Studying for the UKMLA, mastering Anki, and tips for success with AMBOSSador Daanish Mahmood

This week, hosts Sophie Neale and Dr. Tanner Schrank interview medical student and AMBOSSador Daanish Mahmood about his experiences and journey through medical school. He discusses his insightful tips for studying using AMBOSS, Anki, and his study resources on his website. Listen in as they cover everything from preparing for clinical rotations to the UKMLA. If you're struggling with finding time to study, finding a resource that suits your needs, or just need inspiration, check out this episode and you'll surely feel more prepared.

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Transcript

Sophie 0:22

welcome to the AMBOSS podcast, Beyond the Textbook, where we provide medical students and physicians with in depth insights and expert knowledge that goes beyond your traditional medical textbooks. We're your hosts, Sophie Neil

Tanner 0:34

Hi, I'm Dr. Tanner Schrank.

Sophie 0:35

And today we're joined by one of our amazing ambassadors, Danish Mahmoud. Danish is a biomedical science graduate. He's currently a fourth year medical student at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. And he's also a professional content creator, inspiring close to a million people with life changing topics, including productivity and personal growth. We are really excited to have him on the podcast today. Thank you so much for joining us, Danish.

Daanish 1:00

Thank you for that lovely introduction. Uh, it's a pleasure to be here and it's actually been one of my goals this year to jump on a podcast, so I'm very happy to be here.

Sophie 1:07

Amazing. Lovely, lovely to have you.

Tanner 1:09

That's great. Thanks a lot for making the time. So to start us off, could you tell us a little bit more about yourself and your background?

Daanish 1:15

Yeah, so, I was born in the UK. I've lived in the UK all my life and I sort of grew a passion for medicine when I was quite young because my mom's younger brother is a doctor. I think just seeing the equipment from a young age got me enticed. And then After I did my biomedical science degree. I took a gap year, so I got good 12 month break from life, and I also found a love for public speaking, So for the last four years, I've been making content and I've been studying medicine. Loving both, thankfully, and my main passions now are to create and in medicine it's psychiatry. and of course I've discovered AMBOSS along the way.

Tanner 1:50

That's excellent. So you're studying at the university of Aberdeen in Scotland, how was it at the start? What was life like at the beginning of medical school?

Daanish 1:59

In the beginning, it was challenging. I remember my first year, I joined the university and I had no idea how to study. I hadn't figured out a proper study technique or anything, so I spent the first few weeks kind of struggling. I was doing one thing the first week, another thing the second week, and after a couple of weeks I Kind of started using Anki, flashcards. I got familiar with YouTube videos, different websites that people tend to use. Spoke to a few older students. I think I got my footing probably after like 10 months of first year. it was a bit of a struggle but I was getting by. And the resources, to be honest, I was. So lost I was using literally everything I could get my hands on. it was very messy at the beginning to be honest I don't even remember what it was exactly like looking back But I remember when things got clear and that was probably around My final exams in first year. I did quite well. I was in the top 10 percent and I had a good solid routine by then. And I, I think I discovered all the resources I needed for the rest of med school.

Tanner 2:57

Wow, that's really impressive that you finally figured it out, in your first year.

Daanish 3:01

Yeah, 10 months in. So I really double down on trying to figure out what's the best approach to this And i'm not someone who likes to study a lot. I prefer to do as little as possible To get the best results. So I was really just doing trial and error with lots of different techniques Also when you begin medical school You have to go through the basic sciences the cellular stuff It doesn't feel like real med it's not what you expect when you're a medical student coming in You want to use your stethoscope you want to talk to a patient, but that doesn't come until later So it was a bit of a grind and I think 10 months in we started getting into the fun stuff And that's when things started to settle down a bit

Tanner 3:36

actually really good because I think, a lot of people, They find their footing really late in medical school. I didn't find out about AMBOSS until my second to last year. So I think getting everything set in ten months is like record time to me. That's really good. So when you did figure it all out, you discovered AMBOSS. What did you find made it unique, from other resources?

