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55: Dafang (Daisy) Jing created skincare products for herself, then quit her corporate job & took it full time
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - March 29, 2021 19:18 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Daisy Jing Daisy came from China with her family when she was very young. Growing up in an immigrant household where money was scarce and she was always about saving. Her mom worked at McDonald's, in the back kitchen since she didn't speak English well and she worked...
54: Raised in an orphanage then became homeless, Magie Cook sold her salsa company for $231M
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - March 24, 2021 17:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Magie Cook Magie was born in an orphanage where she spent 18 years of suffering. She had 68 brothers and sisters at the orphanage and at times she had to hunt for her food with her own bare hands because there was no food at the orphanage. Holidays were celebrated ve...
53: Lauren Cohen created a concierge immigration consulting firm generating $1m in annual revenue
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - March 22, 2021 04:16 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Lauren Cohen Although Lauren is Canadian, her immigration process was still lengthy and she had to fight for a better visa status. Lauren's passion for immigration law came after her then-husband was deported after their honeymoon to Thailand. She was confused, lost ...
53: Lauren Cohen created a concierge immigration consulting firm generating $1m in annual revenue
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - March 22, 2021 04:16 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Lauren Cohen Although Lauren is Canadian, her immigration process was still lengthy and she had to fight for a better visa status. Lauren's passion for immigration law came after her then-husband was deported after their honeymoon to Thailand. She was confused, lost ...
52: Prateek Joshi created an AI, machine learning company & manages 35 employees at only 32 years old
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - March 19, 2021 23:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Prateek Joshi Prateek's interest in machine learning/artificial intelligence came early on when he was growing up in India. Since there was lack of clean water where he grew up, he knew that there had to be a solution for this. Every so often their family had to go to...
51: Immigration lawyer, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, provides her feedback and advice on the immigration process
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - March 16, 2021 04:45 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsKate is an immigration lawyer who does an amazing job by helping and serving the immigrants of America. Immigration is an international law which means that she can help anyone, regardless of their location in America. Kate provides some tools on how to make the immigration process smoother, ...
50: Marie Capita’s near death experience opened the door for her to make a difference in the youth
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - March 12, 2021 03:39 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Marie Capita Marie immigrated from Haiti when she was very young. She started her entrepreneurship journey after getting her law degree and starting her own practice with a business partner. Her entrepreneurial career didn't end there. She left the practice and start...
49: At 23 years old Spoorthi Kumar quit her I.T. job and opened up a coffee shop without any experience
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - March 09, 2021 06:24 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Spoorthi Kumar Spoorthi is a native born, but she left to India with her family at 5 years old. She eventually came back to the States to study I.T. but she didn't like her job out of college. She ended up quitting her corporate job and wanted something more for her lif...
48: Liubov Lomonosova went from an engineering field to being a successful running coach
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - March 06, 2021 17:10 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Liubov Lomonosova Liubov grew up with humble beginnings. Living in Ukraine, her family couldn't afford to live in a house. In fact, living in a house was considered a luxury, so they lived in a very small apartment complex. While she never imagined living in United S...
47: From a poor immigrant, to building wealth through SAMO Financial with Alina Trigub
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - March 03, 2021 03:52 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Alina Trigub Alina grew up in Ukraine when anti-semitism groups were complete widespread. As a Jewish she and her mom feared for their lives. It was out of pure safety that they realized they had to move out to a better place and that's when they immigrated to United St...
46: Amine Rahal got fired from his job, turns his side hustle into an amazing business
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - February 24, 2021 05:03 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Amine Rahal Amine immigrated from North Africa, Algeria at the age of 12 years old with his family to Canada. They came initially because his parents wanted to relocate to another city where French was spoken. His parents came to give their kids better opportunities and...
45: Fired multiple times from jobs, the wedding officiant, Veronica Moya hosted 500+ weddings during COVID in 2020
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - February 21, 2021 23:16 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Veronica Moya Veronica had many odd jobs when she came to the United States at 21 years old. She worked at different cafe shops, as an au pair, at a health club but during this time she was always auditioning. Her dream was to become and actor and that's what she wanted...
44: Sid Mohasseb created several businesses, he’s a venture capitalist, speaker, an author, and an adjunct professor
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - February 19, 2021 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Sid Mohasseb Sid's journey to United States started when he was 16 years old when he attended a boarding school. He always had a curious mind and launched his very first company after 5 years of being in the States. He was only 21 years old when he launched his very ...
43: Donizete Minchillo’s first job in the U.S. was painting houses, now both businesses he owns generates 6 figures + annually
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - February 19, 2021 04:41 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Donizete (Donny) Minchillo Jr. Donny's journey to entrepreneurship was definitely not a straight path. He initiallly dabbled with selling random things on eBay and that's where he got hooked. He had several different businesses along the way, one was a furniture compan...
42: Abdulhamid Ali’s first job was washing dishes, now he owns a company averaging $15M a year
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - February 15, 2021 23:04 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Abdulhamid Ali Growing up in Somalia, Abdulhamid had a great childhood, but after the Somalian's pressident got assasinated he had to grow up very quickly. His father went to prison several times and his mom was left with 6 kids to care for. It turns out that his mom be...
