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Struggling with your confidence? Amira Sajwani, the Dubai property leader and Shark Tank investor, gets into everything: why you hold yourself to a higher standard than the men around you, how to invest in property from as little as $135, and the 30-second test she gives every founder. She didn't hold back.
Amira is Managing Director of DAMAC Properties, which booked a record AED 36 billion (about $9.8 billion) in sales in 2025. She's the Founder of PRYPCO, which facilitates more than 1 billion dirhams (over $250 million) of property financing every month, co-founder of the ultra-luxury developer Amali Properties, a shark on Shark Tank Dubai and one of Forbes Middle East's Top 100 CEOs of 2026. She was giving speeches at her father's property launches at age 10, and has valuable insights to share with women who are building, or want to.
In this episode, she explains:
■ The confidence gap: men discount their mistakes, while women, even overachieving mums running companies, feel guilty and question themselves. Her fix: rephrase "I messed up" to "it was a mistake" before the world does.
■ Property from as little as $135: how PRYPCO lets you invest in UAE real estate from 500 dirhams, and who is actually buying: 60+ nationalities, aged 22 to 75.
■ The 30-second founder test: on Shark Tank she decides in the first 30 seconds whether she believes in the founder, then looks at the business, then the market size.
■ Her 3-factor investing filter: founder, business, market. Revenue, growth and valuation only come after.
■ The next wave of AI businesses: "services as a software", meaning companies using AI to 10x their growth without adding people, and why she's watching AI move into robotics.
■ The golden spoon question: growing up in the DAMAC family, why the assumptions don't bother her, and how she blocks out the noise.
This episode is in partnership with the World Economic Forum at the Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders 2026, in the Davos on Air Studio.
🔗 LINKS
→ Amira Sajwani on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amirasajwani
→ PRYPCO: https://prypco.com
→ DAMAC Properties: https://www.damacproperties.com
→ Amali Properties: https://www.amaliproperties.com
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A few weeks ago we hosted our 7th birthday party to celebrate Australia’s leading female founders in ecommerce and have an intimate conversation on ambition, growth & personal wealth.
Anna Podolsky — Founder & CEO of Lyka ($200M ARR)
Bronte Campbell OAM — Co-founder of Earthletica, 4x Olympian
Sarah Forrai — Founder of Contour Cube (1B+ views)
Katharina Cser-Mostyn - Founder, Wine Not the Brand
In partnership with our pals at Omnisend.
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CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Introduction: Celebrating Seven Years of Female Startup Club
00:02:48 Meet the Panelists: From Olympic Gold to 200M Revenue
00:08:49 Redefining Ambition: What Does More Actually Mean?
00:16:43 The Biggest Bottlenecks to Growth: Team, Timing, and Supply Chain
00:25:34 The Economics of Scaling: From Growth to Profitability
00:29:33 What We Stopped Spending Money On: Agencies and Smarter Investments
00:32:05 Acquisition vs Retention: Building Three-Dimensional Brands
00:38:22 Big Bets That Didn't Work Out: TikTok Shop and Product Pivots
00:44:42 Building for the Long Term: Customer Community and Value Creation
00:56:52 Business Wealth vs Personal
What if the health advice you're following wasn't actually studied on women... and the protocols everyone's recommending might not work for your body at all?
This is a conversation about personalized health, why women need different protocols than men, and the future of precision medicine that actually tracks what your body needs in real time.
We're diving into why clinical trials need to study more women, how your hormone levels should dictate your supplementation, and why the one size fits all approach to health is fundamentally broken.
We're exploring the cold plunge debate (and why timing matters more than you think), the Finnish sauna study that showed longevity benefits, and why red light therapy might actually be worth the investment if you buy the right device.
Here's what we're diving into:
This one is for the woman who's been following health advice without questioning where it came from, who wants to understand what her body actually needs, and who's ready to take a more personalized approach to her health.
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What if the exhaustion, anger, and the feeling like you're just surviving each day isn't just stress... it's your body trying to tell you something bigger?
This is a conversation with Lisa Walker, a woman who's lived through chronic stress, grief, and burnout, and came out the other side with a radical approach to living her life.
She's studied the science of stress, nervous system regulation, and what actually makes life worth living. And she's getting brutally honest about what happens to your body when you push through for too long.
In this episode, Lisa opens up about the years she spent in survival mode, raising young kids, running a business, and managing a marriage affected by addiction that ended in death.
