Welcome to episode 29 of unsweet and unfiltered.

And on this week's episode, we have a special guest, Sahar Hamdan.

And if you guys couldn't guess by the last name, yes, we are related and she is my first cousin so it was

kind of fun to have like an actual family member on my podcast for the first time ever yeah i mean

i had my cousin on a few months ago and it does feel like you're just chilling with them like

it doesn't feel like there's microphones in front of your face it's a lot more relax and chill

like you said just like us having a cup of tea,

well, not a cup of tea. We actually had hummus popcorn. The list goes on and on. I mean,

how many snacks can you put in front of somebody? I'm an Arab, so I like put out a spread.

Well, you brought the hummus and stuff, but like, you know, you got to present.

Yeah. So when it comes to my cousin, you guys, it's very interesting our relationship because back in the day in my childhood, we grew up in a three flat. And what that is is like an apartment with, you know, three floors and whatnot. So it was like my uncle and my aunt and my cousins, including Suhra on the top floor. Then it was us, my family. And then it was my other uncle and my aunt on the bottom floor. So safe to say, we had a very, very fun childhood.

That sounds like fun.

We grew up with all of our cousins all together.

And it was just, it was so interesting to me.

It was so much fun and I have so many great memories.

And Sahad was somebody who I clinging on to the most, being that she's only five years older

than me.

So I'm 30.

She's 35, but it's interesting to see,

especially in this episode, how drastically different our lives are and our life paths.

And I think it's, it kind of like hit me that like you never know what your life path is going

to be or your journey is. And I know people say, this is what you're supposed to have at this age and this age and that age it's like no look at her life and look at my life and we're we're both happy and where we're at

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