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Jul 2024
57m 37s

Nataly Aukar talks about life in Lebanon...

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Hani Dajani sits down with Lebanese-American Comedian Nataly Aukar. Nataly talks about her upbringing in Lebanon, what it was like moving to New York, the red flags to look for when you make new friends, talks about her career so far and opens up on what rebuilding Lebanon means to her. Nataly Aukar has sold out shows across the world, and performed a long side stand-up comedians such as Hasan Minhaj and Rami Youssef. NOTE: This episode was shot in February 2023. Due to programming changes, we were only able to release this episode today. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT:

(00:00) Introduction (06:10) Why Nataly started doing stand-up?(10:40) Life in Lebanon (13:27) From Lebanon to New York: Lessons Learned (32:36) Why you should not look for validation...(40:19) This is red flag to look out for when making new friends.. (43:36) Why we need to re-build Lebanon? Follow Nataly Aukar WEBSITE: https://www.natalyaukarcomedy.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/natyourcolor/?hl=en TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@natyourcolor ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ YALLA! LET'S TALK. PODCAST: YOUTUBE:https://www.youtube.com/yallaletstalk ANCHOR: https://anchor.fm/yallaletstalk SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/3ymbJTXFC7GEbxmMWl6KsQ APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yalla-lets-talk-podcast/id1653842768 ANGHAMI: https://play.anghami.com/podcast/1034133148?adj_t=dgl0aa8_64v1dnl&adj_campaign=web&adj_adgroup=podcast&adj_creative=125219092 FOLLOW OUR SOCIALS: INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/yallaletstalk/?hl=en TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@yallaletstalk?lang=en SNAPCHAT: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/Yalla! Let's Talk.

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