Real Raw Honest

Real Raw Honest

By Deni Michajl and Petra ZarembaEducationSelf-Improvement
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Real Raw Honest episodes

  • Beyond Multiple Sclerosis: When All Falls Apart But You Still Choose Light
    In this quietly powerful episode of Real Raw Honest, we sit down with Joshua, a man who knows what it means to carry heaviness with grace. From caring for an ill parent as a teenager to working behind the scenes while keeping a brave (and often funny) face for the world, Joshua walks us through the invisible weight so many hold but few talk about.

    We explore what it means to grieve someone who’s still alive, to make peace with the darkness without letting it swallow you, and to find space for joy even when nothing looks how you thought it would.This isn’t about toxic positivity, it's about choice. The choice to soften instead of harden. To self-regulate when your nervous system wants to shut down.

    To laugh, even when you’re breaking.We also touch on how AI is changing the future of healthcare, the complexity of emotional boundaries, and what it means to build a new self while grieving the old one.If you’ve ever felt like life asked too much of you too soon, this conversation is the hug you didn’t know you needed.

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    1 hr 5 min
  • From Numb to Alive: When The Joy Finds You Again
    In this episode of Real Raw Honest, we’re joined by Maxi, a certified life coach and creative soul who guides others into deeper self-awareness, emotional freedom, and a more fulfilling life from the inside out.

    Together we explore how personal development doesn’t have to be a grind, and healing doesn’t require escaping your life or renouncing the 3D world. Maxi shares how we can use creative expression, simple rituals like being in nature or stillness, and soulful daily choices to shift our energy without burnout or force.

    This isn’t about chasing happiness. It’s about choosing alignment and living from a place of flow, ease, and truth.If you’ve felt the pull toward a more meaningful life but aren’t sure how to merge that with your everyday reality, this conversation will land deeply.

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    59 min
  • The Practical Magic of a Soul-Led Life: Living from Soul in a 3D World
    In a world obsessed with chasing stillness in faraway places, this episode is your reminder that clarity, peace, and purpose aren’t hidden in an ashram or a silent retreat, they’re available right here, in the everyday.We’re joined by Susan Mesa, soul empowerment coach, whose work moves far beyond mindset. 

    She brings a grounded perspective on how to live and lead from the soul in a world that often rewards disconnection. Together, we explore the practical magic of living soul-led, what it really means to walk with spiritual guidance, build rituals that actually stick, and grow a business rooted in intention, not just performance.

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    40 min
  • Beneath the Surface: What’s Breaking Inside the Workplace
    In this episode of Real Raw Honest, we sit down with Diana Fayad, founder, senior HR
    consultant, and strategist behind some of the most impactful talent and leadership development systems across Lebanon, KSA, UAE, Egypt, and Pakistan.

    This conversation pulls back the curtain on the current recruitment landscape and exposes what’s really happening beneath the surface: burnout in key roles, the silent loss of quality talent, high-level tension and sleepless nights in C-suites, and the widening disconnect between what leaders expect and what their people actually need.

    We dig into the growing challenges of hiring and retention, the Gen Z readiness gap in the Gulf region, and why HR often feels like it’s caught in the middle trying to hold the system together while nobody’s addressing the root of the cracks.If you’ve ever felt the pressure of leading without support, recruiting without alignment, or carrying the emotional labour of organisational breakdown, this episode will feel like truth you didn’t know you needed.

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    41 min
  • The Cost of Pretending: Escaping the Life That Isn’t Yours
    What if the version of you that everyone applauds… isn’t actually you?
    In this piercing episode of Real Raw Honest, we sit down with Sarah: a speaker and coach who holds space for women exhausted by the performance of pretending. Together, we tear through the layers of surface-level self-help, Instagram therapy, and toxic positivity to speak into something deeper: the discomfort of truth.We talk about what it means to outgrow the molds we never chose, the conditioning that shaped us based on where we were born, and the collective fear of diving into the real darkness that lives beneath our distractions.

    This isn’t a conversation filled with steps, strategies, or fluff. It’s a call to face what we’ve been running from. A reckoning with the systems we silently uphold. And a reclamation of what’s real, raw, and unedited.If you’re done with small talk and tired of pretending things are fine; this one’s for you.

