February 26, 2025 • 11 mins
Join host Fatima Bey in this transformative episode as she explores why the majority of global voices remain unheard in our Western-dominated narrative. Drawing from her experience as a MindShift coach, Fatima reveals how acknowledging diverse perspectives leads to unprecedented innovation and social change.
Key Highlights:
- Discover why looking beyond Western perspectives unlocks global solutions
- Learn how accessibility in digital spaces creates true inclusivity
- Hear the inspiring story of Miles Monroe, who rose from humble beginnings to influence world leaders
- Understand how today's youth can break cultural constraints to drive meaningful change
This episode challenges listeners to recognize the untapped potential in overlooked communities and shows how embracing these voices creates a more connected world. Fatima demonstrates that innovation often comes from unexpected places, reminding us that every perspective holds value.
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Fatima Bey (00:01):
Welcome to MindShift Power Podcast, the only
international podcast focused onteens, connecting young voices
and perspectives from around theworld.
Get ready to explore the issuesthat matter to today's youth
and shape tomorrow's world.
I'm your host, fatima Bey theMindShifter, and welcome
(00:23):
everyone.
Today's episode is going to bea little bit different.
I'm Fatima Bey the Mindshifter,and welcome everyone.
Today's episode is going to bea little bit different.
I'm Fatima Bey the Mindshifter.
This episode is about plantinga thought seed in your mind.
I want to explain something toyou that most of you probably
don't think about.
Western civilization representsroughly just 20% of the global
population.
I want you to let that sink infor a second.
(00:44):
Only roughly 20% of the worldis considered Western
civilization US, uk, australia,just to name a few.
We often design content,products and experiences for
this 20%.
That means 80% of the world'spopulation is frequently
overlooked, at least by us.
(01:05):
Within that 80%, there isuntapped potential.
There are talents and ideasthat we have never heard of,
that we've never seen, we'venever experienced, we've never
had the opportunity toexperience why we don't cater to
them.
We only cater to the small 20%.
We're so busy running aroundtrying to impress one another in
(01:25):
this 20% world, that we'reignoring 80% of the world's
potential.
I'm going to explain somethingto you that really brings this
home.
I'm going to use myself as anexample of what I'm talking
about today my website.
I just rebuilt myself from theground up.
It's in the.
You can take a look at it.
It's fatimabaycom.
It's just my name, but Irebuilt my entire website
(01:48):
recently and my website is setup in a very particular way.
If you visit it, you willnotice that it doesn't really
look that typical, especiallyfor people in my arena.
Like other coaches and peoplein my arena, there's no big
picture files.
I only have a few videos, verysimple and easy navigation.
In fact, I created a blog foreach and every single episode of
(02:11):
this podcast.
So why would we, as aninternational mind shift coach,
create a very simple website?
It's pretty but it's simple infunctionality.
Why did I do that?
I'm going to explain to you whyI did that.
So, within that 80% of the world, within those other cultures
and other places in the world,connectivity to the internet is
(02:32):
an issue.
You see, here in the US, wetake in the US and other places
like here, we take internetconnectivity for granted because
it's just available to us andwe complain if something isn't
fast.
We are just used to this levelof connectivity.
Many parts of the world don'thave that.
That is actually a privilegeand quite often expensive, and
(02:55):
even in some places in the worldwhere they do have connectivity
, the issue is they have limiteddata, just like we used to pay
for minutes here in the US forour phones.
Many people in the world stilllive on that sort of system
where they have to pay for data.
That's a big deal.
So when I and also the hearingimpaired, so the hearing
impaired we often don't thinkabout them when we create things
(03:15):
.
We kind of like do things onthe side for them, but we don't
actually always think about themenough, I would say, because
some people do.
But the hearing impaired, Iwant to make sure they have
access to my podcast as well,which is why I created the blog.
I want every teen in the world,literally who can, to have
(03:37):
access to the impactfulconversations that happen on
this podcast.
I don't just want to talk tothe 20%.
We have enough informationalready.
We're going to use it or not.
I really want to make sure thatthat other 80 percent of the
world teens in the world canactually have access to the same
things that you and I do,because they matter too.
