Rare Girls

Jane Abou Jaoude is the first woman representing Lebanon in this podcast.

Jane is a Lebanese fashion model, actress, fitness lover, and influencer living in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. Jane loves dancing, drifting, sports, acting, modeling, advertising and catwalk.

She is a certified beautician with 8 qualifications, does makeup, micro blading, and she advisor for beauty procedures.

Instagram: @janeaboujaoude_

Reena Ruparelia is a Psoriasis Warrior, an ethnically Indian from Canada, a Hope Dealer for the Psoriasis community, focused on Mindfulness and self-acceptance.

Reena loves dance, reading, hiking, and practicing yoga and meditation.

Instagram: @psoriasis_thoughts

Shraddha Purnaye is a passionate art curator and writer, based in Mumbai India. She grew up in Nagpur, a city in Maharashtra and studied hotel management there. Studying hotel management was absolute fun but somewhere she was not happy working in the industry. She was fortunate to get a break and worked in an upcoming art gallery where she discovered her real passion for visual arts. That is when she knew she wants to present Indian artists by creating a platform especially for the emerging talents.

With no background in art or entrepreneurship, she took on this path with conviction that she can bring in the change in the Indian art world and in a long run the global way of looking at Indian arts. Over past 12 years she founded 3 arts studios Artscollective.in, FindUrArt.Com and masteringthebusinessofart.com

She takes pride in Indian traditions, arts and culture and is committed to showcase India’s cultural essence in her work as well as in her life. She has been invited on various platforms to talk about her works. She also writes on Indian art in the form of blog articles.

She feels grateful to have a strong close knit family which is her pillar and strength, she is also blessed with a close group of friends who cheer her up and are always there in her tough times. Her family and friends are her greatest blessing. She likes to interact with people from various backgrounds and make friends form various walks in life.

Instagram: @shraddha_art_curator

Marika Poveromo is a female Entrepreneur, she is the founder of WE Concierge, a luxury experiences and events fully licensed concierge service in Dubai, Mykonos, and various exotic destinations.

Marika is passionate about her work, because by helping others have luxury experiences, she also gets to live an adventurous life full of luxury.

She loves being in yachts, eating at the best restaurants because she is a big foodie, working out, traveling, networking as well as being involved in charity work in Dubai and outside.

Instagram: @mari.we.concierge

Priyanka Tripathi is an Indian girl from Mumbai, currently living in Dubai and working as Cabin Crew.

Priyanka loves dancing, going out, and traveling to explore new countries.

Instagram: @sugarcoated_008

Leyla Ali is a fitness and stretching coach, a massage therapist, and an English teacher living in Dubai.

Leyla is in love with medicine. She created a stress management course based on neurobiology and neurophysiology as well as wrote a course on building healthy habits, and she has over 500 hours of psychotherapy.

Leyla has a green belt in aikidjitsu ( which is a martial arts). And she loves sports, gym, yoga, and meditation.

Originally from Kazakhstan, Leyla is a polyglot who speaks 4 languages fluently and she grew up in a Kazakh village and worked in more than 15 different fields until she found what she genuinely loves. And it is important for her to encourage women to embracing their sexuality and femininity, and to be fully themselves.

Instagram: @coach_leylaali

Mira Mir is a Tatar girl, a Marketing Specialist and a Voice-Over Actress.

Her biggest passions in life are music, languages and filming.
Currently, she lives in Istanbul, but she considers the whole world to be her home.

Mira came from Russia, but her heart belong to Tatar culture, her native language is Tatar.

Instagram: @su.anasy

Hayde Esqueda is the first Mexican girl on this podcast.

Hayde is an architect and a model from Aguascalientes, México

She loves to travel and have spent the last 3 years combining her career with her passion for travel, taking different perspectives in different regions of a woman working in an area some may think is male dominated. Hayde is a faithful believer that learning from everything will never be bad, you can learn everything there is to learn.

Instagram: @haydeesqueda

Tatyana Gordiyenko is a Ukrainian Pole Dancer living in Paris, France. She is into arts & entertainment, she created her own dance style and is working at one of the best schools in the world in Paris, Poland Dance.

Tatyana has been pole dancing for 12 years, and before that she was studying art and rhytmic gymnastics.

Tatyana won many competitions, she won her first award in 2013, and she participated in pole sports and pole arts events, and took second place in world pole dance competition many times.

Her goal now is developing the forms and lines and artistic performance.

Instagram: @tatyanagordiyenko

Sophia Lim is a Malaysian-Chinese girl who grew up in Abu Dhabi, and currently studying BA in Fashion Design & Creation in French Fashion Institute ESMOD Dubai.

Sophia is a quilter, a storyteller, an artist, and a costumer.

Instagram: @slimsdreamworlds