Immigrant Masters Unite: Hacking Lives of Successful Immigrants To Live The American Dream!

Are you going through a tough time right now?

When you find yourself going through a difficult time, how do you cope with everything in your life?

Do you turn toward faith or a belief in a higher power?

Today’s amazing conversation is with Andrew Kim, my teaching pastor at Kensington Church located in Troy, Michigan. I think that Andrew’s parents’ journey to Detroit from South Korea by way of Vancouver is a beautiful story of faith, resilience, and grit.

When Andrew’s parents came to Vancouver for school, they anticipated building a better life for their family together. But Andrew’s father got sick and died, and Andrew’s mom needed to make a choice for how to move the family forward. 

Andrew’s mom told him over and over again how God showed up for her in her lowest moments. Through her lens and her perception, it was God every time that brought her out of every terrible situation.

When she opened up a flower shop in downtown Vancouver, she did it so that she could stay in Canada and build a better life for her kids. 

As a teaching pastor, Andrew is able to sit with people as they deal with difficult transitions. He shares some of his thoughts on how perception can shape the events we see around us.

Andrew talks about living in reality and that has to do with your mindset while accepting what’s real around you. The way that we see will determine our course of action, but sometimes our perception is incorrect. 

When God gives us blessings, he doesn’t intend for the blessings to stop with us. Instead, Andrew says, we should think of ourselves as the conduits for the blessings as we allow them to flow through us. We’re meant to impact the world around us.

This conversation was an amazing way to take hold of hope again. If you’d like some personal encouragement, you can connect with Andrew on Facebook or Instagram.

Here’s what’s inside this episode:

Good to Great

Immigrant Masters Unite

Polish Peter on Facebook

1ConversationAway.com

Man’s Search for Meaning

Andrew Kim on Instagram

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Do you worry that your accent will hold you back from success?

Have you ever wanted to stay home with your children, but you also needed to work?

Have you wanted to invest in real estate, but you don’t know how to get started?

The drive for entrepreneurship was already in her family, so after Anne Hillyard immigrated to the Phoenix area from Finland, becoming a real estate investor seemed like a natural next step.

Even though she’d studied English for years, she worried that her accent would hold her back as she talked to Realtors and brokers about building a real estate portfolio.

With a $6.5 million dollar portfolio and a mission to help other moms achieve the same kind of success, Anne has found that her accent never really held her back.

Anne is passionate about helping moms earn passive income so that they can spend more time with their children. For those who want to get started small, simply buying a house with a guest house, or even a duplex or triplex can help a newbie investor get a foothold in the investing world.

House hacking can help you pay your mortgage while you save money to invest in other properties. 

One of the biggest hurdles for Anne was overcoming her scarcity mindset. She had to dive in deep with mentors and courses to help her move past her block.

For new investors looking for a mentor, she recommends connecting with a real estate investor at a brokerage who’s also a Realtor so that you can start building your network there.

Most people are stymied by fear and a dose of perfectionism. Anne says that you don’t need to know everything; you just need to know enough, and then take the first step.

As of this writing, Anne is hosting a FREE online event called Rental Income Summit.  That event is on November 18th-20th for anyone who’d like to know more about passive income from real estate. You can sign up through her website Rental Income Academy.

Or, you can go here where you can claim your free ticket: http://go.rentalincomesummit.com/peter

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How a stay at home mom can get started in local real estate investing.
• How Anne transformed her scarcity mindset and opened up possibilities for her family.
• Some surprising benefits for having an accent, and why you should embrace this benefit.
• plus much more…

Immigrant Masters Unite

Polish Peter on Facebook

1ConversationAway.com

Harv Eker Course

Rich Dad Poor Dad

Think and Grow Rich

Rental Income Academy

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One last thing (an exciting announcement that will benefit you)…

As you know, I have been blessed with gifts of breaking down people’s beliefs, seeing what’s stopping them and then get them unstuck, creating a powerful why for this life and their vision, all…

so they can live their TRUE AMERICAN DREAM!

However, this is inaccessible for many (except for my students) due to my time (living my own vision and cost of coaching.

Until today…

You see, on Thursdays on Zoom at 1 pm EST, I’ll be having one-on-one free conversations, FREE clarity sessions for all of my podcast listeners.

My goal is to help entrepreneurs create a life first and then a business to support this.

If you’re ready for a conversation that will put you on a better path toward entrepreneurial success, reach out to me or head over to this website and fill out the form (to make sure this is a win-win for both of us).
 
https://1conversationaway.com

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If you’ve lost your dream, how do you regain it?

How do you make the impossible possible in your life?

What if everyone around you thought your dreams were too big and crazy?

