Fourteen years ago, a well-intentioned financial advisor asked me if I liked to take risks. I put on a wicked smile and replied, “My slippers have non-skid soles.” Before I was an entrepreneur, I led a safe corporate life as an employee. I enjoyed a regular paycheck and benefits, went to the same office every day, and worked with a team of professionals who were always on hand to help resolve different issues—or, sadly, to stab each other in the back. I could have never imagined becoming an entrepreneur, let alone a solo business owner. I never saw myself as a risk-taker. Even though I had left Lebanon when very few young women were leaving without their parents, pursued university degrees and jobs in Canada without any real guidance, moved from city to city, changed lives many times over, married, divorced, and raised a child by myself, it wasn’t until
Public Relations Consultant, Speaker, Author, Reporter. A former Radio-Canada Commentator, Lamia writes regularly for magazines. Her TEDx talk reached 31,000+ views. She offers strategic counsel, crisis management, media relations, coaching in communication and leadership to her clients in North America, Europe and the Middle East. Based in Montréal, she built a platform to help more than 9500 Lebanese expats, published a book and launched a foundation to help women in Lebanon battling breast cancer.
