Dubai Stars - Rise To The Top

Is Dubai’s real estate market moving from rapid cycles toward a more mature and stable phase? In this episode, real estate analyst Charles Philion shares his perspective on the UAE property market, including upcoming housing supply, rental yields, mortgages, developer risk, liquidity, and the difference between Dubai’s prime and mass-market segments. Caption Charles discusses why limited-supply villa communities such as Emirates Hills, Al Barari, and Palm Jumeirah behave differently fro...

What happens when you leave an established career behind and start again from zero in a new country? In this episode, Nick shares his journey from studying to become a lawyer to switching into software engineering, research, entrepreneurship, and eventually moving to Dubai with his wife to rebuild their careers and businesses from the ground up. He also explains the early startup that generated close to $1 million in device sales, the intellectual-property mistake that became one of hi...

What happens when the salary you depend on disappears overnight? In this episode of Dubai Stars Podcast, we sit down with Anis, a Chief Cash Flow Strategist, entrepreneur, investor, and trader, to break down one of the biggest financial misconceptions: earning a salary is not the same as building cash flow. After years climbing the corporate ladder and reaching senior management positions, Anis faced a major career turning point in 2018. Suddenly, the predictable monthly salary was gone. Th...

What happens when your entire life changes in a matter of seconds? In this episode of Dubai Stars Podcast, Anthony Joseph AJ sits down with Yannick Rebsamen, whose story is one of survival, mindset, reinvention, and refusing to let circumstances decide what happens next. On December 24, 2018, Yannick’s life changed forever. A young footballer in Switzerland, he was involved in a devastating train accident in Zurich that resulted in the loss of both of his legs. Doctors later told him he had b...

What does it really take to go from selling tomatoes at 14 years old to becoming an international hospitality leader, author and mentor? In this inspiring episode of Dubai Stars Podcast, Dr. Rikhsibay Tursunov shares his incredible life journey, from growing up in Uzbekistan and supporting a family of six sisters to building a successful career spanning more than 30 years in the hospitality industry. He opens up about the hardships that shaped him, the responsibility that changed his life fo...