The perfectionist CEO who builds toilets without a hammer

Lindsay Stradley

Fresh Life Executive Director Lindsay Stradley during an interview at the organisation in Nairobi on August 5, 2025.

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If you want to feel bad about your ear, spend some time with Lindsay Stradley. She is perhaps one of the very few people who can actively control it, or, at least wiggle, her ear up and down, a hidden talent which she reveals and attributes to nature rather than suture.

Lindsay’s ear may turn out to not be the most famous in history—at least not to the level of Van Gogh’s or the high priest’s servant’s ear that was severed and then regrown by Jesus. But that’s just one way to achieve fame; the other one, perhaps, is to move to Kenya and build a sanitation network to transform the lives of residents in low-income areas. The organisation, of course, is Fresh Life. It is here that she is particularly meticulous—or painstaking—you choose, in ensuring the pieces revolve with perfect synchronicity. If God is in the details, Lindsay is a devout believer.

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