The Samotivation Podcast

Ah. Graduation. I know the mix of excitement and worry you must be feeling and it can be overwhelming. Not to worry though! In this podcast, I share my personal experience and practical advice to make your transition to this next phase of your life as smooth as possible. Today we’ll discuss finding a job, crafting an impressive CV, and mastering the art of networking. I'll also provide insights on overcoming obstacles, seeking help when needed, and maintaining a positive mindset. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samotivation/message

2020 taught us a lot of lessons.. here is the main one it taught me. Hope it inspires you :) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samotivation/message

Just interviewed Dwé & Gaby, my two favorite Urban Kizomba dancers! We talked about how they began dancing, can anyone learn to be a good dancer, our dance crushes and more! Also available in video on www.Samotivation.com Thank you Dwé and Gaby, it was a true honor and pleasure to meet the personalities behind all the talent and skill. Keep on doing what you are doing! You have so many fans around the world that you bring joy to and who support you wholeheartedly. If you are interested in taking classes in Rotterdam with these amazing people, go to the Kizomba Lounge FB page or visit www.kizombalounge.nl for more info. Dwé and Gaby Insta Dwé Insta Gaby Insta --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samotivation/message

I have no idea how an episode on favorite life quotes turned into a conversation about David Goggins, approaching girls in bars and the beach, stoicism, life philosophies and more but it was great recording it with Mohamad Balushi once again! Hope you guys enjoy this. What are your favorite life quotes and why? Feel free to get in touch with the links below! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samotivation/message

On today’s episode, we’ll explore the effects that social media has on our mental health, in addition to some key social media usage findings from the Digital 2020 April Global Statshot Report. Enjoy the episode! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samotivation/message

Some benefits of meditation include, increased concentration, less stress, and an overall sense of calm and happiness. A lot of people believe that meditation is something complicated and difficult to do. That’s not true. I'll even show you through a guided meditation session :) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samotivation/message

Today’s episode is about the most important conversation you’ll ever have. A conversation that you have every second of every day. This isn’t a conversation with your family or your significant other. It’s not with your friends. It’s not with your boss. It’s the conversation that you have with yourself and the power of self-belief. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samotivation/message

Today’s episode is about Corona, but it's not what you think. I am not here to tell you about how bad the situation is and how scared you should be, I am here to tell you about the massive opportunity you have here to develop yourself and what you can do during this period that doesn’t involve what the majority of the world is doing, i.e. Netflixxing and browsing social media all day. On today’s episode, we’ll explore 6 things you can do during this period to develop yourself and come out stronger and better once its all over. All hail, the Samotination. If you would like to send a voice message for the next episode www.anchor.fm/Samotivation and click ‘Message’ to record your message --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samotivation/message

We are constantly comparing ourselves to others, causing feelings of envy, inadequacy, unhappiness and overall dissatisfaction with our own lives. For most of us, comparison stops at those feelings. The good thing is.. we can go beyond those feelings and use comparison as a tool for growth and inspiration as opposed to a source of inadequacy. With the mass use of social media, comparison has been magnified beyond anything our parents (and great great great great^ infinity grand parents) have known. (The ^ means 'to the power of'. Ok. Thanks. Bye.) In the age of social media, instant everything and so-called smart phones, we have not become smarter and more connected, but rather dumber and lonelier than ever before. Now, we no longer compare ourselves to those in our immediate circle, family, friends and the Joneses new door; with social media, we compare ourselves to people thousands of miles away and not just regular people, but celebrities, movie stars, singers, athletes and models and an insta-perfect fake and filtered lifestyle, where everyone is happy, eating at the most lavish restaurants, wearing the most elegant clothing, has a hot physique/partner, traveling to the most exotic places and so on. The Joneses are no longer next door or in our neighborhoods. They are everywhere around us (and beyond). Why do we compare ourselves to others and why should we stop? Can we use comparison as a positive tool for self-change as opposed to only a source of insufficiency? YES! This is what we look at in today's Samotivation episode. Get in touch with Samotivation!: Facebook and Instagram --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samotivation/message

Happy New Year, Samotivation! I have a feeling that the year ahead is gonna be an amazing one. My Sami sense is tingling (2 points if you got the Spiderman reference). This episode is about how to make this years new resolution's a reality. Samotivation style. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samotivation/message

