Yo Munir!

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“The happiest guys on the internet” celebrate creativity for people wondering what's next. Yo Munir! is a weekly conversation between two brothers about the creative forces shaping business, culture, and the future of work. Especially in the age of AI. We’re here for the people who feel the speed of change and want to stay human brining more joy, better taste, sharper trend fluency, and a wider lens on what it all means. Expect conversations about storytelling, brand, marketing, social platforms, art/music, and the inner game of making (fear, momentum, mistakes, reinvention).

  1. 6d ago

    Cars, Coffee, and a Funeral Home Parking Lot | YM Ep 55 with Nick Vorderman

    He broke his first car doing donuts in a funeral home parking lot on his 16th birthday, right after he got the keys.Twenty years later, Nick's obsession with cars and cooking became his café and lifestyle brand, Sunday Motor Co.Nick Vorderman grew up in a car-dealership family in Indiana and Michigan. He pursued acting and directing in New York City and paid his rent bartending and working back of house through the City's vibrant hospitality scene. Then, sitting backstage, in full makeup, before an off-Broadway run, it hit him, "I don't wanna do this." He pivoted to photography, then hospitality marketing, then alongside his wife and business partner, Renee, an interior designer, he combined every chapter of his life into Sunday Motor Co., a car-culture café that survived a seven-week COVID shutdown three months after opening and has since expanded to West Palm Beach. Rob reads Ray Oldenburg's definition of a "third place" to Nick, describing a space where showing up is always welcome and never required, and thanks Nick for building exactly that for him.Munir trades off-Broadway stories of his own. And Rob shares a moment from his own life: being told by his father that becoming a doctor wasn't the practical path he thought it was. Which was a family head fake that Nick's own detour between the family dealership and a creative life. Most people treat their passions like a fork in the road, pick one, leave the other behind. Nick's story is what happens when you refuse to choose. What's the moment you realized you didn't want to do something anymore? And what did you build instead? Covered in the show:🏎️ Cafe & car culture: Sunday Motor Co. https://sundaymotorco.com/☕ Third place philosophy: Ray Oldenburg's The Great Good Place - https://greatgoodplace.org/🎭 Creative process: Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way - https://juliacameronlive.com/🎬 Nick's first lead role in Heaven Can Wait🍸 NYC hospitality roots: Employees Only - https://www.employeesonlynyc.com/🍸 Golden Age Hospitality and John Nydick, including Acme NYC - https://www.goldenagehospitality.com/👕 New York or Nowhere: https://newyorkornowhere.com/🏁 Vintage racing: Lime Rock Park - https://limerock.com/🚗 The restoration project: Porsche 912 - https://www.porsche.com/stories/mobility/what-is-the-porsche-912/00:00:00 Cold open: Nick confesses to doing donuts in a parking lot00:01:30 Rob and Munir open the show and introduce Nick00:04:30 A day in the life of young Nick, growing up around the family dealership00:07:30 Rob shares their dad's handwritten letters from Beirut with drawn pictures00:14:45 Nick's mom forces him into his first audition — and he wins the lead00:23:00 The backstage moment Nick realized acting wasn't for him00:32:15 Getting the story straight: what to actually call Sunday Motor Co.00:40:15 Rob reads Ray Oldenburg's definition of a 'third place' to Nick00:44:00 Nick's creativity principles: travel, solitude, and necessity00:51:15 Transition into the music segment00:55:45 Rob kicks off his cafe playlist with Sade's 'Mr. Wrong'📺 Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9yFb_jTqo4sXoTxJ1-YpTw📱 Yo Munir on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yo.munir/🎵 Yo Munir on TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@yomunir👔 Find Munir on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/munirhaddad/👔 Find Robert on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-haddad-88670/📼 Mixtape: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0QmAyteX3M9UVbycIQwAw3?si=1f64d0d0dd6e44c5🛍️ Support us — Yo Munir Merch: https://www.yomunir.com/yo-store

