Transcript
A (0:01)
Welcome to the Amazing Authorities podcast, where game changers, visionaries and category leaders share how they built their brands, platforms and global influence. Your host is Mitch Carson, international speaker, media strategist, and creator of the Instant Authority system. If you're ready to learn from those who've done it and want to become the go to expert in your space, you're in the right place. Sarah M. Is our guest today from Florida, but she's got an interesting story that goes back to 1975, and I want to just jump right in. Sarah, why, what was it about that year that is worth sharing?
B (0:49)
Yeah, that year is. My life was turned upside down. I left my family from Battambang, which is another province, and I went to Phnom Penh, the capital city, to attend college. That's a few months back. And then when 1975, in April, the communist regime took over our country.
A (1:22)
Right.
B (1:23)
They came in, in the military, the tank and truck and soldiers, big gun and all that. It was very scary. And immediately they shut down the country.
A (1:40)
This is Cambodia.
B (1:41)
Cambodia. In Cambodia.
A (1:44)
Well, go ahead.
B (1:46)
When they shut down the country, they also evacuate people from the city. So they don't want anybody to live in the city. This, this, this group is very strange. They want everybody to go to the, the field, the rice field, the countryside. They hate people from the city.
A (2:12)
What was their issue? What, what I mean, it was disruptive. What was their whole propaganda?
B (2:20)
Well, they, they think that the, the people in the city are very corrupted, very corrupted. And there's a lot of inequality. There's rich people, there's poor people, and they don't like that. And they want to turn to communism where everybody is equal. So that's their propaganda. There's no more too rich, no more too poor people. And that's what happened.
A (2:55)
So everybody would, would be treated equally. And where's Cambodia today?
B (3:02)
Cambodia right now. It look like free. Look like, look like the democrats. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the dictator was ruling for over 40 years. One person ruling the country over 40 years. And he didn't want to have let anybody else win the election.
