Listen in as we talk tech, AI, and data as a tool in the fight for immigrant rights.

In this episode, I’m joined by Bartlomiej Skorupa, Co-Founder & COO of Mobile Pathways, a tech nonprofit using AI and mobile data tools to support immigrants navigating the U.S. court system.

Bartlomiej’s story - from fleeing communism in Poland, to burning out in corporate America, to almost losing his vision in Madagascar, and eventually building a mission-led tech platform - is proof that purpose and impact are not linear. They're shaped through life experience and our values.

Together, we unpack:

• 📲 How Mobile Pathways uses AI to cut through time poverty to advance access to immigration legal services

• 🧠 The power of tech to sustain advocacy and scale social justice work - especially in the immigration system

• 🛠️ How changemakers can use tech ethically to support marginalized communities while minimizing harm

Whether you’re an immigrant, advocate, or social entrepreneur, this episode offers a grounded look at how innovation can drive structural change - without losing sight of humanity.

As Bartlomiej shares: “You can’t control chaos… but you can outlast it if you figure out the purpose in the moment.” 

As changemakers, we can’t always control what’s happening - but we can choose how we respond.

And we can leverage technology - not as a threat, but as a tool for good.

That’s how we build sustainable change.

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 Learn more about and support Bart’s work:

🔗 MobilePathways.com

🔗 LinkedIn: Bartlomiej Skorupa

More about Bart:

Bartlomiej (Bart) Skorupa is an immigrant social entrepreneur, investor, and best-selling author dedicated to inspiring leadership and championing fair access to justice. With a passion for launching mission-driven organizations, Bart works at the intersection of technology, philanthropy, and artificial intelligence to create powerful opportunities for change.
Bart's impactful work has been featured in prominent outlets such as NPR, Forbes, Men’s Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, Bravo Network, and Bloomberg Businessweek. Dell recognized his contributions to global change in 2014, naming him one of the 25 World Change-makers alongside figures like Lauren Bush, Edward Norton, and Adam Braun.
He is an active member of influential communities including the Fast Forward, SOCAP, Opportunity Collaboration, Salesforce Ohana, and Summit Series.
Beyond his professional achievements, Bart finds inspiration in the joys of raising two disruptive daughters in a cabin in the woods.

In a world of collapsing systems and digital noise, your voice isn’t optional — it’s essential.

Especially if you're a changemaker.

In this episode, Adina reveals why visibility is not a vanity metric — it's a core part of wealth-building for changemaker entrepreneurs and first-generation financial leaders.

Whether you're advocating for yourself at a bank, educating your family about money, launching a business, or growing a movement — this conversation will show you why voice activation is a key financial strategy.

You'll hear:

1. Why silencing yourself costs you more than you think

2. How visibility is foundational to building wealth in today’s economy

3. The mindset shifts to move through resistance to sharing your voice and being seen

4. Real-life examples from Adina’s journey moving from anonymous blogger to vocal entrepreneur and advocate

5. What happens financially + energetically when you start speaking up consistently

This episode is an invitation to UNMUTE — not for ego, but for impact.

If you’re ready to claim your message, break your silence, and expand your income through clarity and consistency, this one’s for you.

💥 UNMUTED is now open for enrollment: https://www.internationalempowerment.com/unmuted

A 6-week intimate visibility incubator for mission-driven leaders who are ready to speak clearly and consistently, build trust with their audience, and finally share their voice.

DM @adinaappelbaum the explore if it's right for you.

💥 For private suport, book a Changemaker Growth Intensive: https://www.internationalempowerment.com/grow

We’re not here to fight to be heard — we’re here to speak from the space no one else is holding.

In this powerful episode, let's unpack what it means to become UNMUTED in a time of collapse, censorship, and collective fear. From the dismantling of institutions to the internal voices that keep us small, this is a direct call to changemakers, leaders, and truth-tellers to rise.

Adina shares her personal struggles with visibility, the real reason most people self-silence, and why reclaiming your voice is no longer just a personal goal — it’s a collective responsibility.

If you’ve been hesitating, self-editing, or questioning whether it’s safe to speak up, this episode will anchor you in truth, mission, and momentum.

