This episode is a discussion of friendship, ambition and young people moving forward in life. As we try to navigate the process of growing and advancing, it can become hard to maintain certain friendships as life goes on. This episode tackles all of that while delivering a much-needed hard-hitting message to the viewers - you can't save everybody. -- Instagram: @thrudeepwaters Tik Tok: @thrudeepwaters Twitter: @thrudeepwaters_

Hussein is back!! This week we welcome back Hussein from his long absence from the podcast! The brothers go through the theme of procrastination and the prevalence of it in the younger generation. We talk about our experiences with it and the potential strategies that can help resolve it. Make sure to rate and review! Link researched: https://jamesclear.com/procrastination -- Instagram: @thrudeepwaters Tik Tok: @thrudeepwaters Twitter: @thrudeepwaters_

This week, we bring back Isabella to talk about something that affects young people today more than ever - the emergence of 'hustle culture'. It got trendy and viral for people to talk about how much they work and neglect their personal life, showing off is at an all-time high, and the question of perception vs reality is more of an issue than ever. We break all of that down in this episode, thank you for tuning in! -- Isabella's Instagram: @isabellamartinez9 Isabella's Tik Tok: @imarti_9 ...

In the second episode of Season 2, we welcome Fitness Coach Tanner Weiler! Passionate about helping others achieve their body goals, Tanner set out to create his own business in online coaching to do just that. In this episode, we discuss Tanner's fitness and business journeys, and how mental health relates to it all. Thank you for tuning in! -- Tanner's Instagram: @tweilerfitness Tanner's Tik Tok: @tweilerfitness Instagram: @thrudeepwaters Tik Tok: @thrudeepwaters Twitter: @thrudeepwaters_

Guess who's back!! After a long five months, we are returning with a new season and here is the opening episode! While Hussein was away for his ACL surgery, Zaid had his first attempt at a solo podcast episode talking about the transition from university to a working life. This was a big part of why the podcast had to break for a few months, and Zaid opens up about his struggles dealing with this transition while also providing advice on how to navigate the transition through his own experie...

This week, friend and huge fan of the podcast Rafeef Kilani stopped by for an intriguing two-part discussion. In the first half of the episode, we talked about goals, planning for them and how to keep them in focus, and we then diverted to discuss the themes of trust, good vs evil and how far we go out of our way to help others. Thank you so much for tuning in! Please rate and leave a review if you enjoyed the listen! Rafeef's Instagram: @rafeef_fefo -- Instagram: @thrudeepwaters Tik Tok:...

Our topic this week is the ego. We welcomed our friend Ernest Mwesigye to the podcast to give his perspectives on the ego and discuss its positives and negatives with us. We also brought back our brother Mushmush, who is the first recurring guest on the podcast to give his two cents on the topic. This is a unique episode because we all came in with different opinions: some of us thought the ego was a helpful tool we can use to achieve our goals, while others saw it as a negative thing prevent...

Growth is a deep and difficult concept. We struggle to understand it because we don't really know how we're going to grow in the future. Growth can be scary, but it can unlock all our potential. This week, we dive into the concept of growth and talk about outgrowing our old selves. We delve into the points in our lives where we had to grow to become the people we are today, and what it took for us to continue to evolve. Tune in with us and let's explore the process of outgrowing your old self...

Special guest and friend of the podcast Ahmad Mansour joins us this week to talk about his journey into professional football! Ahmad played in the Ontario leagues before traveling to Lebanon to sign with Al Ansar FC in Beirut. We discuss a bunch of themes related to his experience as he takes us through how he got to this point in his journey. Ahmad's Instagram: @ahmadxmansour -- Instagram: @thrudeepwaters Tik Tok: @thrudeepwaters Twitter: @thrudeepwaters_

This week, our friend Aidan stopped by to talk about his journey starting a business with his friends while in university. Aidan's startup, Phros, is a personal training and coaching management company that was born in the wake of the COVID-19 to help fitness individuals focus on what thy do best - trining and coaching. Aidan talks about starting the company while still in university, and shares his advice to young aspiring entrepreneurs looking to start their own ventures. Aidan's Ins...

