An Immigrant’s Life

Margarita Chmykhalova is a RN & a US Army Major. Originally from Ukraine, she immigrated to the US after seeking asylum for religious persecution. She came on the podcast to talk about fake social media impersonators, immigrants being frozen in a time capsule and its effects, avoiding to be a marketing ploy of her people, growing up hiding books from her parents, advocation against sexual abuse/ harassment and being a victim herself, experience as a flight nurse, finding her own identity while being deployed in Central America, cleaning the river by free diving, and writing her up and coming memoir. 

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Lana Rusić is a Make-up Artist extraordinaire. She came on the podcast to talk about the thin line between her TikTok characters and her real life persona, being the first Uzbek to be born in Denmark, doing a DNA test that revealed her varied ethnicity, the romantic story of how her parents met, why women should be cautious with feminism, importance of gender roles, her therapeutic visit to Baku, Azerbaijan, her fear of having kids, bad reputation of Central Asian men, growing up a third culture kid, being a first daughter and feeling parental pressure because of it, getting unsolicited wedding proposals, hoping for a man with some “spice”, that would give her an exclusive wedding. 

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I talked to Creative Director, Jose Reyes. He told me a romantic movie-like beginning, how he followed a woman he loved to New York, and how it sadly ended, we talked about his love for New York city, getting married during the peak of the pandemic after meeting his “person,” his wanting to be a father, the importance of sharing experiences with people, his definition of success, not feeling homesickness, his love for photography, which lead him to start his podcast “New Neighbors.” 

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Originally from Delhi, India, Tanya Hurria now lives in Surrey, British Columbia. She came on the podcast to talk about the importance of sharing your personal stories, how Disney movies inspired her to immigrate, her using an immigration consultant but still getting denied which made her apply on her own, missing “home” but not the physical one, her late great father, getting confused by DST, feeling safe in Canada, working as a Security guard, being mistaken for a Latina, how her immigration personally improved her, immigrants reliant on survival instinct, the importance of budgeting, and working as a Head Concierge.  

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Kley Klemens is the cocreator of the fabulous food blog Jewkarta . He sat down with me to talk about the contrast between Indonesian and Filipino culture, growing up a closeted gay man in a Muslim society in Jakarta, Indonesia, how he used to “catfish” white men on the internet to find himself and explore his sexuality, how love allowed him immigrate to Canada, why Canada makes him feel free as a gay man, his opinions about using pronouns, and the how and why Jewkarta started. 

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I talked to Press Secretary for the Office of the Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth, Johise Namwira. We talked about her family’s forced exodus because of the aftermath of the Rwandan massacre from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Kenya and eventually to Winnipeg, Canada, after her dads serendipitous meeting with a Mennonite couple, growing up in Canada with a strong cultural Congolese background, her complex relationship with her natural hair, earning her Karate black belt that led her to Japan to train with the prestigious Yagi family, her parents’ decision to not allow her to pursue her true passion for acting, attending Oxford University, going back to Congo to interview victims of sexual violence for her thesis which affects her to this day, microaggression, and working as a Press Secretary. 

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I talked to author/poet, Svens Telemaque. We talked about how he was uprooted from Montreal to Miami, Florida by his mother after his parents' divorce, how his ego got the best of him that lead him to a life of crime, his decision to change his life by moving back to Montreal, cancel culture, what do we do with the art of monstrous men, his writing process, challenges of writing a book, dealing with writer's block, and his philosophy of “Broken Crayons Still Color.” 

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I talked to model, Attieh Elena. We talked about how the pandemic affected her and her modelling career financially and mentally, how she deals with being gifted with an ectomorph body and the jealousy that comes with it from other women, her Lebanese and Ukrainian roots, growing up in a small town in Manitoba in the middle of Canada’s “Bible belt,” her tumultuous high school life being a closeted queer person, because of her Muslim background she’s been called a “towel head” despite not wearing a hijab, having a gay dad, coming out to her Ukranian mom after being pressured by her ex-girlfriend, what is being queer means to her, and the equity in queer relationships. 

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I talked to the artist, Sumayyah Nabiyeva. She shared to me her humble life in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where she used to play with shampoo bottles that she created cities with, growing up in Maryland wanting to be a “white girl,” how the pandemic propelled her to start her “hijab journey” and the positive effects that came with it, and she corrected some of my personal misconception about Islam 

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I talked to NASA Engineer, Elio Morillo. He told me about his mom’s incredible sacrifice of being a well-known school principal to cleaning houses and doing odd jobs, when she moved them from Ecuador to New York then to Puerto Rico, and then back to New York, to give him better life opportunities. Learning about English and life from Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokémon, growing up a “smart ass” that he translated to speaking against injustices in his adulthood, realizing that education is the key out of poverty, his experience through the racist New York public school system, the right way to go to college, and being the team leader for the Perseverance rover that was sent to Mars, and how he dealt with the stress that came with that. 

Stay tuned for his book memoir next year called, “The Boy Who Reached For The Stars”  

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