Google Told Him Not to Come to Saudi. One Message Changed Everything. (Victor Barrero, Part 1)
In the summer of 2009, Victor Barrero typed "life in Saudi Arabia" into Google and got scared. He came anyway, on an eight-week flynas internship, a 25-year-old from Mexico who packed a camera and a c...
7 Jul 1h 5min
How Much It Really Costs to Live in Riyadh (2026 Update)
A year in, Carly and Vesna re-priced their whole life in Riyadh: what's gone up, what surprised them, and what they'd tell someone running the numbers before a move. This is the granular version of th...
30 Jun 47min
Your Neck Pain Starts In Your Gut? Wellness in Riyadh (Peter, Tonic The Method)
Your neck pain and your gut might be the same problem. This week we sit down with Peter from Tonic The Method on what wellness actually looks like in Riyadh right now. Peter is a physical therapist ...
22 Jun 1h 3min
Wedding at the Ritz, Summer Plans & Why We Chose Riyadh
After a run of guest episodes, we did something different.. a live summer Q&A on TikTok, answering your questions in real time, and turned it into this week's episode. No guest, just us catching up be...
15 Jun 46min
Everything You Got Wrong About the Saudi Sun
Saudi Arabia had no sunscreen of its own, in one of the hottest climates on earth. Ghadi Alshehri spent three years fixing that. Ghadi is the founder of Borderline Beauty, the first homegrown Saudi ...
8 Jun 46min
The Premium Residency Episode: All 7 Routes
There are seven routes to Saudi Premium Residency. Most people only know about one or two of them, and almost everyone thinks Vesna got hers because of Instagram. This week, Carly and Vesna walk throu...
18 Mai 28min
He Said No To Saudi Three Times. Then He Stayed 5 Years | Cedric Dahmoun
Cedric Dahmoun said no to Saudi three times before he came. He stayed five years. He's a Belgian-Algerian content creator with 600,000 followers, most of whom found him through TikToks showing what li...
11 Mai 1h 16min
From Pro Tennis to Saudi: Alex Tashbaeva on Building a Life She Never Planned
Alex Tashbaeva stopped going to school at twelve. She'd already been on a tennis court eight hours a day since she was five, and her Uzbek-Soviet parents had decided she was going to be a champion. By...
4 Mai 51min
