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Barry and Oskar are two entrepreneurs based in Dubai in the UAE. Coming from different backgrounds with different experiences and in many cases differing opinions the two of them have both proof and of course opinions of what is required to be successful. Topics: entrepreneurship in Dubai and United Arab Emirates.
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On this episode of the podcast Barry had a chat with Rami Shaar who is the CEO and Co Founder of the company Washmen Rami has had extensive experience in the corporate world - spending time in investment banking, private equity and some time at Uber as well. But had always had in the back of his mind that he wanted to start his own thing.…
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On this episode of the podcast Barry had a chance to speak with a long term resident and business owner Nina Seredai-Udalova - Nina is the founder and managing director of Ninth Space. After finally getting our diaries to co-ordinate Nina shares her entrepreneurial journey from the early days of starting a business in the UAE and how things have ch…
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On this episode of the podcast, Barry had a great conversation with Debbie Nicol from Business En Motion Debbie tells her story from her early days in business. Of looking successful but not feeling content or authentic. Debbie goes into detail of how she was blaming someone else for not growing her and how her success in a career that wasn't conne…
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In this episode Barry had the opportunity to speak with Beth Your Coach. Beth tells her story - going back to a childhood where she wasn't sure who she was. But decided to find out. Travelled, learned, and overcame obstacles along the way. All with a view to determining what her purpose was. She found it and talks about her entrepreneurial journey …
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On this episode of the podcast Barry had the pleasure of speaking with Paula Jane Cox. A people development specialist, trainer, coach and all round lovely human being. PJ as she's affectionately referred to gives us an insight into her entrepreneurial journey, from the yellow pages in the UK to Ferrari World on Yas Island and beyond. Really up bea…
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On this episode of the podcast, Barry had the pleasure of speaking with Mayur Bommai, the co-founder and director of Laundryheap. An 'online' business that grew 300+% during COVID - Mayur talks about gaining experience in the family business before making the shift to the entrepreneurial way, scaling and growing a business and expanding into 10 cou…
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On this episode of the podcast Barry had the opportunity to speak with Brendon Hansford. A super successful choreographer, dancer, director and creative. Brendon shares his entrepreneurial journey to date, from his choices at 16 to heading out to the UAE for his current chapter. Charged with energy and providing some entrepreneurial nuggets of wisd…
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On this episode of the podcast Barry got the chance to have a conversation with the fascinating Margeri Ottis. Her current business - KimonoGirl - is in a niche that no one has really explored before, but her journey to this point is enlightening with learning points of self awareness. Margeri talks about her childhood and early career journey as t…
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On this episode of the podcast Barry had an enlightening conversation with Martin Tronquit Founder and Co-CEO of Infomineo - the company that helps with brainshoring. Yep that's a new word Martin made up and it's how Infomineo can help you. Listen in to find out more about Martin's entrepreneurial journey, why Infomineo exists and why he's started …
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On this episode of the podcast I had the real pleasure of speaking with Mike Khouri about his entrepreneurial journey so far. Our paths have crossed a few times over the years and I've really enjoyed seeing Mike take his agency - Tactical- from strength to strength. So it was really good to speak with him in more detail about his whole approach to …
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On this episode of the podcast we had the chance to speak with Helen Chen, the CEO and Co founder of a company called Nomad Homes. We were lucky to catch her in Dubai before she hopped onto a plane to Europe. Helen tells us a bit about her origin story, working in the world of investments before making a jump into her own thing with her business pa…
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On this episode of the podcast Barry had a great conversation with Mohamed Al Fayed the co founder and CEO of a company called Grubtech. His illustrious career in the corporate world helping global brands digitise and explore opportunities in the retail sector positioned him to take a bold move into an industry he wasn't overly familiar with. Food …
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On this episode of the podcast Barry had a really interesting conversation with Elena Agaragimova the Managing Partner of her company called Bessern. Her entrepreneurial journey is a very interesting one that involves the world of higher education and corporate learning. The huge gap between higher education and the corporate world is something tha…
