A homeless population caseworker in the Washington D.C. area, 25-year-old Saherah Khan says that people tell her how they're surprised and shocked when learning about her past. You see, Saherah explains she grew up in a mixed racial household--her mother is from Korea and her father is from Pakistan. When she was about to enter high school, her father told the family that they were going on a 2-month trip to visit his homeland. But even at 14, Saherah said it was apparent her father never intended to bring them back home. She said she felt like a slave and a prisoner. She was forbidden to go to school and she wasn't allowed to be on her own unless she was fetching water for the house. She describes her father as controlling, possessive and sometimes physically abusive. At one point it got so bad he pulled a gun out and threatened to kill her. After two years of living in a Pakistani rural village and learning she had been promised to marriage to a man in the village, she felt helpless and hopeless. But soon after, she learned there may be a way out. At 16, she made a daring escape and returned home to her mother in the States. Today, Saherah is just starting to speak out about her experience with the hope to help inspire others that they too have a voice and can escape an abusive life.
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000: Intro to The Inspire Cafe Podcast
099 Greg Zakowicz: From Stocking Shelves to Senior Commerce Marketing Analyst at Oracle
098: Chris Norton: After Becoming Paralyzed From a Football Accident, How This Man is Inspiring Others
097: Ryan C. Greene: Living Your Life's Purpose
095: Winston Ben Clements: From Suffering Over 150 Bone Fractures by the Time he was 12 to On His Way to Inspire 1 Billion People
094: Aaron Martinez: Breaking the Cycle of Drug Addiction in his Family
093: TShane Johnson: From Almost Having Died 3 Times to Running Across America for the Fourth Time
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091: Eli Brown: Entrepreneur Shines the Light On Mental Illness with his Inspirational Clothing Brand
090: Betty Jean Bell: When Doctors Told This Aspiring Opera Singer She Wouldn’t Sing Again, She Turned Her Adversity Into Being Badass
089: Jessica Key: Why This U.S. National Dragon Boat Team Racer Says to Be The Champion of Your Own Life
088: Briar Harvey: "I expected to come home with a baby and I came home with nothing."
087: Eric Christiansen: How Surviving the 1990 Painted Cave Fire Turned This Editor into a Messenger of Hope Through his Award-Winning Films
086: Justin Birckbichler: Using A Ballsy Sense of Humor to Spread Awareness About Testicular Cancer
085: Stefan Weiner: From Believing He'd Never Play Music Again to Releasing New Music with a Whole New Perspective
084: Susie Reynolds Reece: Making the Topic of Suicide More Comfortable
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