Culture, Sport & Creators
Comedians, athletes, film-makers, podcasters — the storytellers shaping the country's identity.
136 episodes
Tanveer Nandla: SEO is the mother of digital marketing
with M. Tanveer Nandla
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56:13 Culture eats AI for breakfast: Pakistan's real education fix
with Kamil Majeed
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1:02:36 Ninety universities became 270 and the budget never moved
with Dr. Habib Bokhari
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1:19:56 The 21-year-old chef breaking Instagram's boy-girl ceiling
with Muhammad Danial
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1:51:12 Sending your kids abroad isn't an investment, it's exposure
with Obaid Arshad
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1:48:20 How Much Money Is REALLY in Sports in Pakistan?
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1:59:26 Myco Founder: SPORTSMEN BLAME FANS For Not Watching Sports!
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1:38:14 Dayyan Atif lost 10,000 Indian followers in one day
with Dayyan Atif
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1:38:56 Why Sannan Saleh left Paramount to make reels in Lahore
with Sannan Saleh
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1:47:37 Why Pakistani actors can't pay rent on a drama paycheck
with Sikandar and Moiz Nawaz
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1:53:39 Abbas Bukhari: comedy can't be learned, you're born with it
with Abbas Bukhari
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1:45:45 Why Pakistan needs an inclusive university, not another elite one
with Jahanzeb Burana
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1:30:08 Pakistan's two real university problems are governance and quality
with Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed
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1:27:21 Why Netflix isn't really competing for Pakistan
with Jonathan Mark
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1:33:08 What a Croatian chief people officer learned about Pakistani talent
with Ivana Bajamic
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1:07:26 Pakistani students can read English. They cannot speak it.
with Dr. Sonia Irum
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1:21:34 Pakistan's identity is not a product of our organic history
with Shershah Khan
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1:38:24 Why Pakistani creators can't afford to take a risk
with Ghazanfer Jaffery
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1:45:02 Why Pakistan's web series can't get past the campaign cycle
with Sami Rehman
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1:33:18 Pakistani creators are competing with each other, not the world
with Ali Sufian Wasif
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1:52:56 Pakistan's youth is in a stubborn rage — and that's dangerous
with Nabeel Qadeer
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1:52:03 How the West actually rose, and why the Muslim decline is a myth
with Shershah Khan
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1:49:32 The engineer who became one of Pakistan's biggest singers
with Abdul Hannan
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1:39:06 Why a brand is a story you agree to believe
with Atiya Zaidi
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1:32:11 What a live energy reading found inside Muzamil
with Muhammad Ammad
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1:08:05 When you look after people, they look after you
with Amir Paracha & Shehzad Roy
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Taimoor Akbar on why daily uploading changed everything
with Taimoor Akbar
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The kid who wouldn't have finished tenth grade
with Nadeem Hussain
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The tax office that resolves cases in 37 days for free
with Almas Ali Jovindah
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Pakistan's rural network reaches 56 million — and nobody knows
with Shandana Khan & Meena Iqbal
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The slow brand: how Manto was built without a plan
with Salman Parekh
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Why Islamic economics is neither capitalism nor communism
with Dr. Asad Zaman
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Pakistan's exports problem has one easy fix: IT
with Dr. Sohail Naqvi
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Pakistan's universities are producing toilet paper degrees
with Zia Khan
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Why Pakistan's tourism problem isn't K2
with Azam Jamil
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Why Pakistan's justice system isn't ready for the tsunami ahead
with Shayyan Qaiser
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The CEO who got caught in a war before his career started
with Khaqan Sikander
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Why Bilal Musharraf stayed in America washing his own clothes
with Bilal Musharraf
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The physicist who came back to build Pakistan's science
with Dr. Muhammad Sabieh Anwar
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The event manager who paid his own LUMS fees
with Jahanzaib Shafique
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1:41:38 Syed Muzammil Shah: I Came to Media for Power, Not Truth
with Syed Muzammil Shah
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Shahveer Jafry on why you should never have a plan B
with Shahveer Jafry
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Nabeel Qadeer on being lost after Idea Karoron Ka
with Nabeel Qadeer
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History doesn't repeat — it rhymes
with Faisal Warraich
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The VC who came back to fix Pakistan's universities
with Dr. Arshad Ahmad
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Pakistan's schools are built to give grades, not education
with Bilal Hameed & Asad Hashamali
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Why Pakistan cricket is stuck in 1992
with Taimoor Ali Khan
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The Ericsson CEO who still lives in his village
with Amir Aasan Khan