The other thing I did whensetting up my website is I made
(03:57):
sure that my website istranslatable in over 50
languages around the world,because not everybody speaks
English.
Why does that have to be abarrier?
Since they matter too, why notfind a way to give them access
and my website automaticallytranslate into the language that
of your location, basically,but you can also choose
(04:17):
languages.
Why did I do that?
For the same reason, I made thedesign simple Because they
matter too, and I want them toknow that.
I want them to have just asmuch access to everything else
that we in the 20% world have.
Now, I just use that as anexample to strike a point.
Let me give you some othernumbers.
Do you know that only 66% ofthe world has strong internet?
(04:43):
That means 30, 34% of the worlddoes not have strong internet,
so even if they could pay fordata, they still might not be
able to get it.
Well, I think they matter too,so that's why I had a website
set up easy enough, wheresomeone with low data can still
navigate everything on there.
And if they can't listen to theaudio because it uses up too
(05:03):
much data, they can at leastread about it.
Many countries sell data theway, like I said, the way we
used to do in the US, and thiscan be very costly for them.
I don't think most of you reallyunderstand what a big deal it
is to navigate some of thesewebsites that we create here in
the 20% world.
We want to be big and flashyand sell ourselves, especially
(05:25):
coaches.
So look at me why you need myexpertise.
Blah, blah, blah.
All of that stuff that we put,that we front load into our
landing page on our websites.
They take up a lot of databecause we use a lot of big
files animations, videos.
All of those things matter.
You don't optimize photos.
All of those things matter, andyou know what that means.
(05:47):
You're only going to reach the20% because a lot of the people
around the world can't load thatCorrection.
34% because we're talking aboutinternet connectivity and that
piece.
That means there's aconsiderable amount of people
that you're not reaching becauseyou're focused on just a few,
and this means that many ofthese people without internet
connectivity at you know stronginternet connectivity they don't
(06:08):
have access to something thatcould change their lives,
because maybe you have the thingthat they need to hear, but you
haven't considered them, sothey haven't mattered to.
I want to give you this analogyIgnoring the 80% of the world,
who is not Western civilization.
Ignoring the 80% of the worldis like picking up pebbles
(06:28):
because they're close and notlooking just a little bit
further to see the precious gemsthat are worth even more.
Are you ignoring gems out therewhile focusing on pebbles even
more?
Are you ignoring gems out therewhile focusing on pebbles?
There's a man by the name ofMiles Monroe.
He died in 2014, but he was oneof the greatest minds of the
last century.
He really was.
Look him up.
He really really was.
Don't have time here to tellhis whole life story, but I'm
(06:50):
just going to point out a coupleof things about him.
He came from a third worldcountry and used to sleep on a
dirt floor with rats and roaches.
He was told that people likehim could never excel.
He was literally told that Fastforward to the future.
He became very wealthy, one ofthe most.
I don't know how many booksthis man wrote.
He was an author.
He wrote maybe a hundred or sobooks.
(07:11):
I really don't even knowbecause I didn't look up the
number, but he wrote many, many,many books.
He was an author, he was aspeaker and very, very wealthy.
But the key thing I want topoint out about him is he was an
influencer to world leaders.
I would say, out of everythingwe know about the man, that was
his biggest asset.
He had the ear of world leaders.
(07:31):
Kings and queens and presidentsand world leaders literally
would listen to this man, and hewas a Christian man and he
preached and taught from theBible, and many of these people
in the world who listened to himwere of other religions and
faiths, yet they listened to him.
He grew up in a third worldcountry.
(07:52):
He was a part of that 80%.
He was part of the people thatthe people ignored.
He was part of the ones who.
You can't be anything.
People like you don't goanywhere.
Some of you are like yeah, doyou?
Some of the world's greatestinventions and cures are lying
in places that we are brushingoff or not considering, and I
(08:12):
want you to take this, no matterwhat your age is.
I want you to take this to home.
What are you ignoring aroundyou that might be a precious gem
, while you're sitting aroundplaying with stones, sitting
around playing with pebbles,ignoring the gems that are down
the street, in the city next toyou, in the state next to you,
because they don't look like you, because they're poor, because
(08:32):
they're whatever detail, fill inthe blanks.
