Watch this episode to learn how one social entrepreneur stopped 80,000+ bowls of shark fin soup from being served by educating her community with empathy.
Claudia LT is an Ashoka Canada Fellow and the Co-founder of Shark Truth. In this episode, she describes the challenges she faced when challenging a long-held and deeply entrenched social norm within her cultural community. She also describes how she navigated conversations with stakeholders who held opposing views and how she found the inner courage to persevere in the face of fierce push-back.
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00:23 Introduction
00:48 About Claudia LT
02:58 Claudia’s backstory that led to Shark Truth
06:51 Backlash from the Chinese community
09:18 Claudia’s courage to "swim upstream"
11:30 Pursuing social change amidst complex cultural norms
16:42 How offering alternatives by using the 'Positive discipline' parenting approach can be deployed in social change work
20:25 The challenges with cancel culture and the need for collaboration and education
25:00 The Inner Development Goals
29:20 How empathic (and specific) action fuels Claudia’s perseverance
36:04 How has Ashoka Canada impacted Claudia’s work (and personal life)?
41:53 The importance of self-care and self-awareness in combating burnout
47:43 Claudia LT’s Purposeful Empathy Story
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Season 14 of Purposeful Empathy is brought to you in collaboration with Ashoka Canada.
Ashoka Canada is devoted to catalyzing social entrepreneurship and innovation aimed at driving systemic change. The Ashoka Canada story is one of solutions, developed over decades of searching, selecting, and supporting our country’s highest impact Social Entrepreneurs. Together, they represent some of Canada's most impactful responses to critical challenges.
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Show Notes
✩ Inner Development Goals innerdevelopmentgoals.org/
Video edited by David Tsvariani