Limitless

Noona Nafousi

Success looks good on the outside. But what’s really driving you and what’s quietly holding you back? Limitless with Noona Nafousi is the podcast for high-achievers ready to close the gap between who they are and who they’re capable of becoming. Through raw, unfiltered conversations with CEOs, founders, and world-class experts, we explore identity, power, and the uncomfortable truths behind true leadership.

  1. 3d ago

    £2M salon owners lost LA to COVID. Then Dubai happened.

    Callum and Paul, the stylist and colourist behind By The Boys in Dubai, were weeks from moving to LA and filming a Netflix show when COVID shut everything down in March 2020. They had already handed back their UK salon, given up the house and thrown the leaving party, so they moved to Dubai and built a brand people were chasing before it had a front door.Across 44 minutes with Noona Nafoosi, you get the full LA story, how Callum grew his first salon from age 19 to a £2 million turnover with 42 staff, why By The Boys pays uncapped commission instead of salaries, and the emotional weight hairdressers carry for their clients. It ends with the plans for salon number 2 and a round of Noisy Noona questions that nearly broke the host.Chapters:00:00 Introduction02:50 The LA dream and Netflix04:32 COVID and the Dubai pivot06:11 A stylist and colourist double act11:23 A salon with no door18:18 Dyslexic at 19, £2 million later21:00 Hairdressing's hidden millionaires23:05 No salaries, uncapped commission24:46 The trauma bomb behind the chair30:13 Nosy Noona questions40:41 Salon number 2Connect with Callum & PaulInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bytheboysdubai/ https://www.instagram.com/paulstandenmay.colour/ https://www.instagram.com/callumstandenmay/Work with Noona🔹 1:1 Executive Coaching → https://neonoor.com/work-with-us/🔹 Keynote Speaking → https://neonoor.com/services/speaking-events/🔹 Corporate Training & Workshops → https://confidenceclaritystrategycall.as.me/schedule/a95442fe🔹 Coaching Session Questionnaire → https://form.jotform.com/Neo_Noor/coaching-applicationConnect with Noona📲 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/limitlessbynoona🎥 YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/@limitlessbynoona🌐 Website → https://www.neonoor.com📩 Email → noona@neonoor.comNoona Nafousi is a Master NLP Trainer, executive search veteran of two decades, and the creator of The Limitless Leader Codes. Through Neo Noor, she works with leaders and organisations across the world to unlock peak performance from the inside out.Subscribe so the next Limitless Podcast conversation lands in your feed automatically.Subscribe to the Limitless Podcast for new episodes with Noona Nafousi every week.

  2. Oct 1

    Toxic People: How to Spot Them, Set Boundaries and Go Grey Rock

    Noona Nafoosi has been married to someone she describes as toxic and has worked for a boss who was rude to her in meetings and apologised in private. In this solo episode she shares the tools that finally broke the pattern for her, including a metaphor from her therapist about a snake that changes how you see every toxic person in your life.You will learn the difference between a difficult person and a toxic one, why a boundary that feels mean is usually the right one, how to use the grey rock method with the exact replies Noona uses, and why you can't change anyone who isn't willing to change. You will also hear the one boundary a client set with themselves that made every workplace boundary easier two weeks later. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:13 Difficult versus toxic 03:13 Projection, blame and gaslighting 06:27 Boundaries that feel mean 10:11 Start with yourself first 13:03 Going grey rock 15:00 You cannot bite the snake 18:11 You cannot change anyone 21:52 When to walk away Work with Noona 🔹 1:1 Executive Coaching → https://neonoor.com/work-with-us/ 🔹 Keynote Speaking → https://neonoor.com/services/speaking-events/ 🔹 Corporate Training & Workshops → https://confidenceclaritystrategycall.as.me/schedule/a95442fe 🔹 Coaching Session Questionnaire → https://form.jotform.com/Neo_Noor/coaching-application Connect with Noona 📲 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/limitlessbynoona 🎥 YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/@limitlessbynoona 🌐 Website → https://www.neonoor.com 📩 Email → noona@neonoor.com #toxicrelationships #greyrockmethod #lettinggo #emotionalhealing #peoplepleaserrecovery #limitless

  3. Sep 24

    She Lost Both Parents By 35. Then Everything Changed.

