In Episode 4, Tricia Miller, M.Ed, LPC interviews her Dad, Frank Escueta, to find out more about his story into coming to America.  In a special father-daughter podcast, Tricia learns more about her father's motivations as an Filipino immigrant who came to the United States in the early 1970s. One of thirteen siblings growing up in a blended family, Frank shares his vision as a young man, and how the value of education motivated him to learn, grow, and eventually help lift others in his family as well as his entire town in Biñan, Laguna. As a young Mechanical Engineer who newly settled in Chicago in the early 1972, America presented unlimited opportunities. Frank pays tribute to his parents, fellow siblings, and honors the great country of America in living his dream.  

Frank highlights the following areas in the podcast:

• Motivating Factors Behind my Dad’s Immigration Story;
• Growing up from a blended family of 13 siblings;
• Family Values within an Immigrant Family;
• How Education Created a Ripple Effect in a Community;
• Visions of America from an Immigrant.