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Freshly Grounded

Episode 410: Omar Choudhry

Freshly Grounded

Faisal & Sam

Muslimpodcast, Freshlygrounded, Islam, Religion & Spirituality

4.9941 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Faisal sits down with his older brother Omar: a designer, builder, and the mind behind Five Day Sprint.

They explore what it really means to believe in yourself, how a single teacher's words can change your life, and why true success comes from doing, building, and staying curious, not chasing titles or trends.

This conversation is about creativity, faith, and finding purpose in an age where technology moves faster than we do.

Watch this if you've ever felt stuck, lost your sense of passion, or questioned whether you're on the right path.

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0:00.0

I was into a podcast the other day and in the podcast, it was saying, um, okay, so it, it, it said something and it like, it triggered me and then I thought, oh, like, actually, I want to ask this question, Omar, because I've asked, asked this question. So basically the question, in the podcast, he said that, um, they were talking about like believing in yourself and, you know, when you're achieving high things like, you know, how do you believe in yourself for whatever.

0:22.3

Anyway.

0:22.9

Or the boring stuff.

0:23.8

The boring stuff.

0:24.7

Bambly. in yourself and you know when you're achieving high things like you know how do you believe in yourself or whatever anyway or the boring stuff all the boring stuff but I'm believing in yourself

0:25.3

but then they said sometimes it takes to somebody else to believe in you and if you don't believe

0:32.7

in yourself it takes somebody else to believe in you and you just believe them and and and and and and and and kind of like

0:37.7

byproduct of that is believing yourself and that triggered a thought of mine which I ended up

0:41.3

talking about outside the mosque yesterday which I think for a while I was heard I was speaking some guy

0:45.1

outside the mosque by but um in in high school you'd have no knowledge of this story I'm about

0:52.1

to drop some new bombs due yeah by the way I love these things because even when we get together our siblings that we did a few weeks ago, yeah. When our sister was in town, everyone's perspective of our upbringing childhood is so interesting because you have different core memories than I have. Yeah, yeah. And then when you mention it, I'm like, oh, yeah. Well, this one you won't remember anyway because you weren't there. But, but that's a good point because I was listening to this psychologist who's saying that we recollect, we recollect memories differently. Memories are actually subjective. They're not objective, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so we remember things different, exactly the same experience to be remembering the different ways. And also sometimes tell us off stories that you end up thinking of the country that

1:28.3

might even happen.

1:29.3

Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. So what happened, bro, is in, I remember very clearly this moment, right? In high school, I think I was in like year eight or year nine. And we had a supply teacher for maths because our math teacher was off. And this guy had come from New Zealand. I did mention it to you yesterday, no, yeah.

1:43.9

And I don't remember his name.

1:45.7

I don't remember much about him.

1:46.5

All I remember is that he'd get bullied by the... and this guy had come from New Zealand. I did mention it. Yes, didn't I. Yeah. And I don't remember

1:45.3

his name. I don't remember much about him. All I remember is that he'd get bullied by the kids in my class because they would say that he looks like a gerbil. And so all I remember him being called was Mr. Gerbil because that's what everybody would call him. And it was horrible actually. I remember well, I never laughed at or anything.

1:59.5

Because obviously, in, in UK, I don't know if they still do it,

2:01.5

but we would call our teacher, sir and madam,

2:03.0

in our class school anyway.

2:04.5

How did you do it in your school? Was it the same? Yeah, same sir. What about a woman teacher? No, not madam. What would you say? Miss. Oh yeah. We would say madam. So anyway, so I would just call him sir would all just call himself, but I, so I don't

2:18.0

remember his name. I, I, I, part of me hopes that he sees this and he's like, oh, that was me. Anyway, from what I remember, he ended up getting, like, leaving him back to New Zealand because he was getting, like, just no kid respected him, was getting bullied by the kids, Mr. Drabble, Ms. Drabble.

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