Hello to all my beautiful readers. I hope you all had a lovely weekend. First of all, I would like to wish you a beautiful International Women’s Day. We should celebrate each other every day. As women, we should support and lift each other up.

I’m going to share a personal story with you – something that I went through while growing up. I was raised to be kind and humble towards everyone, I started working in the public eye when I was 14 years old as a TV host for a children’s show. When I started working, I realized that girls didn’t like me – they would talk about me behind my back and they weren’t able to face the fact that I was good at my job and loved by most people around me.

I never understood why these girls would be so mean. I came to realize that maybe they had low self-esteem and were not able to be happy for others. And this wasn’t limited to my workplace – it happened everywhere.

Thank God that I had strong self-esteem, so I didn’t succumb to these pressures. I grew stronger and learnt to speak up for myself. I’ve always been a woman who was proud of other women’s successes and happiness.

There are people out there who aren’t self-confident, but I believe it allowed me to stand up for myself and not tolerate being badly treated by others. Women need to know that standing up for one another and treating each other with kindness is the only way forward.

If we stick together, we will rule this world. Let’s celebrate female empowerment and beauty together and forever. Here are some women who inspire me every day: my beautiful friends/sisters who I look up to and constantly learn from. We’re there for each other through the good times and bad. Always tell your friends how much you love them and what they mean to you.

Have a lovely week filled with love, prosperity, kindness and happiness. Let us all be WOMEN of class, etiquette and mannerism. Kindness always wins.

Xoxo

Nina

Nina Zandnia is a Persian-Swedish luxury lifestyle icon and a media maven who is based in Dubai. She has worked for major global media networks for over 20 years. She’s the founder of one of the first lifestyle online TV channels in the Middle East called Lifestyle-Dubai.com. She’s also a fashion designer and has housed her collections at Galeries Lafayette. Among her many accolades is bagging a prize at the Great Woman Awards 2016 Middle East. With a following of over 415k on Instagram, Nina has been a key voice in the luxury lifestyle landscape of the UAE and beyond. Follow her @Ninazandnia on Instagram.