What does it take to turn childhood curiosity into real-world impact? Eya Labidi shows how a shy, perfectionist teen became a certified happiness coach, TEDx speaker, writer, founder and youth advocate building for the MENA region and beyond.

Raised between Tunisia and Bahrain in a home shaped by gratitude, confidence and positive psychology, Eya traces the early influences that led her to write a children’s personal development workbook at just 15. She opens up about the family conversations, bedtime stories, and “push yourself outside your comfort zone” mindset that shaped her approach to learning, leadership, and resilience.

You’ll discover:

• How Eya turned pandemic downtime into a book on mindfulness, self-confidence, emotional awareness, and positive thinking
• Why she spent three years perfecting the design so the workbook would feel fun, colorful, and genuinely engaging for children
• What happiness coaching actually means, and how it connects to mindfulness, gratitude, affirmations, and emotional regulation
• Her take on the danger of social media over-diagnosis and why not every feeling needs a label
• The difference between healthy emotional intelligence and becoming overly self-focused
• How she landed an interview with the CEO of the Financial Times by simply showing up and asking

Eya also shares the habits behind her packed university life, from leading student societies to working as a coach while studying full-time, and explains why this season of life is the best time to build skills, take risks and say yes to opportunities before they disappear.

In this episode, we are joined by Inès Aribi, co-founder of Droit dans les Yeux, a platform democratising access to the law in France. Algerian-born and raised in France, Inès is a qualified lawyer and an activist for social and racial justice in France and beyond.

Through her legal knowledge, she teaches the law to marginalised communities in French society, including young people and residents of racialised suburbs (banlieues), as well as Arab and African communities. Together with her team, she uses social media, content creation, and humour to bring law down from its ivory tower and closer to the people it is meant to serve. This work has earned the association a democracy prize for addressing this critical gap.

Beyond her work with Droit dans les Yeux, Inès is also politically active and has previously run for political office in her local area. In this conversation, we explore what it means to take action, the intersection of social and economic class with legal education, and what it truly means to look law in the eye in the service of social justice.

In this episode of Jeel Msh Daye3, we sit down with Ines Bennacer, a writer and politics graduate from La Sorbonne who is documenting the Algerian War of Independence through a perspective often left out of historical narratives.

Drawing on family archives, oral histories, and the story of her late grandmother, Ines is writing a book that explores how women experienced, shaped, and sustained resistance beyond the battlefield. Her work asks what happens when we move history from official archives into the home, and from military narratives into personal memory.

Together, we discuss historical memory, postcolonial storytelling, women's contributions to liberation movements, and what it means for a young person today to preserve and reinterpret the experiences of previous generations.

This conversation is a reminder that history is not only found in textbooks and official archives. Sometimes, it lives in family stories waiting to be told.

In this episode, we meet with Rebecca, founder of Denizens Society and content creator. In this episode, Rebecca tells us about the story of her social and political awakening which started in New York and took her to Cairo, where she currently operates her NGO. She talks us through the process of founding your NGO, volunteering in the Egyptian borders in the early days of the war, to running multiple programmes from dental care, art therapy and rent relief to Gazan refugees in Cairo. Overall, Rebecca tells us about the importance of taking action in the momentum, starting small at each one’s level, and the role of individual action to tackle global issues and injustices.