What gems are you missing outon?
Now I'll take a moment to talkto the teenagers, in particular,
teens listening to this orreading this right now.
I want you to know that youmatter and I want you to know I
don't want you to be like thegenerations before you.
I want you to be better.
Be better than us.
Be better than us, who only payattention to the 20% and miss
(08:54):
out on the treasures of the 80%.
Be better than us.
Recognize the gems in life,because you are the generation
that's going to make this worldbetter.
We have already screwed it up.
You are the people, you are thegeneration that can make this
world better by making itdifferent, by doing it different
, by recognizing that there aregems around you and you just got
to pay attention.
(09:14):
Stop staying within theconfines of what your culture
has taught you, and I don't carewhat country you're from.
All of us have cultures thathave taught us, good and bad,
every single one of us.
Get outside, climb outside thatbox.
Discover what's outside, whatyour culture has taught you,
discover the precious gems thatare out there.
But the biggest gem I want youto discover is the one you see
when you look in the mirror.
(09:34):
Yeah, you, you are one of themost precious gems in the world
and I want you to know that.
I see you and I believe thatyou are the most precious gem in
the world.
The greatest potential isusually untapped potential.
What's in you teenage boy,teenage girl that's untapped,
that you've hidden because it'snot accepted?
What's in you that you haven'tlet people see, that you haven't
(09:55):
let out?
What's in that great big mindof yours that you think no one
will listen to?
You probably have the answer toone of the world's problems,
but you're not letting it out.
I want you to know that youmatter too, and to everyone
listening or reading this outthere again, I want to plant
that thought in your head Whileyou're sitting around playing
with pebbles or focusing onpebbles.
(10:17):
What gems are you missing out on?
What great value are youignoring playing with the 20%
and missing out on the greatestpotential of all time because
you want to focus on the pebbles, because they're close to your
feet.
Look a little further, findthose gems, and for any teenager
out there listening, I reallywant to know that you're
listening, that you're reading,whichever way.
(10:38):
So if you go to fatimabaycomslash podcast, or you can go to
mindshiftpowerpodcastcom andsend me a message, let me know
that you understand that youmatter too, and I want to leave
you guys with this thought herethere are gems that look like
stones until you get closeenough to see their brilliance.
They matter too.
(10:58):
Thank you for listening.
Be sure to follow or subscribeto MindShift Power Podcast on
any of our worldwide platformsso you, too, can be a part of
the conversation that's changingyoung lives everywhere.
And always remember there'spower in shifting your thinking.
Welcome to MindShift Power Podcast, the only
international podcast focused onteens, connecting young voices
and perspectives from around theworld.
Get ready to explore the issuesthat matter to today's youth
and shape tomorrow's world.
I'm your host, fatima Bey theMindShifter, and welcome
(00:23):
everyone.
Today's episode is going to bea little bit different.
I'm Fatima Bey the Mindshifter,and welcome everyone.
Today's episode is going to bea little bit different.
I'm Fatima Bey the Mindshifter.
This episode is about plantinga thought seed in your mind.
I want to explain something toyou that most of you probably
don't think about.
Western civilization representsroughly just 20% of the global
population.
I want you to let that sink infor a second.
(00:44):
Only roughly 20% of the worldis considered Western
civilization US, uk, australia,just to name a few.
We often design content,products and experiences for
this 20%.
That means 80% of the world'spopulation is frequently
overlooked, at least by us.
(01:05):
Within that 80%, there isuntapped potential.
There are talents and ideasthat we have never heard of,
that we've never seen, we'venever experienced, we've never
had the opportunity toexperience why we don't cater to
them.
We only cater to the small 20%.
We're so busy running aroundtrying to impress one another in
(01:25):
this 20% world, that we'reignoring 80% of the world's
potential.
I'm going to explain somethingto you that really brings this
home.
I'm going to use myself as anexample of what I'm talking
about today my website.
I just rebuilt myself from theground up.
It's in the.
You can take a look at it.
It's fatimabaycom.
It's just my name, but Irebuilt my entire website
(01:48):
recently and my website is setup in a very particular way.
If you visit it, you willnotice that it doesn't really
look that typical, especiallyfor people in my arena.