    Nassima went from corporate oil and gas to becoming one of fewer than 200 certified Dr. Joe Dispenza trainers in the UAE, and later a Modern Mystery School guide tracing a lineage to King Solomon. In this conversation with host Noona Nafousi, she traces the exact wound, a father who never once praised her, that shaped everything she built after. You'll hear how losing both parents by 35 became the turning point that let Nassima build her own life, why she calls heartbreak an ego injury rather than a heart injury, and what an unbroken 3,000 year teaching lineage actually asks of the people who study it. Along the way, host Noona Nafousi shares her own blood work, a result that reframes what aging under stress actually looks like. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 00:36 From corporate to Dr. Joe Dispenza 02:18 Becoming one of 200 trainers 19:22 Zero hormones at 47 33:24 A father who only criticized 37:12 The King Solomon lineage 43:00 Your heart was never broken Connect with Nassima Instagram: @nassima.aboufarid Work with Noona 🔹 1:1 Executive Coaching → https://neonoor.com/work-with-us/ 🔹 Keynote Speaking → https://neonoor.com/services/speaking-events/ 🔹 Corporate Training & Workshops → https://confidenceclaritystrategycall.as.me/schedule/a95442fe 🔹Coaching Session Questionnaire → https://form.jotform.com/Neo_Noor/coaching-application Connect with Noona 📲 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/limitlessbynoona 🎥 YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/@limitlessbynoona 🌐 Website → https://www.neonoor.com 📩 Email → noona@neonoor.com Noona Nafousi is a Master NLP Trainer, executive search veteran of two decades, and the creator of The Limitless Leader Codes. Through Neo Noor, she works with leaders and organisations across the world to unlock peak performance from the inside out. Subscribe so the next Limitless Podcast conversation lands in your feed automatically. Subscribe to the Limitless Podcast for new episodes with Noona Nafousi every week. This episode explores #hormones #health #griefrecovery #spiritualmentorship #breathwork #personaldevelopment

  4. Sep 17

    Women Supporting Women Is Bullsh*t. Here's What We Actually Do.

    Noona Nafousi is 48, spent 22 years as a corporate headhunter, and this week spoke to three high powered women who were broken. This is the episode she recorded after: 45 minutes of everything she is sick of watching women do to themselves, and the case for a revolution of self love that has nothing to do with baths. You get the post that was forwarded back to her by accident with 'look at her' on it, the difference she saw at offer stage between men who said 'I want more' and women who added a caveat, the people closest to you who will never tell you to slow down, three questions about men and guilt, and the question most women cannot answer: What do you need? You leave with permission to be angry on your own behalf, and a clear instruction on what to do with it. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:34 Shrinking in rooms too small 02:56 Self deprecation and compliments 05:32 Women putting each other down 14:41 Managing everyone's emotions but yours 17:15 Nobody will tell you to slow down 21:44 Sick of guilt 24:50 Yes when you mean no 26:33 Why men get paid more 30:18 The promise I made at 40 32:05 Loving potential 34:20 The rage you should feel 42:13 Why this episode, and the revolution Work with Noona 🔹 1:1 Executive Coaching → https://neonoor.com/work-with-us/ 🔹 Keynote Speaking → https://neonoor.com/services/speaking-events/ 🔹 Corporate Training & Workshops → https://confidenceclaritystrategycall.as.me/schedule/a95442fe 🔹 Coaching Session Questionnaire → https://form.jotform.com/Neo_Noor/coaching-application Connect with Noona 📲 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/limitlessbynoona 🎥 YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/@limitlessbynoona 🌐 Website → https://www.neonoor.com 📩 Email → noona@neonoor.com #womensupportingwomen #takeupspace #salarynegotiation #exhaustedwomen #selflove

