Forging my own path, by Isha Sesay
Apr 07, 2026•33 min
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Summary
Growing up, Isha Sesay learned the importance of caring for others from her mother, an ethos that shaped her early life and advocacy work. Through personal challenges like bullying and grief, she forged her own path, often as an outsider. However, it was her mother's own debilitating stroke that taught Isha the profound lesson of vulnerability, forcing her to embrace the regenerative power of receiving care and support from her community.Episode description
Writer Isha Sesay is happiest when she is caring for others; it’s a lesson she learns from her mother while growing up in Sierra Leone. But as an adult, there’s another lesson her mother teaches her, in quite another way: that even the most caring and giving among us must learn to receive help too. It’s through both giving and receiving that we become whole.
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