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hard levelLeadership / How do I become a leader?
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PresenterThe youngest Nobel prize winner in history, a leading campaigner for girls' education.
And an entrepreneur who believes business can be a force for good in the world.
LoveI found that my purpose is to really create space for others and to share my energy.
PresenterWe learn what makes these two women leaders, and how you can be a leader too.
How did Malala Yousafzai rise up from a terrible attack to inspire the world?
She came from the Swat region of Pakistan. The Taliban, who opposed women's freedom, were becoming more and more powerful there.
Aged eleven, her father got her to write a blog for the BBC. She gave a schoolgirl's view of life under the Taliban. Soon, she was campaigning for girls' education more widely.
But in October 2012, aged fifteen, she was shot. A Taliban gunman attacked her on a school bus.
She survived the attack, but was flown to hospital in England. People all over the world started to hear what she had to say. She spoke passionately and intelligently about educating girls.
MalalaI want to go back to Pakistan, but first of all, I need to be fully empowered and to make myself empowered and to make myself powerful, I only need one thing: that is education.
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