Today’s episode is on money, moo-lah, ca-ching. We’ll look at how to manage money through the Richest Man in Babylon, one of the most famous and favorite books among the banking and finance elite. Although the book was published in 1926, its lessons hold true almost a century later. The reason I made this episode is because I feel like there is a lack of information on money. The educational system does a really bad job when it comes to financial literacy. There are all types of classes on Economics, Finance, Accounting, Business Management, Marketing and so on. Endless money-related classes and not a single class taught us how to actually manage our finances. What do I do when I get my salary? How much of it should I save? How do I invest it to make more? How do I accumulate wealth? All questions that the educational system refuses to answer. Could be that this is done on purpose so people do not think for themselves and remain poor? It’s possible. Financial literacy skills are indispensable. We live on an economic planet. And we are reminded of that fact every single second of every single day. Every time you go to the supermarket, gas station, shoe store, hospital (God forbid), school, restaurant, you are reminded of that fact. Money matters. In fact, it is super important. But despite all this, as Grant Cardone says, people don’t know how to make it, how to save it or how to multiply it. To this day, it baffles me how many friends, do not know how to manage their money. They spend recklessly on stuff they don’t need to impress people who don’t matter. They get their salary and within a few weeks they are back to being broke and penniless yet again, just like they were the previous month...and the month before that.. and the month before that. And they have to resort to borrowing money not because they are unemployed and living off savings (or ran out of them. I’ve been there before), but because they are recklessly spending money. They max out their credit cards and borrow money yet again to pay off their debt, creating a vicious cycle, where every cent earned is spent on repaying last month’s debt. What can you learn from the richest man in Babylon? 8,000 years ago, Babylon was one of the richest civilizations on the planet and with this book you’ll learn the basics of saving, managing and multiplying money through a collection of parables, set in ancient Mesopotamian kingdom of Babylon through the Orientalist worldview of an American guy. Orientalism: According to Edward Said, who coined the term in his book of the same name “Orientalism”, it is the idea that Western identity, culture and society is superior to Eastern identity, culture and society. It also highlights the notion that the West (referred to as the Occident) forms its own identity in stark contrast to the East (referred to as the Orient). The Occident is basically everything that the Orient is not, which is not white, Christian or superior. It involves exotifying the Orient and at the same time labeling it as backwards, uncivilized and dangerous. Orientalism provided a convenient rationalization of European colonization conquests based on a self-serving idea in which the East is inferior and therefore in need of Western intervention or rescue. Example sentence: The Richest Man in Babylon is one of the most Orientalist books ever written. But it is a great book to start off your financial liter... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samotivation/message

Keefak habibeh?! It means "How are you, my dear!?" in a Lebanese Arabic accent. Get used to it. You are gonna hear it a lot at the beginning of every single video/podcast. I'll do it tomorrow. I don't feel like it. Maybe another time. Not now etc. Sound familiar? All of us procrastinate, but procrastination is not just putting things off for another time. It's consciously choosing to deprive ourselves of an opportunity to grow stronger and create a better life for ourselves. Procrastination, then is consciously choosing to sabotage your life and it comes in many forms, watching one more episode of Game of Thrones, when you should be studying, going on Instagram when you should be working on a paper, and coming up with a long list of excuses as to why you have not started something. In today's episode, we look at how to approach procrastination when you don't feel like going to the gym (and go to the gym anyway, regardless of how you feel). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samotivation/message

Have you ever talked yourself OUT of doing something you really wanted to do? I tried to do that to myself earlier. Not today though. You don't have to have everything figured out before you start something. Just trust that your first step taken in the darkness will bring you closer to the light and where you want to be. Imperfect action is always better than no action at all. I hope this video gives you the courage to face your excuses and do it anyway. I finally decided to expand my podcast into YouTube. There are so many reasons why I shouldn't do this, but I'm gonna do it anyway (one of them being that I have no idea how to do this lol). The videos will improve in the future as I get better at them. Any help/suggestions would be highly appreciated. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samotivation/message