Like other coaches and peoplein my arena, there's no big
picture files.
I only have a few videos, verysimple and easy navigation.
In fact, I created a blog foreach and every single episode of
(02:11):
this podcast.
So why would we, as aninternational mind shift coach,
create a very simple website?
It's pretty but it's simple infunctionality.
Why did I do that?
I'm going to explain to you whyI did that.
So, within that 80% of the world, within those other cultures
and other places in the world,connectivity to the internet is
(02:32):
an issue.
You see, here in the US, wetake in the US and other places
like here, we take internetconnectivity for granted because
it's just available to us andwe complain if something isn't
fast.
We are just used to this levelof connectivity.
Many parts of the world don'thave that.
That is actually a privilegeand quite often expensive, and
(02:55):
even in some places in the worldwhere they do have connectivity
, the issue is they have limiteddata, just like we used to pay
for minutes here in the US forour phones.
Many people in the world stilllive on that sort of system
where they have to pay for data.
That's a big deal.
So when I and also the hearingimpaired, so the hearing
impaired we often don't thinkabout them when we create things
(03:15):
.
We kind of like do things onthe side for them, but we don't
actually always think about themenough, I would say, because
some people do.
But the hearing impaired, Iwant to make sure they have
access to my podcast as well,which is why I created the blog.
I want every teen in the world,literally who can, to have
(03:37):
access to the impactfulconversations that happen on
this podcast.
I don't just want to talk tothe 20%.
We have enough informationalready.
We're going to use it or not.
I really want to make sure thatthat other 80 percent of the
world teens in the world canactually have access to the same
things that you and I do,because they matter too.
The other thing I did whensetting up my website is I made
(03:57):
sure that my website istranslatable in over 50
languages around the world,because not everybody speaks
English.
Why does that have to be abarrier?
Since they matter too, why notfind a way to give them access
and my website automaticallytranslate into the language that
of your location, basically,but you can also choose
(04:17):
languages.
Why did I do that?
For the same reason, I made thedesign simple Because they
matter too, and I want them toknow that.
I want them to have just asmuch access to everything else
that we in the 20% world have.
Now, I just use that as anexample to strike a point.
Let me give you some othernumbers.
Do you know that only 66% ofthe world has strong internet?
(04:43):
That means 30, 34% of the worlddoes not have strong internet,
so even if they could pay fordata, they still might not be
able to get it.
Well, I think they matter too,so that's why I had a website
set up easy enough, wheresomeone with low data can still
navigate everything on there.
And if they can't listen to theaudio because it uses up too
(05:03):
much data, they can at leastread about it.
Many countries sell data theway, like I said, the way we
used to do in the US, and thiscan be very costly for them.
I don't think most of you reallyunderstand what a big deal it
is to navigate some of thesewebsites that we create here in
the 20% world.
We want to be big and flashyand sell ourselves, especially
(05:25):
coaches.
So look at me why you need myexpertise.
Blah, blah, blah.
All of that stuff that we put,that we front load into our
landing page on our websites.
They take up a lot of databecause we use a lot of big
files animations, videos.
All of those things matter.
You don't optimize photos.
All of those things matter, andyou know what that means.
(05:47):
You're only going to reach the20% because a lot of the people
around the world can't load thatCorrection.
34% because we're talking aboutinternet connectivity and that
piece.
That means there's aconsiderable amount of people
that you're not reaching becauseyou're focused on just a few,
and this means that many ofthese people without internet
connectivity at you know stronginternet connectivity they don't
(06:08):
have access to something thatcould change their lives,
because maybe you have the thingthat they need to hear, but you
haven't considered them, sothey haven't mattered to.
I want to give you this analogyIgnoring the 80% of the world,
who is not Western civilization.
Ignoring the 80% of the worldis like picking up pebbles
(06:28):
because they're close and notlooking just a little bit
further to see the precious gemsthat are worth even more.
Are you ignoring gems out therewhile focusing on pebbles even
more?
Are you ignoring gems out therewhile focusing on pebbles?
There's a man by the name ofMiles Monroe.
He died in 2014, but he was oneof the greatest minds of the
last century.
He really was.
Look him up.
He really really was.
