Our Canadian Experience—the podcast

In this episode, you'll learn all about:

• HOPS

• Taiwo's journey as a PMP and PMI future 50 honorary

• Bola's passion for mentoring and his driving force.

Listen in on this gem-filled episode. Learn and be inspired.

About Bola Adesope and Taiwo Abraham:

Bola Adesope, known as Coach Bola, is a business transformation consultant, speaker, and trainer. He is a PMP with experience and expertise in business strategy, business analysis, and change management. He is also the Co-Founder of Helping Other People Succeed, HOPS.

Taiwo Abraham is a seasoned mentor with a skill set in Project/Program/Portfolio Management, Business Administration, and Organization Change Management. He is PMI's future 50 honorary and Co-Founder of HOPS.

Friendship is a strong tool you need in life and particularly on this journey as a professional immigrant. 2020 overturned life as we knew it pre-Covid, but it also inspired Titilola to do something about making friends because mental health as a professional immigrant is key.

Listen to talk about the effect of this community and act.

Join a community today!

Connect with Titlola

Follow the Let's be friends community on IG

Join the community in clubhouse

Websites:

• Subscribe to Titilola's Youtube Channel

• Titilola's advocacy is about Seasonal affective disorder (SAD); Learn More

Episode clues:

00:04:30 Titilola's aha moment- What is the one thing you have always wanted to do and can do with zero dollars? Make Friends!

00:07:15 Lockdown virtual hangouts - How "Let's be friends network "started out

00:23:00: The safe space for newcomer professionals - Goal and dreams for Let's be friends Network

00:35:30: Titlola's advice to Newcomer professionals

Tosin Ajibola is one of Atlantic Canada’s 30 Under 30 Innovators. He is also one of the 2022 top 25 Immigrants in Canada.

In this episode, Tosin talks about the Atlantic and Tech communities and his story from student to entrepreneur.

Episode clues:

00:01:5 Collision conference in Toronto—a gold mine for networking

00:02:30 Significant trends that affect the professional immigrant community

00:03:30 From Masters program group to co-founders. Creating solutions from a shared challenge

00:08:15 Tosin’s story

00:18:45: Lessons from Tosin’s journey

00:19:45: Recipient of the DMZ Grant? How do you get your get start-up to be taken seriously?

00:29:00: Collaboration over competition in the social impact space.

00:32:00: Opportunities for immigrant businesses in Atlantic Canada and Atlantic Canada Techspace

Communities/organizations that support immigrant professionals in Atlantic Canada

• Myeastcoastexperience -Halifax NS

• The Tribe Network

• Venn Inovation Moncton, NB

• Planet Hatch, Fredericton, NB

Connect with Tosin Ajibola

LinkedIn

Join WelkomU

Websites:

Welkom-U https://www.welkom-u.ca/

Tosin in the news:

Top 25 Immigrants in Canada

Atlantic Canada’s 30 Under 30 Innovators

Meet Osita Nwajiufor, Career Strategist cum Tech Executive and Founder of NIPCA and BlackTECH, on the podcast today. Listen up as Osita gets underneath the struggle, experience, and lessons learned in his career about job-finding, business-building, and capability-building, and how they’ve set him up on an enriching and fulfilling entrepreneurial journey!

Episode clues:

• NIPCA was started with purely generous intentions and charged no membership fees from its people. Osita had to pay for the help resources himself, yet he focussed on the larger goal, which was being of help to people.

• What are transferable skills? How do you leverage them? How do you leverage them?

• Why is unemployment a big concern for Nigerians in Canada? Osita explains that there are multiple reasons, including:

  • Lack of community-building and socializing skills: Associating with the right people and identifying and engaging in forward and progressive thinking communities is necessary if you’d like to be a successful working professional in another country.

  • Impostor syndrome: Osita explains that most Nigerians face Imposter Syndrome when working in another country. They must understand that if they’re doing so well in their home country, they can do that anywhere else too. They just have to keep up the momentum.

• Advice for people to build a successful business: Run your business with a startup mindset.

  Connect with Osita

  LinkedIn:

  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/ositaman/

  • https://www.linkedin.com/company/blacktechhub/

  Join Nipca

  Websites:

  • https://blacktechhub.org/about-us/

  • https://nipca.ca/

  • https://nipca.ca/about-us/

  • https://nipca.ca/evolvesummit/

Its the Season Finale!

12 Episodes done and dusted.

Small feat, No. Awesome Feat.

Join me along side my co-host ;Mrs Noch as we talk about the previous episodes, lessons learned,and what the new year holds.

Its a lot of banter about the year, the journey so far and trust me, you will laugh a lot.

Reach out when you listen. We want to hear from you!

My guest on this episode is a powerhouse. She is one person I know that advocates fiercely for the community and leveraging on ourselves for the support. In this episode, we discuss community, people, staying motivated and everything in between. You also get to learn about "May Day". Enjoy this conversation and share your thoughts.

As internationally trained professionals, there are many resources on getting our first jobs in North America, but not many about succeeding on the job and thriving. This episode discusses how to hit the ground running in your first 90 days from the offer letter stage.

Tracy Oyekanmi comes bearing gifts with proven methods that have results with her clientele. Tracy is the founder of Visible at Work and a career visibility coach. She also hosts a podcast series, Visible at Work.

Listen, take notes and take action!

Most of us took this leap of faith with a vision or a goal of giving our little one's better opportunities here in North America.

In this episode, we discuss child development and education for immigrant families, navigating this part of our immigrant journey and wholesome parenting.

You will enjoy this episode, I promise!

One of the attractive factors of moving to Canada as a professional immigrant is its Multicultural backdrop. There are a lot of cultures represented here in Canada and thus it's a beautiful potpourri of cultures. Coming from your home country how do you succeed with the deal with the different worldview and succeed in the workplace.

Reach out and share your stories, comments and feedback by emailing:

[email protected]

I look forward to hearing from you.

Ps:Don't forget to subscribe

It's a journey and not a sprint. My guest in this episode of "Hangout with Abisoye" is Bamidele Salako; a Settlement Practitioner who joins me as we attempt to diagnose the challenges of a new professional immigrant. It's a fun conversation with a lot of truth bombs.

You can find Bamidele Salako on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bamidele-salako/?originalSubdomain=ca

Reach out and share your stories, comments and feedback by emailing:

[email protected]

I look forward to hearing from you.