🔥 In this episode, we explore:

• The real threat of censorship (external and internal)

• Why trying to “save the old systems” is a dead end

• The visibility trap and how to escape it

• What authentic leadership actually looks like in this moment

• A powerful reframe to move through fear and speak up now

• The launch of UNMUTED — a high-touch voice liberation portal for changemakers

🎧 Mentioned in this episode:

• Soul-led entrepreneurs

• Advocates + educators

• Creators + disruptors

• Anyone ready to make their voice impossible to ignore

What happens when the child of immigrants becomes a changemaker — not just for her family, but for the entire system?

In this powerful and heart-opening guest episode of SYNARCHY, Adina sits down with Breanne J. Palmer, Esq. — attorney, immigration policy advocate, and founder of AJA Advocacy Solutions — to explore what it means to build a business rooted in legacy, liberation, and justice. 

Breanne’s story is a masterclass in resilience and reinvention. From nonprofit and government roles to founding her own policy consultancy named after her grandmother, Breanne shares how her consultancy is way more than a business. It’s a legacy project. A reclamation. And a declaration that advocacy doesn’t have to burn us out — it can be done with soul, clarity, and sovereignty.

✨ You’ll hear:

• What finally pushed Breanne to leave the “safe path” and start her own firm
  

• How her family’s story and experience as Jamaican immigrants shaped her approach to entrepreneurship
  

• How Breanne redefined leadership after years in government, private, and nonprofit spaces
  

• Why we don’t need a “seat at the table” — and instead we can build the whole house
  

• What legacy actually looks like in action — and how to build without replicating the systems we’re trying to dismantle
  

• The power of walking away — and of building something new

This episode is a permission slip to lead differently for anyone navigating visibility, voice, and career changes. To build businesses that feel like home. And to honor the shoulders we stand on — while becoming inspiration for future generations.

🔑 Takeaways

• Advocacy doesn’t have to mean burnout — it can mean entrepreneurship.
  

• Your legacy isn’t someday — you’re living it now.
  

• The systems we build today become the safety nets of tomorrow.

 Learn more about and support Breanne’s work:

🔗 breannejpalmer.com/ajaadvocacy

📸 Instagram: @aja_advocacysolutions

🔗 LinkedIn: Breanne Palmer

Want to build your business with clarity, strategy, and soul? ✨ 

Connect with Adina for social impact business coaching:

🔗 https://www.internationalempowerment.com/starthere

📸 Instagram: @adinaappelbaum

🔗 LinkedIn: Adina Appelbaum

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What if your shame around debt isn’t really yours?

In this episode, Adina breaks down how debt shame is strategically manufactured to keep historically marginalized communities in silence — and in survival mode.

She shares a personal story of a recent financial spiral, what it triggered emotionally, and how she navigated it without bypassing the real fear, frustration, or guilt.

From there, she unpacks how generational money trauma, internalized high-achiever pressure, and systemic financial exclusion are all entangled — and why rewriting your beliefs about debt is one of the most powerful things you can do on your wealth-building journey.

Whether you’re currently in debt, avoiding the topic altogether, or helping your clients move through their own shame… this is a reclamation conversation.

Because financial healing is activism.
Because you are allowed to be human.
And because the shame was never yours to carry.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why shame around debt is designed to keep you small — and quiet

• How to distinguish your beliefs from inherited or projected ones

• A trauma-informed process for breaking the spiral and re-regulating

• The difference between reacting in fear and responding with clarity

• Empowering reframes for anyone working through debt or other financial challenges

• Why financial flexibility is wealth

• And how wealth-building can start with one belief shift at a time

Resources Mentioned:
→ Message Adina on Instagram: @adinaapplebaum or @immigrantfinance to Book a Financial Counseling Session

→ Join the 2025 Immigrant Finance Certification Cohort: https://www.internationalempowerment.com/immigrant-finance-certification-program

🔥 If this episode gave you a new perspective or moment of relief, share it with someone you care about.

You’re not alone. And you don’t have to carry shame with you on the path to liberation.

We talk about justice.
We talk about money.
But rarely do we admit: there’s no justice without wealth.