  2. Sep 21

    Who Are You When the Dance Ends? | Daria Fisher Page Ep 54

    A childhood music teacher once told Daria Fisher Page she was tone deaf — hopeless, not worth the effort to fix. It's the kind of verdict a lot of us get handed young, in one form or another, and Daria's spent her life proving what happens when you don't believe it. She trained for nearly a decade at the School of American Ballet, commuting into New York City starting in fourth grade, eventually switching to the Professional Children's School to make room for a schedule built entirely around dance. She fully expected it to be her life. Then a shattered ankle that never quite healed right forced a decision her senior year of high school — and she walked away. Munir brings in Annie Duke's book "Quit" here, and the two of them land somewhere important: sometimes quitting isn't failure, it's the mature move. From there it's a string of doors that seemed to close — organic chemistry ending a dream of art conservation at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book Library, her mother's genuine dismay when she chose law school instead. But Daria found her real subject in international refugee and asylum law, drawn to the storytelling buried inside every case, and spent nearly a decade practicing immigration and human rights law before moving into teaching. Now she directs the Community Empowerment Law Project at Iowa Law, where she pushes her students to communicate like humans instead of legal documents — a board game that humanizes mass incarceration, dirt-pudding cups that somehow make classmates care about soil-quality law. It's the same lesson Munir applies to advertising every day: "I don't like it" isn't feedback. You need the because. The episode closes with Rob and Munir's mixtape segment, where Daria — self-proclaimed tone deaf — picks three songs anyway, including Florence + The Machine's "Dog Days Are Over", which she plays in her own class as a listening exercise. This one's for you if you've ever been told what you're not good at, and you're still deciding whether to believe it. Stay in Touch: 📺 Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9yFb_jTqo4sXoTxJ1-YpTw 📱 Yo Munir on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yo.munir/ 👔 Find Munir on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/munirhaddad/ 👔 Find Robert on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-haddad-88670/ 🎧 Yo Daria Mixtape 🛍️ Support us — Yo Munir Merch: https://www.yomunir.com/yo-store

  3. Sep 14

    Rania Matar: Turning a Camera Into a Conversation | Yo Munir Ep. 53

    Photographer Rania Matar turns a camera into a conversation. Her portraits of women and girls hang in the MFA Boston, LACMA, and museums around the world. This week on Yo Munir! she opens up about growing up during the Lebanese Civil War, the family photo shoot that accidentally launched her career, and the moment she realized just how much of that history she was still carrying. We dig into her series A Girl in Her Room, her new book Where Do I Go? (five years in the making, born out of the 2020 Beirut port explosion), and close things out with a mixtape running from Fairuz to Freddie Mercury. A conversation about identity, resilience, and making the personal universal. 📖 More on Rania and her new book: https://raniamatar.com/books/where-do-i-go/

  4. Sep 8

    One Year of Yo Munir: The Stories, The Songs, The Stats (Anniversary Episode)

    One year. 52 episodes. 275+ artists on the Mixtape. And one very memorable World Cup game in a stranger's garage. For our anniversary episode, Munir and Rob look back at how Yo Munir went from a "what's in your LinkedIn feed" marketing show to a celebration of practice and creativity — revisiting Ryan Dempster's story behind "Three Little Birds," Barbara Gorder singing the Flintstones theme to sell a Reebok pitch, Kevin Frank's Steve Jobs "1,000 songs" story, and more of the moments (and guests) that shaped Year One. Thank you for listening, watching, and texting us your favorite episodes. Here's to Year Two. Got a favorite moment from Year One? Email us — yo@yomunir.com

  5. Aug 31

    Love, Humor, and Politics with Lebanese Food w/ Professor Suleiman Mourad | Ep 51

    Why did Cain and Abel really fight? Why does a beer in the supermarket have nothing to do with beer anymore? And why can't Lebanese people agree on a hummus recipe but still can't live without each other? Professor Suleiman Ali Mourad, Myra M. Samson Professor of Religion and Middle East Studies at Smith College, grew up splitting summers between war-era Beirut and his grandfather's farm in South Lebanon — feeding goats, hauling manure, and once confronting a group of armed men who stole watermelons from the farm. He got paid off for his trouble. That mix of seriousness and absurdity runs through everything he studies now. Suleiman builds a case that food is the engine behind religion and history. Adam and Eve's apple. Cain and Abel's competing offerings. Jesus's feeding miracles. Muhammad tested with wine, milk, and water. And it doesn't stop at scripture: he walks through how pistachios continue to cause a naming war between Syria's Aleppo and "Alpine" pistachios to Turkey's "Gazientep" varieties. Hummus, falafel, couscous — all claimed, all contested, all carrying the pleasure of eating as well as the weight of culture. There's real comedy in it too. Suleiman tells the story of asking three aunts for the "correct" fattah recipe and getting three confident, contradictory answers — until one aunt realized that another's recipe was just a doubling of her own. He calls it Aristotle's logic in the kitchen, and it's part of what's driving his upcoming book, A Lebanese Food Comedy. Munir and Rob trade their own memories too — the brother's mom making the hummus while their dad played taste-tester, and the long-running family maxim that Fairuz is a Haddad, since her real name is Nouhad Haddad. By the end, Suleiman leaves us with his three things for creativity: originality with limits, traditionalism with limits, and the humility to try on someone else's intellectual "colored glasses" — a reminder that your own knowledge is relative, never absolute. This one's for you if you've ever fought over a family recipe, wondered why dinner with your relatives always turns into a six-hour debate, or wanted proof that the best scholarship — like the best cooking — starts with genuine curiosity about people. Stay in Touch: 📺 Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9yFb_jTqo4sXoTxJ1-YpTw 📱 Yo Munir on Instagram 👔 Find Munir on LinkedIn 👔 Find Robert on LinkedIn 🛍️ Support us — Yo Munir Merch 🎵 Yo Munir on TikTok 🎵 Yo Munir Episode Mixtape on Spotify

