Mehran Rowshan

Alistair Overeem didn’t choose fighting. His brother did.He was twelve. His brother decided he needed discipline, opened the car door and told him to get in. That was the whole decision. He told me if his brother had been an ice skater, he’d have been an ice skater.Five years later he had his first fight. He was 17, the other man was 28, and there was no headgear. He went on to have 93 of them.I know nothing about his sport. I told him that in the first minute. I coach football, I watched one of his fights to prepare and it lasted six minutes and I had to look away. So we talked about everything else instead.

He’s 46 now. Three daughters. Lives here in Dubai. And when I asked whether he’d want them to do what he did, he said something I’m still thinking about. That in this field the motivation can only come from inside, and if someone else wants it for you, it doesn’t work.He also told me his body has healed completely. All of it, including his brain, after 93 fights. I pushed back on that, because I think about it with my own players and we don’t let kids head a ball before they’re twelve for a reason. He didn’t move an inch. Watch that part and decide for yourself.Then he told me he’s going back in the ring. I didn’t know that was coming.We also got into fasting, sleep, why he refuses to wear a tracker, Jake Paul, living to 125, having no fear at all, and what happened to him five years ago that changed how he sees God.

Tell me in the comments what you make of the healing part. I genuinely want to know

#UFC #mindset

Any coach can teach a player how to kick a ball. Very few leave a mark that lasts a lifetime.

After 20 years and more than 10,000 players, I’ve learned the thing that makes a coach unforgettable has almost nothing to do with football. It’s how you treat the person, the standard you set, and who you are on a hard day.

If you coach, or you’re raising one, this one’s for you.

Chapters:
0:00 The next Mourinho
0:55 Know the person before the player
1:58 Your standard speaks
3:45 Catch them doing it right
5:06 Showing up consistently
6:18 Play the long game
8:05 How you made them feel

Which one hit home? Let me know in the comments.

Shorouk is one of my trusted friends, and this is the first podcast she has ever done. Until last year you could not find her online at all. That was on purpose.

She is a psychologist, practising since 2006, and she has a way of explaining people that I have not heard anywhere else.Her idea is simple. Our body sits at 37 degrees, and we all understand that something is wrong if it climbs to 39 or drops to 33. We just never apply the same thinking to our emotional state. So we live at 39, controlling, on edge, one second from exploding, or at 33, going through the motions, looking at life instead of living it. And we call it normal.Her point that stayed with me is that 37 is not something you build. You were born there. The work is removing what got layered on top of it.We got into:, What a parent at 39 does to a child, and what a parent at 33 does, Why children copy who you are rather than what you tell them, Why meditation is the wrong tool for some people and the right one for others, The seven layers of conditioning she has spent twenty years mapping, Birth order, and why no two children get the same parents, Why people only change when staying put hurts more than changing, Why recovery speed matters more than staying calmIf you are a parent, a coach, a teacher, or you have ever wondered why small things set you off, this one is for you.

Shorouk's website: Shoroukalabdallah.com

#RowshanPodcast #EmotionalIntelligence #Parenting #Psychology #Dubai

As I turn 45, I’ve been thinking about a lesson I learned the hard way. When you build something and it finally starts working, there’s a quiet danger: you start to believe you’ve "made it." You get comfortable. And that’s exactly when things begin to slip.

Building this club meant doing every task myself, from admin to logistics. We survived against massive franchises in Dubai because we focused on every single child. The day you think you’ve arrived is the day you stop doing the grounded work that got you there.

Everything is temporary—the wins and the losses. If I had found this level of success younger, it might have ruined my soul. Today, I realize it's simply a profound responsibility.

Staying humble isn’t weakness; it’s what keeps you sharp. The same effort that built it is the effort it takes to keep it.

I filmed this on the pitch I built from nothing. Twenty years taught me this. I just hope my players learn it faster.

Where in your life do you need to stop getting comfortable? 

Every civilization believes it was the greatest. Every single one of them collapses. And almost none of us had anything to do with the achievements we are proud of.

Dr. Roy Casagranda is a historian and political scientist who has lived in seven countries and now teaches in the UAE. He failed his way through American schools, fell in love with university and never left, and built a PhD out of psychology, political science, history and drama.

I went after him for months after watching him talk about Cyrus (Kourosh) and the Achaemenids with more care than most Iranians manage.This is one of the deepest conversations we have had on the show, and one of my favourites

.We got into:, Why he believes we may be the worst species that has ever lived, The Permian extinction, and why he thinks we are recreating it, Why civilizations almost always destroy themselves from the inside, The library of Cordoba, 400,000 books, burned by the city that built it, Why there is no greatest civilization, and why nationalism is the oldest trick there is, The genealogy maths that makes ethnic purity mathematically impossible, Why you can be proud of your ancestors but never of yourself, Good thoughts, good words, good deeds, and what the world lost when it forgot them, AI, bias, and why he says privacy is already an illusion,

Why Gen Z being abandoned is the thing that gives him hopeFair warning, we did not avoid anything. The conversation goes into war, politics and the state of the world, and Dr. Roy says exactly what he thinks. You will not agree with all of it. I did not agree with all of it. That is what a conversation is for.Dr.Roy's Social Media Accounts https://www.youtube.com/@DrRoyCasagranda

https://www.instagram.com/roycasagranda

#RowshanPodcast #History #Civilization #RoyCasagranda #Nationalism #Philosophy #Dubai

Everyone thinks getting rich is about making more money. I've met plenty of people who make a lot and are still broke.So I started asking myself one simple question before buying anything: would I still buy this if I was alone on an island with no one watching? If the answer is no, I'm not buying it for me, I'm buying it to be seen. That one question changed how I spend.

