About Nadia Michel

Nadia Michel

Author, journalist and style consultant

Nadia Michel is a Canadian-American author, freelance writer and journalist. She covers travel, fashion and business and has been published in CN Traveler, RobbReport, Sorbet magazine, and many more publications. She is the former Managing Editor of Official Bespoke, an award-winning, pan-Arab luxury lifestyle publication.

Nadia is the author of 40 Lessons: What the New Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Technology, Geopolitics & the Coming Reformation, a book inspired by the hundreds of international entrepreneurs across a wide scope of industries and regions around the world she interviewed on her podcast, TMR. Delving into growing industries, 40 Lessons derives valuable lessons from stories of entrepreneurship that can be applied at work and in your daily life.

Launched in 2019 TMR (originally The Men’s Room) quickly became the MENA region's number-one English business show on Apple Podcasts. TMR has featured fascinating people, the biggest ideas, and the most groundbreaking technology shaping our future. Most recently, it introduced ten adventurers breaking records in the Arab world, highlighting some of the world’s most extreme destinations.

Nadia lived in Beirut for six years and has traveled extensively across the Middle East and Europe. She has a B.A. in Communications and Journalism from Concordia University and began her journalism career at CJAD 800 Radio and Global Television in Montreal, Canada. She then relocated to Houston, Texas where she anchored the evening news on KPFT 90.1. She was also a business editor at Houston's LOCAL magazine which sparked her interest in the means by which entrepreneurship can serve to jumpstart broader paradigm shifts.

Nadia is the Founder and Creative Director of TMRx, a project that aims to introduce international emerging creative talent to the rest of the world through specialized products and collaborations. She is also a fashion and style consultant in Houston, Texas, where she lives.

40 Lessons

What the New Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Technology, Geopolitics & the Coming Reformation

The stories and anecdotes laid out across these 40 chapters present lessons both big and small, both personal and general. Together, they lay out an eclectic, engaging roadmap for navigating the ever changing world we inhabit today.