I have such a story-driven inspiring episode for you today because Simone Severo has an amazing story about her immigration from Brazil.

When she was a little girl, she knew that she wanted to make it to America some day, but she was surrounded by a culture that wanted her to stick to the status quo.

Consequently, she felt completely out of place as she spent her free time studying English and learning about America so that she could make her dreams happen.

When someone told Simone “No,”, what she heard in her head was “No, but…” because she didn’t want to accept the word “No”.

That refusal to hear the word “No” meant that she could be flexible about the different paths to take to America as long as each path took her one step closer to her goal of immigration.

It eventually took her 32 years to get to America, but the timing didn’t matter to her.

Simone always wanted to be a photographer, but she quickly realized in the early days of the internet that digital photography was going to be the next big thing.

As she worked to build her business, she challenged herself to take a portrait picture every single day of the year. She spent about 1,500 hours working on this one project and after that, she realized that she could do nearly any kind of photography. 

I loved talking with Simone and hearing about her zest for life. She radiates fun and passion, and her portraitures are truly works of art.

I hope that you’ll be inspired by her determination, excitement, and entrepreneurial spirit.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

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Profit First

A Portrait a Day

SimoneVision.com

Immigrant Masters Unite

Polish Peter on Facebook

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What kind of mindset does an immigrant need to succeed in the United States?

What if I told you that you already have all of the skills and talents you need to succeed?

And what does your life look like when you create something bigger than yourself?

Success in America seemed like a wild dream to Carlos Reyes when he was growing up in Mexico. He came from very humble beginnings, and survival mode was a way of life for him.

As a child, he shared a bed with his grandparents, and his shower was a bucket outside. But Carlos credits his childhood experiences for helping him become so successful.

Even as a child, he was interested in entrepreneurship. He started his first joint venture as a child by joining with a friend’s mom and selling her Mexican bread door to door.

When his mother immigrated illegally to America, he continued helping the family out until she helped to bring him over the border. 

When Carlos first came to America, he thought his dreams were big. And he really thought he’d made it when he landed his first corporate job making $70,000 a year.

Today, Carlos is a legal US citizen who owns over 25 businesses, and seven of his businesses are grossing 7 figures a year. He started with no money, but he had tons of heart, commitment, and a work ethic.

He wants every immigrant to stop dreaming so small. Immigrants will happily put in 10-15 hour days for their families, but Carlos wants them to dream even bigger. 

God and family are at the core of Carlos’s life, and you can really hear his passion for serving others as he talks about his businesses. He sees his success as a tool for him to help other people.

If there’s one thing he wants every immigrant to know, it’s this:

“Change your mindset or else you will continue to pass down the generational financial curses we’ve all inherited.”  

Here’s what you’ll learn on this episode:

• Why immigrants have all of the best traits for entrepreneurial success. 
• How Carlos’s faith shapes the core values of his company.
• The #1 mistake that Carlos sees immigrants make again and again.
• How adversity made Carlos into a better entrepreneur.

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Mentioned in this Episode:

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

Carlos Reyes on Instagram

Carlos Reyes on Twitter

Carlos Reyes’s website

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What do you truly want from life?

How do you find your true identity?

What is it like to reinvent yourself after finding tremendous success?

This is Alex Pardo’s second podcast with me, and I’m so excited to share about the next step in his journey.

As a successful real estate wholesaler with over $40,000 in business a month, Alex realized that wholesaling just wasn’t as fulfilling for him.

He had founded FlipEmpire.com and its parent company RE-Solutions LLC, and had flipped over 300 properties, but he decided that after 15 years, it was time to leave it all behind. 

But leaving behind the business he’d built was hard! He spent some time trying to be half-in, half-out of the business, but as he says, “You can’t be half-pregnant”.

He realized he needed to be in or out entirely. In the meantime, he’d launched Ascend, a real estate mastermind and coaching business, which he found that he absolutely loved. And that’s when he decided to leave active real estate investing.

Alex is so passionate about connecting with other people that it’s become an integral part of his identity. He settled on three things that completely fulfill him, and built a new life around them:

Listen…If there are “nudges” in your life, what do you do?

You know what I’m talking about; you wake up and you’re thinking about something or someone, or you can’t get something out of your head. When you feel those nudges, the key is to act immediately, says Alex.

You can just hear the excitement Alex has for his new path in life, and his enthusiasm to help other entrepreneurs find their passion again. If you’d love to connect with Alex, you can contact him on his website or through one of his social media channels.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

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Mentioned in this Episode:

IMU 044: How to Hire Power Players

Rhinoceros Success

What is Your Unique Ability?

