Buy Yourself Flowers, Trust Your Heart and St...

Etaf left law for music, but choosing a different career was only part of learning to trust themselves. We talk about the pressure of “what will people say?”, and figuring out what you want when everyone else has an opinion. The Kuwaiti artist joins Hani to talk about pursuing wh ...  Show more

Dana Salah, the Palestinian-Jordanian singer-songwriter, is back on Yalla! She joins Hani for a conversation about preserving Palestinian identity through music, why women are so often called “crazy,” and the power of art as a form of protest. They also get into self-doubt, the w ...  Show more

Topics covered : her childhood, the power of journaling, self-worth, being wronged, sitting with pain, authenticity, gaslighting, boundaries, growth, inner child, healing.  

In this episode I speak to Lebanese-Canadian author, poet, speaker, activist a ...

Topics covered : her childhood, the power of journaling, self-worth, being wronged, sitting with pain, authenticity, gaslighting, boundaries, growth, inner child, healing.  

Over the Christmas break, I’m re-releasing some powerful episodes from 2023 and in ...

“The mistake most of us make is building our homes in other people. When we do that, we give them the power to make us homeless.” Poet, activist, and author Najwa Zebian joins Forrest for a conversation focused on discovering what truly matters to us. They use Najwa’s personal st ...  Show more