This video is about the things I wish someone had told me decades ago. Not because I'm good with money, I'm not. I've lost plenty, heart and money both. Most of what I know came from books, not from being some financial genius.

I break down the subscriptions quietly draining my account that I finally cancelled, why flashy choices are a trap (nobody cares about you, they care about the car), and the difference between getting rich and staying rich.The honest truth: you need far less than you think. Wealth is quiet. It's the money people don't see.If you're younger than me, you've got time to fix this that I wish I had. Use it.Two books that changed how I think, both mentioned in the video: The Psychology of Money and The Algebra of Wealth.Which subscription are you cancelling after watching this? Let me know in the comments.

Everyone sees the belts. Almost nobody sees what they cost.

Chantelle Cameron is one of the best boxers in the world, an undisputed champion, and the first woman in the UK to fight a world title over 3 minute rounds because she refuses to argue for equal pay while doing less work.

But this conversation wasn't really about boxing. It was about the childhood she says she never had, the sacrifices nobody warns you about, why a single loss can shape you more than any win, and the fear that sits behind all of it.

I told her at the start I'm not a boxing fan. By the end it didn't matter.

If you have ever given up something to chase something bigger, this one is for you.

Follow Chantelle here: https://www.instagram.com/chancam91

00:00 Childhood & martial arts

03:11 Professional boxing

04:36 Childhood journey

06:16 Early medals

08:29 Missing out on childhood

10:55 Fighter’s mindset

14:58 Starting late 

19:19 Ronaldo's mindset

20:37 Love for Mike Tyson

23:36 Boxing Legends 

24:39 Dealing with losses

26:41 Being a role model

27:21 Lifestyle of a world champion

31:40 True equality in women's boxing

32:20 Biggest fear in life

33:24 words of wisdom for young aspiring athletes

fter 27 years of hiring, more than 200 people, from coaches to drivers to editors to chefs, I've learned the thing that makes an employee impossible to replace has nothing to do with skill.

It's mindset. It's ownership. It's the person who takes problems off your plate instead of adding to it, who brings solutions instead of just problems, who takes the extra step nobody asked for, and who does the job for themselves, not for the boss.

In this video I break down exactly what I look for, the mistakes that quietly cost people their jobs, and the one word that changes everything.

Whether you're an employee who wants to grow or an employer trying to build a team you can rely on, this one's for you.

Watch till the end. The last point is the one most people get wrong.

#leadership #careergrowth #employeemindset #ownership #workethic #dubai

He dropped out of school at 13, taught himself to code, and built four companies. Now he homeschools his own children. His view on modern education is uncomfortable, and hard to argue with.In this episode of the Rowshan Podcast, I sat down with my friend Arto Bendiken, a technologist and entrepreneur from Finland who has been programming for 30 years, worked on digital currencies a decade before Bitcoin existed, and now builds AI systems designed around privacy.

He is one of the sharpest thinkers I know, and this conversation went in every direction.

02:00 Coding at 11 and Early Digital Currencies

04:00 Who is Arto? Technology, Startups, and Moving to Dubai

05:05 Why Dubai? Perspectives on Peace, Safety, and Growth

10:05 The Miracle of Desalination and Overcoming Resource Scarcity

18:40 Freedom, Women's Safety, and Dispelling Western Myths

21:40 Great Man Theory of History26:40 Nationalism, Global Immigration, and Finding Home

29:26 Dropping Out of School at 7th Grade: The Bureaucracy Hack

34:50 Classical Education, Project-Based Learning, and Elon Musk's School

39:30 The Flaws of Modern Schooling: Obedience vs. True Intelligence

48:45 The Importance of Reading History and the Illusion of Mathematical Genius

55:35 AI Privacy, Chat Logs, and Separating Sci-Fi Myths from Reality

1:07:30 Final Thoughts.#RowshanPodcast #Education #Homeschooling #Dubai #AI #Privacy #SelfLearning #Parenting #Technology

I've made a few decisions in my life that would've been far easier, and far cheaper, if I'd just asked someone with more experience first.

But back then I thought I had to know everything myself. I had to make the call alone. Asking for advice felt like weakness.

Now it's the opposite. Before any big decision, I go to the people who've already walked that road. Not because I'm incapable, but because I've learned that other people's experience is the cheapest way to learn.

In this video I talk about exactly that, the mistakes I made, and what they taught me.

Who do you turn to before making a big decision? Let me know in the comments.