Daanish 3:56

before I found ambos I would be searching for a disease or something online, and I would always search for summary pages. It was so time consuming, typing out everything from the lecture, and I realized quite quickly that, you know, tuberculosis in Australia is the same as tuberculosis in America, Japan, Brazil. So I thought, okay, I don't need to use the resources local to me. I can look worldwide. So I started searching for different universities, different countries, and that's when I came across AMBOSS. and I think I found one of your disease summary pages, it was so nicely organized. I just want to be able to see the exact piece of information that I want. I want it to be concise. I like to highlight the key things and you know, I want everything to be easy to access. And the problem before AMBOSS was I was using several resources. So if I was studying cardiology, I had a different website. Radiology, I had a different website and I was always jumping between When I found AMBOSS, I was like, okay, this is, pretty good and then I found the AMBOSS index, which is just a list of pretty much every medical condition that exists, and I bookmarked it, it's still bookmarked on my Google Chrome, and I just Continue to use that. I found that once I started using it, there was no need to go anywhere else. in the corner It would say last updated on so and so date and the dates were so frequent, you know I would use the same page every few weeks and I would see the date being updated. So I thought wow, this website is um, They don't just add the information. They keep it up to date I didn't notice that anywhere else. It has the lovely disease summary at the top. most of the times I read that and it's more than enough. If I need to go into extra detail, I'll go further down, but it was that organization I fell in love with it. I was like, this is, all I'm going to use.

Tanner 5:33

that's great. And that, gets at exactly what I wanted to ask you, is that, like, you know, medicine is kind of the same everywhere when you get down to the human body level. Sure, it's different with medical law but yeah, like you said, tuberculosis is tuberculosis. AMBOSS was designed first for German students in German, And then in English for U. S. medical students, but now it's used all over the world. how have you found AMBOSS to be applicable in the U. K.?

Daanish 6:01

It's honestly not been much of a challenge until maybe recently, but in my first three years of medicine, we only needed to learn like the basics of management, maybe you're like first line treatments and broadly speaking. They don't change that much. They're not that different from the U. S. A lot of the investigations are the same, you know, if someone has a problem with their spine, we're probably going to do an MRI, whether it's in the U. S. or the U. K. So there is a massive amount of overlap, which I think people overlook. Oftentimes, you get U. K. students saying, Oh, but it's not the U. K. guidelines. but is the same for the majority of things anyway, medicine tends to be like that because it's evidence based. I'm actually studying for the US MLE as well as the UK MLA. So it made more sense to use AMBOS because, well, I'm going to have to learn this anyway. So I quite like knowing the two, but I also think it gives you a good appreciation of medicine elsewhere. it's a reality to be honest, even in the UK. Different hospitals might have different guidelines sometimes. So, it's very common that people study medical school in Scotland, then they go to work in England, and they're finding themselves using a different system. just this morning in our doctor's meeting, we were talking about this, about the guidelines for MRI scans in cord equina looking at the UK versus Scotland. So it's pretty normal to expect changes in guidelines and things. But the thing is, that only happens with treatment. If you have a look at a condition, you have etiology epidemiology, you have pathophysiology, clinical features, diagnostics management investigations. All of those things are generally the same everywhere. The only thing that changes, especially with UK vs US, is the treatment specifically. it's not that big of a deal to just read everything and when you get to treatment just go check the UK guidelines. And I can remember now which ones are the same because I've done it so many times. And regardless of which UK based website, whatever I try to use, I still find myself opening the UK guidelines anyway. So there's no extra step added by using AMBOSS for me because regardless, I'm opening the guidelines because I want to see it exactly how it is. Sometimes you find websites have outdated information and stuff. So I'm going to end with doing that anyway. So it's not, too bad for me. I think, I know it's US based. I know they sometimes have different names for things, which is interesting. but we're medical students, we've learned like a whole new language in this degree. it's not that difficult to use AMBOSS

Tanner 8:12

Okay, that's good to hear, because that's very similar to my experience. So, in my last year of med school, I did, an elective rotation in Orkney, which is very close to Aberdeen. Actually, we would send our emergency patients to Aberdeen hospital, cause Orkney is a tiny set of islands off of Scotland.

Daanish 8:27

Orkney, oh my god, that's, that's so close to where I am right now, that's crazy,

Tanner 8:32

and when I was there, I used AMBOSS as well. Like I had to interview patients. The history and physical is the same. So that's good to hear that it's still lines up with my experience as well.

Daanish 8:42

It must have been an interesting experience, even for me, that's well out of the way, you have to catch a ferry or a boat, I think, to get there, so, Gosh, what brought you to Orkney?