In this episode, Adina shares a bold reframe on what financial liberation really means — especially in a world where our communities are under constant attack.
Because true justice isn’t just legal. It’s also financial.
And financial work is justice work.

Whether you're quietly budgeting for the first time, helping your community build wealth, or building a social impact organization or business — this episode is for you.

You’ll hear:

• Why financial disempowerment is a deliberate tool of oppression

• How trauma around money gets passed down — and how we heal it

• Financial empowerment as a form of activism

• How financial coaching, community education, and building businesses can shift generations

• What we’re building through Immigrant Finance & International Empowerment — and why it matters now more than ever

This episode is a grounding force and a rally cry.
You’re not behind. You’re part of a bigger movement.
Financial healing is activism. Let’s build together.

🔑 Takeaways:

• Financial trauma doesn’t stop with one person — it echoes for generations

• Wealth-building is resistance

• Systems create justice — and we’re building them now

✨ Want to go deeper?
DM Adina the word LIBERATION on Instagram @adinaappelbaum

Learn more about the Immigrant Finance® Certification Program: https://www.internationalempowerment.com/immigrant-finance-certification-program 

What happens when one Latina posts a TikTok out of corporate loneliness — and accidentally starts a nationwide movement?

In this episode, Adina sits down with Sophia Zarate, founder of Corporate Pero Latinos, a nonprofit creating professional and social connection points for the Latino community — while fueling massive impact behind the scenes.

📍Started as a Facebook group.

🏆 Won a grant from Bad Bunny + Cheetos.

📈 Now spanning 4 chapters (and counting), CPL leads national initiatives like scholarships for DACA and undocumented students, alongside chapter-led local programs such as ESL classes in NYC, where volunteers teach English to hospitality workers—all rooted in community and courage.

Sophia is a true model of a changemaker.

She didn’t wait for the “right time.”

She took the leap — before she had it all figured out.

Tune in for a conversation that’s equal parts inspiration + strategy. Because the future of movement-building doesn’t look like a boardroom. It looks like this.

🔑 In this episode:

• How Corporate Pero Latinos grew from one TikTok post into a nonprofit with 20K+ supporters
  

• The surprising moment that pushed Sophia to quit her 9–5 and bet on the mission
  

• How they’re building wealth and giving back through a unique triple-mission model
  

• The real reason “giving back” felt out of reach for so many — and what her community did instead
  

• Advice for changemakers afraid of being visible online (and what to do instead)
  

💥 Whether you’re building a business, nonprofit, or movement — this is your reminder that:

You don’t need a perfect plan. You need a clear why — and people who believe in it with you.

🎧 Listen now and share with someone who needs to hear it.

📍Follow Sophia @sophiealamexicana

🌍 Follow the org @corporateperolatinos

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Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It helps more changemakers find this show and dare to be seen.

If you’re reeling from the political moment, you’re not alone.

This episode is part story, part rage, part prayer for a new world — and a whole lot of power.

Adina shares a raw, real-time reflection on the passage of the “Big Ugly Bill” — a devastating legislative attack on poor and immigrant communities — and what changemakers can do.

While they gut the social safety net, expand ICE, and strip people of their basic rights and benefits, we’re being called to something bigger.

Spoiler: it’s not just resistance.

It’s about building what comes next — even when they’re successfully doing the opposite.

You’ll hear:

• A personal “little secret” behind the scenes of Immigrant Finance — and why it matters more now than ever

• The role of small, often invisible actions in legacy-level change

• A radical reframe for changemakers overwhelmed by this moment (and your role in it)

• Why we can’t only play defense — and what it looks like to wield both the shield and the sword

This episode is a permission slip, a rally cry, and a strategy session — for leaders, activists, and visionaries ready to build a new system rooted in purpose and power.

Because every micro-action matters. Especially the ones no one sees.

🔑 Takeaways:

• Your quiet, unseen actions carry generational impact

• We can’t save systems that were designed to harm — we’re here to build what comes next

• You were never meant to disappear. You were meant to lead.

