Serendipity and Being Present - With Former CEO of Malala Fund, Farah Mohamed

My guest today is Farah Mohamed, a social profit entrepreneur who
knows how to grab hold of a challenging current issue and ensure
action and momentum, for results towards a better world - in any
role she plays.


Farah is smart, funny, and a big thinker. She has already had
such an inspiring career and she is just getting started. She was
CEO of the Malala Fund - an organization inspired by Malala
Yousafzai, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban
for going to school, and became the youngest person ever to
receive the Nobel Peace Prize.  


Farah is also the Founder of G(irls)20, an organization which
galvanizes the world’s greatest resource – girls and women – and
cultivates a new generation of leaders through education,
entrepreneurship and global experiences. We are going to talk
about that and so much more.


At 15:19min Farah shares this experience "One of my most
memorable moments was, we were in Iraq, sitting on this dirt
floor. And Malala, and myself, the chair of the board at the time
- and these amazing young women. And they were talking to us
about wanting to pursue education rather then be a child bride
..... The reason I'm telling you this is that - you had to be
present, right. You can't... you can't be somewhere else when
somebody else is telling you something like that. Sitting and
talking to those girls, I learned to be really really present."


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