If you haven\u2019t heard the story of Mariane Pearl, you need to.\u00a0 What an amazing woman!\u00a0 I was able to meet her today when she spoke at the Women Moving Millions conference I am attending in New York.\u00a0 Mariane is a French journalist and she is the widow of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and killed by terrorists in Pakistan back in 2002.\u00a0 After her husband was murdered she went on to write the story of what happened in a book called A Mighty Heart, which was made into a feature film in which Angelina Jolie played Mariane.<\/p>\n
Mariane shared her story with us and explained the things she went through at the time of her husband\u2019s kidnapping.\u00a0 She had setup a command center at her home in Pakistan for the people that were all working to help her get to the bottom of what happened to her husband.\u00a0 In the home working with her to find her husband were some Jews, some Muslims, a Hindu, and some Christians.\u00a0 She said that she watched as each different group tried to tell the story of what was happening to her husband from their own perspective in an attempt to control the narrative, and therefore, control the story.\u00a0 Everyone was fighting with a strong feeling that they knew the truth.\u00a0 And the stories people hear ultimately lead to the decisions people make, which is why it is so critical to have truth told without bias or without trying to sell people on anything. Watching all these differing stories get told helped her to realize how important it was to put your own truth out there – to give your truth a voice.\u00a0 That was why she decided to tell her own story from her perspective on what had happened with her husband.\u00a0 She wanted to let her husband\u2019s truth be heard, so she shared that truth by writing the book.<\/p>\n
Mariane encouraged all of us listening to go out and share our own truth, and to encourage others to share their truth as well.\u00a0 We need our life stories to be heard, even if it is just by keeping a journal that we right in for our own posterity to read someday.\u00a0 The impact of our stories is a powerful thing and one that we don\u2019t want to miss out in doing.\u00a0 Just think of how differently we might view the history of our world if more people would have put their life stories out there for us to learn from.\u00a0 If only we had each person\u2019s perspective of truth it might completely change the some of our understanding of history today.<\/p>\n
The bottom line was this:<\/p>\n
When our lives come to an end, don\u2019t let our lives pass away in silence.\u00a0 Share your story.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n I am excited for more exciting talks tomorrow.\u00a0 The group of people at this small conference is tremendous and I am excited to learn from each of them and to make new friends that can help me learn best practices for my own charity.\u00a0 It\u2019s great to be around a group of people who want to make the world a better place, and who are out there actually doing something to make that happen.\u00a0 It is an honor to associate with them.<\/p>\n ~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you haven\u2019t heard the story of Mariane Pearl, you need to.\u00a0 What an amazing woman!\u00a0 I was able to meet her today when she spoke at the Women Moving Millions conference I am attending in New York.\u00a0 Mariane is a French journalist and she is the widow of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2216,2217,2232,2229,1982,2218,2226,97,189,2231,2227,1032,12,2225,66,2220,2234,2223,2233,836,2215,2224,2228,2222,2230,134,1270,272,2221,336,914,2219,9,2198,1166],"class_list":["post-3839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-mighty-heart","tag-angelina-jolie","tag-better-place","tag-bias","tag-book","tag-brad-pitt","tag-christian","tag-decisions","tag-friends","tag-heard","tag-hindu","tag-history","tag-husband","tag-jew","tag-journal","tag-journalist","tag-journals","tag-kidnapping","tag-life-story","tag-make-it-happen","tag-mariane-pearl","tag-muslim","tag-narrative","tag-pakistan","tag-pass-away","tag-perspective","tag-silence","tag-story","tag-terrorists","tag-truth","tag-voice","tag-wall-street-journal","tag-wife","tag-women-moving-millions","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3840,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions\/3840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}