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Sep 2018
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#3 - Waleed Shah - Beards, Photoshop and...

Nobody's Famous Podcast
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"People treat you different when you have like a year beard" Going into this Epsiode 3 of the Nobody’s Famous Podcast, it was a first for us. Why? Well because unlike the 2 previous episodes, we knew Waleed the least. Waleed Shah, a photographer, creative thinker and entrepreneur based in the UAE joined us to talk about a lot of different topics. We discu ... Show More
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