Tanner 8:50

I was doing electives all over. I had just done one in cardiac surgery in Athens. I had done, some OBGYN in Mombasa. And so I was just trying to see as many different healthcare systems as I could, and trying to get a different perspective, And so in Orkney, I did some, work in the A& E and in the surgery that they do there. So, like, elective surgeries. it was really, really eye opening, just seeing the NHS, because I had no experience with that. I'm from the U. S. and I studied in Poland, so it was a very different experience. and I'm actually from a rural town in Wisconsin, so living in on Orkney was not that different for me. But yeah, you do have to take a ferry there.

Daanish 9:31

That's actually a really good idea that got to see a lot of different healthcare settings. I'm of that belief as well that you should explore and you should travel and see what it's like elsewhere.

Tanner 9:40

Yeah. open your horizons more, you know, I think it pays off. So, year of medical school. And you're doing surgical rotations, right?

Daanish 9:49

Yes.

Tanner 9:50

So, how do you prepare for these clinical courses compared to your pre clinical classes in previous years? Yeah,

Daanish 10:01

focused. So, where previously I would come in and maybe take a history from a patient and that would be the end of it. Now I'm taking the history and my consultant is asking me, okay, what investigations would you like to do? he'll ask me to interpret investigations and then he'll tell me, okay, what treatment should we give? And you might ask me side effects first line second line third line depending how nice he's feeling on that day. So the change now is very treatment focused and management focused, but especially what I found useful with ambos is the Interpretation of scans. So i'm currently on neurosurgery. There's a lot of ct scans mris of the brain and the spine and they're not easy to, you know, interpret. It's, it's a challenge because everything looks the same. It's all a few gray and whites. So, um, it's something new to me, but Amboss has that great feature with the overlays, which I absolutely love because there's this technique with studying called active recall, where you don't show yourself the answer. And you try and bring it from memory, then you check, and that's much, much more effective than doing passive reading. Now, most of the websites with radiology, they're quite passive. It just shows you, here is a scan and these are the answers. With AMBOSS, there's the overlay button, so I can see a scan and try and figure out what's the pathology, where is it. Then I can click overlay and read the description. And it's, literally a way of testing myself. So, the best thing about it is that I can just kind of search these things up on the app. And I have everything in one place. So today we were doing the Chordaequina, the spinal syndromes, and I opened the page on AMBOSS while we were in the doctor's meeting, and I could have everything in front of me. I could see the differences between them, the clinical features, and the scans with the overlays. And uh, even had a student next to me just kind of looking over my shoulder, asking, what are you, what are you using there? This happens a lot. And it, blows my mind when I meet medical students who haven't heard of AMBOSS because I understand maybe Some choose to use different resources, but to not have heard of it is It's crazy because it's in my opinion. It's the best thing to use Yeah, so what I tend to do is I look at my theater list I look at the surgeries happening in the week. I will search them up on ambos and That's the best thing that I know it's accurate it will usually have links as well The links between the pages are so useful So if I'm looking at a specific type of surgery say a craniotomy or something It will show me which conditions or procedures where it's used in context so I can continue And it's like you go down a bit of a rabbit hole So you start off with maybe the neurosurgery tab and before you know it you're on something very niche. It's pretty useful So, um, that's the main way i'm using it at the moment. I'm trying to figure out How to become a master at ct mris

Tanner 12:37

Yeah, it's going to take a lot of work. But I like that. You're making the most use of the Features in AMBOSS. The overlay is one of my favorite.

Sophie 12:44

Yeah, I'm really glad that you like the overlay feature. That's definitely also one of my favourites. to, like you said, also be able to test yourself. As you go along is really, really important and I think that's something that AMBOSS is really great at, you know, having also the table quizzes and information you can hide and then pop back up again and It's one of my favourites.

Tanner 13:00

And we have scrollable CTs now, so These are all really, really helpful for radiology, especially.

Daanish 13:06

Yeah, I think when it comes to scans it's you just need to see a lot and the scrollable thing is so helpful because Seeing a picture in the right place is great. But in real life consultant will be scrolling up and down saying show me what you see and so you need to get familiar with that

Tanner 13:20

Yeah.

Sophie 13:21

Well, the biggest recent change in medical education in the UK is the new UK Medical Licensing Assessment or UK MLA, which you said you're currently preparing for, is that right?

Daanish 13:32

Yeah, i'm studying for that right now

Sophie 13:34

are you doing to get ready for it?

