Your Onion

What do you do when you break down in your car? Khurram Sheikh has come up with the solution and doing it the Uber, Careem way, by creating an App that is connected to all the car mechanics in the UAE.

More and more people are enjoying the art of photography and are looking to move from having photography as a hobby to being a profession. We speak to Mohab Elmandouh who might have come up with the solution for all photographers and creatives to show off their talent and get in front of clients.

Food is big business and is consumed all over the globe; you would have thought that every type of food had been created and marketed way past saturation point. Well think again, the marshmallow for many of us comes in a bag in many colors and one flavor. Listen to this podcast to find out how Claire Kanj is playing with our taste buds and making us fall in love with the Marshmallow

Education plays a big part in all our lives and can dictate our future careers. Many of us take an educational path that has been dictated by our parents or peers, and we end up in a job that we are not inspired by. Arvind Rampul, the MD at Qatar Skills Academy, shines the light to shows us that there is another way to change or better ourselves in our current career by offering vocational training programs.

We get many invitations to launches for restaurants and other establishments, so we thought we would send Sam from Doha Heat to the launch of Kidzmondo Qatar, located at the Mall of Qatar.

Back in 2010 Matthias decided to invest his savings into a small tech company based in Australia. This company specialized in Augmented and Virtual Reality. Listen to Matthias story before he made the investment and the journey after that. It's a rollercoaster ride with no special effects!

As a young boy, his gaze was up to the sky and dreaming of being a pilot; this dream never fulfilled, but Emad Turkman did and still is reaching considerable heights in his career.  Come with us on a journey of discovery listening to Emad's story.

Jamie Watkins is a man with a mission to bring sports education in a fun and entertaining way from the streets of Brooklyn USA to the children of Qatar. Initially setting up SFQ Sports Academy, Jamie has now stepped away from and is now starting a new chapter by launching "bricklyn" Lego Education. "Monkeynastix" Qatar

A lot of the time, people complain here in Qatar that they don't get to hear about events happening until they are over and done. Mohannad Bitar launched “This Is Qatar”  facebook page to fill that gap and try to let everyone know what is happening when it comes to events and new launches here in Qatar.  

Yes, it’s happened, the tables were turned on the host of Your Onion and the owner of Ginger Camel. We get to hear how a spotty teenager who wanted to be a pop star ends up setting up Ginger Camel here in Qatar thirty years later.

Are you moving to Qatar or maybe you're moving out of Qatar? Do you have furniture or items that you want to move with you? If so you would want them to arrive at your destination intact and scratch free. We talk to Abraham Antony from E-Movers the relocation experts here in Qatar.

Are you confused about social media and the best way to use it to promote your brand or maybe you don't see the value of having a website as it doesn't convert visits into sales? Well, you need advice and help from the new digital agency, which is Ginger Camel Digital. Angela Manuel who heads this new division of Ginger Camel pops into the studio to talk about her plans to make Ginger Camel Digital one of the leading digital agencies in Doha.

Getting to the point where network events are gaining you no results and your just gaining weight from the food and drink you consume while talking about everything apart from business. As we see the oil and gas prices fall, it’s put extra pressure on business owners, sales and business development personnel to generate more leads and sales. So what's the solution? It could be the worldwide networking organization BNI, Business Network International  - https://www.bni.com/ which started 30 years ago in the US and reached Qatar two and half years ago. BNI is making a huge impact around the world in business circles. @youronion talks to Mohamad Shabeeb - Director Consultant of BNI Qatar to find out why BNI can help you increase sales and grow your business.

We invite @JeffreyNelsonPk who runs @NelsonParkPrpty into the studio to talk about the #realestate market here in #Qatar #Doha . A useful listen for anyone moving to Qatar or living in Qatar.

“Tyres, beautiful tyres”, is hardly a phrase you would associate with these accessories, let alone disused tyres, but when you see how Nada Mohamed & Moataz Mahdy who have created RE.TIRE have transformed them into artistic forms of furniture, it will take your breath away. Their incredible success has meant they are now looking at other forms of recyclable material in order to make their eye catching creations.

Six months on from when he was last on Your Onion Podcast Show, we catch up with the latest from Patric Rozario. Patric has created his new brand “Own A Rozario”, from the early days of PearlAppetite . Own A Rozario involves the painting of stunning artistic creations onto metal panels. Take a listen to how Patric uses his whole body to create these impressive and beautiful pieces of art.

We had a full house in the studio this week with our guests coming from Evolve. Founder Haitham Khalid had already been to the studio when he recorded a podcast on Doha Heat Podcast with presenter John Savage a few years ago, Check out Episode 23 for Haitham’s back story. Accompanying Haitham were Business Development Manager Rowad Ehlela & Project Manager Nasser Javiad. Listen in as they discuss the burgeoning Health & Fitness sector here in Qatar, and how Evolve Wellness, in partnership with the Thai Embassy, will be hosting the prestigious Muay Thai Exhibition event coming up this August at the Grand Hyatt Doha.  

Farzana Mohammad’s academic studies began with 2 years in the field of medicine. She soon found however, that dealing with constant complaints wasn't her forte - eventually coming to the conclusion that the only thing she could work on was dead bodies, as they don't talk back - and she decided to switch to a bachelor’s degree in commerce. After university, Farzana left her home country of Pakistan to follow her new husband to East Africa, where they lived for 8 years. It was whilst she was a stay at home mum that Farzana began developing a passion in interior design. The family moved to Canada, where She found her feet in this area, and which made her the woman she is today. After another 8 years the family moved to Qatar, where she was offered the prestigious role of Marketing Manager for Hollywood Fashion & Gifts.

Susanna Ingalls & Saif Qazi are the co-founders of UP (Urban Point). After arriving in the boomtown of Doha with only a business plan in hand, created after studying an MBA in Germany, the two had the great fortune of securing an investor, who immediately spotted their potential. Hear about how Susanna and Saif then embarked on a journey with the initial challenge of a very steep learning curve, having to get to know the local market and adapt their initial business idea to the incredible success it is today, and eventually signing with renowned international telecommunications company Vodafone to help them offer great deals to their customers.

Sumit Malhotra is the General Manager of JMS  - Just Grow Material Supplies. Sumit is leading the way when it comes to workers’ health and safety here in Qatar. As well as supplying vital safety netting for building sites, which protects workers from falling off high rise buildings or being hit by objects falling on them from above, JMS also represents brands that produce clothing to keep you cool in extreme hot temperatures, perfect when considering the unbearable summer heat of the Middle East! http://www.jmsqatar.com