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THE INSPIRING LIVES GLOBAL STORY
Inspiring Lives Global took birth in 2008 when Tiamara Williams set out on a journey to empower and inspire humanity to live their best life and create a better world.
As a talkshow host and TV producer Tiamara imagined her way would be via media, bringing to light the great positive changemakers on the planet. She started out by leaving New Zealand and heading to India to interview the most inspirational globally recognized Indians she could find.
Her criteria was people who were top of their game, living their truth with great integrity and committed to making a difference in the world.
She met with and interviewed Narayana Murty (Founder of Infosys, voted Ernst and Young “World Entrepreneur of the year”), Shabana Azmi – Bollywood actress and activist for the poor, Sri Sri Ravishankar Nobel Peace Award Nominee, humanitarian, peace maker and spiritual leader to 20 million, Kiran Bedi – living legend who transformed the worst prison in India, and in Bangladesh the Nobel Peace Laureate and Medal of Freedom Recipient Mohammad Yunnus.
Returning to NZ with the footage Tiamara realized that inspiring as these great leaders are in order to fulfill on her purpose the ordinary person making a difference needed to be represented. The world leaders were a true inspiration but to reach the hearts of humanity she needed to show the regular person taking action.
So she set out to make a difference in the developing world herself and with a crew in tow filmed the content of the 10 part TV series Inspiring Lives Global.
For a year Tiamara travelled the globe and in each destination she formed a team of ordinary people to participate in hands on projects. Together they took action on humanitarian and environmental projects.
THE MISSION
Our mission was to uplift and inspire humanity to live their best lives and create a better world.
THE PROJECTS
INDIA – School renovation in poor rural tribal village.
INDIA – COmbating preventable blindness.
SOUTH AFRICA – Challenging HIV/AID’s stigma in coloured shantytown.
SOUTH AFRICA – Prisoner rehabilitation programme.
SOUTH AFRICA – Bridging the economic and racial divide with teens via sport.
JORDAN – Women’s empowerment with refugee’s.
ECUADOR – Renovation of a poor rural school and integrating organic and sustainable agriculture into the community.
ECUADOR – Catalyzing the irradication of plastic bag use for shopping in a small city.
COLOMBIA -Bogata children at Risk
CHINA – Eco education – Awakening the Chinese youth to their responsibility and impact on the environment and teaching them life skills to care for our earth.
She continued simultaneously to gather the inspirational words of Global Leaders from diverse fields whose unique contribution and success inspires and empowers millions including Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Nobel Peace Laureate and Medal of Freedon recipient), Mary Robinson (Medal of Freedom Recipient and Former President of Ireland), Abdul Aziz Nuami, Royal Sheik from Ajman, youth leader and Environmentalist.
“Since doing the ILG projects and series I have truly realized how easy it is to make change in the world. It is simply a matter of seeing what has need, identifying a positive response and taking action.” – Tiamara
EPISODES
INSPIRING LIVES GLOBAL THE REALITY DOCUMENTARY SERIES follows the journey of Tiamara Williams social entrepreneur, TV host and lifecoach from New Zealand around the developing world. In each episode of this ten episode series Tiamara gathers a team of ordinary locals in a new destination to take action on humanitarian or environmental projects.
Tiamara identifies the key issues of the area, forms a team of local people and then together they catalyze and action projects over one week that cause a transformation in a community, that can then be sustained by local grassroots organizations.
Each episode features a project and before or after ad breaks inspirational words from our world leaders. These world leaders are well know public figures whose lives uplift others through their outstanding commitment to humanity and whose words shed light on the themes.
Some of the 15 individuals to be featured are: Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Nobel Peace Laureate and Medal of Freedon recipient), Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Laureate and Medal of Freedom recipient) , Narayana Murthy (voted Ernst and Young “World Entrepreneur of the year”), Sri Sri Ravi Shankar – Nobel Peace Award Nominee, humanitarian and peace maker , Archbishop Desmond Tutu and President Mary Robinson.
