Social Business Reflects the Best of Humanity ft. Lamiya Morshed

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Lamiya Morshed, Executive Director of the Yunus Centre, has spent three decades working alongside Nobel Laureate Professor Yunus, helping to lift millions of women and their families out of poverty. In this episode, she shares the origin story of social business and explains why it’s such a powerful vehicle for social impact. She also describes a world of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions, the central thesis of Dr. Yunus’ latest book. As Nelson Mandela put it: It always seems impossible until it’s done.

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