Women With Words Special 2: Our Challenges, Strengths and Hopes as Malaysian women - a podcast by Ain Aissa

In conjunction with International Women's Day, this podcast episode features Women with Words, our safe and supportive speaking club! In Part 2 of this special, we look at our challenges, strengths, and hopes for Malaysian women. Are there unreasonable expectations set upon us as women? How are we treated differently because of our gender? What are we grateful for and proud about? What are our hopes for Malaysian women listening? We discuss these questions and more!

Women with Words is a platform where women and girls can deliver their speeches based on a theme, share their ideas, and obtain feedback. We aim to create a safe and supportive space for women & girls to express themselves. In the process, we also hope to build confident female speakers through speech practice, a supportive community, as well as meaningful group discussions.

Join us on the 13th of March 2021 at 3pm to share your thoughts and opinions on the theme, Expression! Simply register here.

Get more updates and information on the club on our FB group at 'My Female Speaking Club'.

Also, check out past speeches shared during our meetings on our YouTube channel here.

Special Thanks to Alison, Pratibha, Sasha, Alycia, Amrit, and Kuljit for sending in their snippets. And a big THANK YOU to Maslin who helped review all the snippets and put them together!

The transcript for this episode can be found here.

Episode timestamps below:

Aissa: [00:00:00] Intro

Kuljit: [00:01:06] My challenges

Sasha: [00:02:05] Confusing expectations

Alison: [00:03:06] My expectations

Manu: [00:04:21] Unfairness to women

Alycia: [00:05:18] Subconscious bias

Rina: [00:06:30] Body Image

Prat: [00:07:22] Looking different

Karishma: [00:10:57] Scarcity mindset

Puteri Balkhis: [00:12:13] Standing strong

Mai: [00:14:09] Checklists 

Alison: [00:16:23] Gratitude

Kuljit: [00:16:52] Support system

Prat: [00:17:43] Academic milestones

Fyza: [00:19:27] Our achievements

Sasha: [00:20:18] My achievements

Sheng Yee: [00:21:54] Forgiveness

Mai: [00:23:28] It’s okay to fail

Fyza: [00:24:42] Female idols and starting out 

Sasha: [00:25:45] Lifting others

Kuljit: [00:27:54] Hope for Malaysian women

Alison: [00:29:03] Hope for Malaysian women

Prat: [00:30:19] Hope for Malaysian women

Aissa: [00:30:58] End

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