Life Line - Stories of Changemakers for the SDGs

Life Line - Stories of Changemakers for the SDGs

Meet changemakers from all around the world. And get your weekly dose of inspiration to take action! We are having deep and authentic conversations with social entrepreneurs, activists, leaders, intrapreneurs and unsung heroes to understand what shaped who they are today. Life Line is a podcast made to amplify the voices of those who work hard to make a difference. We believe they have a strong message that deserves to be shared with the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

February 8, 2025 โ€ข 122 mins

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ต 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.


๐ŸŒฑ 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 working with Climate Interactive ...

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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 not all) mentioned Sochenda and ...

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๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ญ Monorom Tchaw is the Founder of Compost City, a social enterprise focused on environmental education and making composting easy for everyone in Cambodia.


๐ŸŒฑ 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. 


๐Ÿชด She goes through how she started building her first home composting kits based on her ow...

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๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ญ In this Part 2 with Mรฉlanie Mossard, hosted by Linka Lin, Mรฉlanie 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.


๐Ÿ’ช She shares how her role has evolved from empowering the entrepreneurs, to empowering her team, and now empowering entrepreneurship-support...

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๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ญ Mรฉlanie 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.


๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ญ In this Part 2 with Mรฉlanie Mossard, hosted by Linka Lin, Mรฉlanie 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 t...

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In this teaser, Mรฉlanie 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 ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ญ - Building entrepreneurship ecosystems in emerging markets with Impact Hub Phnom Penh (Part 1)" wherever you are listening to or just click here: https://www.lifelinethep...

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๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ญ Mรฉlanie 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.


๐Ÿ’ช Mรฉlanie 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 245,000 USD in grant funding to ...

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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 ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฆ - Building the Do-It-Yourself movement in Laos with Xiang Miang and Makerbox Lao" wherever y...

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๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Jim Kouphokham is the co-founder of Xiang Miang, a youth-led social enterprise developing the entrepreneurial mindset and technology skills of youth. Heโ€™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.


๐Ÿ’ก Coming from a difficult background, he studied hard to get a scholarship for Austr...

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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 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ - Leadership starts with self-acceptance" wherever you are listening, or just click on this link: https://www.lifelinethepodcast.com/post/40linkalin.




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๐Ÿ˜ We are welcoming back Linka Lin for the 3rd time on Line Line, after listening to her story on episodes 1 and 25!


๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ 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 spread kindness around her.&nbs...

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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:

๐Ÿ‘‰ Benefitted more than 2 million people in Bangladesh

๐Ÿ‘‰ Set up a 24/7 hotline during COVID

๐Ÿ‘‰ Launched the first online course on mental health in Bangla language

๐Ÿ‘‰ Created a physical wellbeing center...

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๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฉ 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. 


๐Ÿ˜‡ 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 mental health and provide relev...

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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 Thรนy Anh Ngรด ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ณ - Helping the elderly to enjoy a healthy and fulfilling life with HASU" wherever you are listening or click here :)


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๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ณ 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.


๐Ÿ’ช 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.


๐Ÿ‘ต Working with so many fami...

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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 ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ผ - What if the opposite was true?" wherever you are currently listening or just click here!


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๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ผ Tutii Chilton is an educator, sports for development advocate and storyteller from Palau, a small Island State in the Pacific. 


๐Ÿค  He is passionate about philosophy and defines himself as a โ€œcontrarianโ€ as heโ€™s always reflecting on this question: ยซ what if the opposite was true? ยป.


๐Ÿ’ช His love for philosophy made him become a professor at the Palau Community College for more than 15 years, during which he ...

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๐Ÿ’ช 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.


๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ She walks us through how she became Miss Earth India 2017 and her following journ...

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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 forward" to the next generation.


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๐Ÿ’ช 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 volunteers in 20+ countries. We di...

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