The only podcast out there that outlines amazing immigrant entrepreneurs' journeys. Immigrants are building the economy in America every single day. This show was born to inspire all immigrants who want to become entrepreneurs. Immigrants bring the fire, the drive and the compassion to build communities around them, and to create economies. They build jobs, create amazing opportunities, give back in some unimaginable ways and make America great. I came from Russia and my entrepreneur spirit stems from my dad. He came to America with $600 in his pocket and got paid $8/hour on his first job. He later decided to start his own business doing HVAC and never stopped. He's been in business for over 20 years and never looked back. If you would like to be on my podcast, email me at: hello@alinawarrick.com Website: alinawarrick.com Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/immigrantentrepreneurs/support
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74: From the poorest of a poor country, Kam Knight became a coach, writer, and an author of 9 books
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Kam Knight
Kam was brought up in a poor country, India, where he grew up in the ghetto part of town and in poverty.
Kam went to school in the States and became a Certified Public Accountant. He got a regular, 9-5 job but after doing some research he realized that many successful people don't have 9-5 jobs, they were entrepreneurs.
As an immigrant Kam never loved writing, and never thought he would be good at it...
73: Andrea Ley went from an IT career to launching her Mexican coffee business on wheels
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Andrea Ley
Andrea worked as an IT professional in Mexico and got an opportunity to work in the States for 1 year, so she took it! She was planning on coming back to Mexico but 8 years later found herself still in the US working at the same IT company.
At 37 years old she found herself homesick, and missing her family. She also wanted a slice of her hometown by drinking some really good Mexican authentic coffee. But, there was none to find...
72: Odette D’Aniello, turns her creativity to build massive success in her cake business
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Odette D’Aniello
Originally from the Philippines, Odette came to a small island, Guam with her family at a very young age. Her parents came to work on a bakery shop, that was owned by Odette's uncle and aunt. Little did she know that she was going to be working at the bakery shop without pay as a little girl.
She didn't see the sun, she didn't have a normal childhood and they didn't celebrate holidays...
71: Gautam Rao started his first startup at 23 years old, now he’s an investor
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Gautam Rao
Although Gautam's family was not made up of entrepreneurs, Gautam wanted to do something meaningful in his life. So at 23 years old he branched out and launched his very first startup, while in Singapore. His entrepreneurial journey lead him to start several other startups. He kept on pursuing his passion for entrepreneurship. Gautam never imagined to live in the States...70: As a refugee, Mamba Hamissi came with nothing to the US, launches an East African restaurant
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Mamba Hamissi
Mamba Hamissi is originally from Burundi, East Africa. His wife was an activist and her life was threatened. Many times people were either killed or put into jail if they went against the government. We're in 2021, and there is still civil war happening in East Africa.
They decided to flee the country and applied for refugee status with any country that will take them...
69: Richard Mensah started his very first startup at 18 years old, now he’s reinventing how marketing works
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Richard Mensah
Richard grew up in Ghana and started his very first startup at 18 years old. He never imagined that he would end up in the States but when he applied to attend a masters program, he got accepted with Hult International Business School.
Richard launched 3 different startups that didn't work out for various reasons, but that didn't stop him. He kept on pursuing his dream of entrepreneurship...
68: Yuting Su never imagined living in the States, but after creating a prototype during her thesis, it took off
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Yuting Su
Yuting grew up in Taiwan and she never imagined living in the States. Her dad came out to States to get his master's degree when she was 4 years old and she thought she would do the same.
She came to the States to study on a master's program and her plan was to leave back to Taiwan after graduating. But after launching a prototype during her thesis at University of Southern California, the product took off...
67: Sahar Roques came with nothing to the US, launches a Persian sauce company
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Sahar Roques
Sahar fled to America alone at 25 years ago to pursue a higher education degree where she was banned by the government of Iran to achieve due to my religious beliefs.
In the U.S. she studied Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics at University of Maryland College Park while working over 30 hours a week to earn a living.
After graduating she worked at biotech companies for a few years until she got married and had kids...
66: After Gemi Bertran’s body shut down, she became a Brain & Behavior Coach generating $1M+ annually
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Doctor Gemi Bertran
Gemi was lead by love to come to the US and that's when she married her then, husband.
At one point she was juggling and running so many things at once, alongside with raising her 2 children she had a breakdown. She was stressed, depleted in so many ways, and was running her dad's business that was overseas. Her brain stopped working, and the doctors had no idea what was going on...
65: After launching 2 other business ventures, Yasir Shirazi launches a revolutionary company helping immigrants
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Yasir Shirazi
Yasir came from Pakistan to study in college and earn his M.B.A degree. He launched 2 other business ventures but kept on a lookout for something more creative and meaningful.
He kept noticing that he's running into the same problems on a regular basis. Taking care of business back home while being overseas was somehow extremely difficult to do and manage...