She shares the phone call that changed everything, the year of yes that followed, and why she now believes that wellbeing literacy is the number one thing we're missing.
Here's what we're exploring:
This one is for the woman who's been running on empty, who's been told she's fine when she knows something deeper is going on, and who's ready to understand what her body is trying to tell her.
💁♀️ SPONSORS → For ecomm founders: Omnisend is your email SMS automation partner that costs 35% less than the big names and returns $79 for every dollar spent
→ Use code FSC for 30% off your first 3 months at omnisend.com/fsc
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→ Use code 'FSC' for 30% off your first 3 months at omnisend.com/fsc
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We're back with part three of The Friendship Experiment! If you missed the first 2 episodes, start there and circle back for the first 12 questions…
Here's what we're answering:
- What did you last cry about?
- What’s too serious to joke about?
- Regrets…
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We're back with part two of The Friendship Experiment! If you missed the first episode, start there and circle back for the first 12 questions…
Here's what we're answering:
This one's for the woman who's craving real connection, who wants to go deeper than small talk, and is ready to answer these questions for herself.
You can be part of the experiment by joining us here: https://forms.gle/zVr3Dt9CKGPVg55r7
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Introducing The Friendship Experiment:
We're lonelier than ever. Despite being more connected than any generation before us, loneliness is now being called the epidemic of our lifetime. Coupled with the fact that making friends in your 30s is tricky… And the world is telling us AI solves everything, yet research consistently shows that relationships are the single greatest predictor of how long we live and the quality of that life. We are most certainly in a pickle.
We asked ourselves whether we could actually do something about it.
In 1997, psychologist Arthur Aron published a study exploring whether intimacy could be accelerated between strangers using just 36 questions, delivered in three sets of increasing depth. The results were pretty remarkable. We've taken his experiment and tweaked it: what happens when you apply it to female friendship instead of romantic love?
The Friendship Experiment is a three-part mini series where I answer all 36 questions myself, raw and increasingly personal, before opening them up to our community inside our private podcast discussion group. It's an experiment of an experiment, and an exciting new format for the show to explore a deeper two-way street connection between podcast and you, our community.
It's intimate and joyful, and something new :)
Here's what we're exploring:
This one’s for the chicks craving deeper connection, who are tired of surface-level networking, and looking for friendships that feel good for the soul.
You can be part of the experiment by joining us here: https://forms.gle/zVr3Dt9CKGPVg55r7
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→ For ecomm founders: Omnisend is your email-SMS-automation partner that costs 60% less than the big names and returns $79 for every dollar spent → Use code FSC for 30% off your first 3 months at omnisend.com/fsc
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Today’s episode is a little different! I'm actively looking for FSC fangirls (aka you). The women who've been listening for years, who've slipped into my DMs, left reviews, told a friend about an episode that sparked something... Our hype girls. Because we're launching something new, FSC 2.0, and I want you to be part of it :)
Here's what I’m sharing with you:
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What if the brain fog, the mood swings, and the exhaustion you're dismissing as "just stress" is actually perimenopause... and you're only 37?
This is a conversation from our full length episode with Dr. Amandeep Hansra on Female Startup Club, where she's getting brutally honest about the thing most doctors still won't tell you: perimenopause can start in your 30s. And the tests we're using to diagnose it? They're basically useless.
In this conversation, Dr. Amandeep opens up about why a single blood test won't tell you if you're perimenopausal (your hormones fluctuate minute to minute), why she had to see three doctors before getting HRT prescribed (as a doctor herself), and the 2000s study that created a generation of women too scared to take hormones that could actually help them live longer.
I wanted to know:
This one is for the woman who's been told "it's just stress" or "maybe it's anxiety" when she knows something deeper is going on in her body.
Let us know what you think of this episode by leaving a review or commenting on our video wherever you’re tuning in from (we reply!) :)
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→ Dr. Amandeep Hansra Instagram: www.instagram.com/dochansra
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What does an NFL sports agent have in common with a Taylor Swift fitness community?
Alexy Posner has spent 10 years building the personal brands of top NFL players. She's also the founder of Swiftie Liftie Club, a Taylor Swift-themed fitness community that now draws 400+ people per event. And the thing she wants every founder to know? Saying no is where the leverage actually lives...
In this episode:
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→ Alexy Posner Instagram: www.instagram.com/alexyposner/?hl=en
→ Swiftie Liftie Club Instagram: www.instagram.com/swiftieliftieclub/?hl=en
📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe:
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