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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Sanny and Samantha and a welcome to

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Speaker 1: stuff I've Never told you. Prediction is I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome to another edition of Feminists around the World.

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Speaker 2: And today I'm gonna put a timestamp is October twenty ninth,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, and in the US, this month is

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Speaker 2: actually there's a lot of things happening. There's a lot

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Speaker 2: of things that we wreck are both celebrating and bringing

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Speaker 2: in awareness to. There's a lot there's a lot that

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Speaker 2: happens in October for some odd reason. But with that,

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Speaker 2: you know, we did Hispanic Heritage Month, which we have

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Speaker 2: been celebrating. You know, we've had a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: But it is also Domestic Violence Awareness Month in the US,

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Speaker 2: and there's so many issues that are wrapped up during

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Speaker 2: this month, including conversation of violence against women in general,

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Speaker 2: and we talked about domestic violence. We're also talking about

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Speaker 2: financial abuse, emotional abuse, all of those things. Stalking it

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Speaker 2: does come underneath that as well. I think there's also

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Speaker 2: different months for like Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Stalking Awareness Month,

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Speaker 2: Team Domestic Violence Awareness Month that also does come out.

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Speaker 2: But October is pretty like standard for all the other

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Speaker 2: things as well. But with that, we featured many different

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Speaker 2: activists who have worked hard to bring awareness about these

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Speaker 2: issues as well as helping to change policies and how

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Speaker 2: the public or corporations can help with such a massive issue.

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Speaker 2: Of course, again, one of the biggest tactics that many

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Speaker 2: abusers use is financial abuse, which we talked about. I

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Speaker 2: think when I first started, we've talked about women in

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Speaker 2: finance and we talked about financial abuse. That's a long

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Speaker 2: time ago, anyway, it was in the old studio times.

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Speaker 1: Oh gosh, oh before time.

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Speaker 2: The before times. But anyway, often we see partners, especially women,

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Speaker 2: being unable to leave an abusive or dangerous situations because

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Speaker 2: they do not have the money to actually leave. We

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Speaker 2: also talked about the fact that way back when, when

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Speaker 2: women couldn't even get credit or credit cards or open

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Speaker 2: a bank account, that was why they didn't leave. Even

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Speaker 2: though people want to be like, oh, in the good

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Speaker 2: old days, people knew how to stay married. No, people

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Speaker 2: knew how to trap people in marriage anyway back too.

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Speaker 2: And there are those who have sought out to assist

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Speaker 2: women who are struggling financially and are trapped in dangerous situations,

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Speaker 2: such as Carmen Courea who is the current CEO of

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Speaker 2: pro muhere And here's a bit of information from their site,

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Speaker 2: promoheader dot org. Promheader is a social enterprise that has

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Speaker 2: been working to advance gender and quality in Latin America

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Speaker 2: for more than thirty three years. Our objective is for

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Speaker 2: women to reach their full potential, improving their living conditions

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Speaker 2: and become agents of change for their communities. They use

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Speaker 2: a comprehensive and holistic model to provide underserved women in

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Speaker 2: Latin America with services and tools across three strategic areas

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Speaker 2: health and well being, financial inclusion, and skilling opportunities. So

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Speaker 2: and just to kind of elaborate on that, this is

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Speaker 2: more information from reform dot org. Promuheader recognized the urgent

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Speaker 2: need for intervention and realized that addressing structural barriers to

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Speaker 2: gender quality was crucial for women to reach their full potential.

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Speaker 2: To address this, Promuhad employs a multifaceted approach to combat

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Speaker 2: gender based violence by working closely with women in the region,

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Speaker 2: providing essential support and tools to help them overcome and

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Speaker 2: identify gender based violence promptly.