Edward Bernays. The guy who increased cigarette sales among American women (when females smoking was a taboo) by organizing a march with paid protestors and feminist groups labelling cigarettes as “torches of freedom” and a sign of female emancipation in 1929. And it worked. Cigarette sales skyrocketed among American women. Today’s episode is about the media and Public Relations industry and the way they shape your perceptions about yourself and the world. You’re probably wondering, “Sami, what does any of this have to do with self-development?” One of the 21st century’s biggest issues is the massive amount of information available to us. It’s fast. Instant. We basically have the entire world at our fingertips. This episode will focus on one factor in particular. The media and advertising. And the way it shapes our worldview. Today, we will take a look at the genius, yet diabolical, advertising schemes of Edward Bernays, the Father of Public Relations. He is also the reason why we associate bacon and eggs as breakfast foods. Oh, I forgot to mention, he caused a CIA-supported overthrow of democratically-elected Communist Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman to protect the banana sales of the United Fruit Company (now known as Chiquita Brands International). By the end of this episode, you will go to any supermarket fruit section and remember Edward Bernays. I hope that, after this episode, you begin to question your own biases and every bit of information that you take for granted without fact-checking. FAKE NEWS! FAKE NEWS! FAKE NEWS! I love you, Samoti-nation! SamiDisclaimer: Smoking sucks. It makes you smell bad. It makes your teeth yellow. Studies link it to cancer. Don't do it. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samotivation/message

Waddup Samoti-nation!This is the Samotivation go-to-bed-better-than-you-woke-up podcast. Well.. since today’s episode, the episodes will be coming out every single Saturday. I’ve been gone for a while, rebranding Samotivation and myself. A tactical retreat to come back stronger. And from now on things are only going to get better and better. And just a note here: These episodes are for you, the Samoti-nation! Just as much as they are for me. Every time I do an episode, I learn more about the topic at hand and improve myself as I hope Samotivation improves yours. I am not an expert in these topics, but I am learning as much creating these episodes as much as you are listening to them. I hope this adds a new refreshing perspective to your life, lifestyle habits and uncovers the greatness that is dormantly waiting to be unlocked… by no one else but you. Today’s episode is about sleep. I tried waking up at 4:30am and going to the gym straight after I woke up, emulating the habits of the world’s most successful people and the misleading early-bird-gets-the-worm crappy information on social media, about how you can only make it. The idea that if you emulate what the quote-on-quote successful/beautiful instagram filter lifestyle face and body people, then you will look like them, feel like them and have their lifestyle and bank account. Nothing could be farther from the truth, because everyone of us has our own unique road to take to the life that we want and while we can learn from these people, emulating them without asking ourselves if this is right for us is a flawed premise and downright wrong. Try it out for yourself and see if it works for you. That lasted for 10 days, until I realized that the lack of sleep, coupled with my job where I sometimes work till 2am (yes 2am), and the every day heavy-weight lifting workout routine was not a recipe for success but one for failure. And I didn’t go to bed better than I woke up, I just woke up tired, pissed off and sleep deprived, making my workouts unproductive, I couldn’t lift as much weight as I did when I was getting a proper amount of sleep. Also, fun fact: muscle recovery and growth happens when you sleep, when human growth hormone (HGH), which increases muscle tissue growth and regulates the body’s metabolism. So basically, no sleep = human growth hormone = no muscles = no results. I am one of those people, that is more creative and active during the night, when things are quiet than I am during the day. I get more work done at night than I do throughout the day, funny enough. My workouts are better during the afternoon or night than they are in the mornings. I can lift more and feel more refreshed after a workout in the afternoon/night than I do in the early mornings. Other people, are more creative and active during the early morning. They get more work done. They feel good waking up early. Working out in the early morning, works out for them. See what I did there? Omg someone hand me a stand-up comedy award for this line. Which one are you morning person or night owl? Hope you enjoy today’s episode! I love you, Samoti-nation! XOXO, Sami --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samotivation/message

