Show Notes
Join Noona Nafousi as she launches her new podcast, Limitless, to help you understand the limits we place on ourselves and how to become limitless. Noona's journey began with a childhood obsession with personal development, and later, as a headhunter and recruiter, she became "really obsessed" with why some candidates with perfect CVs lacked confidence. Using her skills as a master NLP practitioner, she started coaching her candidates, helping them uncover that their limiting factor was normally their beliefs.
Noona shared her personal story of transformation, which began when she was made redundant as a headhunter during COVID, a time when she also struggled with low self-confidence and a changed identity as a new mother. She described being "absolutely broken" after losing her job in an "unceremonious way," being told she "couldn't handle the pressure of COVID," and having money owed under UAE law stolen from her. When her daughter walked in on her crying, she realized, "this is not my story" and worked on herself. Through this, she realized she had low self-respect and weak boundaries, meaning she was "training people on how much respect they should have" for her. Noona, who also admitted to playing the "victim card beautifully," now loves herself more than ever at 47 and calls herself "the kindest human being in my life".
The podcast Limitless will explore why we place limits on ourselves, what those limits are, and the "little practical steps" to notice and strip them away. Noona emphasizes that only she can make herself happy or sad, stressing the importance of taking "radical responsibility" for one's own thoughts, feelings, and emotions to achieve real power and true happiness. Tune in to Limitless for episodes featuring solo discussions and guest interviews. Remember: "the only limits that are holding us back in our life are the ones that we place on ourselves"
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Callum and Paul, the stylist and colourist behind By The Boys in Dubai, were weeks from moving to LA and filming a Netflix show when COVID shut everything down in March 2020. They had already handed back their UK salon, given up the house and thrown the leaving party, so they moved to Dubai and built a brand people were chasing before it had a front door.Across 44 minutes with Noona Nafoosi, you get the full LA story, how Callum grew his first salon from age 19 to a £2 million turnover with 42 staff, why By The Boys pays uncapped commission instead of salaries, and the emotional weight hairdressers carry for their clients. It ends with the plans for salon number 2 and a round of Noisy Noona questions that nearly broke the host.Chapters:00:00 Introduction02:50 The LA dream and Netflix04:32 COVID and the Dubai pivot06:11 A stylist and colourist double act11:23 A salon with no door18:18 Dyslexic at 19, £2 million later21:00 Hairdressing's hidden millionaires23:05 No salaries, uncapped commission24:46 The trauma bomb behind the chair30:13 Nosy Noona questions40:41 Salon number 2Connect with Callum & PaulInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bytheboysdubai/ https://www.instagram.com/paulstandenmay.colour/ https://www.instagram.com/callumstandenmay/Work with Noona🔹 1:1 Executive Coaching → https://neonoor.com/work-with-us/🔹 Keynote Speaking → https://neonoor.com/services/speaking-events/🔹 Corporate Training & Workshops → https://confidenceclaritystrategycall.as.me/schedule/a95442fe🔹 Coaching Session Questionnaire → https://form.jotform.com/Neo_Noor/coaching-applicationConnect with Noona📲 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/limitlessbynoona🎥 YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/@limitlessbynoona🌐 Website → https://www.neonoor.com📩 Email → [email protected] Nafousi is a Master NLP Trainer, executive search veteran of two decades, and the creator of The Limitless Leader Codes. Through Neo Noor, she works with leaders and organisations across the world to unlock peak performance from the inside out.Subscribe so the next Limitless Podcast conversation lands in your feed automatically.Subscribe to the Limitless Podcast for new episodes with Noona Nafousi every week.
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