Don't have time here to tellhis whole life story, but I'm
(06:50):
just going to point out a coupleof things about him.
He came from a third worldcountry and used to sleep on a
dirt floor with rats and roaches.
He was told that people likehim could never excel.
He was literally told that Fastforward to the future.
He became very wealthy, one ofthe most.
I don't know how many booksthis man wrote.
He was an author.
He wrote maybe a hundred or sobooks.
(07:11):
I really don't even knowbecause I didn't look up the
number, but he wrote many, many,many books.
He was an author, he was aspeaker and very, very wealthy.
But the key thing I want topoint out about him is he was an
influencer to world leaders.
I would say, out of everythingwe know about the man, that was
his biggest asset.
He had the ear of world leaders.
(07:31):
Kings and queens and presidentsand world leaders literally
would listen to this man, and hewas a Christian man and he
preached and taught from theBible, and many of these people
in the world who listened to himwere of other religions and
faiths, yet they listened to him.
He grew up in a third worldcountry.
(07:52):
He was a part of that 80%.
He was part of the people thatthe people ignored.
He was part of the ones who.
You can't be anything.
People like you don't goanywhere.
Some of you are like yeah, doyou?
Some of the world's greatestinventions and cures are lying
in places that we are brushingoff or not considering, and I
(08:12):
want you to take this, no matterwhat your age is.
I want you to take this to home.
What are you ignoring aroundyou that might be a precious gem
, while you're sitting aroundplaying with stones, sitting
around playing with pebbles,ignoring the gems that are down
the street, in the city next toyou, in the state next to you,
because they don't look like you, because they're poor, because
(08:32):
they're whatever detail, fill inthe blanks.
What gems are you missing outon?
Now I'll take a moment to talkto the teenagers, in particular,
teens listening to this orreading this right now.
I want you to know that youmatter and I want you to know I
don't want you to be like thegenerations before you.
I want you to be better.
Be better than us.
Be better than us, who only payattention to the 20% and miss
(08:54):
out on the treasures of the 80%.
Be better than us.
Recognize the gems in life,because you are the generation
that's going to make this worldbetter.
We have already screwed it up.
You are the people, you are thegeneration that can make this
world better by making itdifferent, by doing it different
, by recognizing that there aregems around you and you just got
to pay attention.
(09:14):
Stop staying within theconfines of what your culture
has taught you, and I don't carewhat country you're from.
All of us have cultures thathave taught us, good and bad,
every single one of us.
Get outside, climb outside thatbox.
Discover what's outside, whatyour culture has taught you,
discover the precious gems thatare out there.
But the biggest gem I want youto discover is the one you see
when you look in the mirror.
(09:34):
Yeah, you, you are one of themost precious gems in the world
and I want you to know that.
I see you and I believe thatyou are the most precious gem in
the world.
The greatest potential isusually untapped potential.
What's in you teenage boy,teenage girl that's untapped,
that you've hidden because it'snot accepted?
What's in you that you haven'tlet people see, that you haven't
(09:55):
let out?
What's in that great big mindof yours that you think no one
will listen to?
You probably have the answer toone of the world's problems,
but you're not letting it out.
I want you to know that youmatter too, and to everyone
listening or reading this outthere again, I want to plant
that thought in your head Whileyou're sitting around playing
with pebbles or focusing onpebbles.
(10:17):
What gems are you missing out on?
What great value are youignoring playing with the 20%
and missing out on the greatestpotential of all time because
you want to focus on the pebbles, because they're close to your
feet.
Look a little further, findthose gems, and for any teenager
out there listening, I reallywant to know that you're
listening, that you're reading,whichever way.
(10:38):
So if you go to fatimabaycomslash podcast, or you can go to
mindshiftpowerpodcastcom andsend me a message, let me know
that you understand that youmatter too, and I want to leave
you guys with this thought herethere are gems that look like
stones until you get closeenough to see their brilliance.
They matter too.
(10:58):
Thank you for listening.
Be sure to follow or subscribeto MindShift Power Podcast on
any of our worldwide platformsso you, too, can be a part of
the conversation that's changingyoung lives everywhere.
And always remember there'spower in shifting your thinking.
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