The people who said it out loud.
Every guest who has joined us, and the conversations they brought. Filter by topic to find people who talk about what you are carrying.
Showing 18 of 18 guests
Carla
Deployment manager working across time zones
Carla is a deployment manager who coordinates technical rollouts across several time zones from Beirut. Her work is structured, deadline-bound and largely invisible when it goes well.
Episode 01: The Weight of StabilityDr Tala Abdallah
Clinical Psychologist and Dietitian, based in London
Dr Tala Abdallah is a clinical psychologist and dietitian based in London. She works with Arabs and expats on their relationship with themselves, with the people closest to them, and with their bodies.
Episode 18: What We Carry UnderneathDr. Hadi Akl
Cosmetic dentist, founder of one of Lebanon's leading cosmetic dentistry practices
Dr. Hadi Akl is a cosmetic dentist who built one of Lebanon's leading practices while living through the country's hardest years.
Episode 12: The Mind DecidesDr. Jase Moussa-Inaty
Educational psychologist, associate professor
Dr. Jase Moussa-Inaty is an educational psychologist and associate professor whose academic work sits alongside a personal understanding of grief.
Episode 14: The Weight We Don't ShowDr. Ramzi
Medical doctor, New York
Dr. Ramzi is a Lebanese physician practising in New York.
Episode 10: The Weight of SacrificeJihane Boustany Khoury
Guest speaker on resilience and perseverance
Jihane Boustany Khoury joins Inner Narratives to talk about resilience as something practised rather than possessed. Her story moves through hardship that would be easy to describe dramatically and which she describes plainly instead.
Episode 08: The Strength of the Human SpiritJoelle Choueiry
Real estate professional on the Côte d'Azur, with DACHIMMO, Agence Immobilière Nice Côte d'Azur
Joelle Choueiry is a real estate advisor on the Côte d'Azur in France, with DACHIMMO, Agence Immobilière Côte d'Azur. She left Lebanon after living through the Beirut explosion and rebuilt her life and career from the ground up.
Episode 16: After the ExplosionLara
Pharmacist
Lara is a pharmacist working in Lebanon, where the counter is often the first and cheapest point of contact with healthcare. Her days are built from accuracy, repetition and trust, and from conversations that begin with a prescription and end somewhere much more personal.
Episode 02: The Precision of CareLisa Sofian
Founder, SWIM Initiative
Lisa Sofian founded SWIM Initiative to protect Lebanon's coastline, starting with a single idea and the willingness to act on it before anybody else agreed it mattered. Her work sits at the intersection of environmental urgency and civic stubbornness, in a country where public infrastructure rarely arrives.
Episode 11: One Person. One Idea. A Lasting ImpactMaya Nassar
Fitness coach, Virgin Radio Stars, SLR Gym
Maya Nassar is a Lebanese fitness coach, radio presenter with Virgin Radio Stars and a founder at SLR Gym. She is known publicly for discipline and transformation, and privately she has lived the gap between how strong someone looks and how supported they feel.
Episode 13: The Strength to Ask for HelpMike Harb
AI consultant
Mike Harb is an AI consultant who spends his working life close to the technologies reshaping how people learn, focus and cope. He is neither an evangelist nor an alarmist, which makes him a useful person to think with.
Episode 07: The Painkiller SocietyNada
Lawyer
Nada is a lawyer practising in Lebanon. Law was not her first passion; it became a responsibility, then a discipline, and eventually a path that shaped her character.
Episode 05: The Weight of JusticeNadim Messihi
Director, producer, founder of GIANT Creatives
Nadim Messihi is a director and producer and the founder of GIANT Creatives. He decided at eight years old that he would make the first Lebanese epic film, and he has spent the years since building the skills, the company and the tolerance for doubt that such a plan requires.
Episode 04: The Weight of VisionNadine Mhanna
Lebanese harpist
Nadine Mhanna is a Lebanese harpist who chose an instrument most people in the region never encounter in person, and built a career around it. She is as interested in the harp's history as in its repertoire, and she has spent years correcting a common assumption about where it comes from.
Episode 15: The Story Behind the StringsNina
Former investment banker, mother of three
Nina spent years in investment banking and stepped back at the height of her career, not because she had run out of ambition but because she had run out of time to ask what she actually wanted. She is a mother of three and speaks with unusual clarity about pause as a strategy rather than a retreat, and about what she found when the noise finally dropped..
Episode 09: Coming Back to HerselfRym Salameh
Finance professional
Rym Salameh works in finance, a field that rewards composure and treats emotion as noise. She has spent her career translating uncertainty into numbers other people can act on, in a country where the numbers themselves stopped behaving.
Episode 03: The Cost of ControlSamar Hawa
Project and Development Manager at Rebirth Beirut
Samar Hawa is Project and Development Manager at Rebirth Beirut and a Senior Advisor at Berytech Fund Management. Rebirth Beirut has lit more than 160 streets in the city.
Episode 17: Change Without WaitingYoumna Baladi
Founder, Tomorrow Teen Forum
Youmna Baladi is the founder of Tomorrow Teen Forum, a Lebanese initiative that began with a personal question: what does a teenager need that school does not provide? What started as a search for meaningful experiences for her own son grew into a platform helping teens across Lebanon build skills, confidence and a sense of direction beyond grades..
Episode 06: The Starting Point