✨ Want support clarifying your mission + building your movement?
DM Adina on Instagram @adinaappelbaum
or reach out at [email protected]

If you’ve been feeling everything—grief, fear, rage, numbness—you’re not broken. You’re awake.

In this solo episode, Adina shares a potent message for changemakers, immigrant leaders, and purpose-driven entrepreneurs navigating today’s charged political and energetic landscape. This moment isn’t just chaos—it’s an initiation. A call.

You’ll hear:

• Why feeling deeply right now is a sign of power, not weakness

• How astrology is revealing the deeper truth behind this collective unrest

• A radical reframe of what it means to lead in a collapsing world

• Encouragement for those whose voices shake, but still speak

• A reminder that rest is sacred—but avoidance and disappearance is not your destiny

This isn’t about hustling harder. It’s about honoring your sensitivity as strategy, and reclaiming your voice. You were born for this. And we need you—in your full, grounded, imperfect leadership—now.

🔑 Episode Takeaways

• Sensitivity is not a flaw—it’s an asset for systemic transformation

• Jupiter, Pluto, and Saturn are aligning to call forward emotionally intelligent leadership

• You don’t need a five-step plan. You need to move with clarity inside the chaos

• The mission isn’t to fix old systems. It’s to build new ones.

✨ What to Do Next

Ground into your own leadership:

• Breathe.

• Take inventory.

• Speak, build, and lead in the ways that feel true.

✨ And if you’ve been holding back - unsure how to build your soul-led changemaker brand in a moment like this -
Start with MISSION.
It’s the masterclass to help you find your business “thing” + set the world alight with your heart.
Designed to move you from overwhelm into strategic clarity.
→ Your core message
→ Who you’re here to serve (exactly)
→ Your business structure
→ Your next profitable, powerful step
Because stepping into being the changemaker you were born to be in this moment is more important more than ever.

And waiting won’t make it clearer.

Enroll in MISSION here: https://www.internationalempowerment.com/mission

P.S. If this episode sparked something, leave a review or share with a fellow visionary who needs this message.

This episode brings an energizing and expansive conversation with Natalia Gaitan, a Colombian immigrant, Creative Director, and Founder of Hola Luz Creative. Natalia's studio helps audacious, impact-driven entrepreneurs transform their purpose into powerful visual presence.

From designing for Fortune 500 brands like TJ Maxx and JC Penney to launching a mission-driven creative agency, Natalia shares how her entrepreneurial journey has been an act of defiance, empowerment, and storytelling. We explore:

• How branding becomes a political act for Latina and minority-owned businesses
  

• The power of redefining wealth, success, and visibility through entrepreneurship
  

• Why investing in your brand is non-negotiable if you’re building a legacy of impact
  

• Why purpose-led business needs strategy, not just passion
  

• Tangible insights for changemakers ready to take their message seriously
  

Whether you’re a startup founder, creative, nonprofit leader, or seasoned entrepreneur - this episode is your reminder that branding isn’t about ego. It’s about credibility, impact, and giving your message the vessel it deserves. As Natalia explains in the episode, “If you took your business as seriously as you take your purpose, everything would change.”

About Natalia Gaitan: Natalia, founder and lead designer of Hola Luz Creative Studio, is a bold advocate for purpose-driven branding. As a Latina entrepreneur with a background in designing for Fortune 500 companies, Natalia has transformed her passion for storytelling, cultural connection, and design into a thriving creative studio that serves audacious, impact-driven founders and organizations. Her work focuses on helping businesses amplify their voices and create lasting legacies through strategic branding and web design.

Natalia’s journey—from building her business in a second language to stepping into leadership as a speaker and mentor—reflects her commitment to breaking barriers and empowering women of color and underrepresented communities. She believes that a brand is not just a business asset but a powerful tool for connection, belonging, and change.

Through Hola Luz Creative Studio, Natalia collaborates with clients to craft bold, authentic brands that inspire connection, elevate their visibility, and shine a light on their unique stories. With a blend of expertise, empathy, and cultural resonance, she’s on a mission to help entrepreneurs build brands that don’t just look good but also make an impact.

Connect with Natalia:

• Instagram: @holaluzcreative

• Website: www.holaluzcreative.com
  

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