An Immigrant’s Life

Brendan Moriarty, who comes from a respectable line of Ivy Leaguers, chose to pursue the art of filmmaking because he not only had the talent for it but also the drive to balance it with business. Was raised dirt biking through Cambodia despite being originally from New England. After visiting the Tomb Raider movie set, he was motivated to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker. We talked about what equality really meant, the American psyche, and how China is slowly taking over Cambodia. 

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Kamilla Fayz is the founder of Ikat Wear was raised in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where she learned the art of haggling from her mother. However, she had a "confusing" childhood because of the influence of her two grandmothers. At 16 years old, she won an exchange student scholarship that brought her to Farmersville, Texas. Despite that it didn’t match her expectations of what America looks like, there she learned there are other things that women can do. Despite not being good with kids, she is raising two American daughters where she struggles to find the balance which cultures, she will impart to them. 

We also talked about her battle with immigrant insecurity, the inspiration behind Ikat Wear, the cultural appropriation of Ikat, and her involvement with "Cultural Homestay international" an organization that hosts exchange students. 

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Erick Widman is an immigration lawyer who grew up in Cupertino, California. When he was 13 years old, he went on an exchange student program to Japan, which changed his outlook on life. After earning his law degree and attempting to defer the real world, he moved to Hungary to teach business law, where he met his wife. 

We talked about challenges of long-distance relationships, trying to balance his career and family life with the help of journaling, starting his law firm, Passage Immigration Law being a "High Performance Coach" to be a better employer, and issues pertaining to immigration. 

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Vicheka King is a Cambodian film star that’s currently living in the US for only six months. She came on the podcast to talk about joining beauty pageants, starring in a feature film in Cambodia called “My Hero Teacher”. We also discussed having her miracle baby, motherhood, and the challenges and perils of raising an American boy. 

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Dr. Salvatore Forcina was a former vascular surgeon who is now an author, joined the podcast to talk about his World War II experiences in Scauri, Italy, and his family's immigration to Argentina. He was sent to the Redemptorist priests to live and study for seven years when he was just 11 years old due to his impoverished circumstances. While there, he discovered a passion for classical music, but his father insisted that he pursue a career in medicine. Life came full circle when he met his future wife through his love for classical music and surgery. We also discussed his experiences working in the emergency room, his approach to a patient's death, and the touching story that served as the inspiration for his memoir. 

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Afoali Ngwakum a video content creator from Montreal who is originally from Cameroon but grew up in seven different countries, and I had such a wonderful and insightful conversation. We discussed the thrill of making new friends and the challenges of breaking off relationships with long-time friends, our shared love for Montreal, how she developed her passion project, "Turn up Tuesday," out of her love for African music, how social media monetization has changed how we create, starting her video production company, 9:16 Stories and the fun and stress of video productions. 

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Vikta Paulo is the weathercaster for CBC Ottawa and the voice of Ottawa basketball, but we didn’t just talk about the weather in this episode, we also talked about how the Civil war in Uganda drove his family to immigrate to Canada, how he is using basketball as a bridge to mentor the next generation of African-Canadians, his opinion about “Diversity Hire”, announcing Drakes OVO Bounce basketball tournament, and the 2016 NBA All-Star in Toronto. 

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I had a fun filled conversation with the actress and filmmaker Giovannie Espiritu. Born in the slums of Tondo, Philippines and later immigrated to California, her life has been full of colors and textures to say the least.  

After learning that her step-dad had molested her, her mother expelled her out of the house, forcing her to move in with her grandparents. After some time and the passing of her grandfather, her mother dragged her back to the Philippines, where she felt lost looking for a sense of belonging. This led her to join a doomsday cult, which caused her to suffer from depression. Her mother then sent her back to the US, where she worked and lived with a couple who were elders of her church as an all-around caregiver. The couple eventually coerced her to marry a church member who was 17 years older than she was. Bored and friendless, she used to talk to telemarketers, till one of them suggested that she try voice over. She took a chance out of desperation, and it paid off as it led her to a career in acting, filmmaking, and coaching actors. 

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After being abandoned in a Russian orphanage shortly after his birth, Joshua Breaux was adopted by a Cajun couple and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 

After a DNA test, he was finally able to validate his real identity, as well as discovering that he had a biological half-sister in Kansas that had also been adopted. 

His approach to dealing with being abandoned and his social media account Culture of Tajikistan where he shares everything Tajikistan were all discussed on this episode. 

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As a result of her parents’ deaths from a car accident, Maria Flores siblings devised a plan for her to immigrate from Abancay, Peru to Montreal as an asylum seeker, but she was captured in Cuba and was imprisoned. After that, she then tries to immigrate to the United States illegally through Mexico, a story she will include in her upcoming biographical book. We also talked about her early struggles as an immigrant, attending a community college to improve her life, going through divorce and losing her job, which then made decide to invest in herself and started Prumatt a mom-friendly active wear company that was inspired by her love of working out. 

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