Sochenda Aok, known as the "zero waste girl" is a young environmental content creator on a mission to inspire Cambodian citizens to adopt zero waste lifestyles.

With 100K followers on Facebook and 60K on TikTok, Sochenda has inspired a generation of young Cambodians to take environmental action in their personal lives. When I asked Cambodian youth who is their environmental role model, many (if not all) mentioned Sochenda and her media ZEROW!

ZEROW started as a way for Sochenda to explore and document all her zero waste actions, from bringing a pot to the market to buy a chicken to discovering Indigenous knowledge or testing all the low-carbon mobility options.

She gives us precious tips on how to grow an audience organically, her lessons learned along the way and all the other activities she's exploring, from in-person workshops and training to starting a zero waste refill station!

Sochenda was selected as Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 and received the ASEAN Youth Eco-Champion Award.

Follow Sochenda on every platform:

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zerowkh
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@zerowkh
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zerowkh
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@zerowkh
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sochendaaok/

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🇰🇭 Monorom Tchaw is the Founder of Compost City, a social enterprise focused on environmental education and making composting easy for everyone in Cambodia.

🌱 Growing up in the city, she shares her journey connecting with the soil, with the food we eat, with farmers and with all the natural resources used in our everyday life.

🪴 She goes through how she started building her first home composting kits based on her own needs, and how it eventually became Compost City after improving her initial prototype, year after year.

👨‍🌾 She proudly shares how Compost City’s mission is evolving from only compost awareness towards making people connect with the soil and the food we eat.

💡 Finally, we discuss her overall life philosophy guided by non-violent communication and how she’s not trying to tell people what to think, but instead tries to make people think.

This episode is also special because I’m co-hosting it with Linka Lin so you will hear 3 people, and it was also recorded on video, so switch to YouTube if you want to see our faces! :D

🗒️ REFERENCES:

About Compost City.

Connect with Monorom on Facebook.

A Day in the Life of Compost City’s CEO (by Wapatoa).

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Spotify.

Google Podcasts.

Deezer:

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🇰🇭 In this Part 2 with Mélanie Mossard, hosted by Linka Lin, Mélanie dives deeper into her transition from unpaid Communication Intern to CEO of Impact Hub Phnom Penh and the different phases the organization went through after 7 years building the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Cambodia.

💪 She shares how her role has evolved from empowering the entrepreneurs, to empowering her team, and now empowering entrepreneurship-support organizations in Cambodia and other emerging markets.

🤗 She also shares Impact Hub Phnom Penh’s mission to showcase Cambodian entrepreneurs to the world and to become the best place to work in the country!

⚠️ Watch or listen to the full episode by searching "#42 Mélanie Mossard 🇫🇷🇰🇭 (2/2) - Building entrepreneurship ecosystems in emerging markets with Impact Hub Phnom Penh (Part 2)" wherever you are listening right now or by clicking here: https://www.lifelinethepodcast.com/post/42melaniemossard2.

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🇰🇭 Mélanie Mossard is an ecosystem builder specializing in emerging markets, CEO of Impact Hub Phnom Penh, Onboarding Coach with Impact Hub Global and Fellow of Frontier Incubators.

🇰🇭 In this Part 2 with Mélanie Mossard, hosted by Linka Lin, Mélanie dives deeper into her transition from unpaid Communication Intern to CEO of Impact Hub Phnom Penh and the different phases the organization went through after 7 years building the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Cambodia.

💪 She shares how her role has evolved from empowering the entrepreneurs, to empowering her team, and now empowering entrepreneurship-support organizations in Cambodia and other emerging markets.

🤗 She also shares Impact Hub Phnom Penh’s mission to showcase Cambodian entrepreneurs to the world and to become the best place to work in the country!

⚠️ Watch Part 1 first if you haven’t yet :))

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In this teaser, Mélanie Mossard shares some of the main challenges that Cambodian entrepreneurs face and the importance of finding the right job, as we are spending 80,000 hours in our life working!

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🇰🇭 Mélanie Mossard is an ecosystem builder specializing in emerging markets, CEO of Impact Hub Phnom Penh, Onboarding Coach with Impact Hub Global and Fellow of Frontier Incubators.

💪 Mélanie started her career as an unpaid Communication Intern and, 7 years later, became the CEO. Since 2015, Impact Hub Phnom Penh has supported 403 teams of 850+ people to grow their social enterprises, provided 245,000 USD in grant funding to 51 startups, ran 27 entrepreneurship programs, grew a team of 25+ people, and so much more!

💥 She goes through her journey coming from the French countryside to studying in an international business school, her time working in a salad factory or volunteering with Peruvian moms, and how she’s been creating life-changing opportunities for herself.

🚀 She shares how she has built her confidence to overcome her imposter’s syndrome and become the CEO and how, with her team, they turbocharged Impact Hub to lead change at a systemic level, guided by their vision of a more inclusive and sustainable Cambodia by 2040.

PS: it's a special episode, we recorded the full video, check it on YouTube! :D

🗒️ REFERENCES:

About Impact Hub Phnom Penh.

Read "Re-Imagine Cambodia 2030" and get inspired by Cambodia’s amazing changemakers.

Connect with Melanie on LinkedIn.

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Jim Kouphokham shares how the idea of Xiang Miang (Technovator) was born from his drive to make a change in Laos and his passion for technology, and how everything started after they received a grant from YSEALI which allowed them to conduct their first bootcamps for youth!

Listen to the full episode by searching "#41 Jim Kouphokham 🇱🇦 - Building the Do-It-Yourself movement in Laos with Xiang Miang and Makerbox Lao" wherever you are listening right now or just click on this link: https://www.lifelinethepodcast.com/post/41jimkouphokham.

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🇱🇦 Jim Kouphokham is the co-founder of Xiang Miang, a youth-led social enterprise developing the entrepreneurial mindset and technology skills of youth. He’s also the co-founder of Makerbox Lao, the first public makerspace in the country, enabling the youth to build things by themselves and adopt a maker mindset instead of a consumer mindset.

💡 Coming from a difficult background, he studied hard to get a scholarship for Australia, where he was exposed to so many new ideas, opportunities and people that made him more creative, entrepreneurial and driven to make a change in Laos.

🤔 Throughout his studies, there was this one question that Jim kept thinking about: how can the youth in Laos also be exposed to these opportunities and be empowered to become problem solvers?

💻 He came back to Laos and started collaborating with schools to conduct the first entrepreneurship bootcamps, data science programs and technology trainings with Xiang Miang.

⚒️ This led him to launch Makerbox for the youth to have their own space to connect, build things with their hands, and learn about topics never heard of in Laos before. It’s a space built by makers, for makers and aspiring makers, for those who want to paint, build their own electric bicycles, discover the Internet of Things, play board games, or just have meaningful conversations!

🗒️ REFERENCES:

About Xiang Miang.

About Makerbox Laos.

Connect with Jim on LinkedIn or Facebook.

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