Show Notes
Marms Hope is the founder of Marmalade, a Dubai-based execution agency that gives founders a full team without the full-time hires. Noona Nafousi has worked with her for nearly a year and calls her the queen of execution.
In this episode, Marms steps in front of the camera for the first time.She shares how Marmalade went from a personal brand to a 16-person agency in under 18 months, why founders become their own bottleneck, and the most expensive word in any business.
Then the conversation goes somewhere she has never gone publicly: a traumatic childhood, a narcissistic marriage where she was not allowed to work for four years, the day she came home to find her belongings hidden, the forged divorce certificate, and the one-word answer that started her new life.
Marms and Noona also talk about why healing your wounds directly affects how much money you make, the challenge of finding inner authority, and why women who give everything struggle to receive anything at all.
Chapters: 00:00 Introduction and what Marmalade does 02:51 You bring the dream, we bring the team 04:46 Taking a moment to look back 05:44 The 10-year vision 06:35 Founders as their own bottleneck 08:46 Inner demons and the healing journey 10:00 The trauma she buried 12:38 Narcissism and the silence that was still her fault 15:20 The breaking point 17:48 “I want a divorce.” “Okay.” 18:31 Thailand, Singapore and the forged divorce certificate 22:15 Love bombing, adult tantrums and gaslighting 25:39 Meeting Mark and lockdown in Singapore 28:16 Why healed wounds change your revenue 31:07 Inner authority and knowing what you want 36:51 Learning to receive 40:43 Nosy Noona questions 42:24 The most expensive word in business 44:39 What it means to be limitless
Connect with Marms Hope Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marmshopeofficial/ | https://www.instagram.com/marmaladedubai/ Website: https://marmaladedubai.com/ | https://marmshope.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marmshope/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCc_gXUm-ysbqOnq0iL461aQ
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Noona 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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