MAMET HAILE

“I choose to live in love and share out to the world what is positive and productive.”

There are 10 million health care workers in the United States dealing with the everyday struggles of the Covid pandemic. MAMET HAILE is a Labor and Delivery nurse at one of the busiest baby hospitals in the nation. Her inspiring story begins when she fled her war-torn country as a teen and came to America.

Though she escaped the fighting and seeing bombs fall everyday, Mamet struggled with who she was growing up, as the culture of her former land was very different than the cultures of America.

“Learning how to wake up from this life that I was living being very co- dependent with my culture. I felt like I never really directed my life.” She re-discovered her own strengths, empowered through spiritual programs focusing on women.

“It’s a program that helps you go back through meditation and heal your childhood wounds and to be able to help you find your voice.” Mamet also changed course on her professional health care path. “I always wanted to work with kids and I was going to be a pediatrician but I sort of liked the instant gratification of nursing, like getting to help someone on a daily basis.”

Having witnessed a thousand births over her career, Mamet says the joy of seeing a baby born is enlightening.

“Bringing this life into the world and you wonder what are you going to grow up to be?”

Despite ever changing challenges and fears from COVID, Mamet uses her inner strength to provide comfort and care while understanding she could be putting her own family and children, Deseela and Ezra at risk.

“I really believe that when I go to work, I’m called to help a specific someone or to do something specific. This is my mission today, let me get that done and then we’ll worry about life.”

Staying grounded in what she can control, Mamet focuses on the present.

Mamet lives for today and shares out into the world things that come from her heart in A Sunny Space.