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On this episode of the podcast Barry speaks with Madhav Dhar - the co founder and COO of ZaZen Properties - Madhav tells his really interesting personal journey from birth in the UAE, boarding school, corporate life and then starting his own business in a super competitive niche. All in a country where that niche also doesn't have the best reputati…
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On this episode of the podcast it was an absolute pleasure to speak with Dr Saliha Afridi, the founder of the LightHouse Arabia Centre for Wellbeing. Dr Saliha has had a bright and varied career to date and doesn't consider herself a business person or entrepreneur. But that aside, she is a person that has and continues to make a big impact in the …
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On this episode of the podcast Barry had the opportunity to speak with Aakansha Tangri, the founder of Re:Set your everyday. A daily online news organisation that looks to shine a light on subjects such as education, mental health, well being and inclusion. Aakanksha has had a varied career to date with time spent at CNN and Vice as a journalist, b…
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On this episode of the podcast, Barry had a really interesting conversation with Natalie Banks - the founder of a not for profit organisation called Azraq. But her journey didn't start there and Natalie talks Barry through her start in journalism. Setting up an initiative to save the sharks, followed by a move to the UAE where Azraq was born. Motiv…
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This is a particularly special episode of the podcast with long time friend Jeff Price. Jeff has been an integral part of the broadcast landscape for an extended period of time, both in the UK and very much a part of the foundations here in the UAE. Throughout his career he has tried to help wherever he can and his focus on catering to the wellbein…
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This episode of Swenglanese saw Oskar and Barry catch up after Oskar's return to Sweden in the the middle of the COVID summer last June. The conversation was an update on what Oskar is doing, how the move from the UAE actually went and the changes he had to implement within his business - Strategic Tech Coaching to keep him going after 2 of his cor…
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In this episode of Swenglanese Barry had the chance to speak to Rosa Bullock about her professional journey. Where it started with an interest in fashion, studying in London, to setting up a successful PR agency here in Dubai - Sociate PR. As with most journeys into entrepreneurialism, it isn't all plain sailing. Lots of ups and downs and a lot of …
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On this episode of the podcast Barry had the pleasure of speaking with Ziad Matar. Ziad's story is such an interesting one, spanning the corporate ladder of Ericsson through to investing in companies, creating companies and now his own Podcast too. Potential.com is an empowerment platform that has been used to help develop millions of people around…
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On this episode of the podcast Barry got the chance to speak with Vietek Ladislaav - originally a TV presenter covering Golf he transitioned into the world of video/content creation here in Dubai in 2013 with his own video production company Square Motion. He's seen the changes taking place here in the UAE and has adapted his business and himself t…
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On this episode of the podcast, Barry had the chance to sit down with Sebastian Bates - the founder of the Warrior Academy and the global anti bullying movement, Not A Victim. Seb gives an insight into his entrepreneurial journey, his first job as a monkey chaser, the ability to spot opportunities and leverage them and how to hone the kind of minds…
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On this episode we have an in depth chat with Karl Edwards who runs his own production company KE Motion Pictures. We go back to the beginning and find out how he ended up making videos and content for some of the biggest brands on the planet. We learn a bit about how just asking, can get you where you want to go and also how things have changed on…
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On this episode Barry speaks with long time friend and owner of Animus Creative Matt Wilson. They talk about Matt's professional journey starting in the UK in the newspaper industry, into IT networking and then to his own company, all with a design lead focus. Moving to the UAE about the same time as Barry, 15 years ago, Matt eventually setup Animu…
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On this episode of the podcast Barry had the chance to speak to friend and dentist, Dr Geoffrey Sharpe who owns and runs The Perio Clinic located in Healthcare city. Having made the decision to do his own thing, not a decision taken lightly, Geoff talks us through the journey of setting up a business here in Dubai that had to have a physical locati…
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On this episode Barry had the opportunity to speak with Sam Dancy a PR professional and friend who has been involved in the UAE market for 15 years. Working across agency and in house, she made the jump to her own thing in 2013 and Footstep Communications was born. Sam talks about her own professional journey, the lessons learned and some top tips …
