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Welcome to The Bla Bla Bunker, a podcast featuring interviews with regular people who have extraordinary stories to tell. The host, Almar Hilmarsson, is one of them. In 25 years he’s gone from Icelandic lawyer and airline CEO to tattooed, bearded meat enthusiast with a startup in Central Europe. On the way, he’s made plenty of stops, and cultivated a habit of running into interesting people and asking them interesting questions. Nothing is off limits in the Bla Bla Bunker, and Almar may ask questions that most people wouldn’t dare to ask.
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Friday Jun 11, 2021
Friday Jun 11, 2021
Omar Sattar's family emigrated from Pakistan to Scotland where he eventually was born.
He went to University and made a career in real estate that eventually got him to Prague where he currently lives with his family.
Omar has had a very interesting journey which has been heavily influenced by his family background and religion. Omar had to hide away from his parents a lot of the things that regular teenagers and young people do, he could not bring home girlfriends that were not Muslims and when he eventually fell in love with his wife it was not easily accepted by his family.
On top of that his father was constantly coming up with new business ventures that did not always end very well and resulted in some incidents that affected Omar greatly.
These pressures and the constant hiding eventually led to Omar suffering from anxiety and depression that he has been dealing with.
It was very interesting for me to hear his story, how hard it must be to be torn between two worlds when growing up and the constant pressure of being stuck between wanting to please your family as well as living your life the same way as your peers.
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