Episode #94,

Lynn Hazim

“The day I stopped being a ‘Googler in Dubai’ and started being ‘Lynn, who happens to work at Google,’ everything changed.”

42 min

October 17, 2025

42 min

October 17, 2025

In a series of monthly conversations aimed at introducing the audience to the Middle East’s vibrant entrepreneurial landscape, The Lighthouse Founder and avid raconteur Hashem Montasser hosts the highly popular ”The Lighthouse Conversations” Podcast and asks his guests about their life journeys, inspirations, successes, failures and everything in-between.

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