Daanish 13:35

so my approach to the uk mla is to go through system by system and Learn the basics of the conditions that are involved and then go through every single question bank I can and do as many questions as possible and Whilst I'm doing that I'm making an Anki deck on any information I get wrong anything that I don't understand or don't remember so my day is kind of split between flashcards and question banks and Amboss has a brilliant UK MLA guide. So I downloaded that a couple of weeks ago actually in it's a checklist with all the conditions for the different Systems so I go through that basically and I try and just do as much as I can I have like a timetable set. So I know my exam is at the end of june. So i've set my personal exam dates end of May. So in my head the exams in May and I've calculated how many questions I need to do per day to finish the question bank by then. to be honest, I've been studying for, it's been over 200 days straight I've got another few, months. it's just become a part of life actually. I feel okay for the exam. I overestimate exams in my head I just assume they're going to ask me the most difficult things and I have a bit of an obsession with wanting to know every detail. So, uh, the aim is to be over prepared, so that when I get to the exam, there's no surprise or shock. It should feel easier than expected, hopefully.

Sophie 14:53

amazing, well it sounds like you're really prepared and I think that's a really good strategy to have for life is just to always expect, the worst, because then as you said you're over prepared and hopefully then on the day it's not going to be too intense. But it sounds like you're doing all the right things and going through that checklist as well, which hopefully will keep you on track. You're also a professional content creator with an audience of over 700, 000, which is extremely impressive. And I was checking some of your content, which, focuses on productivity. Personal growth and faith and really interested to know, you know, what inspired you to start this work and what do you like the most about it?

Daanish 15:29

thank you so much It's always surreal when someone says it back to me because I still don't feel any different. But It's kind of crazy

Sophie 15:37

It's amazing. Yeah. What, what an achievement.

Daanish 15:40

So the inspiration started probably when I was doing biomedical science. I had this phase when I was maybe 19 or 20. I discovered TED Talks, I started reading non fiction books, and like, they really changed the way I viewed life, the way I lived my life. And I had certain videos, 10 minute videos, that completely shifted my mindset. And I was amazed that how did someone just talk for 10 minutes and have such an impact on me through a YouTube video. I really felt like that's something I'd love to do myself, I'd love to have that impact on someone else. And so I used to look into how to become a public speaker. I studied some of the people who I listened to, and I looked at their career paths, and a lot of them happened to have degrees, and most of them that I was listening to were psychiatrists. Some of them were doctors. I was like, okay, that's interesting. You need to have some expertise before you can speak about something. And at the time, I was trying to go into med school, and I thought, okay, this is An opportunity where I can maybe do them both. So when I got to the gap year before med school, because I had, no job, because my job was working in a school at the time, and schools shut. So I just got gifted nine months off, and I started writing online. I started my newsletter I bought a camera. I learned how to do photography, video editing. I did that for a couple of years. And in my third year of med school, I just decided to change my approach. I told my parents, I said, I'm just going to do this. Like a business i'm gonna treat it seriously So spend most of my time creating. and the reason I did videos. Is purely to just practice public speaking. And thankfully things started to take off. the audience grew and I sort of figured out social media And i'm honestly always Pinching myself at the thought of numbers and everything. It's pretty crazy

Sophie 17:21

it's amazing. I mean, as you said, it's grown which is why I'm so impressed. It's essentially, it's a full time job. Creating content is a full time job. and not to mention the social media use and the marketing. And then, as you said, you write in a newsletter and all these different things. to do it on the side of, you know, what can I do on the side of my medical degree? Yeah, it's, it's really impressive and I was taking a look also at your website, which provides a medical school survival guide and also an Anki flashcard resource, how have you used Anki and spaced repetition to improve your studying without falling into the, you know, cram and forget cycle?

