The Premium Residency Episode: All 7 Routes

Your Neck Pain Starts In Your Gut? Wellness in Riyadh (Peter, Tonic The Method)

Your neck pain and your gut might be the same problem. This week we sit down with Peter from Tonic The Method on what wellness actually looks like in Riyadh right now.   Peter is a physical therapist and Chinese-medicine specialist who moved here from Lebanon expecting wellness to rank near the bottom of people's priorities. He was wrong. We get into the nerve that connects your neck to your stomach, the breathing fix he reaches for before any machine, which everyday foods are quietly acidic, the exact contrast-therapy order he recommends, and why he reads teeth grinding as a clue to something bigger. Plus the colon-massage story Vesna will never live down.   Hosted by Carly and Vesna. Listen and follow wherever you get podcasts: https://linktr.ee/insidesaudi [https://linktr.ee/insidesaudi]   Chapters: 00:00 Intro and Teaser Highlights 01:18 Welcome - What This Episode Is About 03:13 Meet Peter and Introducing Tonic 180 06:15 Tonic's Services and Kingdom Tower Launch 11:47 The Wellness Scene in Riyadh 13:21 The Gut and Neck Pain Connection 19:13 Diet: Alkaline vs Acidic Foods 24:21 Pressotherapy Explained 26:33 Infrared Sauna and Cold Plunge 33:58 Red Light Therapy 39:29 Laser Body Remodeling 45:59 EMS (Electromagnetic Muscle Stimulation) 48:19 The Tonic Signature Massage and Colon Cleanse 52:26 PEMF (Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields) 56:10 Dry Needling and Electroacupuncture 59:22 Personalised Protocols and Recommendations

Wedding at the Ritz, Summer Plans & Why We Chose Riyadh

After a run of guest episodes, we did something different.. a live summer Q&A on TikTok, answering your questions in real time, and turned it into this week's episode. No guest, just us catching up before the summer break. We get into what a Saudi wedding at the Ritz-Carlton is actually like, the malls worth your time in Riyadh, the Saudi and Gulf abaya designers we actually buy from, learning Arabic from scratch, and the question that started this whole show: why Saudi, and would we choose Riyadh again. Inside Saudi is the English-language podcast about daily life in Saudi Arabia today, co-hosted by two moms living in Riyadh, made for Saudis, residents, and anyone trying to make sense of the Gulf during Vision 2030. Listen wherever you get podcasts: https://linktr.ee/insidesaudi CHAPTERS 00:00 Cold open 01:42 Welcome — summer catch-up, live on TikTok 02:47 Summer plans: UK, Greece, Macedonia 05:24 The Saudi wedding at the Ritz-Carlton 09:08 Why we chose Saudi 13:44 Our Saudi road trip — Taif, Jeddah, AlUla, the Eastern Province 18:05 Learning Arabic 21:55 What weddings here are really like 26:14 The malls we love in Riyadh 28:45 Abayas and Saudi designers 31:48 Beauty and salons 35:48 Saudi schools 38:10 Riyadh or Jeddah — would we choose it again 38:51 What surprised us most: the hospitality 45:20 What is the podcast about

Everything You Got Wrong About the Saudi Sun

Saudi Arabia had no sunscreen of its own, in one of the hottest climates on earth. Ghadi Alshehri spent three years fixing that.   Ghadi is the founder of Borderline Beauty, the first homegrown Saudi sunscreen. She sat down with Carly and Vesna in Riyadh to talk about the gap she found, the science most of us were never taught, and what it takes to build something Saudi-made right now.   In this episode: - How she found the gap on an ordinary Tuesday at work - Chemical vs mineral sunscreen, and why it actually matters - Why UV passes through glass, clothes, and cloudy skies - Three years of formulation in Korea, and the "impossible" brief - Growing up between Manchester and Riyadh - Vision 2030, being seen, and building something local - Her advice for the next Saudi founder   Listen anywhere you get your podcasts: pod.link/insidesaudi   Follow Inside Saudi: Instagram @insidesaudiarabia TikTok @insidesaudiarabia Hosts: @caroverman and @vesnapetrovicx Guest: Borderline Beauty @borderlinebeautysa   Chapters 00:00 The country with no sunscreen 00:35 Meet Ghadi and Raghad 02:00 The Tuesday she found the gap 05:00 Chemical vs mineral, explained 09:00 The myths: glass, clothes, cloudy days 13:00 Three years, Korea, and a formula that didn't exist 18:00 Manchester to Riyadh, and coming back 24:00 Vision 2030 and building something Saudi-made 30:00 Advice for the next founder   #SaudiArabia #Vision2030 #MadeInSaudi #SaudiBeauty #Riyadh

