People know me as the Monkey Lady--the woman creating jobs for marginalized mothers in Cambodia.

I'm thrilled to be able to make a difference in a developing country and love to speak about my community project.

It's a great story that I'm passionate about, but in order to fully appreciate it, there's another story that needs to be told first, and that is my own--a story weaving from Sweden to Jerusalem, onto Australia, and eventually rural Cambodia.

It explains how behind the playful entrepreneur there is a wide-eyed young woman who bravely stepped into life...