Latest Successful immigrant Podcast Episodes
How This Immigrant Is Taking A Dose Of Her Own Medicine: Season One Finale
Navigating Culture | Sharing The Stories of Bold, Brave & Badass Immigrant Women Creating their Dream Life - November 03, 2021 08:00 - 5 minutesHello friends, Listen to this episode to learn what updates are in store for the Navigating Culture podcast. Sneak peak: Anya, the Navigating Culture podcast, host has decide to pause the podcast till next year. Tune in to find out why. Don't forget to share your thoughts, stories, ideas with...
How Immigrants Can Reframe The Exhausting Narrative of The American Dream
Navigating Culture | Sharing The Stories of Bold, Brave & Badass Immigrant Women Creating their Dream Life - October 13, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutesWhat does it mean to make it in The United States of America? So many of us were sold the dream that making it means we need the huge house, the million dollars or the flashiest car. But could ‘making’ it mean something else entirely? Meet Johanna Vizmanos, an immigrant from the Philippines w...
How Immigrants Can Move Past The Belief That They Need To Achieve More To Be Worthy
Navigating Culture | Sharing The Stories of Bold, Brave & Badass Immigrant Women Creating their Dream Life - October 06, 2021 08:00 - 40 minutesAt 4 years old, Parisa immigrated to the USA from Iran and became the weird girl with the parents who had weird accents. After the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979, her Arizonian community shrouded her in suspicion — she was now also a weird terrorist. Those labels compelled her to push for that ev...
Chasing the American Dream & Its Consequences On Our Mental Health
Navigating Culture | Sharing The Stories of Bold, Brave & Badass Immigrant Women Creating their Dream Life - September 29, 2021 08:00 - 28 minutesWestern ideals of success, often deeply rooted in capitalism, are often demonstrated as the only goals worth pursuing in colonized countries. In the Caribbean, we show this mentality through the extreme focus on rote memorization, earning all A’s in exams and eventually if you’re good enough, ...
Breaking Out of Hustle Culture as an Immigrant with Martha Garza
Navigating Culture | Sharing The Stories of Bold, Brave & Badass Immigrant Women Creating their Dream Life - September 22, 2021 07:00 - 41 minutesRaise your hand if any of the following resonates with you. 1) You feel like the only way you can accomplish your goals is through working harder and longer than everybody else. 2) You feel that being successful means that you have to just accept working with people who are disrespectful and mea...
Honoring Your Community’s Cultural Expectations While Finding Ways to Dream Beyond Them with Parween Mander
Navigating Culture | Sharing The Stories of Bold, Brave & Badass Immigrant Women Creating their Dream Life - September 15, 2021 07:00 - 38 minutesA common belief held amongst older women in immigrant communities is the expectation for younger women to be the traditional good daughter and daughter-in-law. Parween came face to face with this expectation as a random auntie asked her, “What do you do for work?” Parween told her about her bu...
Why it is Okay to Admit When You Need Help
Navigating Culture | Sharing The Stories of Bold, Brave & Badass Immigrant Women Creating their Dream Life - September 08, 2021 07:00 - 6 minutes“Therapy?” I can hear the echoes of the aunties' judgments now. Though the guilt and shame took me some time to work through, I eventually decided that this was the right decision for me. I have suffered from depression and anxiety since I was young. As both an immigrant and a Millenial, it is ...
Why it is Okay to Admit When You Need Help
Navigating Culture | Sharing The Stories of Bold, Brave & Badass Immigrant Women Creating their Dream Life - September 08, 2021 07:00 - 6 minutes“Therapy?” I can hear the echoes of the aunties' judgments now. Though the guilt and shame took me some time to work through, I eventually decided that this was the right decision for me. I have suffered from depression and anxiety since I was young. As both an immigrant and a Millenial, it is ...
Finding the Beauty in Resilience, Rest, and Rejection with Alicia M. Richins
Navigating Culture | Sharing The Stories of Bold, Brave & Badass Immigrant Women Creating their Dream Life - September 01, 2021 07:00 - 41 minutesFor most of us, there is a tight network of parents, aunties, uncles, and even neighbors who watch our every move, ensuring that we are well behaved, whatever that means. Alicia felt the same pressures growing up. Her parents raised her to be fiercely independent outside of the home. But when ...
How To Become a Happy, Peaceful and Successful Person On Your Own Terms with Shinjini Das
Navigating Culture | Sharing The Stories of Bold, Brave & Badass Immigrant Women Creating their Dream Life - August 25, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutesWe live in a world that often tells us to dim our light. Especially as immigrants in a new country, we’re often told to keep our heads down and blend in. Shinjini Das was born in India, moved to Malaysia, and finally immigrated to the USA when she was nine. That first move to New Jersey sparke...