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    58 min
  • The Weight No One Sees: The Hidden Cost of Leadership
    Leadership isn’t just about vision, influence, and results; it’s about the human being carrying the weight of it all. And yet, behind the title, the power, and the polished exterior, there’s a truth we rarely talk about: leadership can be lonely, heavy, and quietly exhausting.

    In this episode of Real Raw Honest, we sit down with Magdalena; she is a Leadership Development Advisor, creator of LeadershipCraft, executive mentor, and expert in purpose-driven culture & wellbeing and together we are going to strip leadership back to its raw, human core.

    We go deep into the silent battles leaders face: the isolation, the unrelenting expectations, the unspoken mental toll, and the deep bias that still sees vulnerability as weakness. We explore how leadership has been packaged and sold, often at the cost of the leader’s own well-being and what it takes to reclaim leadership as something deeply human, purposeful, and sustainable.

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    1 hr 13 min
  • From Hustle to Presence: What Chronic Pain Teaches You About Purpose
    What happens when a mind built for systems and pragmatic business practices meets a body demanding pause, attention, patience?

    In this episode, we speak with Mark, a tech leader who’s redefining what it means to lead with purpose, live with pain, and rise with radical self-responsibility.
    His journey invites us into the often unseen layers of self-leadership: the moments when strength looks like slowing down, when purpose is reshaped by pain, and when healing asks us not to fix, but to see differently.

    Together, we explore the intersection of logic and intuition, the body and the work, where the hustle softens into presence and where side projects evolve into deeper soul pursuits. Mark brings a perspective rooted in clarity and lived experience, one that bridges high performance with inner alignment.

    This conversation unpacks the invisible layers of self-leadership, how we show up for ourselves when things get hard, how chronic pain can shift the way we relate to purpose, and how real healing often comes not from pushing through, but from learning to reframe what’s been there all along. Tune in for a thoughtful exploration of self-leadership, purpose, and the architecture of healing from the inside out.

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    Mark Salvin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marksalvin7/

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    45 min
  • Cosmic Codes & Human Evolution: Healing, Skill Stacking & the Astrology of Now
    In this multidimensional episode of Real Raw Honest, we sit down with Katerina, an astro-psychologist and EFT practitioner, whose work merges ancient cosmic archetypes with modern healing tools to help people reclaim their freedom and process deep emotional wounds.

    We explore the collective currents shaping our world today: the rise of skill-stacking, non-traditional education, rapid tech development, and the energetic undercurrents revealed in astrology’s current transits. Katerina breaks down how understanding your archetypes and patterns can become your superpower and how the stars aren’t predicting your fate, but offering you a map back to your inner authority.

    This episode is a soul-stirring blend of practical wisdom, energetic insight, and bold questions about where we’re heading collectively and individually.

     The RESET Session with Deni and Petra

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    1 hr 1 min
  • The Soul of Business: Building with Both Strategy & Energy
    In this episode of Real Raw Honest, we sit down with Prarthana, a soul-led business coach, for a powerful and grounding conversation on what it truly means to build a business from both strategy and soul.
    We explore the deep inner work behind entrepreneurship - the balance between masculine structure and feminine flow, and the courage it takes to lead from your intuition in a world that praises hustle.

    Prarthana shares her biggest lessons, struggles, and breakthroughs from building and scaling a soul-aligned business. From getting clear on your purpose to navigating the overwhelm of visibility and expansion, this episode is an invitation to do business differently, with intention, clarity, and inner truth at the centre.

    Tune in to listen.

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    46 min
  • The Reclamation: Stepping Out of Survival and Into Feminine Power
    In this episode of Real Raw Honest, we open space for the woman who’s been holding it all together while quietly falling apart. The one who’s been surviving on autopilot, mothering, leading, showing up while slowly losing touch with her own truth beneath the noise, the roles, and the expectations.This episode is your reminder: you don’t have to struggle to be worthy. Life doesn’t have to be a constant fight.

    We’re joined by Susanna, a feminine leader and manifestation coach, whose presence brings a deeply intuitive, grounding voice to our conversations. Together, we explore what it means to live from your truth, to parent from presence, and to manifest not by force but by allowing.We’re reclaiming softness as strength, rest as radical, and the feminine as fierce. If you're ready to stop surviving and start receiving, this space is for you.

    Tune in. Get grounded. Come back home.

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    52 min

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