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Each week we bring you personal stories and powerful insights from leading entrepreneurs, athletes and creatives - helping you to unlock your true potential. Today we’re in conversation with Louis Lebbos. Louis is Founding Partner of AstroLabs. Before starting AstroLabs, Louis co-founded Namshi, an e-commerce portal for the Middle East.

Welcome to the routine by rokpool, a podcast series, bringing you the personal stories and powerful insights from leading entrepreneurs, athletes, and creatives, helping you to unlock your true potential. We've set out on a mission to meet and spend time with dynamic creative and successful guys to observe their daily routine and look for the tools and tactics that they use to propel themselves forward. We're speaking with Sheikh Dr Majid Al Qassimi. Majid is a true friend and an open and caring person. I personally gain a lot from the conversations I have with Majid, and it's a real pleasure to have him join us on the podcast today.

We continue our podcast series bringing you personal stories and powerful insights from leading entrepreneurs, athletes and creatives. at rokpool we are passionate about helping guys on their path to looking and feeling their best selves. We believe that a thoughtful routine and positive habits when practiced consistently hold the key to unlocking the mindset to do amazing things. Tune in as we speak with a leader of the fitness community in Dubai. Marcus Smith is an entrepreneur and endurance athlete. He launched InnerFight in 2008; more than a gym, Inner Fight is a health and performance company delivering increased human performance across many platforms including: strength and conditioning, personal performance coaching, Corporate performance and motivation,  Endurance programs and more. #theroutine #theroutinexrokpool #podcast

Today we are chatting with friend of the house - Miguel Veterano. Miguel is an accomplished photographer with a career spanning 20 years; across multiple countries and photographic disciplines.  From and early age Miguel has found a type of peace and balance in solitude and through physical exertion - first with competitive surfing and then with ultra distance, multi terrain cycling. We caught up with Miguel post his latest race in Iceland.

We're chatting with one of the most dedicated entrepreneurs in the UAE. Richard Fitzgerald is a passionate new media evangelist, on a mission to deliver fast paced, quality content and editorial to a growing audience in the region - through the channels becoming most native to us all. Richard is the founder and CEO of Augustus Media, Lovin Dubai and Smashi TV.

Today we are chatting with Dan Vandooren - the co-founder of the Surf House in Dubai. The Surf House is many things to many people, it’s a great cafe for meeting and chilling with friends.  It’s a surf shop - reminiscent of the surf shops that many of us grew up with around the world  - a chilled out space selling all the essential elements to complement a coastal lifestyle.  They also do equipment rental, getting 100s of people per week into the water on surf boards, stand up paddles, hydro foils and more.  But more than anything, the Surf House is an authentic and super strong community of like minded people, that find peace, happiness and camaraderie through their shared love of the ocean and a healthy active lifestyle.

JC is a good looking guy with some of the coolest body ink out there - we first started chatting for his participation as a perfect model to feature in some our social media content. Through this time we got to know him a little better and soon realized that JC had a particular view of life and was actively working towards creating his own reality. From an early career in nightlife and modeling, JC has now transitioned to be fully independent and building a successful lifestyle as : an agent for a growing portfolio of street artists Owner and co -creative director of streetwear brand Open Till Late Active crypto currency trader

At Rokpool, we're passionate about helping guys on their path to looking and feeling their best selves. We believe that a thoughtful routine and positive habits when practice consistently hold the key to unlocking the mindset, to do amazing things. We have set out on a mission to meet and spend time with dynamic creative and successful guys to observe their daily routine and look for insights to the tools and tactics that they use to propel themselves forward. During this process, I stumbled upon the profile of Stephan Muller. I could see from his content that Stephan was interested in and actively pursuing a lot of the things that we are so interested in, positive habits, quality routines, and finding a mindset that will ultimately allow you to follow your ambitions and realize your dream. Stephan is partner at MTAA 'More Than An Agency' and innovative sports management agency positioned at the intersection of football and impactful opportunities. Stephan is the host of Forever Student Podcast dedicated to providing actionable steps to become the best version of yourself. Stephan is also a certified meditation teacher.

We chat with Shefan Lantra, known better as Mr Shef Codes. Shef has been a prominent part of the vibrant nightlife scene here in Dubai for the last decade - building a personal brand and reputation as one of the most influential men across music, fashion and mens style. Talking music, mens style, mindset and routine with good friend Mr Shef Codes.

At rokpool, we're passionate about helping guys on their path to looking and feeling their best selves. We believe that a thoughtful routine and positive habits when practice consistently hold the key to unlocking the mindset, to do amazing things. We're on a mission to meet and spend time with dynamic creative and successful guys to observe their daily routine and look for insights to the tools and tactics used to propel them forward. Kicking things off his good friend and talented architect, Tarik Zaharna. Tarik is the owner and director of T.ZED architects and has completed trend leading projects across the GCC.  Tarik is of Palestinian descent and was raised and school in Luxembourg.