Daanish 17:53

I was lucky that I found anki in my first year of medicine So I wasn't doing it properly when I first used it. it took me that whole first year basically to figure out how is anki meant to be used And then what I did was probably very useful every summer holiday I got from medical school where I was away from exams I would basically go on YouTube on the internet I would play with Anki and and figure out the ins and outs of it which settings work the best. What's the method? That's the best. What is the most effective way to study not just how you use Anki and things But other things people don't consider so what's the best way to sleep in relation to studying so I take A lot of naps when i'm studying i'll do an anki session and i'll take a 20 minute nap And it's the nap that it's like clicking save on what you've just done. and of course i've been making my own flashcards from first year So the medical school survival guide is basically What I wished I had when I was in first, second, third year. I got all of the best links, all of the best textbooks, all of the best YouTube channels, my own Anki flashcard decks, flashcard decks from the internet. I put everything in one place and I just made it a free Notion document. So medical students in my university, actually anywhere in the world can just, hop on and use those links. I even wrote I think 15 or 20 FAQ blog posts. So how to study, how to organize your life. It is a one stop shop for basically having success in medical school. It's what's helped me. It's helped many other students as well. And most of it is sort of evidence based. So the spaced repetition that's built into Anki there's so much evidence behind how that works. And the way I've used it is just following the basic rules of Anki, which is Do it every day, do it consistently, start very early. I've been doing it for 200 days. but it's not a big time commitment. I have a few things that help me. Uh, people do ask often, like, how do you do it all in one day? do you have extra time we don't have? And if you were to track what you do on a day to day basis, every single minute of the day, you would find that there are so many pockets of space where you're almost idle. And if you add up all of that time in a day, in a week, in a month, There are several hours that are just kind of I would say almost going to waste So if i'm walking to the hospital in the morning, it's a 15 minute walk. I could just Put my headphones on I sometimes do call somebody or whatever But I will walk with my phone in my hand just doing a few flashcards Sometimes it's 10. Sometimes it's 40 if i'm feeling a bit productive that day and it adds up over time So I try to basically utilize the idle time to the point where if my kettle's boiling That's two minutes where I could just do a couple of flashcards and it all adds up basically

Sophie 20:32

Yeah, you're right. And it's something that, as you said, if you start equating those, minutes, those odd minutes every day, you realise actually you can fit a lot more in. So, I think that's, that was really, really good advice that you gave.

Daanish 20:43

Yeah, when it comes to building a habit like doing anki every day studying every day You need to set the bar so low that you know you're going to complete it. So my current thing is with studying my, limit every day is I must do 10 minutes of work every day. And there are days where I might literally just do 10 minutes. The days when I visit my family at home, I will maybe log on to Anki, do a couple of flashcards, and then just go back off. And the next day when I'm back at university, I'll do a double, you know, double the workload the next day just to make up for it. So it's, not about doing the same amount every day. You just have bare minimum amount to keep the habit going. And it will fluctuate. We're humans, we're not robots. it's important to keep that in mind when you're trying to build a habit like that.

Sophie 21:23

no, absolutely. Well, you've already shared a lot of brilliant top tips. It's called It's a book about study tips in terms of, you know, studying techniques. And definitely, as you said, using Anki and integrating something into your day, every day that isn't necessarily a big thing, something you can stick to. Have you got any other sort of nuggets of wisdom that you want to share when it comes to top study tips?

Daanish 21:42

Honestly, I think the most important thing with studying is having a system in place So if you were to look at ferrari and you look at how they make cars, they have a system they know exactly which area of the Factory is doing which part of the car and it goes through the same system Every time they create a car some part adds the wheels some part makes the body Then they have the electrics and then they have the manufacturing at the end where it's all put into one apply the same system To your studying because factories and businesses like that, they have systems because they have a massive output. If you look at McDonald's. They are an excellent example of systemized working. They have a system of how the food can be made in literally a couple of minutes. I used to work there when I was 17 and I was, doing it for the money as a part time job, but I realized systems really make things go much faster. So when I study, have a system. I outline exactly what my goal is. You need to be specific. Students make the mistake where they write down on a to do list, study from 5 till 7. Study doesn't mean anything. What does that mean? Sit down at your desk be specific today. We're going to Learn the treatments for spinal conditions or something like that be specific. So, you know exactly what you want to do And actually psychologically when you're specific with a goal You are more likely to achieve the goal because your brain knows what we're looking for Whereas if you just put study you may not get to the end of that and feel like you've done something and the systems are important my system is have a checklist of conditions and Then I go through the conditions and learn the basics make flashcards and things. I don't know Study the flashcards, then I know them, then you go to the question bank, make mistakes on the question bank, and make flashcards on those, and then repeat the cycle. And if you do that enough times, you basically cover more and more content each round you go through. And I would say the most important thing is embrace getting things wrong. Students hate getting things wrong because it's a bit self defeating when you do a question bank session and you get 10 percent correct. You feel like, uh, I don't know anything. That's not very encouraging to do more. But think about it, wouldn't it be useless if you were to study and get 100 percent on everything? Because you wouldn't be learning anything. So when I get 10%, I'm actually happier than 90 percent because that means there is 90 percent there that I got wrong, which is an opportunity to learn something new.

