Maha Mamo is a resilience-builder, mentor, and speaker who transformed a life marked by statelessness and struggle into a platform for purpose, clarity, and belonging. After winning nationality and working across global stages (including UN events and major media features), she founded Maha Mamo LLC to combine motivational speaking, one-on-one mentorship, and social-impact projects — all aimed at helping people move from survival to truly living. We’re featuring her story because her journey models courage, empathy, and practical change for our 5M+ Humans of Fuzia community.
Q — What inspired you to start Maha Mamo LLC?
A — My life has been about turning struggle into purpose. After thirty years of fighting to secure my nationality and existence, I realized I had two choices: settle or use my experience to create impact. I chose the latter. I wanted something that was truly mine — a structured way to combine motivational speaking, mentorship, and social-impact work. I believe in money as a tool to help others, so I set up an LLC to both sustain myself and scale the impact I can make.
Q — Who is your work for? Who do you serve best?
A — I work one-on-one with people at crossroads: professionals and entrepreneurs who feel stuck, in transition, or unsure what’s next. I especially connect with those ready to stop being spectators and become the protagonists of their lives. I also work with organizations and leaders who want to build cultures of empathy, belonging, and resilience.
Q — What outcomes do your clients typically see?
A — The most consistent benefit is clarity — not magic, but a clear understanding of where they are and the next steps. Clients gain confidence, resilience, momentum and concrete action plans. People move from indecision to launching businesses, finding jobs, leaving relationships they’d outgrown, or finally pursuing long-postponed dreams. My program gives tools plus the courage to lead one’s life.
Q — Have you experienced imposter syndrome? How do you deal with self-doubt?
A — Absolutely — I’m human. Self-doubt appears whenever you step into something new. I don’t try to eliminate it; I use it as a growth signal. I remind myself of what I’ve already overcome, surround myself with reminders of past wins (articles, awards), talk with trusted people, keep rituals, and act anyway. Courage is not the absence of doubt — it’s moving forward despite it.
Q — Looking back, what would you have done differently starting out?
A — I would have asked for help sooner. Doing everything alone taught me a lot but delayed growth. Resources, teamwork, and collaboration accelerate impact — you don’t have to prove yourself alone. Inviting support and building complementary partnerships earlier would have helped.
Q — How do you define success today?
A — Success for me is alignment: waking each day in tune with my values, with freedom to be myself, healthy, and able to support my family. Professionally, success is when my work sparks change in another person or shifts an organization’s mindset — when someone tells me, “Because of you I acted.” Impact on real lives is the truest measure.
Q — What are the main challenges in your space?
A — Credibility and visibility are big challenges. People often measure value by follower counts rather than depth of work. The emotional nature of sharing a personal story can also be draining, and building a business in the services sector requires constant proving, patience, consistency, and resilience — often with limited resources.
Q — What are you working on now?
A — I’m expanding my mentorship internationally (now in Portuguese and English), launching a podcast called SER (which means “to exist” and, in Armenian, “love”), and translating my book into English while reaching out to agents. It’s an exciting phase of growth and broader reach.
“Courage is not the absence of doubt — it’s moving forward despite it. Believe in yourself; you will be your own best ally.” — Maha Mamo
Connect with Maha Mamo
Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/mahamamo_official/;
Linkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/in/maha-mamo-858ab8a6/
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