Today we are talking about New Year’s resolutions and how to make this 2019 a very kick-ass one. But first. Compassion. The one thing that makes us human. The ability to show compassion for other people. The ability to treat others kindly is what defines us as people. Treat yourself and others kindly as you are making positive changes in your life. Everyone is going through some kind of battle that we might not be able to see because we are too preoccupied with our own battles. Remember. Compassion. Regardless of what you are going through. Admission. I have approached this podcast from a wise-ass, preachy, know-it-all kind of way, as if I know everything and have all the answers. And nothing could be farther from the truth. I am not a perfect human being, I make mistakes, I have insecurities, trauma and a lot of things that I need to work on. I don't know everything. I don't have all the answers and I am learning just as much as you are from this podcast. Thank you for trusting me enough to value my opinions here though. So, the podcast is going to take a different direction. As you are making changes and learning something from the podcast, so am I. And we can help each other learn and grow together, side-by-side. We will guide each other into becoming better people by holding hands, as opposed to one pointing in one direction and the other following. Let's make this a fun journey of self-discovery, where everyone grows including me. And now.. Your life isn’t gonna change just because the digits on the calendar did. There is more to the New Year than “New year, New you”. In less than a month, your resolutions will begin to fade into the background and you lose both interest and enthusiasm. Does this sound familiar? To me it does. It’s been me every single year for the most part. You tell yourself that you will exercise more/quit smoking/becoming rich/control spending habits.. 12 months later, you realize that you are nowhere close to those goals than you were at the beginning of the year. Still overweight/unhealthy and broke. So year after year, you keep on writing the same resolutions and last year’s resolutions become this year’s resolutions. That's happened quite often for me. Not anymore. No longer. Let me help you keep your resolution promises to yourself this 2019. In a few minutes I will show how to approach your resolutions so that they actually happen this time around! And together we make this 2019, an amazing one. Let me help you make your new year’s resolutions ACTUALLY happen this year. Aren’t you sick of spending every New Year regretful and thinking about all the stuff that you could have done… but didn’t? Don’t you deserve to finally have the best year of your life? It’s time for you to make things happen and if you have not already.. then.. You are not alone. According to the Statistic Brain Institute, 91% of resolutioners will fail on their resolutions during the upcoming year, while a mere 9% will be successful. The question is.. which group do you want to be part of? The 91% or the 9%? If you want to be like the 9% then don’t do what the 91% does. Forget what the majority of people do. Ask anyone what their resolutions are and you will hear: “I want to get fit.” “I want to get rich.” “I want to quit smoking.” “I want to be a better person.” You WANT to do something. And it just stops at that. It’s too vague and it’s not specific enough. To make your resolutions happen this year, follow this simple 4-step-formula Break your goals down into bite-sized chunks. * Be Specific. Don’t be general (you ain’t a general in the army. Joke is lame af but it gets the point across well :D) e. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samotivation/message

*YAWNS!* Merry Christmas and happy holidays wherever you are listening to this podcast from! Waddup, Samotination! How YOU doin’!? This is the Samotivation go-to-bed-better-than-you-woke-up podcast! and.. as you can tell from my sleepy energy-less start to this post, today's episode is about sleeeeeeppppp and we have a medical expert on, who will walk us through, how you can get better sleep, feel better rested and fresh in the morning (as opposed to groggy, unrested and in potato mode). Also!? Did you know that Leonardo Da Vinci slept only a total of 2 hours of sleep every day? Or that Nikola Tesla only 3 hours a day? Absolutely crazy! Which is why I have my friend on today to tell us whether this is sustainable over the long term? Or is it downright crazy and dangerous? Sleep is such an important thing.. and you only realize it when you don’t have it! When you are out late and then you have work the next day… and then you wake up like… arghhh I don’t wanna go to work.. and you pull the covers over your face.. and throw your phone across the room, when the alarm goes off.. I have heard many people say, I wish I didn’t have to sleep. Sleep is such a waste of time.. and it CAN feel like that sometimes.. if you have a high pressure, time-intensive job, if you are a college student, if you work in the medical/PR field/24h restaurant business if you are starting your own business then.. it can definitely feel like sleep is a waste of time. Imagine how many things you would be able to accomplish if you did not sleep so much. How many things you can do if you could just keep on working without the need to rest and get some shut eye. That's what today's episode is about! Enjoy and happy holidays! With Respect, Sami --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samotivation/message

