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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64: Lei Wang went from Instructional Technology career to launching a commercial printing company at 45 years old
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Lei Wang
Lei came to United States when she was 24 years old to study on a Master's program, majoring in Instructional Technology. She came all by herself and had no one to turn to. She went through a lot of different struggles and challenges as any other immigrant does while trying to figure out this new country.
Lei graduated, and went on to work a 9-5 job in her field for 17 years. One day, it hit her...
63: From making $6/hour under the table to running 5 companies & generating millions, with Kalika Yap
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Kalika Yap
Kalika was born in the Philippines but her family moved to Hawaii when the military coup took over. Her father was an entrepreneur and was always planting positive seeds in her life about entrepreneurship but Kalika thought she had a separate path. She always wanted to be a journalist so she attended New York University and got a Bachelor's in Journalism...
62:Vienne Cheung launches one of the first world’s most extensive variety for thigh high stockings
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Vienne Cheung
Vienne's journey to the United States dates back to the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Gold Rush ages. Her parents had to wait 15 years to get accepted to come to the United States.
Vienne received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts and Psychology from University of Massachusetts Boston. But she knew she was always creative and always kept her eyes open for new oppportunities...
61: Nafy Flatley quits her corporate career to become a chef that features food from Senegal
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Nafy Flatley
Nafy was born with a talent to cook and she was so natural with it. At 8 years old she could whip out a full blown meal and she found her happiness creating healthy meals.
She came to the United States because it was her American dream. She pursued higher education and graduated from University of San Francisco majoring in Marketing and International Business. She went on by working in the marketing field and was really good at it...
60: Timothy Roman went from being incarcerated to million dollar success
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Timothy Roman
Tim grew up in Russia during communism times where life was tough. You had to go outside of the city to see who had the butter, the chicken, and your basic and trade what you had.
Tim came to United States at 13 years old and he found himself all too excited in the land of opportunities! Tim thought he could only be street smart and not book smart so he ended up dropping out of high school and selling drugs...
59: Yuri Kuts started his company as an illegal immigrant, now making $5+ million a year
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Yuri Kuts
Yuri had very humble beginnings when he immigrated to the United States. He and his buddy came to United States on a work abroad program. When they realized that it wasn't going to happen it was too late. They were already dropped off in the middle of a field in Panama City.
That was the beginning of Yuri's journey.
Yuri and his buddy went around Panama City for 3 days looking for someone to help them...
58: Veena Somareddy dropped out of PhD program to start a virtual reality physical & neurological rehab company
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Veena Somareddy
Veena's immigration journey was not all that easy. She was denied three times when she applied for a visa. She had to fight for her entrance, but with her determination she knew she wanted to be in the US.
She immigrated when she was 22 years old and when she was in her PhD program life took her by surprise. A random act by a stranger lead her to open up her business with a co-founder...
57: Maria Orozova launched her marketing company at 25 years old, they thrived during COVID
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Maria Orozova
Maria was born in a communist country, Bulgaria where food was scare and buying anything was extremely difficult. She remembers people having to stand in the bread line for hours just because of the limited supply of food.
Her family immigrated when she was 11 years old and she went on to study marketing and graphic communication at the University of Southern Mississippi...
56: Wai-Loong (Y) was forced into entrepreneurship, went on to design amazing products
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Wai-Loong (Y) Lim
Y came to United States when he was 29 years old. He was born and raised in Malaysia but immigrated from Canada. His entire life was spent doodling and drawing anything that comes to mind. He went into industrial design because that was really his passion and he never looked back.
He came out to Silicon Valley all because this was the place where products are born...
55: Dafang (Daisy) Jing created skincare products for herself, then quit her corporate job & took it full time
Immigrant 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 at Chinese restaurants under the table. Daisy saw first hand what hard work was all about.
When Daisy went through horrible acne she went looking for answers...