  6. Aug 25

    Trust Is the Real Creative Currency — Jason Katz on Getting Athletes to Open Up | Yo Munir Ep 50

    What does it take to get a Hall-of-Fame manager's bare hand into your dessert — and how does that moment convince you a show is going to work? Rob and Munir sit down with longtime friend and Emmy-winning producer Jason Katz highlighting a career built entirely on trust. Jason takes us back to Great Neck, Long Island, where his father's compulsive habit of filming every mundane family moment — birthdays, backyard nonsense, nothing sacred — became the foundation for the work that Jason did decades later. That instinct to preserve the unguarded moment became his creative superpower at MLB Productions, where he spent sixteen years learning how to get skeptical athletes to let their guard down on camera. The stories come fast. There's Bruce Bochy reaching bare-handed into Jason's dessert in a pre-production meeting for The Franchise, a tiny, absurd moment of trust that told Rob the whole show was going to work. There's Barry Zito uncorking a curveball that sent Jason running for cover. There's the slow, patient work of earning trust with guarded personalities like Pat Burrell and Jordan Staal. Jason builds these relationships in the small human moments that nobody's filming; by showing up consistently, being true to his word, acting with the best interest of his subjects, and delivering amazing moments on camera. Rob and Jason also reminisce about their own "work marriage" at MLB Productions, and how Rob's early confidence in Jason shaped the mentor he'd eventually become to others, including on Jim Harbaugh and Michigan Football's All or Nothing and his Emmy-winning work on Four Nations Unveiled. Underneath all of it is a simple idea: the best sports storytelling isn't won with better cameras or better questions. It's won with better relationships — the same patient, authentic trust-building that makes any team, business, or creative partnership actually work. Jason also opens up about the difference between coaching and motivating, and how summers at Kutcher's Sports Academy built the instincts he still leans on today. This one's for you if you believe the best stories are earned, not staged — and that trust, given enough time, beats talent every time. Stay in Touch: 📱 Yo Munir on Instagram 👔 Find Munir on LinkedIn 👔 Find Robert on LinkedIn 🛍️ Support us — Yo Munir Merch 🎵 Yo Munir on TikTok 🎧 Check out this episode's mixtape

  7. Aug 17

    Merri Eckert: Why "Pick One Thing By Third Grade" Is Bad Advice

    Merri Eckert grew up down the street from Munir and Rob Haddad in Tuckahoe, New York and went on to become an Emmy Award-winning producer for Major League Baseball, the NBA, and the New York Jets, with credits on CBS, NBC, Fox, and ESPN. She rebooted the legendary "This Week in Baseball". She produced MLB's first-ever high-definition television show. She was on the field for the All-Century Team ceremony at the 1999 All-Star Game -- an assignment she landed almost by accident, two days after the system holding months of her work crashed completely. On this episode, Merri and the guys talk about growing up bored in a small town (and why that boredom mattered), the mentor who taught her to "handle it with grace" before she ever picked up a camera professionally, the Mariano Rivera shot she still calls one of the best of her career, and why she thinks telling a kid to specialize by third grade is exactly backwards. Check out this episode's mixtape of songs that remind of a ('80s) high school dance. Yo Munir is a weekly conversation celebrating creativity and practice, hosted by "the happiest guys on the internet," Munir Haddad and Rob Haddad. New episodes every week. Follow the show so you don't miss what's next - and if you like this one, a rating helps us a lot.

  8. Aug 10

    Ryan Dempster: World Series Champ, Secret Magician & the Making of a Late-Night Show | Yo Munir Ep. 48

    He closed out Game 1 of the 2013 World Series for Boston. He also spent years as an undercover sleight-of-hand magician in minor league locker rooms. This week, Ryan Dempster — 16-year MLB veteran, two-time All-Star, and host of his own late-night style show, "Off the Mound" — joins Rob and Munir to talk about growing up quoting UHF with his brothers, what "team-run" leadership really looked like in a championship clubhouse, and the story behind why one Bob Marley song means more to his family than almost anything else. Plus: three songs that capture a sense of wonder in this week's Mixtape. Yo Munir is a weekly conversation celebrating creativity and practice, hosted by "the happiest guys on the internet."

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“The happiest guys on the internet” celebrate creativity for people wondering what's next. Yo Munir! is a weekly conversation between two brothers about the creative forces shaping business, culture, and the future of work. Especially in the age of AI. We’re here for the people who feel the speed of change and want to stay human brining more joy, better taste, sharper trend fluency, and a wider lens on what it all means. Expect conversations about storytelling, brand, marketing, social platforms, art/music, and the inner game of making (fear, momentum, mistakes, reinvention).

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    Yo Enterprises
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    33
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