Common Sense with Mike Omoniyi
Jun 8, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 12 segments
Everyone wants the Dubai photo. Almost nobody wants the years of unglamorous work that are supposed to come first. Austin Okolo started in football, moved into fashion, then fell into building the…
Austin OkoloGuest
Mike OmoniyiHost
Lloyds Bank, HSBC, BBC, Savills, NatFrank, um, VaynerMedia's How I Met Gary Vee.
But I found that this wasn't the most efficient way to hire Gen Z talent because of the fact that I wasn't jealous, but I was b- I felt insecure.
Like all my friends were driving all these nice cars and going to Dubai and these things, yeah, and I couldn't afford to do that.
That's why I was so weak and stupid [chuckles] that when I got there, I didn't have the drives or anything else.
I wa- I'd never been more miserable in my life, you know? And I feel like people say that, but generally I was miserable, bro.
I was really insecure about, like, my voice, like, I was really shy about how I spoke, all these things.
I had like a weird, I had a high, higher pitched kind of voice than other people.
There's a big crisis right now with, like, entrepreneurship and unethical entrepreneurship.
People that follow me know I'm a massive hater of, like, course sellers and all this kind of content.
She went there to start a lash net business, and it's like, you can do that in Woolwich.
They sell this dream of like, "Just move to Dubai because everyone here is rich, and the energy here and the this and the that," like, you know, all the woo-woo stuff, but this business isn't woo-woo stuff.
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Lloyds Bank, HSBC, BBC, Savills, NatFrank, um, VaynerMedia's How I Met Gary Vee.
But I found that this wasn't the most efficient way to hire Gen Z talent because of the fact that I wasn't jealous, but I was b- I felt insecure.
Like all my friends were driving all these nice cars and going to Dubai and these things, yeah, and I couldn't afford to do that.
That's why I was so weak and stupid [chuckles] that when I got there, I didn't have the drives or anything else.
I wa- I'd never been more miserable in my life, you know? And I feel like people say that, but generally I was miserable, bro.
I was really insecure about, like, my voice, like, I was really shy about how I spoke, all these things.
I had like a weird, I had a high, higher pitched kind of voice than other people.
There's a big crisis right now with, like, entrepreneurship and unethical entrepreneurship.
People that follow me know I'm a massive hater of, like, course sellers and all this kind of content.
She went there to start a lash net business, and it's like, you can do that in Woolwich.
They sell this dream of like, "Just move to Dubai because everyone here is rich, and the energy here and the this and the that," like, you know, all the woo-woo stuff, but this business isn't woo-woo stuff.
