In this episode our founder Nour Hassan shares 7 simple principles to make 2026 the year of follow-through, drawing inspiration from a season of change, new motherhood, and hard-won lessons about time in her own life. The focus is on curation, boundaries, systems, depth, escaping comparison, aligning with future you, and trusting quiet work.

• framing the year as intention and follow-through
• ruthless curation of time, circle, content, energy
• saying no without explaining to protect bandwidth
• systems over motivation with a weekly 5 a.m. check-in
• choosing depth over noise and reducing scrolling
• detaching from other people’s timelines to end comparison
• aligning actions with future self through honest questions
• trusting quiet work and pausing without public validation

Thank you so much. If you take anything from this episode, let it be this. You don't need to reinvent yourself for 2026. You just need to kind of simplify and return to what matters most. Curate your life. Protect your energy, trust the work you're doing, even when it's quiet.

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Forget balance! I open up about what it really takes to run a multi‑hyphenate career without burning out, and why trying to give everything 100 percent all the time sets you up to fail. Our founder Nour shares how she builds her year in seasons—Pilates in summer, deep podcast work in fall, and events during fashion and art cycles—so each lane gets focused attention when it matters most.

We dig into identity, not as a box to stay in but as a compass to guide choices. Whether you vibe with Human Design, the Enneagram system, or simple self‑reflection and astrology, the goal is the same: understand where you thrive and design your days around it.

The truth: clarity plus timing strengthens your voice. You can be a Pilates instructor, a podcast host, and a creative freelancer without losing yourself—if you align your seasons and keep your systems simple.

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The Open Crate is a digital art platform launched by Amina Debbiche, a Tunisian art specialist and Nora Mansour, originally from Lebanon who previously worked with leading art and design entities like Art Basel and Carpenter’s Workshop Gallery.

In this episode the two co-founders share how The Open Crate grew from a printed catalog into a private, global platform that secures provenance, organizes collections, and opens access to context, education and insight on the art market in the MENASA region without compromising privacy. We explore themes of trust and resistance, the importance of heritage preservation through documentation, motherhood and entrepreneurship, fashion’s overlap with art, and The Open Crate's roadmap to future-proof archives.

A few topics covered in this episode are:

• Founder backgrounds from finance to cataloging
• Why Dubai and the region needed digital structure
• Turning point with a major Iranian collector Mohamed Afkhami
• Privacy, trust, and resistance to online archives
• Traits that win clients and sustain growth
• Complementary roles and building while parenting
• Art, fashion, design, and lifestyle as one ecosystem
• Vision for Open Crate Lab and AI provenance
• Training the next generation of art specialists
• Routines that protect focus, energy, and creativity

If you'd like to learn more follow The Open Crate on Instagram and as always, if you enjoyed this conversation, please share it, leave a review, and stay tuned for more curated voices from across art, fashion, and culture on The Curation Podcast hosted by Nour Hassan.

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