What happens when you lose both parents to cancer before the age of 23, watch your savings vanish in a financial crash, and still somehow build a life and career you love anyway?

In this episode of Call Cut with Angélique, I sit down with my dear friend Nadim Safieddine, the creator behind NadsReviews, to talk about grief, anxiety, money, and turning rock bottom into a new beginning.

Nadim shares how losing both of his parents to cancer, moving countries, getting fired twice, and then losing all his savings in the Lebanon banking collapse pushed him into intense anxiety and panic attacks. He opens up about starting therapy, choosing medication, and why speaking honestly about mental health as an Arab man has become part of his mission.

We also talk about the long game of following your passion. Nadim spent ten years blogging about film and television for almost no audience before his TikTok video reviews suddenly exploded during the pandemic. Today he reaches hundreds of thousands of people, collaborates with Netflix and Disney+, and is building a career that finally matches the love he has always had for storytelling.

Along the way, we get into

• Losing both parents to the same illness and the "life is not fair" spiral

• How financial safety and family dynamics can fuel anxiety

• Panic attacks, generalized anxiety, and what it feels like inside the body

• Therapy and medication, and why there should be zero shame in using both

• The stigma around mental health in the Arab world, especially for men

• Why one negative comment can hurt more than a thousand positive ones

• Using comedy and dark humor to survive grief

• Starting NadsReviews in a hospital room and building a platform from zero

• Hitting rock bottom as a turning point instead of a life sentence

• Finding your power by becoming financially and creatively independent

If you live with anxiety, have lost someone you love, or feel stuck between "safety" and your passion, this conversation is for you. You are not broken, you are not alone, and your story is not over.

Find Nadim here: Instagram: @nadsreviews TikTok: @nadsreviews YouTube: NadsReviews

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