FlipEmpire.com

[email protected]

Alex Pardo on Instagram

Alex Pardo on Facebook

Immigrant Masters Unite

Polish Peter on Facebook

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What if growing up in the U.S, you assumed that you could grow up and have the American dream, just to find out that you couldn’t legally work, drive, or take out loans in America?

Do you know how the DACA program works for children of illegal immigrants?

Diego Corzo came to the United States when he was 9 years old. When he was 15 and went to apply for a driver’s license and discovered that he did not have papers to be here legally.

So everything that he assumed he’d be able to do just like every other American teen got turned on its head. He was worried that he would get shut out of a lot of traditional opportunities.

As the oldest grandchild and a first generation immigrant, Diego felt a lot of responsibility to lead by example. Not only did he have to learn English, but he also struggled to speak through a stutter. And of course, companies could not pay him legally and he couldn’t take out any student loans. 

When you hear Diego talk, you can really hear how positive and upbeat he is about his life. One reason for this is his mindset.

Instead of focusing on “Why is this happening TO me?”, Diego framed his circumstances around “Why is this happening FOR me?”

Even though companies couldn’t pay him, he could form an LLC with a friend, and receive payment through that LLC. He constantly looked for ways around all of the limitations placed on him by his immigration status.  

When you change your mindset about what’s happening for you rather than to you, you’ll be able to experience a significant impact on your life.

Today, Diego is a Realtor in Austin, TX, and he is on his way to financial independence with 15 rentals. If you’re looking for a house or you’d love to connect with a fellow millennial, you can email Diego on his website. 

Here’s what you’ll Learn on this episode:

• How Diego worked around the limitations put on him by his immigration status.
• Graduating from college with no debt took tremendous sacrifice, especially since Diego couldn’t take out student loans.
• Why Diego used his story and his voice to testify in Congress. 
• Diego’s mission to help Millennials achieve their true potential and financial independence.
• plus much more…

Mentioned in this Episode:

Immigrant Masters Unite

Polish Peter on Facebook

Psycho-Cybernetics

Follow Diego Corzo on Instagram

RatRacetoFI.com

Email Diego at: info (at) diegocorzo.com

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How would you like to learn a strategy that will help you get your product out there, even if you have no money to produce it?

How can you use crowdfunding to build your company?

What do you do when you don’t have the money to launch your product?

You’ve got a problem. Now, every great company, every great entrepreneur will set out to solve that problem for people.

Here’s one great example of a solution using crowdfunding to making that solution come to reality.

For instance, say you want to take a trip with your favorite guitar, but it’s too fragile to toss into the belly of an airplane or the trunk of a car.

Adam Klosowiak realized that people wanted to travel with their guitars, but wooden guitars were too fragile. That’s why he created a prototype carbon fiber guitar to solve that problem.

Adam is the co-founder and CEO of Klos Guitars, which he started with his brother Ian when he was a senior at Princeton finishing up his electrical engineering degree.

He grew up outside Chicago, home to the second largest population of Poles live outside of Poland. Today, Adam lives in Park City, Utah where he focuses full-time on his work at Klos Guitars. But when he started, he only had two guitars and no money. 

Adam turned to crowdfunding as a way to raise money for his idea. He says that the benefits of crowdfunding are:

If you’re interested in starting your own company, Adam advises you to not be too focused on perfection. In fact, putting your product out there and getting feedback on it will help you see the features you need to improve faster.

It’ll let you get your marketing dialed in before you scale up your business. Check out Klos Guitars on nearly every social media marketing channel. 

What’s Inside:

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Klos Guitars on Instagram

Klos Guitars on Facebook

Klos Guitars on Twitter

KlosGuitars.com

Immigrant Masters Unite

Polish Peter on Facebook

How to Win Friends & Influence People

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What does it take to make it as an immigrant in Hollywood?

How can someone who doesn’t fit into traditional molds break into modeling?

As an immigrant, what is considered a respectable career?

Do you have to be a lawyer, an accountant, or something safe because you’re a first generation American and you have that expectation on you?

Daisi Pollard Sepulveda can be compared to an ‘80s supermodel meets Devil Wears Prada with Ashley Graham confidence. With Jamaican, Jewish, and African-American heritage, she has a fusion of culture to choose, so she doesn’t see just one thing that influences her life.

Modeling and beauty pageants shaped the beginning of Daisi’s career, and she’s represented famous brands like Sephora, Fiverr.com, and Makeup Forever.

But today she works with young talent to help empower them in a way that she didn’t have as she broke through barriers as a young girl. As a woman of color in this country, Daisi did not experience positive affirmation about what she wanted to do and she wants to change that.

