Every Day Is Mother’s Day, Honoring Mother Earth

Horing All Mors on Mor’s Day through Social Impact and Hope to Transform Our World. Story of One Mor, Rupa Sood, who Never Gave Up on her Son.

"You can only become truly accomplished at something you love." - Maya Angelou

Making a life and making a living are at forefront of everyone’s minds. In this brave new world, taking care of children, elderly parents, and loved ones has taken on new meaning for women who are frontline workers.   COVID-19 pandemic is impacting millions of people in United States and billions worldwide, but one fact remains true – we must come toger as one with hope, resilience, and cour.

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Humanity has a once in a lifetime opportunity to reflect on what matters to us most, and change.  Human health is tied to health of planet.  Our health depends on how we as a collective create world we want, while designing smarter cities and nations where animals and humans can thrive, and Mor Earth can flourish.  Biodiversity is crucial.  Here and w, we don’t have a resource problem, but rar a leership problem.  We, as a society, must cultivate better leers that can build a better future.

“We as humans must go beyond ‘We People,’ and focus on something that is larger than ourselves. As a collective, we must be focused on We Planet.”- Kunal Sood.

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Rupa Sood is a mor of three with an incredible eye for beauty and art. As Co-Founder of Nayaab, she is preserving ancient techniques for creating herit textiles in India, practices that create dignified work for female entrepreneurs in rural vills while protecting life on land.

In 2014, Rupa Sood took me to Lodhi in New Delhi, India to meet women of Nayaab. I learned about history of sari, extraordinary colors, dyes, and techniques with organic cotton, linen, silk and tie-and-dye. women dressed me in a pink sari and treated me with such kindness and generosity of spirit on my first trip to India.

Her love for humanity and open heart translates to how she raised her three children. Thinking big and caring about global community is what inspired her youngest son to create something larger than himself for planet.

Kunal Sood’s mor inspired him to study human mind in US, after he lost his mentor to suicide.  At CIIS’s Integral Psychology program in San Francisco, Sood began transforming his own mind and long-held beliefs about human condition, while completing his practicum internship to understand death and dying.  Sood counseled end of life patients in palliative care ward of Sutter Health’s Institute for Health and Healing – many of m AIDS patients - and this remains one of most transformative experiences of his life.

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Sood has dedicated his life’s purpose towards making impossible possible to transform our world.  As Co-founder of We Planet, Sood is working relentlessly to bring hope in a time of despair to many on planet.  When Sood lost his mentor to suicide in 2006, Dr. TJ Cherian, he shifted his path to le of life of service.  Today, he focuses on inspiring people from all nations to find and live ir massive transformative purpose, and positively impact a billion lives over next dece.  Sood earned five Master’s Degrees in his journey to strengn his life-long love for learning.

Sood’s next step was to train as a Global Health scientist at UCSF focused on Global Mental Health working in trenches in slums of Mumbai with Harvard as a researcher at PUKAR, NGO training barefoot researchers in field to better understand how epidemics and pandemics affect lives of se under-served communities.  

This experience in slums of Mumbai opened door for Sood's next endeavor, where he pivoted to earn his MBA from Kellogg School of Manment and become a social entrepreneur.  In 2013, he curated TEDx at United Nations, where he developed his talent in creating and designing extraordinary experiences and bridging worlds of power and influence with purpose and meaning.   

Forbes highlighted Sood as a movement builder and impact icon given his stefast commitment to field of social invation and impact, convening over 35 high-level summits at United Nations, SAP, NASA, Google, and or organizations worldwide.  se experiences have galvanized his commitment towards empowering people who are outliers.

On 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, we launched a virtual global campaign to unite youth and elders to unite in action with a call to action around making impossible possible from COVID-19 to Climate Change.  Looking ahe, it is important to be an unstoppable force for good in our world.  Extraordinary in-person experiences and virtual summits will help shape a better future for planet. We can work towards creating a world where individuals can pursue a life of deep meaning, purpose, and accomplishment while protecting all life on planet.

“It is t critic who counts; t man who points out how strong man stumbles... credit belongs to man who is actually in arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs... Who at best kws in end triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.” – odore Roosevelt

On Mor’s Day 2020, We Planet will host a special brocast online to celebrate extraordinary women (and a few good men) to hor Mor Earth and Everyday as Mor’s Day - for human beings can be stronger toger.  Join us live at www.weplanet.io starting at 2 pm EST Sunday, May 10th.

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