The Learning Curve Podcast | Women Entrepreneurs in the Middle East.

The Learning Curve Podcast - THE Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Nicholla had the opportunity to talk with Natavan Askerova.  Founder & Business Development Director of Acorn Executive Services.  They specialise in providing expat services to new expats arriving in the UAE.  From pre-move assistance, too school assistance, to car rental services and assistance with administration and visa's. Nata is your personal assistant on the ground. She helps you weave your way through the initial confusion of getting settled and creates clarity and a order to your day so you can get on with the reason why you are in the UAE, ie. your job. 

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The Learning Curve Podcast - THE Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Nicholla had the opportunity to talk with Maha Al Lamki, Founder & Managing Director of 'M Co Group of Companies in Oman.   Maha Al Lamki is one of Oman’s most successful and trusted interior decorators who draws influence from the world around her. Her use of organic colours and hand-chosen fabrics from around around the world give each of her projects a unique and contemporary feel.As a businesswoman she heads m co, a group of companies that specialise in decor, events and media and digital communications as well as the rental of designer furniture for events and parties. Read More at our Website

The Learning Curve Podcast - THE Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Nicholla had the opportunity to talk with Sarah Hawilo, from Lebanon.  She is the co-founder and CEO of serVme, an advanced data analytics that helps restaurants and bars collect, store, and track data about diners to improve their dining experience. The software enhances and simplifies the venue’s operations, lowers the marketing budget through client segmentation, and ultimately increases their revenues. Read More at the website

The Learning Curve Podcast - THE Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Nicholla had the opportunity to talk with Amira Azzouz, Founder and Chief Editor for Fustany.com.  A leading fashion and lifestyle portal in the Middle East by Arab women for Arab Women.  She is a Global Shaper for the World Economic Forum.  She a two-something ambitious young lady who has a great vision to make her portal a hub for all things empowering for women. This is her story and her insight into what has contributed to her success of Fustany and her advise for women wanting to take the plunge into entrepreneurship. 

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The Learning Curve Podcast - THE Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Nicholla sat down with Saniya, the CEO of The Pulse of Life Design House and the Wadi Tribe The Author of the children's adventure series, 'The Adventures of Chee and Dae',.  Based in Oman, she started her entrepreneurial journey at the tender age of 11 years old where she embraced her dreamer and creativity qualities into creating furniture. She knew then being creative would be her life's work.  Today she works on building her business and continue to embrace her love of creative, children and working from the heart. Read More at the website.

The Learning Curve Podcast - THE Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Nicholla sat down with Dee. The Author of the book, The Blue Campervan. She's also a qualified Hypnotherapist, trained in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) or Tapping as it is also known, as well as Transactional Analysis.  She's also qualified in many other complementary therapies. She's passionate about empowering people and uses her Hypnotherapy and Coaching skills to help wonderful people improve their self-confidence, success, motivation and self-esteem.  She also works with people who are experiencing anxiety, stress, depression and panic attacks.  Her intention is to help as many people as possible rediscover their zest for life!

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The Learning Curve Podcast - THE Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Nicholla sat down with Azza. Azza Al Mughairy is an Emirati Girl with a collection of accolades on her wall. She's the Ambassador of the Saadiyat Beach Club, a TV Reporter, Radio Host, MC and public speaker.  She's used her skill of public speaking to develop her Ambassadorship and BE a recognised and respected person of the local media.  

Azza is a lady with a grand plan and ambition.  She started her career in banking but quickly saw her way into the hospitality industry when she became the Ambassador of the Saadiyat Beach Club, Abu Dhabi.  In this interview  Azza talks about her Freelance journey, she shares with us how she manages her day as she still has her TV reporting and Radio Host commitments to attend too.  She talks about building her credibility in her business and what she sees as the top 3 skills an Emirati women needs to be successful business woman.  She's a massive advocate of woman taking the plunge into entrepreneurship and she plans to work towards her goals to build a community of amazing Emirati woman doing what they are passionate about.  This is her interview. 

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Nicholla caught up with Jacqueline for a coffee and a 'get to know her' session.  She is a professional Antique Jeweller & Gemologist as well as being the lady behind the Abu Dhabi Woman's Group Facebook Group.  She shares her top advise and insight into helping women discover their own entrepreneurial journey.

Jacqueline is a warm, passionate and driven woman. She LOVES jewellery, particularly gems and antique jewellery.  She knows her product inside and out and continues to be inspired by the beauty of her industry. Most will probably know her for her popular Facebook Group, Abu Dhabi Women's Group.  She's been in the UAE a long time and has built up a great network of colleagues and friends and has become a great source for all things Abu Dhabi. This episode shares her insight & top advise. 'Thanks so much for sharing your journey and top advise Jacqueline'.  Visit Our website to get Jacqueline's details.

The Learning Curve Podcast - THE Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Nicholla caught up with Sarah via skype. She is a professional writer & storyteller who is passionate about helping entrepreneur.  She's a regular 'Huffington Post' Contributors. One of her favourite blogs generated 8.2K Facebook Likes and over 5K retweets on Twitter.  She's also been published in The Ages, The Business Woman Media, Rare Birds, Women in Focus, Blog Society and so on.  She specialises in working with entrepreneurs who are driven by a bigger vision than themselves by helping them to tell their stories and change lives.

Ok this isn't an episode about Ghosts, goblins and Halloween this is about the subject of Ghost writing.  Sarah refers to being a ghost-writer as someone who is your 'invisible pen'. Someone who you help you achieve your content strategy goals. Someone who 'gets' your passion and can package up your ideas and your key bullet points into an eloquent way that might be more difficult for you to achieve if you are time deficient, writing isn't your forte or even your English is your second language.  In this interview we discover the real truths behind ghost writing, What they can do for you and what are the advantages of using them.  Go Sarah........... :)

The Learning Curve Podcast - THE Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa Region: We sat down with Manar Al Hinai who is award winning Emirati Writer and Communications Consultant from Abu Dhabi.  She is the Founder of 'Move' Consultancy and has found her niche in bringing together international tastes with local culture through the medium she has loved since a child.

Manar and I were keen to get started as this was our first podcast together and her first podcast episode ever.  She's a young dynamic women with great energy and know how. She's a firm believer in staying focused and being excellent and one or two things.  And this attitude has been reflected in the awards and accolades she has received.  In 2011 she was the Arab Woman of the Year in Abu Dhabi.  In 2012 & 2014 she was included in the 100 most inspiring individuals in the UAE.  She's a women on a mission. This is her interview. 

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