41: Igor Kransykh is a college dropout, now he runs a $1M business
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - February 13, 2021 23:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Igor Krasnykh Igor immigrated from Russia at 17 years old.. He didn't know much of any English and the English that he did know wasn't helping him much. He was always interested in software, and the IT world so he started several different businesses on the side. Some o...
40: Gurhan Demirkan creates innovation in the augmented reality and the supplements industries
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - February 12, 2021 05:50 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Gurhan Demirkan Gurhan grew up in Turkey where his dad always said that he will be living in America one day. He also constantly encouraged him to become an entrepreneur and to be your own boss. That was instilled in his brain at a very young age. He immigrated at th...
39: Startup consultant providing her expertise to immigrants, with Laura Kinser
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - February 06, 2021 04:20 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsLaura Kinser is a startup clinic consultant that has a wealth of experience with startups from the Silicon Valley. In this episode she goes over the step by step process of what it takes to open a startup in 2021 for immigrants. She also provides an extensive amount of resources that will gui...
38: How Vladimir Vasilenko creates innovation in the energy efficient market
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - February 01, 2021 05:48 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Vladimir Vasilenko Doctor Vasilenko is a very special guest on my show. He immigrated from Russia to Canada and had a very pleasant immigration process. In fact it took him less than 4 months for all the immigration to be completed and finalized. He founded Global Wa...
38: How Vladimir Vasilenko creates innovation in the energy efficient market
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - February 01, 2021 05:48 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Vladimir Vasilenko Doctor Vasilenko is a very special guest on my show. He immigrated from Russia to Canada and had a very pleasant immigration process. In fact it took him less than 4 months for all the immigration to be completed and finalized. He founded Global Wa...
37: Eddie Garcia crossed the border from Mexico on foot, now he owns one of the biggest real estate companies
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - January 28, 2021 04:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Eddie Garcia Eddie traveled on foot from Mexico with his older brother and his father when he was 5 years old. He had no idea what was going on, and was totally oblivious to the fact that his dad carried their clothes in zip loc bags. On that journey, that came in handy...
36: After becoming really sick and unable to work, Fiona Gilbert launches Quanta Therapies
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - January 26, 2021 18:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Fiona Gilbert Fiona immigrated to United States in her early 20s and landed in Silicon Valley. Shortly after coming immigrating she fell tremendously sick. She was so sick she had to get a service dog that helped her move around. She tried many different treatments and ...
35: Irina Alexander built a $1M business in 2 years in a male dominated field
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - January 24, 2021 05:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Irina Alexander Irina met her husband in China while working abroad on a summer tour program. She never initally wanted to move to America, but because she married an American (while in China) she moved to Texas in her early 20s. She didn't have any family or friends...
34: Chrisitan Carreon loses both of his kidneys, creates a wealth management firm at 27 years old
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - January 21, 2021 04:59 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Christian Carreon Christian came to the United States when he was 7 years old with his family after losing his sister. His mom was able to regain momentum and strength to launch her own company and they started a new life in California. Life was not always great for ...
34: Christian Carreon loses both of his kidneys, creates a wealth management firm at 27 years old
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - January 21, 2021 04:59 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Christian Carreon Christian came to the United States when he was 7 years old with his family after losing his sister. His mom was able to regain momentum and strength to launch her own company and they started a new life in California. Life was not always great for ...
33: After launching several different companies, Jorge Ruiz creates innovation in the global fintech industry
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - January 07, 2021 17:55 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Jorge Ruiz Jorge came from Bolivia to the U.S. initially to study in college. His journey brought him back home where he launched several different companies all in completely different fields. With his expertise at Citi Bank he launched the first global solution for...
32: Angelica Rivera was once undocumented, now creates millions in revenue in the construction field
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - December 31, 2020 21:46 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Angelica Rivera When Angelica came to the United States, she was only supposed to be here for 6 months to finish high school. Through some rough struggles she was able to stay here past her visa expiration date. At one point she was undocumented and had many limitati...
31: Creating the impossible in the data analysis world with Ahmed Elsamadisi
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - December 30, 2020 03:35 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Ahmed Elsamadisi Ahmed came to the United States at the age of 10 with his family from Egypt, all in the name of education. In Egypt the education system is corrupt. The teachers don't teach and they must supplement their income by tutoring. Ahmed's parents brought t...
30: Escaping the drug war to become an immigration attorney, with Camila Pachon Silva
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - December 27, 2020 05:13 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Camila Pachon Silva Camila and her family had to escape the intense drug war that was happening in Columbia. In this episode she explains how her mom would put tape on the windows to prevent the windows from crashing down during a bomb explosion. There was violence e...
29: As a refugee from Bosnia, Igor Dobrosavljević creates an I.T. consulting company
Immigrant Entrepreneurs - December 26, 2020 01:54 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImmigrant Entrepreneur: Igor Dobrosavljević Igor immigrated from Germany with his family at 16 years old from Germany. Germany was their first destination as refugees to flee from the civil war that broke out between Croatia and Bosnia. As immigrants in the United States his parents had to ...
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