An Immigrant’s Life

Jet Labrador is a comic book portrait artist. We got into a conversation about our love for basketball, books, meditation, Kobe Bryant and how it all inspire our lives. He also told me about rupturing his patella, going through depression during his almost yearlong recovery, and how it gave him time to reflect on his life and get back to painting comic book characters once again. 

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Anastasiia Buina is a Jewelry designer. We talked about her life as a World Champion Acrobatic Rock'n'Roll dancer in Russia, and the toll it took on her social life and mental health, including her eating disorder due to the strict diets, strenuous training, and incessant body shaming of her coach. After moving to the US, she learned the benefits of therapy, which helped alleviate her body dysmorphia. Of course, we discussed Russia’s war in Ukraine.  

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Ajit Randhawa is a Real Estate Attorney. We talked about how immigrants' parents don't know how to retire, the positive effects of bullying, the meaning of love, his love for anime and how it helped him succeed in law school, and his experiences as a Real Estate Attorney. 

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Kyikyi is the owner of “Himalayan Dumplings by Kyikyi" the 1st woman-owned Tibetan food brand in the US. She spoke about her grandparents escape from Tibet through the Himalayas, causing her to be born and raised in Nepal and India, due to China’s colonization, studying at an all-girls Catholic boarding school despite being a Buddhist, her experiences as a refugee, how lucky she was to be sponsored to immigrate to Colorado by an American family she was working for as an interpreter, how she manifested her eagerness to fit in by consuming American food resulting to her forgetting her Tibetan heritage, being judged for her accent, challenges of raising American girls and how it brought her back to get in touch with her Tibetan culture by quitting her 6-figure salary job to start “Himalayan Dumplings by Kyikyi". 

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Munashe Kaseke is the author of “Send Her Back and other stories” and was released by her publishing house, “Mukana Press.” 

We talked about her growing up in Harare, Zimbabwe as a highly curious kid that was fostered by her parents helped her get a scholarship to the “whitest” part of America: Des Moines, Iowa, where she pursued a doctorate of pharmacy, which she used to start a pharmacy website to help Zimbabwean acquire medication online, though she had to stop it because of being inundated with red tape. We also discussed her experience as a Black African living in America, her relationship with the “n-word", how after seeing a clip of a crowd chanting “send her back” in a Trump rally to a black congresswoman, pushed her to quit her job and "go back home”, and in the process, she started writing her book, and quit her job to start her own publishing company that focuses on representing the marginalized voice of the society. 

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David Young Kim is a Muralist and co-founder of KAA collective.  

Due to his Korean immigrant parents trying to establish their lives in America, he grew up as a latchkey kid, and without parental supervision he joined a Filipino street gang.   

After feeling betrayed by his gang, and by then living in a suburb of Los Angeles, he decided to attend UC Davis to escape his gang life. Following his graduation, he worked for a pharmaceutical company, which he quit after a tough breakup and became a church intern. Years later, he took art more seriously and did a masteral.  

Of course, we talked about his murals, his process of creating, the importance of them, and his inspiration for his art. 

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Olga Fedorova is a Photographer born in Ukraine and bred in Brooklyn. After the fall of the Soviet Union, their family plunged into poverty which pushed them to immigrate to Brooklyn where she lived an insular Russian life till she discovered the East Village, there she transformed from a member of the American Ballet into a punk. After meeting her husband who is a photographer, she finally took the risk of being a photographer herself. We talked about her work as a freelance news photographer, her work with homeless people, her pro-abortion stance, America’s lack of universal health care, and her projects about “Trans LatinX Sex Workers in Jackson Heights” and “The 3rd culture of former Soviet Union immigrants.” 

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Dr. Jack Paduntin is the President of Pacific Oaks College. He came on the podcast to talked about being a perennial great student in Bangkok, Thailand, until he moved to Dallas to acquire his Masters. There he suffered from culture shock both socially and academically, exacerbated by his lack of proficiency in English. As a result, he was told by his College Dean to “go home”; instead of heeding the Dean’s advice, he became a student assistant for international students, which turned his life around. When he received his master’s degree, he returned to Bangkok to work as a business consultant, but due to suffering ageism at work, he decided to obtain a doctorate in San Diego, California, which led him to discover his love for teaching. In addition, we discussed his work as a school President, where he advocates diversity, proper use of pronouns, gender neutral bathrooms, while giving all races a chance to succeed. 

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Sarah Alshamaily is a Physicist & Astronomist. Tired of the lack of government stability, not to mention seeing dead bodies everywhere after the US invasion of Iraq, Sarah’s family migrated to Dubai, UAE in search of a better life. Following her high school graduation, she immigrated to Canada alone to study in Victoria, BC, and after fighting through 2 years of setbacks, being told she will never finish her program, she finally graduated but without her family’s presence caused of Visa issues. Sarah is currently juggling doing research in Particle Physics, continuing to learn about “Dark Matter”, while fighting the imbalance representation in STEM, and making her inner child proud.

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Mark Teodosio is a Filipino comic book creator of "The Realest Bayani". He came on the podcast to talk about his experience growing up in Brooklyn, being the only Asian boy in a Latino neighborhood which earned him the nickname “Chino,” being witty to survive and when that’s not enough his dad enrolled him in a ninjutsu class, the positive effect of bullying, Filipino’s connection to hip-hop, getting into rapping, teaching our kids the history of hip-hop, how the death of his cousin and former president of the Philippines Rudy Duterte promoting vigilantism inspired him to create his socially aware Filipino comic book “The Realest Bayani”. 

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