Thru Deep Waters
Thru Deep Waters is a podcast dedicated to highlighting themes and issues relating to young people around the world in their experiences. We are going through an unprecedented time in how globalized our world has become, and how under-scrutiny we are thanks to social media. We discuss themes and issues related to our experiences in this crazy world and hope we can benefit listeners from around the globe. Thank you for tuning in.
Episodes
25 episodes
EP 5 - You Can't Save Everybody
This episode is a discussion of friendship, ambition and young people moving forward in life. As we try to navigate the process of growing and advancing, it can become hard to maintain certain friendships as life goes on. This episode tackles a...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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42:15
EP4 - Procrastination
Hussein is back!! This week we welcome back Hussein from his long absence from the podcast! The brothers go through the theme of procrastination and the prevalence of it in the younger generation. We talk about our experiences with it and the p...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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47:33
EP 3 - Hustle Culture (ft. Isabella)
This week, we bring back Isabella to talk about something that affects young people today more than ever - the emergence of 'hustle culture'. It got trendy and viral for people to talk about how much they work and neglect their personal life, s...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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47:31
EP 2 - Fitness, Business & Mental Health (ft. Tanner Weiler)
In the second episode of Season 2, we welcome Fitness Coach Tanner Weiler! Passionate about helping others achieve their body goals, Tanner set out to create his own business in online coaching to do just that. In this episode, we discuss Tanne...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:05:28
EP 1 - Transition from University to Work Life
Guess who's back!!After a long five months, we are returning with a new season and here is the opening episode! While Hussein was away for his ACL surgery, Zaid had his first attempt at a solo podcast episode talking about the transitio...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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27:21
Episode 20 - Who Can I Trust? (feat. Rafeef Kilani)
This week, friend and huge fan of the podcast Rafeef Kilani stopped by for an intriguing two-part discussion. In the first half of the episode, we talked about goals, planning for them and how to keep them in focus, and we then diverted to disc...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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58:04
Episode 19 - The Ego: Helpful or Harmful? (feat. Ernest Mwesigye & Mushmush Kashif Al Ghitta)
Our topic this week is the ego. We welcomed our friend Ernest Mwesigye to the podcast to give his perspectives on the ego and discuss its positives and negatives with us. We also brought back our brother Mushmush, who is the first recurring gue...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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1:01:58
Episode 18 - Outgrowing Your Old Self
Growth is a deep and difficult concept. We struggle to understand it because we don't really know how we're going to grow in the future. Growth can be scary, but it can unlock all our potential. This week, we dive into the concept of growth and...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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47:53
Episode 17 - A Journey to Pro Football (feat. Ahmad Mansour)
Special guest and friend of the podcast Ahmad Mansour joins us this week to talk about his journey into professional football! Ahmad played in the Ontario leagues before traveling to Lebanon to sign with Al Ansar FC in Beirut. We discuss a bunc...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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1:09:03
Episode 16 - What it Takes to be a Young Entrepreneur (feat. Aidan Wood)
This week, our friend Aidan stopped by to talk about his journey starting a business with his friends while in university. Aidan's startup, Phros, is a personal training and coaching management company that was born in the wake of the COVID-19 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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50:46
Episode 15 - Getting into the Creator Economy (feat. Hassan Alokaily)
Hassan Alokaily is an engineering graduate from McMaster University, but today his work has nothing to do with engineering. After spending some time at an engineering job since graduating, Hassan found a passion for the YouTube creator economy ...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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54:55
Episode 14 - Keeping Your Faith and Values Abroad (feat. Ammar Rafiq)
Your faith is one of the most important things in your life, if not THE most. It defines how you live, and creates your perception of right and wrong. When we go to different environments, we often lose aspects of our faith due to the change. T...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:03:38
Episode 13 - Leaving Med School and Making the My Meal Diary App (feat. Yousif Kashif Al Ghitta)
It's the episode with our cousin and official podcast sponsor, Yousif! Yousif completed an undergraduate degree from York University in Kinesiology, and enrolled in Med School after that. But thanks to the strikes at York at the time, he took a...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:11:09
Episode 12 - I'm a People Pleaser, I Can't Say No (feat. Hussam Merghani)
Welcome back to the Young Nation's Podcast! This week, our close friend Hussam Merghani came on the show to talk about something he and Zaid have struggled with over the years - being a people pleaser. Hussein comes in as somebody who's seen th...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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58:17
Episode 11 - The Importance of Having a Support System (feat. Jawad Al Otaibi)
Student athlete and close friend Jawad Al Otaibi joins the podcast to talk about being a balancing sports and academics. Hussein relates to this heavily as he has always been involved in sports at school and university, but has struggled ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:00:22
Episode 10 - Your Life Plans Fail, Now What? (feat. TJ & Tokio)
First things first, shoutout Hussein! He couldn't make it to this episode because he got hit with COVID and had to isolate, we missed him today for sure. Today's episode, though, was truly unique and special. We invited Zaid's childhood friends...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:35:16
Episode 9 - Handling Bullying and Being the Youngest Brother (feat. Mushmush Kashif Al Ghitta)
This is a really really special episode for us, because we got to invite our youngest brother Mushmush to come join us on the podcast. Mushmush talks to us about how it was for him growing up as the youngest child, and then the only child once ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:03:44
Episode 8 - Fighting Cultural Expectations to Enter the Film World (feat. Hussain Alokaily)
In a truly inspirational episode, we bring on our cousin Hussain Alokaily to talk about his interests in film and directing. Hussain goes into how he got into film and why he chose directing, talking to us about a few of his projects and milest...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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54:15
Episode 7 - Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic (feat. Parth Shah)
In what was a great conversation full of laughs, inspiration and deep discussions, our close friend and special guest Parth Shah joined us to talk about how we all responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. The constant uncertainty and semi-continuous...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:00:40
Episode 6 - Finding Your Career and Purpose
In today's episode, we talk about our journeys in finding our career paths and the difficulties we faced in finding our life's purpose. The discussion revolves around the external factors that pushed us away from our preferred choices, the impa...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:03:58
Episode 5 - Navigating Long-Term Close Friendships (feat. Josh Nair & Ben Chapman)
Our very first virtual podcast! We were so excited to welcome Ben and Josh, Hussein's high school best friends, to the podcast. Our discussion centered around how their friendship evolved over time, how their bonds grew and strengthened, the ch...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:23:54
Episode 4 - Staying Level Through Life's Ups and Downs (feat. Bilal Gulleid)
In this episode, we invite special guest Bilal Gulleid to the podcast to talk about how he maintains his mental health through the emotional rollercoaster of life. We touch on the importance of faith, positivity and good habits towards mental p...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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56:21
Episode 3 - Navigating Immigration Culturally and Starting a Small Business (feat. Isabella)
In this episode, we welcome special guest and friend Isabella to talk about her experiences immigrating to Canada. We talk about how we all navigated the cultural differences between our places of origin and the country where we live. Immigrant...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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45:07
Episode 2 - Tackling Anti-Black Racism in the Arab Community (feat. Khalid Sagahyroon)
In this episode, we welcome a special guest, our friend from childhood Khalid Sagahyroon. We delve into a deep discussion about anti-Black racism, and focus on it in the context of the Arab community. We go into a deep level of detail discussin...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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58:14
Episode 1 - The Ins and Outs of Weight Loss
Welcome to the first episode of Thru Deep Waters! In this episode, we'll explore all the ins and outs of big weight transformations. Zaid has gone through a massive transformation, and achieved his goal weight, but it wasn't all good things thr...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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59:59