Yo Munir!

Amy Scott moved to Chicago for a record label job, and the label folded a week later. She went on to direct music documentaries about Counting Crows, Melissa Etheridge, Sheryl Crow and Lainey Wilson. Amy joins Munir and Rob from the plains of Oklahoma to Studs Terkel's archive to a crowdfunded first feature about Hal Ashby, which she pitched while very pregnant. We talk about The Artist's Way, why...

Elsa Mehary spent two decades art-directing magazines like InStyle, Essence and Harper’s Bazaar. Now she helps founders make complex identities clear, and she has strong opinions about what AI can and can’t replace. In this episode she talks about growing up between Ethiopia and Buffalo, deciding at 13 that she’d live in New York, and the lost art of shared culture. She also introduces her Family...

Creative director Warren Lam started his career by missing the last bus to Jersey and walking past a graveyard at 1 a.m. with his portfolio case. Thirty years later he’s edited Deadliest Catch, built a sci-fi universe called Moto Nostra, and gone all in on AI filmmaking. In Episode 59, Munir and Rob Haddad talk with Warren about defiance, the dad who wouldn’t buy him a camera, the Leo Burnett less...

Danny Field got his first Phillies job by babysitting. Twenty years later, he’s the producer big leaguers trust with a camera. In Ep. 58, Rob and Munir talk with the Emmy-winning producer and director about drawing his way through ADHD, a Miami airport movie with a fight scene, 30 ballparks in one summer, a 2009 road trip chasing a 15-year-old Max Kepler, why trust takes time (even with AI around)...

Samer Abouhamad has taken the path less traveled. He left his expected path of a real estate career in New York, went to Beirut after the 2020 port explosion, and pedaled out of his parents' driveway in Brookline, MA. Three and a half years later he had ridden 74,000+ km across six continents and 60+ countries, solo and self supported, sleeping wherever strangers would let him. In Episode 57,...

Four decades of sports and original programming: NBA Entertainment in the Jordan era, 12 years running MLB Productions, and now ABC's  9/11: United We Stand 25 Years Later . Dave Check joins Rob, his former mentee, and Munir for a conversation about passion, relationships, and building teams that win. Dave talks about his bookie uncle whose candy store had no candy, his first day on the job at...

He broke his first car doing donuts in a funeral home parking lot on his 16th birthday, right after he got the keys. Twenty years later, Nick's obsession with cars and cooking became his café and lifestyle brand, Sunday Motor Co. Nick Vorderman grew up in a car-dealership family in Indiana and Michigan. He pursued acting and directing in New York City and paid his rent bartending and working b...

A childhood music teacher once told Daria Fisher Page she was tone deaf — hopeless, not worth the effort to fix. It's the kind of verdict a lot of us get handed young, in one form or another, and Daria's spent her life proving what happens when you don't believe it. She trained for nearly a decade at the School of American Ballet, commuting into New York City starting in fourth grade,...

Photographer Rania Matar turns a camera into a conversation. Her portraits of women and girls hang in the MFA Boston, LACMA, and museums around the world. This week on Yo Munir! she opens up about growing up during the Lebanese Civil War, the family photo shoot that accidentally launched her career, and the moment she realized just how much of that history she was still carrying. We dig into her s...

One year. 52 episodes. 275+ artists on the Mixtape. And one very memorable World Cup game in a stranger's garage. For our anniversary episode, Munir and Rob look back at how Yo Munir went from a "what's in your LinkedIn feed" marketing show to a celebration of practice and creativity — revisiting Ryan Dempster's story behind "Three Little Birds," Barbara Gorder sing...

Why did Cain and Abel really fight? Why does a beer in the supermarket have nothing to do with beer anymore? And why can't Lebanese people agree on a hummus recipe but still can't live without each other? Professor Suleiman Ali Mourad, Myra M. Samson Professor of Religion and Middle East Studies at Smith College, grew up splitting summers between war-era Beirut and his grandfather's fa...

What does it take to get a Hall-of-Fame manager's bare hand into your dessert — and how does that moment convince you a show is going to work? Rob and Munir sit down with longtime friend and Emmy-winning producer Jason Katz highlighting a career built entirely on trust. Jason takes us back to Great Neck, Long Island, where his father's compulsive habit of filming every mundane family momen...

Merri Eckert grew up down the street from Munir and Rob Haddad in Tuckahoe, New York and went on to become an Emmy Award-winning producer for Major League Baseball, the NBA, and the New York Jets, with credits on CBS, NBC, Fox, and ESPN. She rebooted the legendary "This Week in Baseball". She produced MLB's first-ever high-definition television show. She was on the field for the All-...

