Second Innings
3 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsSecond Innings brings to you the stories of American immigrants who showed strength, tenacity, and faith under life’s most challenging circumstances. These stories will shine a light on the lessons hidden behind adversities in life and will offer you actionable tips and strategies that you can implement when faced with adversity in life. Second Innings is about sharing and helping one another with the lessons learned from any life-changing event like divorce, passing away of a loved one, recovering from a life-threatening illness, or even a complete change in career.
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The power of dreams, positive affirmations, imagination and belief in oneself can actually create miracles! Amany Alkhayat is living proof of that.
June 25, 2021 03:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBHow a childhood dream to come to America and her faith in herself helped Amany Alkhayat win a lottery to get a diversity Visa to immigrate to America from Egypt. Despite being broke, and not knowing how she was going to afford the visa fees she kept trying and experienced miracles along the way that helped her overcome every obstacle. Her faith and belief in herself always kept her working hard through all challenges. As a single mother, she took a whole year off just to find the right neig...
From a Dish Washer Immigrant to the Lead Scientist helming a billion dollar pharmaceutical empire! : The amazing story of Dr. Ahmed Samatar.
May 15, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 45.1 MBLife is what we make of it. Some people make it a point to fill life with a lot of excitement, grit and determination and therefore serve as an inspiration to many. We have one such person with us here today. Dr. Ahmed Samatar, a Kenyan immigrant and founding scientist of Zentallis Pharmaceuticals. Links to SecondInnings: Website: https://Secondinnings.life Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/secondinningspodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secondinningspodcast/ LinkedIn: http...
How grit, tenacity and faith helped me go from Shoe Salesman to Taxi Driver to Wall Street Entrepreneur
March 11, 2021 21:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBThe story of Ullaas Menon, an Indian American Immigrant, who came from New Delhi to New York, leaving everything he had back home to build his life in America, brick by brick through all the adversity and challenges. How being in the present and focusing on the job helped him go through all the challenges and adversity without ever being depressed. His faith and belief in himself and his appreciation for the great qualities of Americans made it easy to have a positive outlook despite all the...