The Premium Residency Episode: All 7 Routes

There are seven routes to Saudi Premium Residency. Most people only know about one or two of them, and almost everyone thinks Vesna got hers because of Instagram. This week, Carly and Vesna walk through all seven, what each costs, what each unlocks, and what they wish they'd understood before they started navigating it themselves. Vesna holds Premium Residency as a secondary, sponsored by her husband, and she's open about what that actually means in practice: full benefits for him, partial for her, and a learning curve for the whole family. Carly doesn't have it. Together they break down limited-duration, unlimited-duration, special talent, gifted, investor, entrepreneur, and real-estate routes, with the actual SAR figures and the catch on each one. A few things to know up front: this isn't legal advice, the Premium Residency website is the only source you should trust to apply, and the math fact-check halfway through is worth staying for. Part two, on starting a business once you have residency, is coming. Listen wherever you get podcasts: https://linktr.ee/insidesaudi Inside Saudi is the English-language podcast about daily life in Saudi Arabia today, co-hosted by two moms in Riyadh. Follow Inside Saudi: Instagram: @insidesaudiarabia TikTok: @insidesaudiarabia Carly: @caroverman (Instagram) @carlyoverman (TikTok) Vesna: @vesnapetrovicx   Chapters: 00:00 Cold open 00:53 Welcome + why this episode 03:00 Seven routes, overview 07:20 Route 1: Limited duration (100,000 SAR/year) 08:45 Route 2: Unlimited duration (800,000 SAR) 10:39 Route 3: Special talent residency 13:13 Route 4: Gifted residency (culture & sports) 16:10 Route 5: Investor residency (7M SAR + 10 jobs) 16:45 Route 6: Entrepreneur residency (two tiers) 21:02 Route 7: Real estate residency (4M SAR unmortgaged) 22:04 Process, timeline, background checks 24:58 Myths people get wrong 27:31 The big summary

He Said No To Saudi Three Times. Then He Stayed 5 Years | Cedric Dahmoun

Cedric Dahmoun said no to Saudi three times before he came. He stayed five years. He's a Belgian-Algerian content creator with 600,000 followers, most of whom found him through TikToks showing what life in Saudi actually looks like. He came during COVID from Dubai, with no Arabic, no plan, and a feeling that he'd run out of versions of himself to try in Europe. In this episode he tells us about the night a stranger followed him through the dark in the south of Saudi and what happened next. He talks about leaving his phone on the coffee table for five years and what that says about the city he chose. He explains what he calls "the imam of TikTok," and why he doesn't argue with them. And he tells us about his next thing: walking from Riyadh to Mecca by camel, one month, the old way, because he wants to feel how the pilgrimage used to be done. Carly and Vesna hosted from the studio in Riyadh. Cedric was in Saudi dress and a Shure mic. Episode 28. Listen wherever you get podcasts. With Carly Overman and Vesna Petrovic.   00:00 Cold open 00:58 Welcome from Carly and Vesna 03:43 Meeting Cedric 05:30 The road to Riyadh 06:25 No three times 07:15 Dubai vs Riyadh 09:42 Going full-time on social 12:14 Converting to Islam 13:42 First viral video 15:07 Taif and the baboons 18:23 By camel to Mecca 22:31 Giving back to Saudi 23:11 His father, and stopping alcohol 25:14 Why he feels safe 27:01 The compound trap 28:38 3am stranger in Fayfa 33:12 Real Islam 34:06 The imam of TikTok 35:21 The phone on the table 38:24 Building 600K 42:50 Handling negativity 45:13 The spy comments 46:16 Media authority call 48:24 Authenticity and respect 53:58 Advice for new creators 01:01:55 Best platforms 01:03:14 Why he deletes his camera roll 01:04:40 Goodbye and Jeddah invite 01:07:21 The Vesna and Alex story 01:08:27 Conflict in Saudi vs Belgium 01:13:20 Serbian content question 01:16:36 Closing