Career Safari

Ep 104

This month's Torchbearer, Chiraz Bensemmane, decided to establish her own business at 21. After she struggled starting her career in the corporate world in France; she finally found her stride as a world-traveling business development professional. This is when she realized how much her skills were in demand and created her own company, Pitch World Fast. We have a hilarious conversation about her journey and she shares advice on how to close the deal!

Our Torchbearer, Olamide (Lami) Ajibesin, is a DEAL. MAKER. not only for the businesses and entrepreneurs she guides as a deal advisor and mergers & acquisitions expert - But even in how she has navigated her own career. As a Nigerian-American woman learning and breaking the rules, she has determined to make her journey extraordinary.

In this episode we talk about owning your career journey, some of the amazing deals she has made and her advice to entrepreneurs.

In this candid talk we chat with our Torchbearer Hyepin Im, a Korean-American non-profit executive and community advocate that started her career in the accountant and venture capital world. After she faced multiple layoffs and challenges she found the good in her goodbyes by answering God's calling and then watched miracle after miracle happen in her life.

Hyepin's courage to advocate for the Asian community has got the attention of many powerful institutions, including the White House. We talk about what it's like being in those spaces and what drove her passion to change careers.

In our first episode we talk with Pallavi Agarwal, an Entrepreneur from India.

Grit and resilience is what took Pallavi from asking "what is software?" – to explaining the ins and outs of Salesforce to her clients at her own company, Kander. She shares with us how she stumbled upon consulting at a time when she was unsure about the next direction in her life and how that turned it into her own an international business.

To read Pallavi's entire career journey, visit our website. You can also reach out directly to Pallavi.

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Welcome to Career Safari, our space to disrupt the views on what it means to be a career woman. Join us as we showcase the career journey of multicultural women. Here's our sneak peek. Career Safari premieres May 12th!