#WeThePlanet organized a live broadcast
to honor “Every Day is Mothers Day and Mother Earth” on this Mother’s Day. It
took place on Sunday, May 10, 2020 at 8:00 pm IST, where extraordinary mothers
and daughters (and a few good men) came together to restore their faith given
the recent COVID-19 pandemic and negative effects of climate change in saving
Mother Earth, at all costs without fear of favor.
#WeThePlanet’s live broadcast
paid gratitude to women and a couple of men who are world-renowned speakers,
some iconic philanthropist and social entrepreneurs and even a former POTUS
candidate, but most of all, mothers and daughters with a common thread that
united all with open hearts and minds.
It was hosted by Kunal Sood and Laura
Muranaka who are the co-founders of #WeThePlanet. Kunal is also the founder
NOVUS, X Fellows and X Summit where collectively he is creating the network of
networks and the summit of summits to curate a league of extraordinary leaders
that will transform the world and create a better future. He had some globally
acclaimed women like Susan Rockefeller, Jane Seymour, Marianne Williamson,
Nancy Conrad, Oona Chaplin, Katie Flynn, Lakshmi Pratury, Yasmin Padamsee
Forbes, and Dr. Anita Goel, on board.
Lakshmi Pratury, an entrepreneur,
curator, speaker, and founder of INK, shared how “a monk once told me that the
biggest lesson one could learn is to let go and not own that idea or a person,
they think is their own. He told me to think of it like my baby who just came
through and now I neither own him or control him or even his destiny. In this
time of global crises, we must wake up and see that Mother Earth just doesn’t
belong to us, but to so many other living beings too and we must stop thinking
otherwise. Whatever nature has to offer, we owe everything back to the planet”.
The discussion also witnessed Nancy
Christiano, Malini Sood Horiuchi, Radha Parthsarathy, Nahema Mehta, Amber
Nystrom, Rupa Sood, Salim Ismail, Lily Safrani, Raghava KK, Marya Ghazipura,
Sarika Batra, Yashi Brown, and Anju Luhana.
Susan Rockefeller, an entrepreneur,
conservationist, and filmmaker described how we must use this time to protect
what is precious and work on “the three pillars of our life: family, art, and
nature.” She went on to explain how by thriving to save and protect the three
instead of suffering in pain, we could all get through the global epidemic that
we have gotten ourselves into.
Kunal Sood conceived and created this
event in the honor of his mother, Rupa Sood, who taught him that “the heroes'
journey begins in the womb. Her love for humanity and open heart translates to
how she raised her three children. So, thinking big and caring about the global
community is what inspired me to create something larger than myself for the
planet”.
This initiative raised awareness for
Arianna Huffington’s #FirstRespondersFirst campaign celebrating the true
bearers of our society, the frontline workers, who are working amidst a global
pandemic.
The live broadcast was a reminder for us
all to collectively take personal responsibility in changing our mindsets from
‘me’ to ‘we’ because our ways of living has only brought a global catastrophe
given the current pandemic and climate change. So, we must not only revisit our
own principles of living but also teach our kids who are our future to be more
empathetic to our reason of existence, not just today, but every day. Leaving
not just a better planet but extraordinary citizens for generations to come.
13th
May, New Delhi
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