S2: Ep13: I Am Not A Victim - Nadine Asmar

A timely and poignant episode to end the second series of The Mojo Podcast.

This week I'm joined by Nadine Asmar from her home in Beirut. Nadine is a resilient entrepreneur with an international experience of more than 20 years in business strategy and human capital development. She has led teams, launched brands and worked in volatile markets.

She believes in the importance of rebalancing the relationship between society and business, purpose and profit, individual and organisation and rational and emotional in a bottom-line holistic approach as they all interweave with each other and are an integral part of each other. There is no separation. As the poet Rumi says “You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in a drop”.

We talk about how Beirut is coping following the catastrophic explosion in August 2020, not to mention decades of civil war, economic strife and political corruption.
Nadine has chosen to return to Beirut after years abroad and wants to be part of the long-term rebuilding, both there and in the region, via mentoring and support for fellow entrepreneurs.
And she knows a thing or two about rebuilding, after having to rebuild her own life after a tragic event turned everything she knew upside down. It is a highly emotive story involving devastating loss and the choices she was forced to make.

In all of this, Nadine has refused to wear the badge of the victim or accept this narrative as hers. And in that and her approach to a non-victim mindset, there is a lesson for us all - in this year especially.

More about Nadine
As a catalyst & enabler of impact Leaders, Nadine strives to build their capacity holistically to make positive changes for themselves, organization and society at large with a human centric approach. Once we have a positive impact on people and planet with an ethos to match, we guarantee a place for our organization in the future.

As a lead facilitator for Mowgli Mentoring across the MENA and Sub-Saharan Africa for over 8 years, she co-create nurturing and safe environment for individuals to grow in self-awareness, feel supported and learn from the collective intelligence and shared experiences through their engagement in long term mentoring journey. She trains and coaches impact ventures on business modelling, scale up, innovation and investment readiness, leadership, cultural transformation, targeting youth, women, leaders and community-based organizations, implementing IES/INSEAD empowered programs. She has worked with numerous local, international organizations and academia, public institutions and local organizations. Nadine is a graduate in Socio-Anthropology and Master in Business Administration from AUB, Marketing focus from the American University of Dubai. She has been awarded the Soraya Salti Social Impact Scholarship for INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship program and she is certified as an Emotional Intelligence Assessor from Six Seconds, Effective Partnership Management from Maastricht school of Management and WeAre Squared UK Google Digital Marketing.

You can find Nadine and links to her work on Linked In
Follow her on twitter @nadineasmar
And instagram @nadineyasmar

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Richard x

The third series of The Mojo Podcast will be with you in mind January 2021

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