two decades, and has traveled extensively across the villages of Africa and South Asia in her work of ending hunger. Cathy has been profoundly changed by what she has experienced. The women and men she has met have given her the most enduring lessons in life and leadership, resilience and the power of the human will. She is the author of the book, Unlikely Leaders: Lessons in leadership from the village classroom, These stories are captivating and moving, providing a roadmap for personal and social change. In This Episode, You'll Learn: How Cathy awakened to both the truth of world hunger and her role in helping to end itWhat her first trip to Ethiopia taught her that she (and her group) never saw comingHow harnessing the power of women to lead is the ultimate catalystHow her work has forever changed her Mentioned in This Episode: The Hunger Project Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • But I love the fact that actually you'll learn more about what it means to be resilient, bold, kick ass, get stuff done person from that non literate woman food farmer in an indian village.

  • She's got what it takes to show us what it really means in terms of what's possible.

  • Today's guest, Kathy Burke, grew up in Perth, Australia.

  • Kind of a regular kid.

  • Went to uni, loved music, loved to go out, party and dance to indy and punk rock.

  • And then a series of things happened that exposed her to the world of activism, got her involved in politics, and eventually led her to be exposed to global hunger.

  • What she learned was it was this massive, massive problem.

  • Billion people hungry around the world.

  • And at first it just seemed too overwhelming, as it does for many of us who are exposed to things like that.

  • But she eventually circled back and began to participate in an organization, the Hunger Project, that she then eventually volunteered for and ended up heading up as the CEO in Australia and has spent now two and a half decades of service traveling around the world, helping to build a global, almost army of volunteers of more than 400,000 people on the ground in different countries, some of the toughest places on earth.

  • In this quest to do profound work, we go into this journey what she's seen, some of the stories and her relentless focus on possibility and developing people and telling a story and joining with a whole lot of other people in countries to end global hunger by 2030.

  • Really excited to share her story and her lens on the world.

  • I'm Jonathan Fields.

  • This is good life project.

  • There are a lot of different places I want to explore with you.

  • So you're from Perth, which is maybe the only major city I've actually never been to in Australia.

  • Have you been to Australia?

  • I have.

  • Tell me a little bit about Perth.

  • It's the most isolated city in the world, so it's like two and a half thousand k's from the nearest capital city.