LIVE PODCAST w ESSA KAH SALLAH - 7 Feb 2026

📅 Date

7 February 2026

⏰ Time

7:00 PM

(Doors open at 6:00 PM)

⏳ Duration

90 minutes, no intermission

💰 Price

240 SEK (+ service fee)

🔞 Age limit

13+

🧥 Cloakroom

30 SEK

Turning Your Life Around – a Live Podcast with Brottarbröder & Essa Kah Sallah

Turning Your Life Around is a live podcast and conversation about leaving destructive paths behind and breaking old patterns—against all odds. Join us for an open and honest live event with the popular podcast Brottarbröder, hosted by Martin & Jimmy Lidberg, as they meet author Essa Kah Sallah, who is currently releasing a new book.

After more than 25 years of heavy criminal activity and substance abuse, Essa has managed to turn his life around. Today, he works to help others leave crime behind.

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Martin & Jimmy Lidberg – Brottarbröder

Brothers Martin and Jimmy Lidberg have both had highly successful athletic careers as elite wrestlers at the very top of the international scene. Together, they have won everything there is to win—both nationally and internationally—and have earned a place in the hearts of the Swedish public.

After their sports careers, both have gone on to become successful entrepreneurs and have appeared in the media in a wide range of contexts. Their upbringing is portrayed in the bestselling book Brottarbröder, a raw and hard-hitting story about a family’s struggle in the Stockholm suburb of Farsta, where addiction, crime, and gambling threatened to tear the family apart.

The brothers’ experiences span the full spectrum of society—from the most prestigious circles to encounters with hardened criminals in attempts to save their father. These experiences made them people who can speak to individuals from all walks of life and laid the foundation for the podcast *Brottarbröder*, where they meet guests in conversations about life, motivation, success, and setbacks.

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Essa Kah Sallah

Essa Kah Sallah has a background spanning more than 25 years in serious criminal activity. A few years ago, he left that life behind and now works as a lecturer, a client coach in an exit program for people leaving criminal environments, and is a certified MRT therapist.

He is currently featured with his autobiographical book The Gang Leader’s Legacy, in which he расскаnts how he built a gang and his power through violence—and how the pursuit of respect and status led him to betray his own ideals.

The story follows his journey through the criminal world, a life marked by escalating substance abuse, broken family ties, and severe health problems. At the same time, Essa describes how the rules of the gang environment changed, how boundaries were pushed, and how violence intensified.

Eventually, a turning point came. Essa began the long and difficult process of leaving behind the only life where he felt valued and creating a new life outside the gang.

With his book, Essa wants to show that there are ways out. That it is possible to leave, even when it seems impossible. If he can do it, others can too.