Malala Yousafzai

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Malala Yousafzai / Oscar Isaac · 25 Apr 2026 podcast

And it has just helped me understand that if I want to do my work in the best way possible, I have to make sure that I look after my mental health and my physical health.

I'm raising awareness about therapy as well, that we should get therapy.

And especially for women from communities where I come from, like the South Asian community, Muslim community, Pashtun community, encouraging it in those places as well.

And in therapy sessions, like, of course, like those things really help you.

But then I also thought it's also about the physical health.

I thought, like, if you are an activist, you're not allowed to get, you know, sleep or you're not allowed to eat well or not allowed to look after yourself because it's just all about work, work and work.

And then I realized I was actually not doing that job well because I was not in the best shape.

So when I started looking after my physical health as well, I've started going to the gym now.

I do weightlifting and running.

And when it's leg day, my husband and I go together.

So leg day is my favorite day.

And he's literally crying because I'm like, we have to lift heavier weights.

So he doesn't like it, but I love it.

Yeah.

I wish I had spoken to you back then so we could have written it to the university.

At the time, I had a lot of work that I needed to do for Malala Fund's Girls' Education Advocacy Program.

So I remember in just like a week or so.

Yeah, so I remember that week and a half in college when one day I was in Lebanon with Tim Cook where they announced grants to support Malala Fund's work, which was very important because with those grants we could then help girls in Lebanon and Pakistan and Afghanistan

and Nigeria and then in a few days I was at Davos and I had shared the stage with Justin Trudeau and from those conversations we helped secured more than two billion dollars for girls education.

It was a big commitment for financing for girls education and then a week later it was like another event where I was sharing my story and all of that.

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