Can a media company help people live better?
We believe it can.
Grit Originals uses storytelling to build tools and experiences that bring meaning, connection, and joy into everyday life.
Storytelling has always been how humans change.
Long before science or self-help, stories were how people learned to live differently.
That hasn't changed.
We want to make shows that stay with people — and open up new ways of seeing, feeling, and living.
That belief sits at the heart of everything we build.
The Science of Happiness
With the world’s happiest man.
Most of us know what's supposed to make us happy.
It's not working.
The Science of Happiness is a 12-episode documentary series that travels across 12 countries to find the cultures that have quietly figured something out - and films the real people living that answer, every day.
Not as theory. As practice.
The Times named Meik Wiking the World's Happiest Man. (He'd probably push back on that.) What he is, without question, is the world's leading authority on why some people are happier than others.
As founder of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, advisor to the Global Happiness Policy Report, and author of six books with over 2 million copies sold - he has spent two decades measuring happiness as a science.
He’s building this company with us.
Each episode decodes one untranslatable concept - Hygge. Ubuntu. Pura Vida. Whanaungatanga - and builds it into something you can actually use.
Twelve cultures. Twelve formulas. One practical guide to living better.
We begin with storytelling.
We turn insight into tools.
We build for everyday life.
We’re building at the intersection of media, technology, and better living.
We begin with premium content, then carry its ideas into products, tools, and experiences designed for everyday life.
Across everything we create, the ambition is the same: to turn meaningful ideas into lasting ways people can engage, reflect, and live better.
People
Grit Originals is led by a creative and entrepreneurial partnership shaped by a shared belief in thoughtful, well-made work.
We are drawn to work with emotional clarity, cultural resonance, and the potential to live meaningfully in the world.
Muhammad Danish
Founder | CEOMuhammad Danish has spent two decades building and leading content studios across the GCC, Malaysia, and Singapore - working with Fortune 500 brands, governments, and non-profits to tell stories that inspire action. His credits include line producer on He Named Me Malala and line producer Pakistan on Every Last Child.
Grit Originals is what that experience was always building toward.
Umran Shaikh
Co-Founder | DirectorUmran has spent 15 years crafting campaigns for Fortune 500 brands and 15 behind the camera as a cinematographer, writer, and producer - with credits including Beneath a Sea of Lights, Positive, and Security.
At Grit Originals, he is the creative engine behind everything on screen.