Episode 0.1_Welcome to My MARS mantra podcast_Rumana Kabir_231023lish

The podcast "Mars Mantra" uses the acronym "Mars" to explore four questions: motivation, action, reflection, and sustainability. Each episode features change makers from around the world who work in disasters and development. The series covers topics such as disasters, conflict zones, crisis, consumerism, corruption, and climate change in Bangladesh. Listeners are encouraged to find their own Mars mantra and contribute their ideas to the podcast. Our planet is getting hotter and hotter every day and we are thinking of escaping to planet Mars. Don't be fooled by mission Mars. Let's come down to earth. Let's figure out what our Mars mantras will be for a better world here on this planet. Hello, welcome to my Mars mantra podcast. I'm your host, Rumana Kabir. I will not be talking about planet Mars here. Mars is just an acronym for motivation, action, reflection, and sustainability. I'm using this acronym to ask four questions. First, what is your motivation? Second, what are your actions? Third, how do you reflect upon your own actions? And finally, how do you think you and the rest of us can sustain in this crazy world? In each episode, I will be asking these questions to many change makers who are from around the world working in disasters and development. They're activists, architects, engineers, planners, policy makers, and so on. Many of them inspired me and I'm sure that they will inspire you too. My Mars mantra podcast is a four part series. The first part is all about disasters. We will introduce you to people whose careers were shaped by disasters, including mine, and also try to understand what is a disaster. The second part is more complex. We will give you a flavor of hopeless situations, how it feels to be in a really difficult place where people are faced with everyday disasters created by us humans. We will find out how people live and work in conflict zones with their sheer power of optimism. We will then let you pause and reflect for you to find your own Mars mantra. In the third part, we will zoom straight into Bangladesh, where disasters and development go hand in hand. We will find out how crisis, consumerism, corruption, and climate change all come under our so-called development culture. And what lessons can we share with the rest of the world? In the fourth part, we will conclude the series by presenting our own and collective Mars mantras. Dear listeners, now I would like you to find your own Mars mantra just by starting to ask yourself those four questions. Start listening to your own voice. What is your call? What is your own Mars mantra? You can email us at mymarsmantra at gmail.com to send your ideas, questions, thoughts that you would like us to include in this podcast because we want to know what changes you have made. We will make sure you are part of the series. Thank you and enjoy listening.