Top of my list.

I first saw Leila on Marie Forleo and was immediately drawn to what her cause was about. Following that episode I bought the book. Leila did such a great job with the book that you feel like you're on the journey with her. So many great takeaways in the book. This is go to book.

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World Changing Social Impact

I loved it, an inspiring success story about compassion, hustle and drive to transform lives.

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Inspirational, touching and addicting

Impontant topic, which was introduced through an interesting story! I loved the book and it made me really want to do my part to fight the extreme poverty and think innovative ways to bring work to all people. The story touched me and made me in tears few times. The narrator had a very pleasant and soothing voice, which I enjoyed to listen.

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The best book I ever read.

The biggest lost to this world
not to have Leila Janah.
I must say it is one of the SADDEST day of my life.
The most INCREDIBLE AMAZING, TALENTED, LOVING HUMAN BEING can just die just like that. If you want to make a difference in this world you must read this book.
Bless Your Soul My Sister
WE LOVE YOU
NAMASTE 😭🙏

What an inspiration

I couldn’t stop listening. Leila’s story, the stories of the people she met along the way, and the work she has done all blew me away.

A bit confusing

Overall the concept of this book is interesting. I agree with the concept of giving people livelihoods rather than just handouts. I think this is much more effective at eliminating poverty. The writer does a good job of explaining this point in parts of the book, but has confusing moments of jumping from capitalistic concepts to socialistic. She talks in detail about how giving people training to get jobs to raise them out of poverty, but then talks about how the universal income would be a better solution. I don’t think you can have it both ways. Either you help people earn a livelihood or you give them money to do with as they please. It makes the overall tone of the book a bit confusing as she jumps from one concept to the other. Also, the author spends a significant amount of time discussing in detail how the reason poverty exist is because of certain people groups. I feel she should have spent more time discussing the issues at hand and how to move forward rather than looking backwards.Again, overall I agree with the concept of helping people by teaching them to sustain themselves and their families, and to give them a means of lifting them selves out of poverty.

Amazing and Prophetic!

This book is a must read. What has been done here is a model for how the world needs to work. The accomplishments through Samasource are a proven demonstration of a new way of doing good AND doing business.

Great! Showcases impact sourcing solving poverty

Leilah Janah is a very impressive person and her work over so many years is so admirable. I teach social entrepreneurship and have been a social entrepreneur myself. I had never thought of "impact sourcing" and had never considered training for digital jobs as a way to address poverty. And LXMI, her for-profit company, was more familiar: creating jobs in the developing world making artisanal products for high income countries and individuals.

Impact sourcing could be easily misused to exploit others in the name of job creation. Sometimes in the book, I couldn't tell the difference between her rhetoric and that of sweat shop peddlers pointing to job creation and that the pay may seem low but not for the local economy, etc. People should have the opportunity to be trained for digital jobs and the gig economy. A job is a job when you are poor. And I agree that a job is the best way out of poverty. But tagging images for Getty images or managing content for Facebook...these don't seem like jobs that uphold their dignity, culture and humanness. I struggled with that while in parallel admired and was inspired by Ms. Janah.

In the end, impact sourcing as practiced by Samasource is another tool in the social entrepreneurship toolbox. Microfinance, impact investing, impact sourcing, corporate bottom of the pyramid tactics, fair trade...and more are all tools. Which tool for which setting and situation? That will be the question.

Compelling reality

I read this book in search of a model that will help create jobs for rural communities and it paid of. Though I have already started and I will definitely used some cues from this book. Thanks Leila

Thankful

The insight and persuasiveness and elegance of Leila Janah in this book is mesmerizing. She pushes all taboos of traditional charity and help to really support people in partnership, not in pity, in hope, not in power, and in love, not in pride. Thankful for the read :)