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On this episode of the podcast Barry had the opportunity to speak with Lukasz Spirala the GCC Area Manager for a company called Infinite IT Solutions. During the chat we learn a little about Lukasz's journey from Poland to the UAE via Canada as well as how supply chain is being impacted by technology and of course COVID.…
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So this is a special and somewhat sad episode with Barry and Oskar as things are changing. Oskar has been in the region since 2007 but is now relocating back to Sweden full time. We haven't quite sorted out what that means for Swenglanese as yet, but we thought it would be a good time to run through some of the highlights of Oskar's time here in th…
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On this episode of the podcast Barry jumped on a Zoom call with Massimo Cannizzo the CEO of Gellify Middle East. They talk through Massimo's career to date and the transition from corporate world to entrepreneur. Then into what Gellify actually is and how it can help startups, venture capitalists, investors and all those parties usually involved in…
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On this episode of the podcast Barry did his first Zoom recording for Swenglanese so there is video as well. He speaks with the CEO of Massar Solutions Richard Sikkel all about his personal business journey. It started in Holland, had a stop in the US at Tesla and now driving Massar Solutions here in the Middle East. As a leading mobility and logis…
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Steve Cronin is behind www.deadsimplesaving.com and helps ex-pats take care of their finances. In this episode, Steve and Oskar discuss what to do with your finances during the Corona crisis. They discuss what small businesses can do, what to do if you lost your job, or had to take a pay cut and how you might still be able to invest and make your m…
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This episode of Swenglanese was originally recorded for Oskar's Strategic Tech Coaching podcast at the end of 2019 but we re-listened to it and thought it was a topic that would be of interest to parents regardless. In fact you don't have to be a parent to get value from this episode. If you have siblings, nieces, nephews grand kids or you just kno…
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In this episode Oskar had the opportunity to speak to Sary Arab about the idea of the lifestyle hotel - specifically Zabeel House. What is the affordable luxury segment and where does Zabeel House sit in amongst the upcoming trend of the more casual hotel. Oskar and Sary talk design, expansion and the product offering to it's customers here in the …
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This week Barry was flying solo and got the chance to speak to a fascinating young lady who has changed the way we learn. Her own story sparked a fire that saw her wanting to help anyone that wanted to learn and also anyone that wanted to teach. Thea Myhrvold is the CEO and Found of Teach Me Now and Get Bee. She has a fascinating story, a diverse b…
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This week Barry and Oskar got the opportunity to speak to Yousef Caires, to find out a little bit more about Expo 2020 and more specifically Expo Live, as this is part of Expo 2020 that can really help those people with an idea for a business, just starting their entrepreneurial journey, or those looking to take their idea to the next level.…
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This week Oskar and Barry had a chance to talk about the idea of happiness and engagement at work. Oskar has been delving into the subject and what he has found is that there's a lot that needs to be done to increase the levels of engagement and therefore happiness at work. Otherwise we have to ask ourselves what are we doing? If the statistics are…
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This week on the podcast, Barry and Oskar got the chance to speak with two awesome people in the co working space. Jessica Edwards, the curator of NEST Dubai co working space in Barsha Heights and Shahzad Bhatti the creator of the Co Working Pop Up. We explore the definition of what a co working space actually is and what the scene is looking like …
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Sacha Christe is a 22 year old entrepreneur who set up his company Emirates Graphic aged 16. It was a pleasure to speak with him about his journey so far and where he is going in the future. The enthusiasm for business that this young man has is infectious and his company is aiming to make a difference in the web and app development world. Listen i…
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Nadine Du Toit is the mind and body behind Glory Girl Fit. She's on top of the world and dominating the social media landscape. But she's also human and has been on a journey of ups and downs. Today she shares some of that with Swenglanese and how she got herself out of the hard times and back on top of the world.…
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This week on Swenglanese Barry was away in Ghana training their telecommunications provider on social media strategy and so Oskar managed to sneak another fellow Swede onto the show. He had the pleasure of speaking with Dr Anna who brought Dubai the sports medicine clinic up and running. A really inspiring journey and step back in time to when Duba…
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