Hassan Alokaily is an engineering graduate from McMaster University, but today his work has nothing to do with engineering. After spending some time at an engineering job since graduating, Hassan found a passion for the YouTube creator economy and decided to put in the work to break into the industry. Today, he works for a startup called Creator Now and is on his way to achieving his dream. Tune in to learn more about his thought process in changing careers, why he did it and how it's going f...

Your faith is one of the most important things in your life, if not THE most. It defines how you live, and creates your perception of right and wrong. When we go to different environments, we often lose aspects of our faith due to the change. This week we sat down with Hussein's close friend Ammar to talk about keeping our faith when we go abroad and staying strong on our values. Ammar, Hussein and Zaid have all studied abroad for university and were each individually put into the same challe...

It's the episode with our cousin and official podcast sponsor, Yousif! Yousif completed an undergraduate degree from York University in Kinesiology, and enrolled in Med School after that. But thanks to the strikes at York at the time, he took a leave of absence to pursue his newly-discovered passion of coding. He taught himself how to code in a number of languages and went on to launch the app that sponsors our podcast today - My Meal Diary. He walked us through his journey to get to the plac...

Welcome back to the Young Nation's Podcast! This week, our close friend Hussam Merghani came on the show to talk about something he and Zaid have struggled with over the years - being a people pleaser. Hussein comes in as somebody who's seen this behavior before, but doesn't relate to it or feel it applies to him. In that context, there's a discussion on how people pleasers slip into those habits of over stretching themselves for others, and how they can learn to prioritize themselves and say...

Student athlete and close friend Jawad Al Otaibi joins the podcast to talk about being a balancing sports and academics. Hussein relates to this heavily as he has always been involved in sports at school and university, but has struggled to balance them with his academic obligations. The conversation then shifts to support systems, and the importance of developing and maintaining good ones around you to guide you through tough times. Jawad's Instagram: @jawad_alotaibi -- Instagram: @th...

First things first, shoutout Hussein! He couldn't make it to this episode because he got hit with COVID and had to isolate, we missed him today for sure. Today's episode, though, was truly unique and special. We invited Zaid's childhood friends TJ and Tokio to discuss something they've both had to deal with throughout the course of their young adulthood - adapting and getting back up when life plans fail. Both TJ and Tokio talk about their situations and the unique challenges they had to go t...

This is a really really special episode for us, because we got to invite our youngest brother Mushmush to come join us on the podcast. Mushmush talks to us about how it was for him growing up as the youngest child, and then the only child once we travelled to Canada. We talk about how we could have improved as brothers and what we did well. We then talked about bullying, our past experiences with it, how we handled and pushed through it, and what our takeaways from it were. Make sure you tune...

In a truly inspirational episode, we bring on our cousin Hussain Alokaily to talk about his interests in film and directing. Hussain goes into how he got into film and why he chose directing, talking to us about a few of his projects and milestones along the way. The conversation then steers into how cultural and societal expectations can often stop us from pursuing what we love. Hussain's experience with this was profound, and his journey in defying these expectations and winning the support...

In what was a great conversation full of laughs, inspiration and deep discussions, our close friend and special guest Parth Shah joined us to talk about how we all responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. The constant uncertainty and semi-continuous lockdowns have taken a massive toll on everybody as we all try to do our part, and the three of us share our stories in terms of how we interacted with the pandemic, how it hurt us, and how we made progress in dealing with its consequences. With the Om...

In today's episode, we talk about our journeys in finding our career paths and the difficulties we faced in finding our life's purpose. The discussion revolves around the external factors that pushed us away from our preferred choices, the impact of good and bad role models on us finding what we want to spend our lives doing, and the social norms and expectations we faced when it came to choosing our paths. We then offer up some advice to the listeners based on our experiences at the end. --...