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Unit3d w/ B1G Team at Indiana UniversitySabrine Shaw: Minds MatterSabrina Shaw worked hard and had a lot of success as a goalkeeper and headed in to her college career at Iowa with high expectations of herself. Injuries created a bumpy journey and when she was sidelined she realized she did not know. How to find joy outside of her sport. She had the courage to ask for help and found her way back to herself. During the pandemic she started her own company: Urban Wave and her mental health journey inspired her to use her business to further the efforts of others to support student-athlete mental health. She...
2023-05-0939 min
Shaw Me Your WayEP. 10 Shammi Kapoor Shows Us How He Was Inspired By His Own Struggles with Autism and ADHD To Open His Own Brain Training Centre and How Brain Training Changed His LifeToday’s guest is Shammi Kapoor, the Founder and Director of Brain Abilities, a brain training centre with locations in the UAE and the UK. Shammi is diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Depression and could not read properly 8 years ago. Shammi was born in the UK, and grew up as an expat child in Dubai where he struggled as he could not participate and be a functioning member of society whether it was in a community, at school or at home. When he was 19 years old, one of his clinical psychologists referred him to a BrainRx center in Du...
2020-08-2449 minShaw Me Your WayEP. 9 Katie Diasti Shows Us How Her Sustainable Period Care Company Viv Was Born, Tips To Live A More Sustainable Lifestyle And Being An Entrepreneur In The Period Care SpaceWelcome to Episode 9 of the Shaw Me Your Way Podcast, today’s guest is Katie Diasti, the CEO and Founder of Viv for your v, an earth-friendly period care brand. Katie studied Marketing and Managing Social Impact at Boston College and started VIV in her senior year to pursue her dream of building a mission-driven social impact brand and I believe that she is doing a great job of spreading awareness and championing sustainability. There are some pretty shocking statistics about the amount of plastic in period care products and the toxic ingredients that are in mainstream period care pr...
2020-07-2749 minShaw Me Your WayEP. 8 Celine Azem Shows Us Why She Started @FitWithCeline, How She Merges Activism & Fitness On Her Page And Staying True To HerselfTrigger Warning: This episode briefly discusses topics such as body image and eating disorders. Today’s guest is Celine Azem, she started her Instagram page @FitWithCeline during quarantine and has dedicated a lot of her time and effort towards creating amazing fitness content on her page as well as consistent weekly scheduled Live workouts that were… challenging to say the least! Celine’s mission with her page is to empower women and cut through all the BS advice in the fitness world online. Celine got her bachelor's degree in Art Curation from the prestigious Central Saint Martins in London, howeve...
2020-07-0840 minShaw Me Your WayEP. 7 Andrea Brocca Shows Us How He Crafted His CSM Graduate Collection "SENANAYAKE" Under Lockdown In Dubai, His Future Plans & His InspirationsToday’s guest is an incredible talent and one of my oldest childhood friends, Andrea Brocca.
At age 14, Andrea interned for Alice Temperley and produced the Andrea dress, YES AT 14! And by 16 years old, he was hailed youngest haute couture designer in the world by the Guiness World Book of records, succeeding Yves Saint Laurent! He had his own boutique at 16 in Dubai’s Wafi Mall and left it all behind to master his craft by going on to study at La Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne followed by a degree in Fashion Design and Marketing at L...
2020-06-2349 minShaw Me Your WayEP. 6 Helena Smolak Shows Us How She Got Her Job At The United Nations WFP, How The World Food Programme Is Responding To COVID-19 And Believing In YourselfWelcome to the sixth episode of the Shaw Me Your Way Podcast! DISCLAIMER: Please bear with some of the sound distortions that occurs when remotely recording a podcast. Today’s guest is Helena Smolak, who works in Operational Information Management and Reporting at the United Nations World Food Programme in Rome. We discuss how she came to the realisation that she wanted to pursue international diplomacy as a career, the whole application process for her UN job and never giving up during the sometimes (most times) *dreaded* job hunt. Helena is extremely candid about feeling the pressure to perform du...
2020-06-1655 minShaw Me Your WayEP. 5 Seif Tamer Shows Us The Realities Of Hitch-Hiking, Managing The @MyEgypt Page For 300K Followers All While Being A Med StudentWelcome to the fifth episode of the Shaw Me Your Way Podcast! DISCLAIMER: This episode was recorded remotely in light of Covid-19. Today’s guest is Seif Tamer, the founder of the @MyEgypt Instagram page with over 300,000 followers, a travel vlogger on YouTube ‘Seif Travels’, and a full-time Med student in Prague. Seif talks to me about how he got into hitch-hiking around the world, the message he wants to send about traveling, and learning more from different cultures. He has some absolutely wild stories of the interesting things that occur when hitching a ride with strangers or bunking with p...
2020-05-1847 minShaw Me Your WayEP. 4: Husam Ahmed Shows Us How His Business In.coming Is Helping Young Professionals Break Into Industry & Building Your NetworkWelcome to the fourth episode of the Shaw Me Your Way Podcast! DISCLAIMER: There are snippets of background noise in today’s episode as it was recorded remotely. Today’s guest is Husam Ahmed, the co-founder of In.coming, a platform that helps young professionals break into industry whether its law, finance, consulting, and more. In.coming's mission is to help people realise their ambitions by providing the key to career entry. In.coming creates a relatable, engaging, and informative way to learn. It's like having an older sibling in the profession guiding you along your path. Husam talks to m...
2020-05-1154 minShaw Me Your WayEP. 3: Sam Turner Shows Us All Things Social Media In The MENA Region, How To Start A Business in Dubai & His Entrepreneurial JourneyWelcome to the third episode of the Shaw Me Your Way Podcast! DISCLAIMER: Today’s episode was recorded pre-Covid19. Today’s guest is Sam Turner, the co-founder of social and content agency Those Social Guys. The agency’s clients have ranged from Lamborghini, Porsche, Jumeirah Al Naseem Hotel, Marriott Hotels to way more if you check out their website. They’ve received MEA Markets: UAE Business Award “Creative Agency of the Year 2019” and Sam has recently been listed as one of Campaign Middle East’s “Creative Faces to Watch 2020.” We discuss how he came to start the agency with his co-founders, h...
2020-05-0445 minShaw Me Your WayEP. 2: Nour El Saleh Shows Us How She's Navigating The Art Industry, Solo Exhibitions And How She Defines 'Making It'Welcome to the second episode of the Shaw Me Your Way Podcast! DISCLAIMER: Today’s episode was recorded pre-Covid19. Today’s guest is Nour El Saleh, an incredibly talented Artist who has recently graduated from UCL’s prestigious Slade School of Fine Art. Nour’s work has garnered media attention from her first exhibition which was in October of 2019 at VO curations titled “Exquisite Farces” all the way to her international solo exhibitions in Mexico and soon in Los Angeles. We discuss her creative process and how she became an artist, how media attention can misconstrue someone’s art to how an arti...
2020-04-2745 minShaw Me Your WayEP. 1: Sarina Vaswani Shows Us The Way Towards Building A Philanthropic Organization And How We Can Give BackWelcome to the first-ever episode of the Shaw Me Your Way podcast! This Podcast Was Recorded Remotely. In today’s episode, we have a knowledgeable guest who has recently founded a philanthropic organization called The Stallion Empowerment Initiative based in Nigeria. Sarina Vaswani has studied her BA at SOAS in Development and History as well as a recent MSc at LSE in Social Policy and Development (NGOs). We discuss how she came to start her own initiative with her brother, what the organization has accomplished in a short time, what people who are interested in this field can do to...
2020-04-2044 min