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Speaker 1: And they continue quote In Bolivia, where Promuhada was founded,

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Speaker 1: the organization has initiated a program involving volunteer women who

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Speaker 1: are survivors of gender based violence. These survivors offer psychological

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Speaker 1: support to other women facing similar situations, a clear example

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Speaker 1: of their resilience and solidarity. These survivor mentors provide a

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Speaker 1: lifeline to women in desperate need, helping them regain control

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Speaker 1: over their lives while fostering a sense of community and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Corea is no stranger in this type of

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Speaker 2: with Jason Hartman for Authority magazine, which we found through medium,

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Speaker 2: Corea talks about her influences on how she got to

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Speaker 2: where she is. She said, I grew up in Inland, Uruguay,

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Speaker 2: with nature, the countryside, and its people. I lived there

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Speaker 2: and would bring us along when he needed toward the country,

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Speaker 2: country while my father worked we enjoyed life outdoors, riding horses,

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Speaker 2: living together and learning about the local culture. Beyond my

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Speaker 2: women in agricultural businesses who challenge stereotypes, and with her

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Speaker 2: and how women are oftentimes left behind or out of

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Speaker 2: the conversation altogether. In fact, she and pro Muher have

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Speaker 1: And in that authority magazine, Coorea explains what financial inclusion

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Speaker 1: is quote. Financial inclusion means that all people, regardless of

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Speaker 1: their gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, social position, or purchasing capacity,

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Speaker 1: have access to financial tools that improve their quality of life. Personally,

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Speaker 1: I think it is about not leaving anyone behind and

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Speaker 1: guaranteeing that we are all included in the financial ecosystem.

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Speaker 2: Right and in a conversation with Coorea and fellow regional

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Speaker 2: director of pro Muher, they spoke about the issue. During

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Speaker 2: a UN women's foreign title, Let's Fund Women, They spoke

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Speaker 2: about why this topic was important saying. For us, it

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Speaker 2: is essential because we see what is happening to real women.

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Speaker 2: They don't have access to capital. They don't have access

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Speaker 2: to the fundamental instrument that allows them to grow in

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Speaker 2: their own business, in their own ventures. And why don't

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Speaker 2: they have access because there is discrimination and there are

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Speaker 2: biases from those who decide on the credits. Let me

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Speaker 2: tell you about an initiative that we promoted together with

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Speaker 2: Inter American Development Bank in Chile a few years ago.

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Speaker 2: We hired twenty actors and actresses who went to the

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Speaker 2: banks under the same conditions and guess what happened. The

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Speaker 2: women were offered twenty five percent less credit simply because

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Speaker 2: they were women. This year, we had a Commission on

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Speaker 2: the Legal and Economical Status of Women, which has been

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Speaker 2: held for the past sixty eight years in New York,

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Speaker 2: and the topic centered on how to eliminate poverty and

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Speaker 2: the feminization of poverty. The only way to eliminate it

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Speaker 2: is with financing. That's why we decided to talk about investment.

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Speaker 2: Without financial inclusion, it is very difficult for women to

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Speaker 2: so much, which I found that project pretty interesting. I

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Speaker 2: would love to have like little more detail. I'm sure

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Speaker 2: they have it on their site. There's a lot of

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Speaker 2: information on their site, y'all, because that it is a

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Speaker 2: big conversation about who is being denied. What I know,

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Speaker 2: there have been those types of tests and research conducted

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Speaker 2: as gender lines. But I find that, like, yeah, that's

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Speaker 2: is necessary to point out that being unbanked is directly

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Speaker 2: related to the social vulnerabilities and individual faces. In this regard,

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Speaker 2: young people, women, indigenous communities, and the elderly are most

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Speaker 2: affected by this lack of financial services. An important figure

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Speaker 2: guarantees offered by financial institutions. The good news is that

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Speaker 2: financial system to the population's needs. And with these figures

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Speaker 2: and understanding these needs, she and pro Muher have done

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Speaker 2: been able to help women get access to a loan

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Speaker 2: and are able to increase their capital, which is amazing.

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Speaker 2: And of course with all of that, under her leadership,

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Speaker 2: the organization has been able to expand globally and has

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Speaker 2: been a leader in the movement of financial inclusion and

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Speaker 2: women's rights and advocacies. And Corea has been getting a

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Speaker 2: lot of recognition for her work and advocacy. In fact,

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three, she was included on the Google

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Speaker 2: dot org list of Leaders to Watch, which phelly, she

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Speaker 2: probably should have been on that like twenty years ago,

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Speaker 2: but hey, at least she's getting some kind of recognition.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, yeah, Well, hopefully she continues to get that recognition.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure this is such a huge issue. We have

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Speaker 1: talked about it since the start of when you've been

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Speaker 1: on here, You've had multiple episodes about financial abuse and women,

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Speaker 1: and so it is a very important thing that she's

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Speaker 1: working on. I'm sure we'll check back in in the meantime. Listeners,

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