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Pakistan's tennis players are winning without support
with Muhammad Shoaib & Abdullah Adnan
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The ed-tech founder who started in a slum at 19
with Haroon Yasin
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The surgeon who removed 80% of Muzamil's tongue
with Dr. Uzair Luqman
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The surgery that could end Muzamil's career
with Syed Muzamil Hasan Zaidi
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1:46:14 How FAST-NUCES built a university on 10 crore rupees
with Dr. Aftab Maroof
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1:07:49 How Pakistan's socio-economic classes are actually measured
with Kashif Hafeez Siddiqui
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1:13:15 The 19-year-old who self-funded a Spider-Man film in Pakistan
with Saboor Akram
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1:50:05 The EdTech founder who left Nestle for a scholarship
with Muhammad Fahad Tanveer
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1:08:12 The designer who deleted Pinterest to find originality
with Areeb Tariq
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1:22:35 How to save money when the economy is dying
with Syed Muhammad Faraz
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1:30:45 The FAST grad who nearly died and found the spirit world
with Syed Muneeb Hasan Zaidi
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57:46 The man who invented Pashto rap
with Mustafa Kamal Khan
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1:04:02 The Pakistani gamer who turned down scholarships for PUBG
with Khan PUBG (Temour Ali Khan)
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2:07:44 The ed-tech founder who started in a LUMS dorm room
with Ammar Ali Ayub
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1:02:49 The oncologist trying to prevent cancer, not just treat it
with Dr. Mohammad Muneeb Khan
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1:34:06 Why Tabish Hashmi quit TBH to go to Geo News
with Tabish Hashmi
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58:38 The coworking space that started with a sublet
with Saad Riaz
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1:05:44 The startup trying to plan your wedding in three minutes
with Izzah Zaman and Neelam Shreyas
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1:08:53 The food YouTuber who started with a phone and no camera
with Rana Hamza Saif
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57:00 Pakistan's rap scene has peaked commercially, not creatively
with Umair Tahir
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1:11:46 The doctor who built Pakistan's largest free hospital
with Dr. Abdul Bari Khan
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1:07:33 The photographer who moved to Hunza to actually live
with Feroza Gulzar
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1:00:50 The corporate burnout that led Zarina Tariq to coaching
with Zarina Tariq
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50:00 How Coke Studio happened for Seemab Saqib Khan
with Seemab Saqib Khan
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1:01:08 Why a psychologist refuses to look at one problem through one lens
with Ali
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1:07:14 Why Pakistani designers chase technique and skip the idea
with Sarmad Ahsan
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1:05:17 The state is not a political party, and its digital media shouldn't be either
with Shahbaz Khan
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1:02:07 The financial burden on Pakistani men nobody wants to discuss
with Saad Khalid
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1:38:34 Reporting from inside the warzone with Sumaira Khan
with Sumaira Khan
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1:03:32 Pakistan has 1,200 publishers for 200 million people
with Syed Umar Ameer
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58:58 The LUMS bubble: empathy, burgers, and life after the gate
with Muhammad Saim Rehman
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59:57 Hip hop is a culture you have to live, not a sound you can copy
with Xpolymer Dar
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50:04 My father on Lahore in the sixties, raising six kids, and Pakistan's drift
with Syed Hasan Sajjad
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1:26:40 Talha Ahad on building Asia's first video-only newsroom
with Talha Ahad
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56:55 Boys can be men. Men are respectful. Boys at times are not.
with Ayla Adnan
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56:51 Twelve years of grace: how The Idiots stayed grounded
with Muhammad Kashan
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56:35 Why Pakistan's influencer industry is stuck on the frame
with Hemayal Attique
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1:10:54 Uzair Jaswal: "If I'm not on stage, where do I belong?"
with Uzair Jaswal
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1:38:28 Why an artist with a national audience has no right to emotion
with Abdal Mufti
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1:38:21 Why Syed Owais Ali moved back to Pakistan at 28
with Syed Owais Ali
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49:12 Pakistan's biggest meme page is run by a district medical officer
with Dr Naseer Ahsan
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55:59 Why Hashim Nawaz tells aspiring rappers not to obsess over rap
with Hashim Nawaz
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1:03:38 Usman Mukhtar: the actor who still wants to be a filmmaker
with Usman Mukhtar
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1:00:24 Why Zara Dar topped ACCA and still wants her own firm
with Zara Dar
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59:08 Why Danish Hasan dropped out in his final semester
with Danish Hasan
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1:23:56 The man who made podcasting mainstream in Pakistan
with Junaid Akram
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52:39 Why Umama Ismail refuses to pick just one thing
with Umama Ismail
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54:38 The internet is an ocean. Most Pakistanis are still wading in.
