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Sara Al Madani: Emirati social media influencer and multimillionaire says failure is the best school
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2/13/2025
Emirati Sara Al Madani, 35, is a university dropout, yet that has not stopped her from attaining name, fame, and success in the UAE.
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What makes me different than everybody else is those 24 hours I have per day,
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how I use them, is what makes me different than everyone else.
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I started my entrepreneurship journey at the age of 15.
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Wasn't easy, but I was way too mature for my age. I remember that for a fact.
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Now at the age of 35, I can tell you that as a woman who is a single mother,
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who's an entrepreneur, who's a public speaker, who has 24 hours like everyone else does in
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their life. It's not who you are that makes you different. You were not born with special
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talents. I was not born special. I'm not a magician. I'm just a normal person.
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What makes me different than everybody else is those 24 hours I have per day,
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how I use them, is what makes me different than everyone else. As simple as it gets.
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That's it. Have I failed? Yes, I failed. A lot. I've been bankrupt so many times.
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Businesses shut down, businesses open. Ideas die. Ideas come up. But failure is always an option.
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Giving up is not. Failure is the best school ever. I learned so much from failing more than
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success ever taught me. And plus, failing is a missing ingredient. You just pick it up and
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come back and start all over again. If you fail, you're not a failure. You're only a failure if
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you quit the minute you fail. My biggest advice to everyone out there is that entrepreneurship
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is not easy. You will lose money, time, days, people, but it's definitely worth it.
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Before you start your entrepreneurship journey, number one, make sure you free yourself from the
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expectation of society. You free yourself from the stereotype where people will think,
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what will they say? What if I do this? No. This is your own personal journey. Enjoy it.
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Love it. Create it for yourself. Don't create it just to satisfy others. That's so important.
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Second thing is prepare yourself mentally and physically because entrepreneurship is not easy.
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Third thing is find your purpose. Find your passion. Fourth thing is be innovative. Fifth
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thing is don't be intimidated by failure. We fail every day. Following your dreams
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and not being intimidated by failure is the same thing.
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Before you're buried too deep down the ground that you can't come out,
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make sure you're living a life that satisfies you. Make sure you're living a life that you want
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and you're not living a life to satisfy others. Live your dreams. Find out all the potentials
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you have. Explore. Exploit. Do whatever you can do to figure out what's your purpose,
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why you're here for. That's my advice to all the women and men out there.
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Last but not least is believe in yourself. You don't need anyone to believe in you.
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I never waited for someone to tap me on the shoulder to say thank you, to say I appreciate
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you, to say anything good to me. I was my own support system. You got it all in you. Stop
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looking outside. You got it all in here. Just find it. And this is the best advice I can give
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all of you. So much love. Sarah Naderi.
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