I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow more. Today I have another wonderful guest in my mini series of the remarkable women of the Middle East,

someone who is of course

the middle east someone who is of course a good friend but also truly

truly remarkable you know that saying when life gives you lemons you make lemonade

my dear friend Sarah Saade, when life gives her challenges, she makes books, which is quite interesting.

So, Sarah Saadek in English has been blessed with a daughter that was diagnosed with an interesting

challenge at a very young age and as a result of that she wrote a wonderful book

about motherhood that basically was I think raw and clear the finding the

magic in mommyhood that basically became a bestseller published in New York and then a couple of years later when life gave us

lockdown she built a children's book the extraordinary pause and it keeps going every now and then life turns left as I always say when things go wrong

life turns left for Sarah and Sarah decides to write about it and she's originally earned a master's degree in human rights. She worked in the United Nations and worked here in Dubai for the Prime Minister's office for a while and eventually decided that she is on a journey to find what truly matters to her in life if you want, which I think is what is truly remarkable.

Sarah's constant attempt, our very last cough here a couple of weeks ago, was entirely focused on the idea,

so what do I do now, right? I'm very good at what I do,

but can I do differently? Can I do something completely extraordinary? Can I do something that I have

not done before? And I think that search, as I always said,

is what makes a person remarkable.

Remarkable, as I always say in this series,

is not about where you are in life.

It's about the road that you took to get to where you are in life. The journey, I think, is what is remarkable.

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