He closed out Game 1 of the 2013 World Series for Boston. He also spent years as an undercover sleight-of-hand magician in minor league locker rooms. This week, Ryan Dempster — 16-year MLB veteran, two-time All-Star, and host of his own late-night style show, "Off the Mound" — joins Rob and Munir to talk about growing up quoting UHF with his brothers, what "team-run" leadership...

The docuseries was green-lit. Showtime was in. The Giants were six weeks off their first World Series parade. And Rob still didn't have the one signature that mattered: the MLB Players Association. This week Rob and Munir sit down with uncertainty on purpose. Rob tells the story of walking into a Scottsdale clubhouse meeting in February — spring training looming, no leverage, twelve years of r...

Sondra Bernstein spent nearly 30 years building The Girl & The Fig into one of Sonoma's most beloved restaurants. Then she walked away to become an artist — at 60. She went back to the fine arts photography degree she earned at 22, dove into AI and digital art, and now creates as 4EverKurious. Her work has shown on the billboards of Times Square, at the NFC Conference in Lisbon, and in gal...

"Is your name Alfonso?" — a stranger returns a lost World Cup ticket, and a career built on hustle, identity, and storytelling comes full circle.  This week, the happiest guys on the internet welcome 5-time Emmy winner Alfonso Pozzo — director, showrunner, and founder of Juxtapozz Films, with 18 years at MLB Productions and MLB Network. Alfonso and Rob first crossed paths in an MLB edit...

Before emojis, there was Dad — handwriting letters from Beirut with little doodles instead of words. This week Rob and Munir open up the actual family letter archive (typewriter and all) to talk about why a handwritten note is so much better than a text: a real UPS run to mail a birthday card, a pitch for a post-office-meets-gift-shop business, the Santa note that gave away an aircraft carrier at...

The happiest guys on the internet welcome their most universal guest yet: cooking. Brothers Munir and Rob Haddad grew up in a Lebanese home where an abundant table was everything — and in this episode they explore cooking as a creative practice: improvisation vs. process, learning to release control, and why feeding people is a love language. Expect first food memories from Beirut to the Russian T...

The guest this week is a theme: Summer Travel. Munir and Rob trace it back to childhood summers between London and a wartime Beirut — standby flights and the 747 bar, packing two months into one suitcase, flashlight tag interrupted by snipers, Galaga tournaments and a backgammon sponsorship that turns out to be a family advertising story. The throughline: constraints don't kill creativity, the...

Tom Rome is many things. Emmy Award-winning cinematographer. Stand-up comedian. Drummer. Inventor. And now, a media teacher shaping the next generation of storytellers at Bergen Tech in New Jersey. He spent years as a Director of Photography at MLB Productions — bringing baseball to life on film , at a time when everyone else had gone to video — and earned an Emmy Award doing it. Before that, he w...

Episode 40 | Barbara Gorder: Top Gun, Cannes Lions & Saving the Wine Industry Barbara Gorder has spent 30+ years solving marketing problems at the highest level — and she's not done yet. She started at Leo Burnett Chicago, rising to SVP and working on Super Bowl campaigns for Reebok, GM, P&G, Hallmark, and Toys R Us, winning Cannes Lions along the way. After Burnett, she spent two deca...

Ruth Hubbard has spent her career connecting dots most people don't even see are on the same map. As a product and partnership leader at Fiserv, she works with billions of transaction data points, turning how people spend money into stories about who they actually are. She's a Fellow of the Economic Club of New York, a 2026 Semafor World Economic Summit principal, and hosts the NY Public L...

What happens when a stranger at a yoga festival gives you the nudge that changes your entire life? For Elizabeth Arnold, it meant quitting a soul-crushing bank job, leaving her apartment lease (and her cat) behind, and moving solo to the Costa Rican jungle — where she built an oceanfront yoga and surf hotel near the longest warmest wave in the world, ran women's travel retreats, and marketed t...

Lane Soelberg started in a Sears Craftsman red vest and ended up in rooms where deals between The Trade Desk, Pinterest, and Yahoo got shaped. Along the way he produced an indie film for $100K, scaled Madhive from $25M to $100M, pitched the first AMA-style online talk show with AOL, and learned the lesson that has defined his entire career: metrics beat no metrics. In Episode 37, Lane joins Robert...