Sadia Khan On Relationships, Integrity, And Public Pressure With Sean Callagy

**Sadia Khan** (0:00)
So I started in 2022, and within a year, I had like nearly a million followers without any social media management, without any kind of understanding of social media. But at around 750,000 followers, I got hacked and completely got deleted. Whenever he wanted a session on standby, he would just hack.
That became the transaction. He would want a free session, my account would get hacked. I got an email from somebody called Darren Prince, I'm sure you guys who know, and he said, I really like your work. Don't give up, don't be ridiculous. When you have this ballsy, controversial kind of personality, where you just say what needs to be said, my words are my weapons, both in good ways and bad ways, unfortunately. There's a big divide between men and women. You're either a feminist, or you're a misogynist, or you're on the man's team. The Northern Star is actually, I'm on children's side. Whether sometimes that means men need to do better, other times women need to do better. The experience I felt online this recent time, I would never want the people I love and care about to ever even experience an inch of it. If you don't release something about your personal life, and you don't be authentic about it, people will make things up about it. So you might as well take control of it, and you do the introductions, and you control the narrative. I'm going to let them know.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:09)
Oh, fuck with me.

**Sadia Khan** (1:11)
I'm the wrong one.

**Sean Callagy** (1:13)
Let's welcome to the stage Sadia Khan. Come on, we said Sadia!

**SPEAKER_2** (1:31)
Cheers to the wish you were here, but you're not, cause the drinks bring back all the memories.

**Sean Callagy** (1:37)
Wait, did Bella move my chair further away from you? I didn't touch your chair.

**Bella Verita** (1:40)
Let's not start.

**Sean Callagy** (1:41)
We have battles every day about where the screen is and the heart of influence in our seats are.

**Bella Verita** (1:45)
Don't move it up and then try to block me out.

**Sean Callagy** (1:47)
Yes, I'm going to try to block you from the camera perfectly. Sadia, it is a warm welcome. How many hours did it take you to fly here?

**Sadia Khan** (1:53)
Fourteen hours, but it was a fantastic flight. It was genuinely a fantastic flight, but it was 14 straight hours from Dubai.

**Sean Callagy** (1:59)
That is unbelievable. So let's give it one more time. Fourteen-hour flight to get here. So Sadia, tell us about you. Where you were born, what happens next, and next, and next, please.

**Sadia Khan** (2:11)
Well, my name is Sadia Khan. I am ethnically from Pakistan. My parents are both from Kashmir, which is Pakistan, but they moved over to London before I was born, when they were teenagers. And I was born and raised in London, and I lived in London for most of my life. And I studied there, and I studied psychology, and I decided to work with children. That was always my passion. I wanted to work with children. So around the age of 22, after I finished studying, I wanted to go into education. So I started teaching psychology in colleges in London. And I was teaching. I was perfectly happy there, and I went to different schools around London, even went to Dubai, started teaching psychology in Dubai. And what happened is the kids would keep telling to me, Miss, you should go on YouTube. Miss, you should be on YouTube. You should do this, you should do that. And I just never took them seriously. But my mother really started pushing me. She started saying, come on, Sally, you need to go online. You know, you can do more than just teaching. You're great at teaching, but do something bigger. So she, you know, made me, she got the little tripod, she made me just film a video, and she said, just put it online, just see what happens. And I put it on TikTok, I put it on Instagram, and you know, I started just focusing on therapy. My focus was then, I was working on relationships and therapy, and I started training to be a therapist. And she just said, while you're training, just keep posting. As you're training, whatever you're learning, just post it as you're going along. So I started doing that, and all praise be to God, it kind of blew up quite quickly and naturally without me trying. I didn't really have a team, I didn't have a manager, I didn't have social media skills, I didn't have any training in it. I just spoke and it just kind of unraveled from there. And it kept growing and growing. And what happened is I started in 2022, and within a year, I had like nearly a million followers. I had nearly a million followers within a year without any social media management, without any kind of understanding of social media, and just from naturally growing. But at around 750,000 followers, I got hacked and completely got deleted. And I had no idea what was going on.