Why I'm Tired of People Telling Me To Be Grateful
Navigating Culture | Sharing The Stories of Bold, Brave & Badass Immigrant Women Creating their Dream Life - August 18, 2021 07:00 - 10 minutes“You should be more grateful.” We hear that phrase often from our parents. It’s also a phrase that is echoed and amplified when we move to a new country. That phrase comes back to haunt us with a specific type of energy when we express our desire to dream bigger. Don’t get me wrong - being grat...
Creating Success On Your Own Terms in Corporate with Kim Tran
Navigating Culture | Sharing The Stories of Bold, Brave & Badass Immigrant Women Creating their Dream Life - August 11, 2021 07:00 - 37 minutesThe Navigating Culture mission in its essence is about motivating and inspiring you to discover what lights you up and make it a part of your everyday life. No matter what Auntie or anyone else for that matter says. Most of the time, these explorations lead people outside of the confines of thei...
How to Redefine Success, Acknowledge Your Value, and Heal in an Immigrant Community with Nisha Mody
Navigating Culture | Sharing The Stories of Bold, Brave & Badass Immigrant Women Creating their Dream Life - August 04, 2021 07:00 - 41 minutesNisha Mody is not an immigrant, but she grew up surrounded by these brave souls. Her parents immigrated from India to the USA, which taught Nisha from a very young age to internalize the belief of working hard and earning your place by any means necessary. Like many immigrants and children of i...
Redefining Success as an Immigrant with Mariana Pena Vargas
Navigating Culture | Sharing The Stories of Bold, Brave & Badass Immigrant Women Creating their Dream Life - July 28, 2021 07:00 - 46 minutesMaybe you’ve taken a chance and left your comfortable life to start over in a new country. Maybe you thought, “I'm experienced, I'm established. beginning again should not be that difficult.” Only to realize several months later, you can't seem to figure out where you belong, or what you should ...
How To Love Yourself First and Decide That You’re Worthy
Navigating Culture | Sharing The Stories of Bold, Brave & Badass Immigrant Women Creating their Dream Life - July 21, 2021 07:00 - 13 minutesWhat would you do if I said, ‘The world doesn’t want you to like yourself.’ Would you nod your head in agreement? Would you roll your eyes and mutter something about getting over it? Or would your reaction depend on the day or what happened to you the week before? If most of your days feel like ...
How To Question Generational Patterns While Forging Your Own Path with Cassandra Le
Navigating Culture | Sharing The Stories of Bold, Brave & Badass Immigrant Women Creating their Dream Life - July 14, 2021 07:00 - 38 minutesFinding your identity is a huge struggle amongst immigrant children. Not only do they have to deal with cultural differences, but they have to navigate the difficult world of acknowledging and breaking generational patterns. Cassandra Le is the first generation daughter of immigrant parents who...
How To Pursue Your Creative Passions and Create a Full AF Bank Account with Cinthia Jaimes
Navigating Culture | Sharing The Stories of Bold, Brave & Badass Immigrant Women Creating their Dream Life - July 07, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutesMany immigrant children grow up with the expectation of landing a job in corporate America. Having faced the struggles of immigrating to a new country and working multiple jobs to keep the family afloat, immigrant parents want their children to live a life of stability, respectability, and accep...
Taking Control of Immigrant Stereotypes with Akanksha Aurora
Navigating Culture | Sharing The Stories of Bold, Brave & Badass Immigrant Women Creating their Dream Life - June 30, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutesImmigrants start at the ground level yet are expected to meet shoulder to shoulder with their peers on every level. That’s why episode 3 of The Navigating Culture Podcast is about taking control of immigrant stereotypes! Shop all available merch including our signature “Not Today, Aunty” sweat...
Redefining What Success Looks Like To You
Navigating Culture | Sharing The Stories of Bold, Brave & Badass Immigrant Women Creating their Dream Life - June 30, 2021 05:00 - 12 minutesSo often immigrants think that they must get outside approval in order to prove they are becoming successful citizens. No matter how hard they try and the things they accomplish, it never seems like it’ll be good enough. That’s why episode 2 of the Navigating Culture Podcast is about redefining ...
Reinventing your Success and Vision with Hiwote Getenah
Navigating Culture | Sharing The Stories of Bold, Brave & Badass Immigrant Women Creating their Dream Life - June 30, 2021 04:00 - 29 minutesWhen someone asks, "What does it mean to be successful?' What do you think? What person jumps to your mind. It's true that when we were younger, we may have had one version of success we aspired to, but as we grow (physically and in other ways) it's okay for this vision to shift and change with ...
Welcome to Navigating Culture
Navigating Culture | Sharing The Stories of Bold, Brave & Badass Immigrant Women Creating their Dream Life - June 17, 2021 19:00 - 7 minutesNavigating Culture, hosted by Anya Cherrice, helps immigrants and people from immigrant communities redefine archaic ideas of success and live on their own terms (even if Aunty disapproves). An immigrant from Trinidad, Anya understands the pressure immigrants feel from their community, the peo...
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