PLEASE DON'T CRY! I'm obviously not going to stop making this podcast. Wipe away those tears :P WADDUP Samotination!? THIS is the Samotivation go-to-bed-better-than-you-woke-up podcast with your host Sami Wehbe! Today’s podcast is about excuses. Why I shouldn’t do this. Why I shouldn’t do that. And all the reasons that you will fail doing something you KNOW you should be doing. This is episode we will take a look at the many excuses that you have so you can realize just what utter BS they are! Excuses are liars. Even bigger liars than friggin politicians are! I shouldn’t be hating on policy-makers since I studied politics.. but maybe that’s why I hate politics and politicians so much. Nevermind. Let’s get back to the point. Today I will be giving you a glimpse into the many excuses and self-doubt that I had when I first came up with the idea of this podcast and what you can learn from my experience and even know.. why I shouldn’t continue this podcast, but will do it anyway :) BTW! Free Samotivation audiobook of the month brought to you by Audible.com! The Richest Man in Babylon (by George Samuel Clason) One of my favorite books on money management and how to save and multiply your money! It’s written in the form of a fable that takes place in Babylon. This is one of the most popular books among bankers and the finance community. Today, I will share the many excuses I had when I first had the idea of creating this podcast and what you can learn from my experience. Samoticabulary (oh yeeee word-play game strong!) Word of the week! Because a better you, starts with a better vocabulary! And being to amaze everybody in the room with your long list of fancy ass vocabulary words that no one will understand but you.. and maybe that snobby 4.5 GPA, Harvard Graduate whose grandfather has an entire hall named after him on campus! RIGAMAROLE. Spelled r-i-g-a-m-a-r-o-l-e What does it mean!? * any long complicated procedure (bureauracy)* a set of incoherent or pointless statements; garbled nonsense, i.E BULLSHIT! Sami hates listening to friggin’ rigamarole. (Damn right he does!) Especially when people come up with a list of excuses as to why they are not living the life they want/why they are unhappy/dissatisfied/bitter (and insert whatever negative pessimistic feeling a human being can have. ALL YOUR EXCUSES ARE IS A FRIGGIN RIGAMAROLE! Hope you enjoy this episode! I love you, Samotination! With Respect, Sami --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samotivation/message

Waddup Samotination!? How YOU doin’!? As promised, to make up for the podcast episode that I missed the week before, here is an exclusive podcast episode for you of an Indian phone scammer trying to pull a fast one on me.. little did he know that in the end, I pulled a fast one on him. Just for context, Jack Johnson is a popular singer, actor and surfer. He has a really catchy song called “You and Your Heart”, make sure you listen to it before you listen to this podcast. BTW! If the audio is not clear in the podcast, you can check out the subtitled YouTube video of the full call below! TURN ON SUBS! Love you, Samotination! With Respect, Sami --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samotivation/message

Waddup Samoti-nation!? Let’s start off with the most amazing thing ever about India? What can that be? Bollywood movies, Shahrukh Khan, dancing, girls, the Taj Mahal (that I didn’t get to see), the fact that so many of the CEO of the world’s biggest and most successful companies are Indian: Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Adobe, Harman. While all of those things are amazing, my favorite thing in India was….. THE FOOD! The butter chicken and the garlic naan, roti, chappati (and basically every other type of bread there!), the biryani, the kebab! The most amazing thing about India was the food. If you know me well, food plays a very central role in my life :D (The pic above is not mine! I was so busy ENJOYING the food that I completely forgot about taking a picture :D) All jokes aside, the highlight of my trip was not all these amazing things in India! It was the good friends that I met with there, after a year of not seeing each other, sending eachother Whatsapp essays and 10 minute voice recordings, tagging each other in memes and sending each other weird videos and songs :P There is a quote from my favorite book the Godfather that goes like this: *DJ Khaled Voice* ANOTHER ONE! And I'm also gonna make YOU an offer you can’t refuse! The FREE audiobook version of the book! You can get it @ audibletrial.com/Samotivation Just make sure that you are on the US site and NOT redirected to the UK or Canadian one. Otherwise, I don't receive any commission hehe gotta support the platform somehow, right!? :D Select the US site! audibletrial.com/Samotivation So, what DID 36 hours in India teach me about my life!? 1) Moments matter more than the time spent doing something or being somewhere. 2) When you live with intention, you live more happy. Consciously choose to enjoy your life and the present moment! 3) The world is so much bigger than my problems, my fears, insecurities. 4) People are not as different as politicians and the media would like us to believe. 5) I am blessed with so many things that I take for granted. 6) Sometimes what you perceive as cheap is very precious for somebody else. Not just talking about $ v/s rupees or currency. I mean bread and basic things that we take as granted. Most of us are very privileged but we refuse to see it. 7) Food is amazing. And India has the best food. 8) Friendship is the equivalent of family. 9) Friendship makes distance miniscule and irrelevant. 10) The people make the place. If you are unhappy take a look at the people that you are surrounding yourself with. 11) Surround yourself with winners. People who strive for more in their lives and be better. 12) TRAVEL! TRAVEL! TRAVEL! INDIA IS AMAZING SO GO TO INDIA! Hope you enjoy this episode! With Love and Respect, Sami --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/samotivation/message