Smart but Dumb
A podcast
Smart but Dumb
Episodes
Smart but Dumb
A podcast
Episodes of Smart but Dumb
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This episode is all about how Haitian French Chilean Singer-songwriter-performer, AYIITI, tackles issues such as having different audiences, belonging to different cultures as well as musical evolution that is in tune to all the facets of her a
This episode is with PhD candidate, Intimacy and Sex Expert (and High-School friend), Tugce Balik. She talks to me about all things intimacy, pleasure, self love (and how those things look different to everybody), chemistry vs. compatibility, e
Today's episode is with an old colleague of mine, Alex Russel. Alex is the Assistant Vice President Of Political Risk and Structured Credit at Marsh and in this episode he talks to me about what political risk insurance is, what events are coul
Listen to my chat with New Zealand's very own singer songwriter, Alayna. We discuss songwriting, how it works, the artist- songwriter dynamic, the business behind it, and the mechanisms that are in place to write a hit song! She also tells me a
Today's episode is all about how shopping small and shopping locally can help preserve tradition and heritage around a common love we all share: food! To help break down this phenomena is Entrepreneur, Consultant, Engineer and Co-Founder of a s
Smart But Dumb is back! Kicking off season 2 with my friend, Dahlia Dandashi! Dahlia is a Lebanese/Syrian-American creative content producer who was born in Houston, Texas but grew up in Dubai, UAE. Though she began her career as a writer and e
This Friday is Papa day so cue the Gwen Stefani! I speak to my father, Fadi, about his bread and butter- BANANAS! He tells me about the structure of the business, how the dynamics have and will continue to change, and shines a light on a produc
I chat with Poonam Daswani, Director of Finance at a nonprofit, Village Health Works, to talk about how NGOs are navigating today's climate. She tells me about what nonprofits need to do to stay economically viable and socially relevant these d
My Freshman college year suitemate, Ashley, NYU Stern grad, now a Manager of Corporate Strategy at Breakthru Beverage Group, a wine and spirit distributor gives me a "what-I-need-to-know-about-wine"- 101 talk. She’s my WINEY friend without any
I chat with a high school friend now illustrator, Adem Kaan, who breaks down the business and BTS of illustrating. He tells me all about what his job actually entails, how he gets it done, famous illustrators that I should know about and how so
Part II of my conversation with hospitality professional, Karim Agha, where we talk about how restaurants can play a huge role in returning-citizen employment in the United States. He tells me about the staggering unemployment in the returning
In Part I of my chat with Karim Agha, we talk restaurants in a COVID/post-COVID world. Karim is a hospitality professional with highly diverse experience leading or overseeing multinational projects involving restaurant openings, operations man
Nicolas Sabet, Associate Attorney at K&L Gates in Washington D.C., where he is a member of the Sports Law and Corporate/M&A practice group, breaks down a world very much unknown to me: the world of esports. He tells me about the sudden growth o
I chat with Licensed Associated Real Estate Broker at Compass and Harvard grad, Ravi Manglani, who tells me all about how COVID impacted one of the world's biggest and hottest real estate markets: New York City. We talk about how the recoveries
CHOCOLATE, CHOCOLATE, CHOCOLATE! In this episode I learn all about making arguably one of the most loved food items, with an engineer and management consultant turned chocolatier: Noor! She is NO Chocolate's Founder but also chocolatier, packer
This episode is all about how airline travel, one of the first industries to be hit the fastest since the start of the COVID-19 crisis. Professional airline pilot (and another super international guest), Cailean, shares his insights as to how
This episode is all about sex ed for adults, i.e. what we really need to know, no middle school stuff here. I chat with Sara, Georgetown University International Politics & Premed and American University of Beirut med school grad, with research
In this episode, I chat with my childhood friend and my real life Dr. Ross Geller , Columbia University and University of Cambridge PHD grad, Dr. Karim Mukaddem about solar energy. He tells me about what our current energy consumption looks lik
Laura Ayoub, also referred to as "Loly" or "Loly Pole" reminds me of what JLO famously said: life’s a party make it hot! Laura left a 10+year career in the hospitality industry after falling in love with pole dancing on a bachelorette trip in t
Today, Jai Shah, NYU Stern grad & co-founder at Nu Hotels based in Dubai, an owner-operator hotel company with projects in East and West Africa, talks to me about what he thinks the world of hotels will look like as travel is slowly but surely
This episode tackles two of my favorite topics: pop culture & NBC's "The Office". To help me break down why the American remake of the British cringe-worthy comedy TV show is so good and is key to American pop culture as we know it, is my frien
Today, I chat with Krishna, Brand Marketing Manager at Uber, with previous stints at Cadillac and American Express (and fellow NYU grad), to discuss the present and futures of the auto and ride share industries, specifically through a branding
Italo-French Giulia, in fashion by day, hostess with the mostest by night, tells us why everybody should take up cooking and how you don't need a bunch of fancy appliances to do so - just a good ol' pot & pan! And don't fret, just ignore the 25
Meet Yahya Wahbeh, Head of UX at Unibuddy and previously at Microsoft and Tesla, to name a few! Yahya tells me all about UX, I.e. the experience of a person using a product - and why UX matters (and makes sure that I'll never be caught saying t
“Agriculture has always been, in any age, at the forefront of technological development" - MohamadI know nothing about Ag-Tech so I decided to go to my childhood friend, Mohamad, for an explanation as to what this intersection of agriculture a
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