An Immigrant’s Life

I had a powerful and emotional conversation with Immigrant Rights Activist, Eva Santos Veloz. We talked about her growing up undocumented, how a chain reaction of trauma and personal struggles are brought to her family for being undocumented, how DACA changed her life for the better, her activism, the challenges organizing rallies, her “Feeding the Harlem Homies” program, and why she thinks it’s important for minorities to fight back the broken immigration system of America. 

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I had a conversation with author and digital nomad, Saloua Ibaline. She told me about her and her mother’s immigration to Belgium from Morocco, that separated her from her siblings, being raised by a resilient but strict Muslim single mom whom she rebelled against, living with a foster family in her preteen years, which fed to her confusion between the Moroccon culture and Western culture, the distinction of racism in Belgium VS in America, moving to America as an “au pair” and getting fired after 3 months, her adventures and misadventures in New York city, the how’s and the why’s of self-publishing her book. 

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I talked to my brother and Restaurateur, Tom Katsabanis. We talked about Greeks celebrating their “Name Day” rather than their birthdays, how religion is so important to Greece, how the civil war in Greece impacted his family and prompted his parent's immigration, and challenges of growing up with immigrant parents. 

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I had a conversation with social media sweetheart, Minnat Shah. We talked about her experiences growing up in Vadodara, India, being an introvert child, how making friends helped her become more outgoing, being a single child in India, the culture of arrange marriage vs love marriage in India, being in an arrange marriage herself, our experiences with Canadian winter, the challenges of making new friends in Canada, the difference between “work friends” and “actual friends”, why she started her IG account, and she gave out tips on to how to be a successful social media creator.

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I had a conversation with Industrial Engineer and Overseas Filipino Worker, Norman Bala. He told me about the greatness of his grandfather who was as a former Mayor of his town in the Philippines, getting a job that is not lined to his college program that led him to a good career, his migration to Qatar, and he read me a heartwarming letter from his daughter that almost got me all teared up. 

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I talked to bibliophile & HS ESL teacher, Emily Francis. She told me about her life growing up poor in Guatemala, being a 15-year-old taking care of her 4 siblings while her mom tries to make a living, her mom’s immigration to America, leaving them to fend for themselves for 2 years, then her and her siblings’ 2-month experience living with “coyotes” (smugglers) so they can immigrate to the US, her struggles with the American school system, and her arduous path of fulfilling her dream to become a teacher. 

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I talked to entrepreneur & content creator Juan Maya Hernandez. He told the story of him suffering from seizures when he was child, being bullied in school, asking help from a teacher that instead of helping offered to buy him a “Jack In The Box” instead, his drive to enroll and graduate from UCLA, and how an unfortunate situation made him find his purpose in life. 

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On this episode, I had a chat with lawyer and proud dog mom, Cherri Alcantara. We talked about her family’s immigration to California. She told the story about living in a 3 bedroom "manufactured home” with 11 people, her opinion on the negative effects of “model minority” perception, losing their home to a California wildfire, and her battle with anxiety and lupus. 

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I had a chat with man of the world and entrepreneur, Matus Lukes. We talked about growing up in small town Slovakia, how breakdancing prompted him to travel to Spain, migrating all over Europe, unintentionally serving for the Slovakian army, why he decided to stay in Vancouver. 

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On this episode, I sat down and talked to the rebel & aesthetician, Sadia Haque. We talked about how difficult it was to grow up as an ethnic Pakistani in rural Quebec around the 9/11 era, and how she stood up against it, how a rebellious act accidentally helped her find her true calling in life, and she dropped some knowledge regarding skin care. 

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