An Immigrant’s Life

Kamila Erkaboyeva is an Interior Architect and an artist. She came on the podcast to talk about living in a multicultural neighborhood in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, her immigration to England that was her parents’ dream, learning English from Hugh Grant films and documentaries about the Royal Family, whom she met one of the members during her recovery from "Pancreatic Cancer" surgery when she was 16 years old, and surviving domestic abuse. She also talked about her memories of her Buvijon (grandma) that got me talking about my Lola, and how she uses her art as a communication tool to connect to other people.

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Dr. Haya Al Khatib is a Nutrition Scientist. She came on the podcast to talk about her family’s emigration to Kuwait as a result of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the confusion of growing up in Kuwait and not feeling Kuwaiti, moving to America to study at Penn State, getting rejected by 19 dental school, which led her to move to London and pursue research instead, being impregnable to peer pressure, her PhD project about the importance of sleep, her advice on naps, sleep routine, taking care of bacteria in our guts, multivitamins, fat burning pills, her opinion on “body positivity movement”, her decision to be Vegan and why should we all too. 

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Keith Pedro is a Filipino-Canadian comedian and JUNO Awards "Comedy Album of the Year" nominee. He came on the AIL podcast while preparing for his comedy special “Trillipino.” We got to talking about recording an album during the pandemic, Filipinos detrimental fixation with basketball and having a light skin, being wronged for a Mexican while mowing his mom’s lawn, performing stand-up in the Philippines, his love for Montreal's diversity, challenges of doing comedy while being a dad, the grind of comedy, his opinion that Batman can only be a white man, Cancel culture and how it affects his comedy, comedians posting their comedy specials on YouTube, why he doesn’t use his Filipino-ness for materials, joke thieves, and his goal of moving to California for comedy. 

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Palak Verma is a Social Media Video Creator. She came on to talk about her “Great life” in Delhi, India, where she lived with her amazing family. We talked about being bad at Math, our love for literature, Feminism in India, her love Shakespeare, working as a Fraud Officer, and thinking employees in corporate world in India are robots, being the Mother Teresa of dogs in India, how peer pressure pushed her to move to Canada, her arduous 5-day flight to Canada during the height of the pandemic, why “home” cannot be replaced, how immigration and living alone affected her, attending school during the pandemic, the positive and negative sides of helping people through her successful social media account.

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Kristian Kabuay is a Filipino American Visual Artist, among other things. He came on to talk about the growing pessimism towards the “American Dream”, his roots from Pasig, Philippines, growing up feeling American until a schoolmate questioned that, going back to Philippines to “find himself”, how hip-hop culture influenced him to propagate the teaching of “Baybayin” the old Philippine script, blind Nationalism among most Filipinos, cultural appropriation, the art of “Batok”, coining the term “Pre-Philippine”, his opinion on Bong Bong Marcos (son of the former dictator) possibly winning the Philippines presidency, his documentary “Lupa” which tells the stories of Filipino Americans’ complicated land ownership in the Philippines, and he educated me about NFT. 

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Mae Magnaye-Williams is a Chef and Food Blogger. She came on the podcast to talk about growing up in Makinhas, Philippines, how much she appreciates the closeness of its community, in contrast to her life in London, England. We talked about getting beat by our elders, our parents’ immigration to give us a better life, immigrant parents not knowing what retirement means, why she moved to London, paid tribute to her dad, Pepe, starting a nonprofit organization that taught Filipinos in the UK about their culture and language, after being discouraged to speak their own language at school, her educating people about Filipino food that she believes could open doors for other opportunities, for example, her being featured on “Mary Berry's Easter Feast” TV special. 

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I sat down with TikTok star, Abdulaziz Sharipov. We talked about his life in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, his dad being a famous trauma surgeon in Uzbekistan yet decided to move to America and ended up being a Taxi driver, living in a small apartment in Brooklyn with Buddhist monks, being bullied at school for speaking British English, and having a flat head, gaining weight because of American food, his struggles with working out, growing up watching USSR racist cartoons, feeling as a “Westernized Uzbek”, his celebrity status on TikTok and the responsibilities that comes with it. 

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I had a “chismesan” with the Mental Health Advocate, Tannia Burelo. We talked about her life in Mexico City, her mom's sudden passing when she was 19 that made her seek for affectionate female friends, being raised by a dad with a “very strong character”, meeting her Canadian future husband in Mexico that propelled her to immigrate to London, Ontario, her struggles of adjusting with life in Canada, her move to Banff, Alberta that helped her find what’s missing in her Canadian life, challenges of being in a mixed marriage, and raising a Canadian son, the importance of mental health. 

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I had a “chin-wag” with the Digital Artist, Laji Sanusi. We talked about our preference between Instagram VS Tiktok, his parents’ immigration from Nigeria to the United Kingdom in the 60’s, his odyssey back to Nigeria despite not speaking the language and being treated differently, why he feels Nigeria is “home”, his mom’s 40 siblings, growing up with immigrant parents, his dad’s recent passing and his memory of him, how he discovered his talent of drawing, quitting his work to be a fulltime artist, his advice for young artists, and his evolution of his art. 

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This week, we have the Mindset & Energy Coach, Zara Bagramian. We talked about why it took her 30 years to learn to ride a bicycle, her family’s immigration from Armenia to Ukraine, a country that she didn’t feel at home in, going to school in England, our affinity for accents, wanting to live in a multicultural society that led her immigration to Toronto, the “real reason” of her immigration, her job of selling trampolines, her opinion about Canadian coffee, being a life coach, and the power of manifestation. 

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