MilliOnAir Magazine August 2017 | Page 24

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As we chatted I was overcome by the sense that this isn't a story about struggle to overcome, it's a story where the peak of that struggle was a liberation, a setting free, a final prompt to become the person within. There is a pervasive thought that actually without the struggles there wouldn't be the happiness. It's not only changed her life, but the others that have joined her journey, on the recording of the interview there was an occasional tapping sound, it's a bracelet that one of her followers sent her, it has one of her mantras on it "slow down to speed up", perhaps it's really as simple as Ali was never meant to be a fashion model, she was meant to be a role model?

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Words by Ross Pollard

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