The Defiant Optimist: Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Defiant Optimist: Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women runs 8.1 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Deepa Samuel (about 5.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 8.1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 17 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 8.1 hours, it runs longer than 77% of the 6,016 Management & Leadership audiobooks in our catalog.
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Deepa Samuel narrates 52 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 561 hours in all.
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Defiant Optimist: Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women is an audiobook by Durreen Shahnaz: a 8.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Deepa Samuel, released June 27, 2023, on the Management & Leadership shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- Deepa Samuel
- Released
- June 27, 2023
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Management & Leadership
- ISBN
- 9798765084489
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Defiant Optimist: Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women as an audiobook?
The Defiant Optimist: Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women runs 8.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.4 hours.
Is The Defiant Optimist: Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Defiant Optimist: Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women?
The Defiant Optimist: Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women is narrated by Deepa Samuel.