with Zaki Khalid
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59:36 Why Shehzeen Siddique started freelancing at 15 in secret
with Shehzeen Siddique
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1:01:29 Pakistan football's problem is the management, not the players
with Faizan Sameer
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1:17:24 One year of TBT: Muzamil on hope, slow growth, and the fear of going bitter
with Humna Raza
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1:15:05 The mobile phone that ended a PMA career and started Bedaar
with Ijlal Khattak
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1:39:59 How two sisters in Thatta built a global audience on a one-hour dial-up
with Noor Unnahar and Areeba Siddiqui
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59:20 The bluff that turned DJ Toshi into a producer
with DJ Toshi
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1:11:47 Daktar Saab on why a doctor's absence in Pakistan matters
with Dr. Asad Khan
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48:36 Why raising a son well is the harder job
with Zenab Rauf & Hassaan Tayab
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1:07:45 Why flight training in Pakistan is a waste of money
with Wasif and Salman Tareen
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49:23 Why Mustafa Babar wants to be an actor, not an influencer
with Mustafa Babar
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58:14 What 127 episodes of TBT did to Muzamil Hasan
with Yusra
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1:08:37 Why Umara and Kashaf refused to chase TikTok
with Umara and Kashaf
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54:10 The YouTuber who got into 12 universities and said yes to all
with Zainab Fatima
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51:07 The man who built Pakistan's insect community from scratch
with Azaz Ahmad
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43:03 Pakistan doesn't have career counsellors. So she built an AI one.
with Dr. Zunaira Saqib
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1:06:40 Does being real online actually get you hate?
with By Rooj
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1:13:23 Momina Munir on losing 22 kgs and finding herself again
with Momina Munir
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50:58 The ASP who built Pakistan's first gender protection unit
with Amna Baig
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1:04:54 The missing character in Midsummer Chaos
with Bisma Khan
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52:46 How Shehnoor Films built a wedding photography empire
with Shehnoor Films
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58:55 Pakistan's squash heroes are playing on their own money
with Farhan Mehboob
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59:04 Does school fuel insecurities?
with Sheena Sohail
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1:28:05 How Bilal Munir built VideoWaliSarkar from scratch
with Bilal Munir
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58:36 Why Qutaiba Mehmood came back to Pakistan from Australia
with Qutaiba Mehmood
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1:07:59 Osmann Mumtaz on finding filmmaking before anyone told him to
with Osmann Mumtaz
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1:20:50 How Imran Ali Dina became GFXMentor
with Imran Ali Dina
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1:23:13 Why women work: Usra Murtaza on independence and identity
with Usra Murtaza
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1:13:28 How Pakistan's advertising industry actually works
with Babar Khan Javed
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1:02:04 How schools destroy self-esteem
with Emad Bukhari
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1:00:11 Why awareness alone will never change behavior
with Raheel Waqar
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1:43:16 How women are objectified in Pakistan's media
with Fizza Jamal
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1:23:51 A Media Insider on Fake News, TV's Business Model, and Pakistan's Civic Crisis
with Asadullah Khan
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1:04:52 How Dananeer Mobeen's "Pawri Ho Rahi Hai" went viral - and what came after
with Dananeer Mobeen
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1:06:20 Dr. Tariq Banuri on higher education reform in Pakistan
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58:24 Pakistan's healthcare system, brain surgery, and Covid vaccines - a neurosurgeon's view
with Prof. Dr. Ahsan Aurangzeb
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1:06:01 Ahmed Sarym on storytelling, journalism, and filmmaking in Pakistan
with Ahmed Sarym
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46:20 Finding Opportunities in Crisis: A Conversation with Zeenat Ahmad
with Zeenat Ahmad
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46:29 Naba Khalid on switching to architecture in week one, building a wedding-photography business by 22, and what the people about to inherit Pakistan actually think
with Naba Khalid
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52:40 Diet plans, fitness myths, and building a science-based approach to nutrition
with GetFitAthletic
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51:17 What actually happened in 1971
with Farhat Hussein
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