Seasoned with an Accent _The Voice of the Global Professional

An enthusiastic about Tampa Bay, the successful Brazilian immigrant and entrepreneur Corina Lessa-Silva has impacted the Tampa community with her work in Real Estate. 

Corina is certified in Global Economics by the Harvard Business School. She founded Tampa Bay Key Realty a few years ago together with Margarete Welter. By combining management skills and training in Real Estate with their international experience, they have achieved great success serving the international community. They can communicate in Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, and English.

Corina is also the president of Suncoast Global Council, where she leads and influences the professional community. Under her leadership, this organization recently received the Platinum Award from the National Association of Realtors for outstanding community service. She is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Pinellas & Central Pasco REALTOR®️ Organization. 

In this interview, she talks about being an international student, immigrating, becoming a realtor abroad, and enjoying the Florida region in the United States.

Do you think it is important to be driven by purpose? Listen to our interview with International  Business Leader and Civil Engineer Grover Vargas, who believes that having a clear purpose made all the difference in his life and career! 

Born in Bolivia, he immigrated to various countries across continents, adapting to many cultures and ways of life. A change and innovative leader, he has been very successful in the civil engineering market, working in tunneling and mining with shotcrete and Macro Synthetic Fiber Technology. 

Through it all, resilience, determination, and focus on his purpose kept him going towards his desired future. And this is what he recommends to the immigrant community: “Find out what is the most important thing in your life, discover your true self, identify your purpose, build an action plan, come back, revise and improve. Without action nothing happens!"

Are you insecure about speaking in a foreign language or doubtful that you can be fluent in English? Are you a perfectionist afraid of speaking up because you think you don't communicate well enough? What if you could make peace with your process of learning a language by transforming your mindset? 

That is what Kelly Nowocien proposes: a neurocoaching approach that considers what goes on in the emotional and mental realms, where the blockages really lie. By freeing yourself from the conditioned beliefs, false ideas, and negative emotions that often arise with new challenges, a new pathway to learning opens up, one that is full of newfound freedom, self-love, awareness, acceptance, confidence, and wellbeing.

Kelly Nowocien is a Certified Life, Neurolanguage®️, and Transformational Coach who works to help learners create happier and healthier language-learning journeys that have a ripple effect in their whole lives. An immigrant herself, she moved to France 25 years ago from England, her home country, and has helped many English learners improve their communication and public speaking in the Corporate world.

In this interview, she will blow your mind with a new «greener» vision for learning a language through an ecological & neuroscience-based approach. All immigrants and expatriates will greatly benefit from listening! Powerful and transforming ideas that can help you overcome your struggles with any language.

You can't miss the interview with Dr. Tosh Bolanle on our podcast Seasoned with an Accent. He holds a Ph.D. in Pharmacy and an MBA. Born in Nigeria, he came to the United States 22 years ago.  He went from driving taxis in Boston to becoming a successful businessman and entrepreneur. 

An exceptional optimist, he talked about the importance of being self-aware, knowing your value, not limiting yourself as an immigrant, and being open to opportunities. He also addressed the trajectory for pharmacists in the United States. 

When I asked him what the greatest obstacles in his immigrant journey were, he answered: "I don't see obstacles!" He is a problem solver who faces challenges with courage and a positive spirit, a wise man who has succeeded in his field and is now totally integrated as an immigrant in the United States. He shared his wisdom with us in this exciting interview. 

Do you aspire to grow in your career? Are you feeling discouraged because you are an immigrant? Then listen to Marta Wladyczka, Director of Inventory and Acquisition for a forefront hospitality corporation. 

Born in Poland, she has lived in the United States for almost 30 years. In this interview, she talked about her journey of Career Advancement, from a minimum wage entry-level job to director of a major corporation, managing a budget of millions of dollars. She didn't know any English initially, but with guidance, education, and self-determination, Marta thrives!

Don't miss that interview, immigrant; she has excellent advice on advancing your career abroad!

What are the most significant fears and insecurities a global professional faces when immigrating?  We inaugurate our podcast with a human and heartfelt interview with Shailendra Malik in which he addresses deep issues related to the experience of moving abroad. 

Shailendra Malik is the Senior Vice-President of the biggest bank of Singapore, DBS. An innovative, agile, and change leader, he administrates and coordinates all the IT initiatives and tech enhancements for the Bank’s Group Audit department. With 17+ years of industry experience, he holds a Masters in Computer Applications from India, his home country. As an author, he has collaborated in writing a crowdsource book on Artificial Intelligence named "The AI Book".  He runs a blogging platform named Agility Exchange in his free time and 5 more bloggers contribute on this platform.

In a very sincere and authentic way, he opened up his heart and talked about feelings, insecurities, and difficult moments as he progressed through his career abroad in Saudi Arabia and Singapore. His family journey is an incredible story of learning, overcoming, and building progressive success through three generations.

Listen to his extraordinary life experience and be encouraged!

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