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When I came back to Malaysia for a visit in 2024, one of my friends asked me, "Naz, what did you learn abroad?"
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I wasn't sure how to answer her question back then. I just gave a surface-level answer like, "I learn this and that culture, the people, the community, the social norms", which is all true...
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But if you asked me now the same question, I think I'd have a different answer.
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The biggest lesson I learned by moving abroad is this:
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Learning how to define myself beyond all the things that I have ever known.
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Beyond just what I do for work, my career, my friends, my family, my environment, the food I eat, the places I go, the people I met, the activities I do, the events I attend.
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Because when you move abroad, you're stripping yourself of ALL the things you ever knew and were familiar with.
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So beyond all of the above, the question that you have to ask yourself is:
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It took me a while to even begin to find the answer.
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I can't say I’ve fully found it yet, but bit by bit, I’m learning how to define who I am when the familiar things are gone.
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So, why am I telling you this?
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Because for the longest time, I thought building a 'personal brand' was about performing a version of myself that people wanted to see.
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When you’ve been stripped of everything familiar, you realize that your brand isn't what you do, it's the perspective you carry.
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In a world full of "carefully curated" online personalities, the only thing that actually stays is your authentic self.
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But you can’t share that self if you haven’t done the work to define it first.
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Building a personal brand is a journey of self-discovery.
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It’s about having the courage to say, 'This is who I am beyond the surface,' and seeing who resonates toward that.
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Once you know who you are, it's easier to show up more authentically rather than feeling like you always have to "perform" for an audience that you barely know.
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Tell me, if someone asks you "Who are you?" right now..what would your answer be?
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Feel free to reply to this email. Always love reading your replies!
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What I'm up to this week 📸
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Visited Al Masmak Fort in Riyadh (where I currently live). This place is like an old town of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It is so beautiful and next to it, there's a huge market selling abayas 😉
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Me 🤝 coffee = inseparable
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