Lift As You Climb

Have you ever looked in the mirror and asked “Who Am I Now”? As Baby Boomers, we’ve been so busy ‘adulting’ and keeping up with expectations for decades, it is not surprising that we lose touch with ourselves as we evolve and change over time. Growth, transformation, and reinvention with a purpose and a plan are essential to a fulfilled life. Each Wednesday, Isabel Alexander, self-proclaimed Mistress of Reinvention, unpacks her personal evolution system, Lift As You Climb, and engages guests to share their Ah-Ha moments of recognizing their evolved, authentic selves. Be inspired by others who embrace “This is who I am now!” and choose who they want to become next as they love their life and live their legacy. This podcast celebrates Identity, Influence and Impact at every age and every stage of life!

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episode 61: Marion Hook - Sewing for a Living


A tapestry of connections

It all began with a single ball of yarn that got tied to the passion of a small but tight knit group of Rotarians, both locals and expatriates, living in Bali.

An idea to help women earn money while they fulfilled all their cultural and traditional duties, was stitched together and has become a sustainable economic blanket with ties stretching now to multiple continents.   

The project is called Sewing For Living and is recognized by Rotary International.

Before the pandemic began, the President of Rotary Club Bali Ubud Sunset had an idea to teach local women to use sewing machines, allowing them to work from home and supplement their family income.

Balinese women have always had multiple jobs: caring for children and family, doing all the housework, providing help to the community, assisting at temple and cultural events, among others.

It is vital for women to make their own money, not only for their self-esteem, but to enable them to help support their family and community. 

Many women are sole providers for their families, a statistic that dramatically increased during the Covid-19 pandemic when tourism, the number one employer, shut down for several years. Local economies were in serious trouble.

The project, aptly named; Sewing For Living, teaches marketable skills that women can use from their homes.  

Thoughtfully, Rotary Club Ubud Sunset expanded the project to teach the women business skills beyond making artisanal and seasonal products, and worked to open up new international markets for the goods produced by the village women. 

With true Lift As You Climb spirit, the Balinese women now also give a hand up to an environmental issue and support rescue of endangered orangutans from threatened rainforest habitats.

When a Sewing for Living crocheted orangutan is sold, 50% of the money goes directly to the woman who created it.  The other 50% goes to the Long Sam Program, an environmental program working to restore the rainforests in Kalimantan and rescue the orangutans who live there.

SEWING FOR LIVING

VISION

  • To allow Balinese women financial independence

  • To create a skilled, female workforce for businesses in Bali

  • To raise the level of self-esteem of Balinese women

MISSION

  • To teach Balinese women to use a sewing machine so they can work independently from their homes

  • To teach Balinese women to crochet and to knit

  • To create skilled workers who can be hired by businesses to do piece work in their homes

FIND OUT MORE AND PASS THIS ALONG TO FRIENDS

https://www.instagram.com/sewing_for_living/

https://rotarybaliubudsunset.org/

https://www.facebook.com/RajutdanJarit

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

Purchase Sewing For Living products

Purchase Sewing For Living Orangutans

Donate funds to Sewing For Living

https://rotarybaliubudsunset.org/support-rcbus/donate/

Donate wool or yarn to Sewing For Living

Sponsor a supporting project or fund raiser within your Rotary or other service club

Organize family, neighbours, book club, church group, office cohort, etc. to host a fund raiser or wool/yarn collection and ship it to Bali, in care of Rotary Club Ubud Sunset

SPREAD the word by SHARING this podcast.

Donate to Rotary International and designate your donation

Become a Rotarian and Lift As You Climb with a service project


More about Ubud – Bali, Indonesia

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Ubud


More about the Orangutan project:

https://rotarybaliubudsunset.org/the-long-sam-program-and-yayasan-hutan-masa-depan/


About the Host:

 

Isabel Alexander

Your Next Business Strategist and Transformation Catalyst

 

Dynamic, a self-made entrepreneur who overcame obstacles with an unrelenting positive nature, a farm girl work ethic, and a conscious choice to thrive rather than survive, Isabel Alexander cultivated an award-winning, $10+ million global chemical business and grew it from dining room table to international boardrooms.

Isabel’s strengths include the ability to initiate and nurture strategic relationships, a love of lifelong learning and talents for helping others maximize their potential. An inspiring speaker within both industry and community, she is a driving force behind those with the courage to follow her example of thriving against the odds.

With 50+ years of business experience across diverse industries, Isabel is respected as an advisor, a coach, a mentor, and a role model. She believes in sharing collective wisdom and empowering others to economic independence.

 

Founder:

Lift As You Climb Movement (www.facebook.com/groups/liftasyouclimbmovement)

and

Chief Encore Officer, The Encore Catalyst (www.theencorecatalyst.com) – an accelerator for feminine wisdom, influence, and impact.

also

Author & Speaker ‘Who Am I Now? – Feminine Wisdom Unmasked Uncensored’ (www.IsabelBanerjee.com)

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/isabelalexanderbanerjee/

 

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