The Rice Pudding Project is an independent podcast featuring authentic conversations with athletes, creatives, and entrepreneurs worldwide.
Hosted by director and comedian Amin Soltani, each episode dives into powerful human stories — from personal challenges and failures to resilience, creativity, and success.
If you’re looking for a podcast that blends inspiration, humour, and unfiltered storytelling, this is it.
Kidnapping, Losing Her Family, Cancer at 31 & Taking Accountability for Her Life - Luiza Salem | The Rice Pudding ProjectLuiza Salem has been through things most people never face.When her dad was kidnapped, he found out they wanted to kidnap her too. The case was never resolved. She never saw her brother again, and she does not know if he has passed. She grieves him anyway.She has lived through the loss of her parents, a relationship where she became smaller, and a diagnosis at 31 of a 6 centimetre tumour. In the middle of chemo, her white blood cells dropped to almost nothing, and she thought she was going to die.In this conversation, Luiza and Amin talk about grief that has a different shape for every person you lose, what it means to become an orphan in your 30s, and how the experiences her family went through became a block she had to find her way out of.But this episode is also about something bigger than what happened to her.It is about the moment she decided to take accountability for her own choices, and how that changed her in every way.What you will hear in this episode:• What happened when her dad was kidnapped, and why the case was never resolved• Why she is grieving a brother she does not know is gone• How she grieved her brother, her father and her mother in three different ways• Why becoming an orphan in your 30s takes away your sense of safety• How her family’s experiences became a block, and why she resented life without resenting her parents• What grounded her in Colombia• What it was like to be told she had a spontaneous HER2 positive cancer at 31• The December in chemo when her white blood cells almost disappeared• Why she decided to fight, and what changed after Follow Luiza on Instagram: @luzsalemvThe Rice Pudding Project is an independent podcast hosted by Amin Soltani, comedian, director and host, featuring athletes, creatives and entrepreneurs sharing the stories behind the people they have become.Follow us on Instagram: @thericepuddingprojectFollow Amin: @itsaminsoltaniSubscribe for new episodes every week#RicePuddingProject
4 Nov 2026
Growing Up Without a Dad - Shaun Gordan
Growing Up Without a Dad, the Voice in Your Head & Why Your Wardrobe Is Still Junior - Shaun Gordon | The Rice Pudding ProjectShaun Gordon is a personal menswear stylist who helps affluent men present themselves in a way that matches their personality, their leadership and their authority.But the conversation starts long before the clothes.Shaun grew up as an only child, living with his auntie, in a primary school full of kids who all had a mum and a dad. He did not have the language for what that felt like. He just had the question: why didn’t my dad come and look for me? What is wrong with me?In this conversation, Shaun and Amin talk about what a child concludes about himself when someone is missing, why most men speak to themselves in a way they would never speak to their wife, their best friend or their son, and what changed when Shaun finally stopped to listen to his own head.Then they get into the part most men avoid. How you look is being judged in a fraction of a second, before you open your mouth. And a lot of men are still dressing like the junior version of themselves, years after their career and their spending power moved on.What you will hear in this episode:Why a child turns a parent’s absence into a verdict about himselfWhat happened when Shaun paused before a stressful moment and listened to his own self talkWhy waiting for the right time to dress like the man you are today is the wrong callHow clearing out your wardrobe shows you the real gap, so spending becomes intentionalWhy a decision about you is made in a nanosecond, and what that means for men in leadership and selling rolesThe Rice Pudding Project is an independent podcast hosted by Amin Soltani, comedian, director and host, featuring athletes, creatives and entrepreneurs sharing the stories behind the people they have become.Follow us on Instagram: @thericepuddingprojectFollow Amin: @itsaminsoltaniSubscribe for new episodes every week#RicePuddingProject #ShaunGordon #MensStyle #MensMentalHealth #SelfTalk #Podcast #Dubai
30 Oct 2026
"You're Not Alone" — Sam Minhas on Building a Safe Space for Women Who Feel Unheard
Sam Minhas didn't set out to build a company — she set out to fix a silence. As the founder of She Knows Best, she's created an anonymous space where women can talk to each other about the things they're carrying alone, without judgment and without fear. In this episode, we talk about what it really means to feel isolated, why anonymity can be the thing that finally lets someone tell the truth, and how a community built by women, for women, is helping people find their voice again. If you've ever felt like no one would understand, this one's for you.#RicePuddingProject #SheKnowsBest #YoureNotAlone #WomenSupportingWomen #SafeSpace #AnonymousCommunity #MentalHealthMatters #FemaleFounders #PodcastEpisode #WomenEmpowerment
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