In modeling, when a scout or modeling agency wants to put a girl in a box for the kind of work she can do, Daisi wants to wreck that box. She wants to empower girls to say “No” to work that isn’t what they want to do.

It’s a different kind of industry and other people’s opinion about what you look like is going to have an effect on your career, whether that’s negative or positive. 

Speaking about Hollywood, Daisi has some encouraging words for the invisible barriers we think are there.

While it might seem like Hollywood is the ultimate American institution, there are a ton of people in Hollywood who are not American.

Because the Hollywood brand claims them, you forget that their origins are not American. Sometimes when you sit in an audience and watch the actors up on the silver screen, you forget that they started somewhere small too. 

If you want to connect with Daisi about acting or modeling advice, you can email her at: info (at) daisipollard.com.  

On this powerful episode, you’ll Learn:

• Why Daisi’s path into modeling was successful because of what she didn’t know.
• How immigrants have always played a huge part in Hollywood, and why that can work toward their advantage.
• How people’s opinions can derail your career in the modeling and acting world.
• Why focusing on the “Tom Cruise” opportunity will make you miss the opportunities in front of you.

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Mentioned in this Episode:

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

Choose Yourself

Immigrant Masters Unite

Polish Peter on Facebook

Daisi Pollard’s website

Daisi Pollard on Instagram

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What makes us act in certain ways?

How can you change the circumstances around you?

Where can you find lasting happiness? And what does happiness have to do with your past?

Shervin Hojat came to the US from Iran when he was 17. He got a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science because that was something that was expected of him.  Sound familiar?

But then he decided that he wanted to take an entirely different path. After Shervin’s father died unexpectedly in 2006, he realized that waiting until you retire to live life on your own terms was too long to wait.

We spend a lot of time avoiding experiences that we think are bad, but these experiences help us feel the whole gamut of human existence.

And yet, bad experiences can also hold us back from enjoying the present. Shervin wants you to live in the moment so that you can be more effective and make better decisions. 

On Shervin’s journey of personal discovery, he’s discovered the benefits of meditation, forgiveness, and nature in helping him peel back the layers of why he acts in certain ways.

On this episode, Shervin walks you through an exercise for how a person can take a moment and reframe their point of view.

Most of the time, 90% of the things we do are done subconsciously, and it takes some effort to become aware of your actions and the reasons behind them. Shervin describes it like peeling an onion; each layer peeled back exposes truer happiness. 

For more on this amazing topic of finding true happiness through personal discovery, you can check out both of Shervin’s books, or contact him through his email: shervinhojat (at) gmail.com. 

You can also connect with him on Facebook or his website.

On this episode, you’ll Learn:

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Tend to Your Garden Within

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

Symphony of My Heart

Shervin Hojat’s blog

Shervin Hojat on Facebook

Immigrant Masters Unite

Polish Peter on Facebook

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Do opportunities still exist in America?

Do you sometimes feel like there’s no room for success for you, your life or your business because of how difficult things are or have been?

Whether it’s in life or your business, adversity isn’t unique to one person…everyone and every business has those moments.

The question is:

What drives you?

When you have a “Why” so deep that it drives you forward through any adversity, then you know that success is going to be a big part of your life.

Andrew Samuel was born into humble circumstances in India, but today he is the CEO of LinkBank Corp because he internalized his sense of purpose from a young age.

Every step of the way in his journey, Andrew knew he had to apply himself because his dreams weren’t going to happen overnight. He really believes that having a chip on his shoulder would’ve held him back.

Even as he worked jobs that others might consider beneath themselves, Andrew approached them with grace and hard work. He saw it this way:

One day, you might be serving them, and the next day, they might be serving you.

Many people credit luck for their success, but Andrew believes that it’s just seizing the opportunities that show up in front of you.

I used to hear this funny phrase and think it was true that, “In America, money grows on trees”.

Of course, it doesn’t, but the opportunities in America are out there for you, as long as you work hard and do it intentionally.

with that said, listen closely to the top 3 talents Andrew says you need to succeed.  One of the really cool parts about Andrew’s company is that he has a Chief Cultural Officer whose sole job is to create the company culture and protect it from outside forces.

As a coach, I know that if I want my clients to do something, then I need to model that for them. If I want them to be on time, then I need to show up on time too.

The idea that the culture should start at the top is a huge part of my coaching method too, and I loved that Andrew values this enough to create this position.

You are not going to want to miss the end where Andrew shares his next big project which I believe will really revolutionize the small banking industry.

When you listen to this podcast episode, you’ll discover…

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Immigrant Masters Unite

Polish Peter on Facebook

Andrew Samuel on Facebook

Andrew Samuel on LinkedIn

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