{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbridging.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F44-zainab-salbi-freedom-is-an-inside-job-uLyJmevC","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"#45 Zainab Salbi and Ozlem Ozkan: Freedom Is an Inside Job","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/32ffc90a-68f1-4545-85c9-a84db5ef2258/01ac6d37-f8c0-4633-ac3e-b615e6270d9c/bridging-artwork.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Zainab Salbi is an Iraqi American humanitarian, author of several books (Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam), public speaker, and women’s rights activist. She is the founder and former executive director of the non-profit humanitarian organization Women for Women International.\n\nZainab has been consistently identified as one of the women impacting the world. People Magazine named her as one of the “25 Women Changing the World”. She was also a guest of Oprah Winfrey at Super Soul Sunday. \n\nHer life was impacted by her first-hand experience of war as she lived in Baghdad during the Iran-Iraq war, as well as fear and dictatorship due to her family's close relationship with Saddam Hussein and her father being the private pilot of Saddam. In 1990 Zainab was sent to the USA through an arranged marriage to an Iraqi American living in the US while she was 19 years old. \n\nListen to the Redefined Podcast via https://www.findcenter.com/redefined\nFollow Zainab on Instagram @zainabsalbi\nFind out more about Zainab via http://zainabsalbi.com/\n\nBooks:\n-Freedom Is an Inside Job \n\nABOUT ÖZLEM ÖZKAN\n\nÖzlem is an Amsterdam-based multilingual and multicultural teacher, presenter, and author. Her lifelong passion for self-development, spirituality, and personal growth led her to study Behavioural Sciences and Education in Amsterdam in her early twenties. While working and living in multiple countries she became more and more aware that wisdom was doing the work. She started doing retreats, courses, and workshops all over the world to do true self-inquiry and connect to deeper layers of herself and constantly expand her mindset. Her vision is to help people to LEARN, PRACTICE, EVOLVE and TRANSFORM in all areas of life.\n\n\n\nABOUT BRIDGING WITH ÖZLEM ÖZKAN:\n\nBridging with Özlem Özkan is a show that brings your conversation with the world's leading minds, fascinating people, and game-changers to bring you on a Bridge to LEARN, PRACTICE, EVOLVE and TRANSFORM in all areas of life\n\n\n\nWATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG1mEpdN1ifL6KtHzrBbeGA\n\n\n\nFollow on social!\n\nIG @ozkanozlem\n\nTikTok: @ozkanozlemtiktok\n\n\n\nWebsite: www.ozkanozlem.com"}