Sophie 24:00

Yeah, no, absolutely. I mean, anybody finds that difficult, right? criticism or coming up against defeat, as you said, you know, getting something wrong. But if you're able to actually just step out of yourself and think logically, it is really important to get things wrong. Otherwise you don't learn anything ultimately. So I absolutely agree. I was really interested actually, because you were mentioning using Anki again. Do you link your Anki flashcards up? with AMBOSS, so you can check terms as well, like cross check things.

Daanish 24:27

Oh yes, I remember when I first found this feature. I didn't know that there was an underline thing, I just thought it would open Amboss on the side. And then I used my phone one day and everything's underlined in blue and it was a massive game changer. I think this is possibly my favorite feature of all on Amboss. This alone makes it worth it to get Amboss because it's so handy. When you're doing flashcards, it will underline any medical term and give you an immediate definition on the screen. You know, it's correct because it's been, checked so many times with the thorough process in Amboss and The amount of times you come across a word that you just forget, you know, there's so many similar words in medicine, a lot of Greek and Latin terms. It's easy to get them mixed up and it's very time consuming having to flick to Google, have a quick search, and it's easier to just tap on the screen. So that's been great. And what I do often is if there's something I really want, I'll just screenshot the actual definition and put it into the flashcard itself. So that's super helpful.

Sophie 25:21

Very cool. Yeah, I was really impressed by it because I could just imagine, like, having to cross check, and as you said, like, have a look at Google or maybe check a book, or like, if you have to stop every single time you find a term that you're not sure of, it's going to really add a lot of hours to what you're doing. So, like you said, you like to study as little as you can and get as much done as you can in that time, so.

Daanish 25:40

It's also really helpful. Amboss has a great question bank link with Anki as well. So you can select a bunch of flashcards and create a question bank session based on the flashcards. even my friends who use Amboss don't all know that this exists, but it's great because if I'm studying, if I've just done a few flashcards. I can immediately test myself with questions specifically for those because the challenge you have with question banks is You study a few topics, but then you go to the question bank and it questions you on things that you didn't just study So you're not likely to get those, right? That's not really how you want to be testing yourself You want to be targeted and the fact it does it automatically is great.

Sophie 26:16

Yeah, absolutely. And just even within an AMBOSS article, you can ultimately then jump straight into a question bank session, and it's all linked, absolutely. Like, if you don't reinforce that knowledge in the moment, I'm exactly the same with everything that I do. I'm learning something, but then I need to test myself in the moment, because otherwise it's just gone out of my head forever, so. Well, you've given so much advice, Danish. I feel bad asking you for more, but I do have to ask you our final question of the podcast, which is very important. So if you could give our listeners any advice beyond the textbook today, what would you say? Amazing.

Daanish 26:48

that Nothing great in life will come by accident like you won't become the top student in the year by accident You won't become the greatest at what you do by accident. It takes Purposeful calculated action to take you there so if you're listening and there is something that you want to achieve in life somewhere you want to be Maybe there's something you want to learn. It's not going to come by accident. You need to have a goal in mind, you need to have a plan of action of how you're going to get there. You need a method to track those things along the way, so that you can see if the actions that you're doing are actually having an impact. And if you apply this to every single area of life, your health, your sleep, your studies, your relationships, your finances, you'll find that in six months, twelve months. You will be so much further ahead because you've been purposeful with your time We often fall into autopilot You just kind of wake up and go through the motions and before you know it five years have gone by and you just feel like you've been floating through life but when you're intentional just really changes the experience and you realize that Your potential is a lot higher than you think. It's important to not underestimate yourself. So yeah, nothing is gonna come by accident

Sophie 27:59

That's great, great advice. Thank you very, very much, Danish. Well, we're so happy we were able to chat with you and have you on the podcast today.

Daanish 28:05

Oh, thank you so much. it's been great to do this podcast today And thank you for being the first in this year to let me tick that off my goal list

Sophie 28:12

Oh, very glad that we could help you as well, achieve your podcast goals for 2024

Tanner 28:17

Thanks a lot Dinesh for spending some time with us and answering our questions and giving your helpful advice.

Daanish 28:22

Thank you. Tan. It was great speaking to you.

Sophie 28:23

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