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Over the past 5 years running #impact we have come across the most courageous people. The changemakers, the visionaries, the misfits challenging the rules of the game, proofing the naysayers wrong, speaking up, and challenging the status quo for the change they want to see in the world.
This episode is no different. But this episode is one that has been 7 years in the making.
When #impact host Regina first arrived in Hong Kong in 2004 she saw a woman speak at an event. Her story moved her greatly and when she bumped into this woman 7 years later, she knew she would have to bring her on the podcast.
Today you hear a story of pain and courage. You hear how Shalini Mahtani founded the Zubin Foundation, named after her firstborn child Zubin, who died in 2009. He was 3 and the love of her life.
This episode is a celebration of love.
It is about the enormous privilege and pain of having children and how this relates to the work Shalini does. Shalini’s reflections on equality and social justice will make you pause. You might just look at your own path and privileges differently.
The Zubin Foundation (TZF) improving lives of Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong
Like so many organisations, The Zubin Foundation had to pivot during covid, and you hear about the changes they made in this episode too.
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As you listen to this episode you find out how Shalini broke out of the life path that her conservative Indian Hong Kong family had envisioned for her putting marriage top and center and how a trip to India when Shalini was 13 changed everything.
“She gave me words that haven’t been part of my vocabulary. These were things that weren’t just happening to me and they were actually wrong.”
A teacher made a massive impact on how she looked at the world and it was then that Shalini felt that she wanted to do something about the social injustice that she had seen in her own life and for others.
With the Zubin Foundation she is working towards numerous Sustainable Development Goals.
“We help because we can”
A motto Shalini Mahtani lives by.
These goals inspire the work of the Zubin Foundation and the systemic change they are working towards, also through the advisory roles Shalini holds, for example sitting on the HKSAR government’s Children Commission and as the convenor for the Children with Specific Needs Working Group.
So they established a multi-lingual call hotline named after Shalini’s late mother Mira. A woman that challenged the status quo in her own ways, which Shalini only later understood.
Their call helpline Mira puts SDG 5 Gender Equality in focus, providing women and girls a safe platform where they can find someone to listen to them. This has led to The Zubin Foundation providing additional support and shelter for vulnerable women experiencing abuse.
It wasn’t an easy decision to set up the helpline because they were worried about backlash from within the community, Shalini shares in our conversation but after her mother Mira’s death, Shalini decided to go forward.
Last year almost 900 calls were received.
But Shalini shares that this is an impact she never meant to make, an impact that only came about because of her son’s death.
“He would be 15 going on 16.”
As Shalini shares how she lives with the pain of losing her firstborn child and how it fuels her purpose-driven work with the Zubin Foundation today you will also find yourself in deep silence. A silent moment to honour the loved ones you have lost in your life, channeling the grief, living with it, through it, despite it.
We asked Shalini beforehand, why she was so passionate about making a social impact with her work she answered:
“Because I understand the needs of the community as I too am a minority. In my case, I have a voice and a platform. So, I want to use my voice to reduce suffering and provide opportunities. I fundamentally believe that all humans are born equal and we have a responsibility, for those of us with privilege, to use our voice to improve the lives of others.”
You will want to listen to Shalini’s powerful voice, just reading these lines simply does not give it credit.
3:33 – The enormous privilege and pain of having children as it relates to women in leadership
8:09 – Carving out her own path of education and breaking out of family expectations
10:00 – Her first visit to India, being confronted with extreme poverty
13:13 – Experiencing racism first-hand, growing up as a brown child in the Hong Kong community
17:50 – Their helpline Mira supporting vulnerable girls and women
28:48 – How Shalini looks at and copes with pain
44:13 – How to connect with Shalini at The Zubin Foundation (https://www.zubinfoundation.org)
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Ever wanted to be behind the scenes of a big event? So did we! As attendees of live events and conference junkies, #impact Podcast had the great privilege of being at TEDxTinHauWomen‘s for this very inspiring and meaningful live event!
What matters now? That’s the question that TEDxTinHauWomen – a women dedicated TEDx community in Hong Kong – is seeking to explore and answer.
TEDxTinHauWomen is an annual TEDx event in Hong Kong. It is a platform for women to share their ideas, thoughts, and solutions with the world. They believe that each one of us has something interesting to say, and they want their audiences to hear it. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that brings people together to share a TEDx experience. It’s dedicated to big ideas and powerful storytelling.
And it was our great pleasure to record for #impact live at their most recent event.
If I would ask you What matters now? What would you answer? What comes to mind? First.
Many women and men courageously stepped into a recording booth that Booqed put up for #impact at this incredible TEDxTinHauWomen event. A celebration of what matters now, hundreds of people felt the energy in a theater. Thanks to the bold and brilliant speakers and the many volunteers that built a bridge of connection. What you will hear in this episode is inspired by the times we live in.
Hosted by #impact founder Regina Larko, we’ve focused on creating an open and safe space everyone who stepped into the recording booth that day, could openly discuss their thoughts on what matters to them. Our intention is not simply to have an audience listen to what they shared—it is to allow you, the listener to feel inspired to uncover what you carry in your heart too as you listen to their beautiful stories – and how it all relates to the worlds most pressing issues at large that we discuss in our Season 5 (Sustainable Development Goals).
We’re all about making an IMPACT.
And that’s a great thing. Because we all want to be change-makers. We want to create and leave our mark, to have an effect on the world around us.
But time is short. The pace of change is overwhelming. The issues are complex and getting more so every day.
The question isn’t just how do we make an impact. It’s what kind of impact do we want to make?
As we pause and reflect, it’s important to ask ourselves what matters to us, what inspires us, what moves us forward, where do we want to go from here?
So let’s get started with this episode from TEDxTinHauWomen in Hong Kong! We hope you’ll get inspired by the colorful ambitions and limitless hopes for the future of today’s guests on our Podcast.
This episode is unlike anything we have done here on the channel, and we have done a lot.
We recorded on rooftops, in elevators, in front of sold out theatres and in teeny tiny boiling hot meeting rooms, We recorded across timezones with our talented co hosts spread across the world to like very recently at a recording booth at one of the best TEDx events in town.
We planned, we scheduled, we strategised so it fits in with our ongoing themes. But this time is nothing like that. This time we get really raw. Listen in as your host and founder of #impact – Regina Larko – records this very raw and personal message from her home of 7 years in Hong Kong to reflect on what this Podcast means to her.
And how it has kept her sane.
If you are tuning in here for the first time, you might not be ready for whats to come in this episode so feel free to also listen to some of our other amazing Podcasts where we feature inspiring changemakers making the world a better place.
If you are a long time listener you might also not be ready for whats to come in this episode. But if you do listen all the way to the end you might just discover something new about yourself too.
Thank you for listening and Happy 2022!
Audio is a medium that allows telling stories in an impactful, intimate way.
Today you meet the creators behind four of Hong Kong’s most popular podcasts in a unique panel about podcasting as an alternative approach to storytelling.
How do these Podcasters approach their subjects, how do they tackle sensitive topics like (mental) health, resilience, and belonging as they are setting out to make a positive impact on their audience in Hong Kong and beyond? What are the hurdles and setbacks? What are the (unexpected) rewards?
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