Hello I'm George Cole, the founder and CEO of Sheerlucks and welcome to today's

Sherlock's Middle East podcast. I am really grateful to be joined today by the one and only

Mariam Marcelli.

Mariam I got a long bio here.

You are a busy lady, you are the founder of the hugely successful niche Arabia you are the

author of two books under the abaya you are an investor and entrepreneur you are a mother of two you are the Queen of Jedda you're my

kind of girl you've been an amazing host thank you it's been my pleasure

thank you so much for joining us before we, I have to say a huge thank you to Asela for hosting us.

We are in one of their suites. We have a stunning backdrop of Jeddah and we have enjoyed staying in this hotel very much has the most divine

rooftop pool.

Yes I have fabulous fabulous a wonderful spa a gym I went to this morning tick

good you did it,

and that's your work out in.

Here we are.

Mariam, I feel like we're not going to be short of chat today.

My colleague and Aane said, I'm a little bit worried about you and Georgie together.

How much conversation there's going to be.

I've got lots to ask you.

We've got to start with your upbringing, your background, your early life.

Can you give us a bit of a snapshot?

Sure. So I'm a third culture kid. your in middle school. I spent about six years here before going to boarding school in

Switzerland and then university in DC and then I came back to Saudi and wanted to

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