Podcasts by LCL • local • living a creative life
Welcome to LCL, pronounced local, or Living a Creative Life. Co-hosts Rawa and Salloul are creatives talking to creatives about what it means to be a creative. Tune in for delicious conversations and awesome takeaways to maximize your own creative life.
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#25: Get Out of the Way with Nejoud Al-Yagout from 2019-10-08T08:21:42
Nejoud Al-Yagout is a poet, writer, and founder of Coexist Kuwait, known for her calming presence and support in the Kuwait art scene. We sat down with her for this episode, in which she tells u...
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#24: Do It for You with Abbas Ali from 2019-09-12T19:53:39
Rocker and singer-songwriter Abzy grew up trying to be Eminem, then figured out it wasn't for him. He kicked off his music career with a win at British School of Kuwait's Battle of the Bands in ...
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#23: Open Every Door with Hashim AlNasser from 2019-08-28T20:37:22
Hashim AlNasser, known as BuKisha, is a guitarist, composer, and member of local recording studio The Juke Pro. He's collaborated with tons of artists and bands in every genre you can name, and ...
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#22: Trust in Your Work with Tarfa AlFarhan from 2019-08-22T08:38:59
Tarfa AlFarhan, co-creator of Souffle Beauty, a Singaporean-Kuwait skincare line, believes that you can't sell your work unless you trust in it. If you have no confidence in what you've made, yo...
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#21: You Have Q's, We Have A's #1 from 2019-08-13T17:00:08
In this episode, your faves (none other than co-hosts Salloul and Rawa) answer the questions you sent in. We chat about our motivation behind starting LCL, what a creative must do or needs to ha...
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#20: Don't Force It with Yasmeen Husseini from 2019-08-06T14:41:35
Yasmeen Husseini is a 17-year-old self-taught musician, the singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, editor, and producer behind Flowerbxmb (@flowerbxmbmusic). We chat with her about her practice routi...
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#19: You're a Cliche with Engy Ibrahim from 2019-07-30T16:38:24
Engy Ibrahim, poet and artist, is a cliché and proud of it. After going through a bout of existentialism, she realized that we're all truly going through the same experiences, just in different ...
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#18: Find Your Tribe with Haider Al-Mosawi from 2019-07-23T10:32:50
What does it mean to connect with an audience, the specific portion of people who see, understand, love, and celebrate your work? In this episode, we chat with Haider Al-Mosawi, co-founder of Si...
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#17: Kill the Editor with Aziz Al Mutawa from 2019-07-19T09:10:32
No, don't actually murder editors... but put the little editor in your brain on a cruise or something. Aziz Al Mutawa, the reader and runner behind @thereadingrunner, shares the reason why he throw...
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#16: Spin Your Own Story with Ahmed Shahabi from 2019-07-10T11:09:54
Ahmed Shahabi, co-host of ElMohim Reviews, didn't get his smarts from school. With only Grade 1 under his belt, and a ban from continuing on, he gave himself an education by reading everything he c...
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#15: The Art of Conversation with Sahar Deinparvar from 2019-07-02T13:42:49
What does it mean to have a thoughtful conversation? In this episode, Sahar Deinparvar, physiotherapist, upcoming psychologist, and co-founder of Inspirational Hangouts, shares her thoughts on d...
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#14: Learning by Living with Hanan Shaerzadeh from 2019-06-23T10:51:02
Does all learning happen in the classroom? Do we learn best with a whiteboard in front of us? In this episode, Hanan Shaerzadeh shares her experience as a teacher - sometimes teaching in front of a...
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#13: You're No Imposter with Faye Al Mansour from 2019-06-12T06:32:29
In this episode, we chat with Faye Al Mansour aka @sketchadooodle about imposter syndrome, and what it means to share your work in a world where it feels like literally everyone is, too. We talk ab...
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#12: Put Off Procrastinating from 2019-06-05T08:59:36
In this episode, co-hosts Salloul and Rawa chat about creative procrastination and why we creatives tend to put off crafting, which makes us feel fulfilled, for Netflix and other distractions, w...
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#11: Ride the Wave with Sheikah Al Habshi from 2019-05-29T09:34:10
Sheikah Al Habshi, the mastermind behind melty @coffeeandcastoffs, began drawing in 2017 as a way to get through her upset feelings. Nowadays, she creates no matter how she feels or what is happeni...
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#10: Be Unpopular with Ali Sleeq from 2019-05-22T09:28:42
Ali "Bluesman" Sleeq joins us in this episode to talk about what it means to keep doing what you love to do, no matter what people say. He's the dude about the Blues, a genre of music that isn't po...
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#9: Find Your Refuge with Sandi Ismail from 2019-05-14T13:03:20
Sandi Ismail finds refuge in embroidery. Being alone, with only the small sounds of needle and thread through canvas, is the way she finds solace from the worries of everyday life. Tune in to le...
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#8: Driving in the Dark with Layla Al-Ammar from 2019-05-07T11:30:18
Layla Al-Ammar, recent author of THE PACT WE MADE (Borough Press 2019) and SILENCE IS A SENSE (Borough Press / Algonquin 2021), talks to us about her writing process in this episode. Tune in to hea...
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#7: Deeper Dive #1 from 2019-04-30T04:58:01
This episode is the first of a series called "Deeper Dive", in which your co-hosts Salloul and Rawa discuss what we've learned from interviews so far. In this episode, we talk a little about Yar...
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#6: Think Inside the Box with Zahra Al-Mahdi from 2019-04-27T11:35:17
Zahra Al-Mahdi, also known as Zouz the Bird, visual artist, filmmaker, and sound enthusiast, joins us for this episode. Zouz talks to us about the boxes we're in, and how messy that can get, and ho...
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#5: Find the Patterns with Amin Fari from 2019-04-16T12:50:29
Amin Fari, aka Nine Nuggetz, aka *the* Mr. Fari of Talent Shop joins us for this episode. We chat about his time in LA, what it's like being a DJ in Kuwait, and how he finds new ideas across fields...
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#4: Design Your Day with Sarah Chouari from 2019-04-09T19:01:49
Sarah Chouari, an artpreneur at Artspace who expresses herself best through doodles and paint, joins us in this episode. She has some business advice, some artist advice, and it all boils down t...
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#3: It's All Your Fault with Ali AlHasan from 2019-04-02T15:48:31
We talk with Ali AlHasan, co-owner of Caffeine and Business Intelligence Systems, and father to two beautiful girls. Ali talks self-victimization with us in this episodes, and how to ditch entit...
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#2: The Ritual with Yara Meraki from 2019-03-25T09:06:02
Join us as we chat with Yara Meraki, a Syrian graduate of fine arts. We talk about her experiences creating artwork about refugees, and she describes her strategy to get in the mood for creating: T...
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