At The End of The Day with Anuz Thapa & Dipika Shrestha

In this episode,  we talk to acclaimed musician Sajjan Raj Vaidya from Nepal.

Sajjan has millions of fans all across the world but not all of them know that he is also a banking professional. 

In this conversation, he talks to us about his journey, from being an international student at Baruch College in New York City to the details on how he navigated his ways around study, professional clubs at school, getting internships at the banks he was interested in, and finally getting into his career in banking profession.

Today, Sajjan proudly pursues his career, both as a banking professional & as a successful musician. 

Here’s the link to Sajjan’s YouTube Channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogr6ygCwRwc

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In this episode,  we talk to Jia Guo from China.

She is an Associate Editor at SupChina, a digital media company in New York City that produces China based content for western audience. 

Here, Jia walks us through her journey in the U.S., beginning from her days as an undergrad student to her professional career in Bloomberg, then to Facebook and now in SupChina.

Jia can be contacted at [email protected]. 

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In this episode, we talk to Prayeen Singh from Nepal.  He is a Site Reliability Engineer in Microsoft and is based in San Francisco, California.  Interestingly, he did not start his career as an Engineer in Microsoft. He set his foot in the company as a Data Center Technician, where he had to take care of cables and manual jobs.  But his passion for computer and technology, ultimately led him to what he always wanted.  Also a professional singer, Prayeen is the lead vocalist of the band The Vibez. ( Here's the link to his latest song- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj13EEDkTxs )Moral of the story: Grab whatever opportunity you get and work through it to reach your destination. Prayeen can be contacted at [email protected]. If you love this podcast, you can support us with a small, monthly donation. Your contribution will help us to make more episodes. Link to support us: anchor.fm/anuzdipika 

In this episode, we talk to Maria Del Mar Piedrabuena from Spain. 

She is a journalist based in the east end of Long Island in New York.   

One interesting thing, she says in the conversation is that little things like ‘how to get a library card,’ ‘how to register your kids’… are things that people usually take for granted. But when you are new in this country, you have no idea on how to do and who to ask for.  “ So I thought of starting this project, www.tupresnalocal.com  to share basic ‘how to’ information for the Latino community in New York.  

Maria can be contacted at [email protected].

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In this episode, we talk to Roni Mazumdar from India, who is an entrepreneur with three Indian restaurants in New York City. 

His restaurant, Adda, was named one of the ten best new restaurants of 2018 in NYC by The New York Times.

In this podcast, he talks to us about the transition that his family went through while moving from India to the U.S. One of the interesting things he says, " Truth is, we moved here ( the U.S.) for opportunities. If I did not utilize that to its full extent, then I am doing something extremely wrong; and destroying and crushing many people's dreams in the process." 

Roni can be contacted at [email protected] 

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In this episode, we talk to Arpana Rayamajhi from Nepal, who made it to The New York Times’ 30 Under 30 in 2016 for her internationally acclaimed work as a Jewelry Designer.   

Here, she talks about ‘the moment’ she got the ‘inner calling’ that she had to pursue her career in jewelry designing, and how she left her surviving job to work for nearly 13 hours every day on designing jewelleries in her small apartment in New York City. 

Arpana’s designs have been worn by celebrities like Kendall Jenner and Adriana Lima. 

Arpana can be contacted at [email protected] 

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In this episode, we talk to Boris from China. He is a Tour Leader at the travel company, Universal Vision.

In this brief conversation, he shares his story of ‘how he gradually grew up as a professional tour guide in the U.S.’

One interesting thing he says during this conversation is - it is very likely that people who join the tour packages are doing the trip only once in their lifetime; so it is tour guide’s duty to make sure they have a memorable time.

Boris can be contacted at [email protected].

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In this episode, we talk to Tshering Gurung from Nepal, who is currently working at Business Center for New Americans ( BCNA).

In this brief conversation,  she reveals how working as a volunteer with the organizations she was interested in, eventually helped her pursue her desired career in the U.S. 

Tshering can be contacted at [email protected].

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In this episode, we talk to Ghita Benslimane from Morocco, who works as a Video Producer at Brut.

In this brief conversation,  she talks about her experience in positioning The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism’s graduate programs as ‘STEM programs’.

Also, she explains how she approaches prospective employers for job opportunities as an international student.

Ghita can be contacted at [email protected].

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In this episode, we talk to Khagendra Chhetry, the first Nepalese-American Attorney.

In this brief conversation, he walks us through his ‘very interesting story’ of ‘being the first Nepali to become an attorney in the U.S.’

One truly inspiring thing he says is, in 1983, he came all the way to the U.S. from Nepal, to knock the door of Columbia University - despite being unable to afford its expensive tuition fee. 

He says, “I went (to Columbia University) and knocked on their door, it so happened, that they responded. If you want to be successful in the U.S., it’s not going to work otherwise; this is the only way, ‘you go and knock’. ”

Mr. Chhetry can be contacted at [email protected] 

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