Over a third (34%) of people admit to a personal fear stopping them from doing something they wanted to achieve in life. Behavioural psychologist Jo Hemmings supported Franklin Roosevelt’s saying: ‘The only thing to fear, is fear itself’. And in many ways he was right - fear is what ultimately holds us back from many of the activities and challenges in life that could enrich us rather than damage us in some way. Many of us simply avoid fear, stepping away from situations or objects that trigger anxiety. While this may practically alleviate it in the short run, it also accentuates a feeling of failure and lack of confidence in the long run.

Skydiving is known to be a real catalyst for confronting your fear head-on and turning your life around, because following a sky dive everybody will experience feeling a huge confidence boost in their own abilities, the feeling of having achieved something ‘truly amazing. It is testament to how rewarding this adrenaline-filled sport can be.

In this episode, movie star, Will Smith, talks about what his experience of skydiving in Dubai and what skydiving taught him about fear, and how it changed his life, giving him the confidence to overcome any challenges in other walks of life.

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Inheritance matters are inherently complex.

Having a will in place in their country of origin is regarded by many expats as essential planning when they move to live and work abroad, offering peace of mind in the event of a tragedy.

However, many Non-Muslim expats in Dubai are unaware that in the absence of a legally registered will in the UAE, the process of transferring assets after death can be extremely time consuming, costly and fraught with legal complexities. This could mean that assets accumulated during their time in the UAE may not go to their loved ones as they would have intended.

Joining Amber in this episode is Cynthia Trench, Managing Partner, of Trench & Associates DMCC who have an extensive history in this area of law.  Following the amendments in the Civil Transaction Code and the Personal Status Law in 2020, Cynthia explains the legal framework along with the types of wills that can be executed in the UAE in order to protect assets and investments.  She also shares advice on how expats can prevent wills from being challenged and avoid being misled from financial consultants when protecting their investments.

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Today’s subject is a topic that, all fertility specialists caring for women, encounter on a regular basis.  Social Egg Preservation is a key component of assisted reproductive technologies – an increasing number of women are embracing careers and financial independencies and wish to know how to prevent unintended childlessness.  

Dr Marikinti is a Fertility Specialist who meets such women seeking fertility preservation on an almost daily basis.  He observes that an increasing number of women, have already availed the technology to store their eggs and more and more women are intending to do so.  

In this episode he explains the details of what Social Egg Preservation involves, the success rate of this new technology for the average female – as well as the main parameters and what they should be for success, along with cost considerations.

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The investment journey goes through many challenges and stages.  There are times in our lives, as we personally grow and change, when we start asking When can I start investing? How much disposable income do I need to become an investor?  What if I get married? What if I get divorced - what happens to our joint investments?  If you are at this point, where your mind keeps throwing these questions at you, this episode answers them for you as we dive deep into this topic.

Stuart McCulloch from The Fry Group returns for this episode, to discuss what the process should look like when you first meet a Financial Advisor and contemplating investing in products and funds and the importance of understanding the tax implications.  He also shares his opinion on Bitcoin and the popular online financial courses currently being sold, and selling the idea that you don’t need a Financial advisor.

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There is a right time for everything. After being an expat for 12 years in Dubai, Laurence Hill decided to move back to the UK.

In this interview, Amber sits down with Laurence to discuss what it was like working for the Middle East and Africa arms of a global business, the unique challenges he faced as an expat in Dubai, and how he made that all-important decision to retire as his passion shifted.

Laurence shares his incredible life lessons as an expat in this wide-ranging conversation including advice on buying property, finding love, the importance of savings and diversification and how he made the transition having been immersed in the vibrant Dubai life to a slower paced fulfilling retirement lifestyle.

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Amber is back with The Great Fraud Fightback series that focusses on the Financial Advisory Industry and in this episode she is joined by Dubai-based Financial Planner Paul McCullagh.  As we’re drawing to the end of 2021,  Paul discusses the current state of the financial advisory industry, and also some of the popular alternative investment options that have crept in the market this year including property, bitcoin and classical cars.

Paul also shares his outlook for the advisory industry for 2022, and guides listeners on what to expect next.


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Todays focus is on one of the most important, if not, the, most important areas of your life.  An area of life that when it’s handled can give you tremendous amount of joy, love and nothing can compete with it, and if it’s handled ineffectively, this is the place of pain, where life seems to lose its meaning.

We’re talking of course about - Relationships.

To help us understand where our core beliefs about relationships come from, Farhana Vohra, a certified life coach joins Amber and discusses the wider issue of what is it about relationships that we all find challenging in Dubai, and how to set those all-important boundaries.

She’s got the answers.  

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Elena Schildgen, managing partner of Meyer-Reumann & Partners, and renowned within the expat community to be one of Dubai’s best legal settlers joins Amber in this episode of The Great Fraud Fightback to explain why conversations between her and financial advisor Neil Grant didn’t result in a settlement, why the percentage of financial legal cases that settle out of court is low, and the tactics financial service providers employ to avoid settling. 

Elena discusses the stigma around legal fees, the necessity to select lawyers with the right legal skills and expertise to ensure a successful settlement outcome and offers advice for any given financial advisory contract.

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As the Expats in Dubai podcast reaches 10,000 downloads a special thanks to all the guests who have come onto the show and shared their knowledge, experience and stories with us, and to the listeners, who have taken the time to tune in and supported us.
 
In this 21st episode, and as most of us are relaxing and on holidays with our families, we thought to take this opportunity to share some timeless words from Baz Luhrmann - slow down, have a look around and Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen).

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Following on from episode 18 in The Great Fraud Fightback series we pick up the story after the Dubai police call Neil Grant to the station for questioning  and the pursuit to obtain hard evidence linking the rogue financial advisor to financial advisory fraud to open a criminal case.

The task in this episode was to get around the ‘no contract’ issue as no court of law would even consider such a case, by convincing the police to request a statement from the Department of Economic Development (DED) evidencing Grant and Prosperity Management Consultancy were operating illegally under their business license, steering the conversation away from the lack of a contract and onto the license itself.  Without a contract and without the DED statement the case against Grant was holed below the waterline.


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