  5. Sep 10

    I Was The Other Woman. Then My Husband Left Me For One

    Kat Obst was a stay at home mother in Dubai with no job, no income and no savings when her husband of 10 years left for another woman. On her first ever podcast she tells Noona Nafousi the thing she has never said out loud: at the start of that marriage, she was the other woman.You get the full story of the double life, the therapist's ultimatum that brought him home for exactly 3 weeks, and the day he walked out for good. Then the work: why betrayal is trauma and not heartbreak,where betrayal actually starts, why people leave for someone easier and never expect you to move on, the telltale signs before you find out, and the one question that tells you whether to stay. You leave with the betrayal reframed as a pattern, not a verdict on you. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 03:31 Ten years, two boys, rock bottom 07:49 The confession: I was the other woman 10:48 The Instagram photo and the ultimatum 15:31 Happening to me, happening for me 37:37 Where betrayal actually starts 44:31 Someone easier, not someone better 59:48 Telltale signs and the one question 01:11:35 What limitless means to Kat Connect with Kat Instagram : www.instagram.com/kat.obst/ Work with Noona 🔹 1:1 Executive Coaching → https://neonoor.com/work-with-us/🔹 Keynote Speaking → https://neonoor.com/services/speaking-events/🔹 Corporate Training & Workshops → https://confidenceclaritystrategycall.as.me/schedule/a95442fe🔹 Coaching Session Questionnaire → https://form.jotform.com/Neo_Noor/coaching-application Connect with Noona 📲 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/limitlessbynoona 🎥 YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/@limitlessbynoona 🌐 Website → https://www.neonoor.com 📩 Email → noona@neonoor.com Noona Nafousi is a Master NLP Trainer, executive search veteran of two decades, and the creator of The Limitless Leader Codes. Through Neo Noor, she works with leaders and organisations across the world to unlock peak performance from the inside out. Subscribe so the next Limitless Podcast conversation lands in your feed automatically. #betrayal #trauma #divorce #infidelity #narcissist #limitless

  6. Sep 3

    I Took My Kids On 4 Holidays. They Chose The One With No Wifi

    Noona Nafousi spent her first summer as a single mother taking two children on 4 holidays across 3 weeks, and came home with one conclusion: parenting is not meant to be fun. In this solo episode she says it out loud, backs it with the numbers on mum guilt, and hands every parent a permission slip to stop.You get the story of a cold house in Hamburg with no TV that beat an all inclusive resort, the beat by beat takedown of the staged 'day in the life' Reel, the 'Mummy' loop that fries a nervous system, and the 39.3 fever that taught her the world does not stop when a mother rests. You leave with the guilt turned down and the bar set somewhere human.Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:38 First summer as a single mother02:39 We lost the village05:21 The Hamburg commune holiday10:52 The over scheduling trap13:54 Social media and mum guilt17:36 Motherhood is not fun20:50 Your permission slip23:27 The fever that stopped everythingWork with Noona🔹 1:1 Executive Coaching → https://neonoor.com/work-with-us/🔹 Keynote Speaking → https://neonoor.com/services/speaking-events/🔹 Corporate Training & Workshops → https://confidenceclaritystrategycall.as.me/schedule/a95442fe🔹 Coaching Session Questionnaire → https://form.jotform.com/Neo_Noor/coaching-applicationConnect with Noona📲 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/limitlessbynoona🎥 YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/@limitlessbynoona🌐 Website → https://www.neonoor.com📩 Email → noona@neonoor.comNoona Nafousi is a Master NLP Trainer, executive search veteran of two decades, and the creator of The Limitless Leader Codes. Through Neo Noor, she works with leaders and organisations across the world to unlock peak performance from the inside out.Subscribe so the next Limitless Podcast conversation lands in your feed automatically.

