Leila Janah, Social Entrepreneur who Hired the Poor, Explains Her Ultimate Advice on How You Can Become Successful and Change The World. ►Thank you to Tom Bilyeu for providing the amazing interview! Check out his awesome channel here for more: https://www.youtube.com/TomBilyeu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This video is dedicated to Lelia Janah, a social entrepreneur who employed thousands of desperately poor people in Africa and India in the fervent belief that jobs, not handouts, offered the best escape from poverty. She passed away on Jan.24th 2020 due to complications from Epithelioid Sarcoma. She was 37 years old.
"The most worthwhile things in life are the result of painful enduring failure. The only real power we have in this world is choosing our response, and I find that that knowledge gives me so much freedom." - Lelia Janah (1982 - 2020)
Leila Janah was born on Oct. 9, 1982. Her father, Sahadev Chirayath, is a structural engineer; her mother, Martine Janah, held various jobs, including chopping onions at a Wendy’s restaurant, after immigrating to the United States. She was an American businesswoman and the founder and CEO of Sama and LXMI, two companies which share a common social mission to end global poverty by giving work to people in need. Sama's 11,000 employees have worked under contracts with companies including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Walmart, Getty Images, Glassdoor and Vulcan Capital.
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