How to build your confidence: "Stop holding yourself to a higher standard than men!" - Amira Sajwani

Struggling with your confidence? Amira Sajwani, the Dubai property leader and Shark Tank investor, gets into everything: why you hold yourself to a higher standard than the men around you, how to invest in property from as little as $135, and the 30-second test she gives every founder. She didn't hold back. Amira is Managing Director of DAMAC Properties, which booked a record AED 36 billion (about $9.8 billion) in sales in 2025. She's the Founder of PRYPCO, which facilitates more than 1 billion dirhams (over $250 million) of property financing every month, co-founder of the ultra-luxury developer Amali Properties, a shark on Shark Tank Dubai and one of Forbes Middle East's Top 100 CEOs of 2026. She was giving speeches at her father's property launches at age 10, and has valuable insights to share with women who are building, or want to. In this episode, she explains: ■ The confidence gap: men discount their mistakes, while women, even overachieving mums running companies, feel guilty and question themselves. Her fix: rephrase "I messed up" to "it was a mistake" before the world does. ■ Property from as little as $135: how PRYPCO lets you invest in UAE real estate from 500 dirhams, and who is actually buying: 60+ nationalities, aged 22 to 75. ■ The 30-second founder test: on Shark Tank she decides in the first 30 seconds whether she believes in the founder, then looks at the business, then the market size. ■ Her 3-factor investing filter: founder, business, market. Revenue, growth and valuation only come after. ■ The next wave of AI businesses: "services as a software", meaning companies using AI to 10x their growth without adding people, and why she's watching AI move into robotics. ■ The golden spoon question: growing up in the DAMAC family, why the assumptions don't bother her, and how she blocks out the noise. This episode is in partnership with the World Economic Forum at the Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders 2026, in the Davos on Air Studio. 🔗 LINKS → Amira Sajwani on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amirasajwani → PRYPCO: https://prypco.com → DAMAC Properties: https://www.damacproperties.com → Amali Properties: https://www.amaliproperties.com 📱 MORE FROM DOONE → Access money opportunities you won’t find anywhere else on the internet: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=amira_sajwani → Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dooneroisin