  7. Aug 27

    Secret Shopper of Dubai on Style, Facelifts and the Age Revolution

    Sarah Silsbury is the Secret Shopper of Dubai, the stylist women call after divorce, menopause or a life that stopped fitting. In this conversation she reveals why she congratulates divorced women, why nobody looks good in skinny jeans, and why brands ignore the customers holding the most money. You get her honest scorecard on facelifts, Botox, lasers and threads, the mirror rule that pulls you out of a slump, the peach line that ends people pleasing, and the persona trick that makes getting dressed feel like play again. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 03:41 The skinny jeans verdict 11:11 What the mirror really shows 21:33 The facelift decision at 5533:16 Brands ignoring midlife money 40:02 Why divorce means congratulations Connect with Sarah Instagram: @dubai.secretshopper Work with Noona 🔹 1:1 Executive Coaching → https://neonoor.com/work-with-us/🔹 Keynote Speaking → https://neonoor.com/services/speaking-events/ 🔹 Corporate Training & Workshops → https://confidenceclaritystrategycall.as.me/schedule/a95442fe🔹 Coaching Session Questionnaire → https://form.jotform.com/Neo_Noor/coaching-application Connect with Noona 📲 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/limitlessbynoona 🎥 YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/@limitlessbynoona 🌐 Website → https://www.neonoor.com 📩 Email → noona@neonoor.com Noona Nafousi is a Master NLP Trainer, executive search veteran of two decades, and the creator of The Limitless Leader Codes. Through Neo Noor, she works with leaders and organisations across the world to unlock peak performance from the inside out.Subscribe so the next Limitless Podcast conversation lands in your feed automatically.

  8. Aug 20

    Nice Guys Are Not Good Men And Women Are Paying For It

    Benjamin Owen has spent 15 years inside men’s groups, led his own, and watched hundreds of men do the work most never start. In this episode he tells Noona Nafousi what men actually say when women are not in the room, including the retreat exercise that leaves grown men sobbing on the floor.You leave understanding the disconnection loop most men are running, the difference between a nice guy and a good man, why the wife as mother dynamic kills attraction, the hormone mechanics behind lost chemistry, and the five words a partner can say that land harder than any advice.Chapters:00:00 Introduction02:00 The crisis of masculinity07:38 Inside men’s groups10:51 Disconnection treated with more disconnection16:33 A boy in a man’s body24:58 Nice guys versus good men26:10 The day the nice guy snapped35:50 The anger epidemic37:35 Grown men sobbing on retreat floors41:07 Polarity, presence, and desire01:02:18 Hard front, soft spine explainedWork with Noona🔹 1:1 Executive Coaching → https://neonoor.com/work-with-us/🔹 Keynote Speaking → https://neonoor.com/services/speaking-events/🔹 Corporate Training & Workshops → https://confidenceclaritystrategycall.as.me/schedule/a95442fe🔹 Coaching Session Questionnaire → https://form.jotform.com/Neo_Noor/coaching-applicationConnect with Noona📲 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/limitlessbynoona🎥 YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/@limitlessbynoona🌐 Website → https://www.neonoor.com📩 Email → noona@neonoor.comNoona Nafousi is a Master NLP Trainer, executive search veteran of two decades, and the creator of The Limitless Leader Codes. Through Neo Noor, she works with leaders and organisations across the world to unlock peak performance from the inside out.Subscribe so the next Limitless Podcast conversation lands in your feed automatically.Men’s mental health, masculinity in the modern era, men’s groups explained, relationship polarity, understanding men.

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Success looks good on the outside. But what’s really driving you and what’s quietly holding you back? Limitless with Noona Nafousi is the podcast for high-achievers ready to close the gap between who they are and who they’re capable of becoming. Through raw, unfiltered conversations with CEOs, founders, and world-class experts, we explore identity, power, and the uncomfortable truths behind true leadership.

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