Immigrant Entrepreneurs
The only podcast out there that outlines amazing immigrant entrepreneurs' journeys. Immigrants are building the economy in America every single day. This show was born to inspire all immigrants who want to become entrepreneurs. Immigrants bring the fire, the drive and the compassion to build communities around them, and to create economies. They build jobs, create amazing opportunities, give back in some unimaginable ways and make America great. I came from Russia and my entrepreneur spirit stems from my dad. He came to America with $600 in his pocket and got paid $8/hour on his first job. He later decided to start his own business doing HVAC and never stopped. He's been in business for over 20 years and never looked back. If you would like to be on my podcast, email me at: hello@alinawarrick.com Website: alinawarrick.com
Episodes
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Eva Sadej
Eva is originally from Poland and she immigrated with her family to the States when she was very young. Her parents had to downgrade and take lower paying jobs than what they were used to back home. As an immigrant, they had humble beginnings. Eva grew up and wanted to get to Harvard really, really bad.. so she did everything in her power to achieve a full ride scholarship to Harvard.
After receivi...
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Ali Payani
Ali is originally from Iran but his entrepreneurial journey started when he was living in Dubai. He wanted to launch his startup but the government in Dubai did not allow him to do it only because he was Iranian. He tried so hard for 2 years, but was unsuccessful. So, he took his business idea to Silicon Valley.
He came to the United States to be able to launch his company. He was working on a pro...
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Tal Frankfurt
Tal studied Business Administration and Communications in college, back home in Israel. He came out to the U.S. for a short program and met his wife. He later came out to live in the States at 26 years old and had to go find a job.
But 4 months later he found himself jobless and merely out of a necessity he started his company. Initially, it didn't even seem like a company because he had...
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Maria Karr
Maria originally came from Siberia, Russia when she was 19 years old. Her plan was to go to college and then go back home. It was never her intent to stay in United States. However, after college she started working for the corporate world. She ended up working for a PR agency that focused on Korean beauty products.
After diving into the beauty products world she noticed that there wasn't a ...
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Amanda Ma
Amanda moved to California with her family from Taiwan when she was 10 years old. Amanda Ma is the Founder and Chief Experience Officer of Innovate Marketing Group, an award-winning live & virtual experience agency that provides full-service event & activation for Fortune 500 companies. Through her leadership, the company has flourished into one of the most distinguished live & virtual ...
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Lily Roden
Lily came from El Salvador with her family when she was 7 years old. The country was suffering from civil war, gangs and drugs. They lived very poor and the area they lived in was considered "the projects." So her parents decided to move to United States.
When they initially made the move, her mom fell into depression and anxiety. Their family had a very rough start as immigrants in the States. Si...
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Benita Kasbo
Benita came to the United States from Syria with her family. Her family came with very little when they first immigrated. They initially lived in a very small low income apartment complex. Her dad was a tailor, so he was able to secure a job fairly quickly, but her mom stayed home to take care of the kids.
So she grew up and got into the pharmaceutical industry where she worked for 14 year...
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Daria Tsvenger
Daria always wanted to work for the Russian government and never imagined that she would end up living in the United States. But 5 years ago, she and her husband decided that it was a good move to come to Silicon Valley. Daria's husband is a tech entrepreneur and had started several startups.
Moving to United States, Daria didn't know what she was getting herself into. She didn't know th...
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Esmeralda Todorova
Esmeralda came to New York when she was 18 years old. Coming from a very small town in Bulgaria, she had no idea what she was getting into. On her first week being in New York, she was so close to hopping back on the plane and going back home. Handling the New York lifestyle was a lot to take on as an immigrant and being all alone.
Her original plan was to get her Accounting bachelor...
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Andy Cheng
Andy's immigrant entrepreneur journey really started after his father passed away. He was 26 years and he became the President in his father's company over night in Shanghai. He didn't necessarily love that role, but he managed through it. It was challenging for him but he didn't ask for help, and learned everything the hard way. But when an opportunity came up to get out of the country and start ...
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Kam Knight
Kam was brought up in a poor country, India, where he grew up in the ghetto part of town and in poverty.
Kam went to school in the States and became a Certified Public Accountant. He got a regular, 9-5 job but after doing some research he realized that many successful people don't have 9-5 jobs, they were entrepreneurs.
As an immigrant Kam never loved writing, and never thought he would be good ...
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Andrea Ley
Andrea worked as an IT professional in Mexico and got an opportunity to work in the States for 1 year, so she took it! She was planning on coming back to Mexico but 8 years later found herself still in the US working at the same IT company.
At 37 years old she found herself homesick, and missing her family. She also wanted a slice of her hometown by drinking some really good Mexican authentic cof...
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Odette D’Aniello
Originally from the Philippines, Odette came to a small island, Guam with her family at a very young age. Her parents came to work on a bakery shop, that was owned by Odette's uncle and aunt. Little did she know that she was going to be working at the bakery shop without pay as a little girl.
She didn't see the sun, she didn't have a normal childhood and they didn't celebrate holidays. Odet...
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Gautam Rao
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Mamba Hamissi
Mamba Hamissi is originally from Burundi, East Africa. His wife was an activist and her life was threatened. Many times people were either killed or put into jail if they went against the government. We're in 2021, and there is still civil war happening in East Africa.
They decided to flee the country and applied for refugee status with any country that will take them. America was the first on...
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Richard Mensah
Richard grew up in Ghana and started his very first startup at 18 years old. He never imagined that he would end up in the States but when he applied to attend a masters program, he got accepted with Hult International Business School.
Richard launched 3 different startups that didn't work out for various reasons, but that didn't stop him. He kept on pursuing his dream of entrepreneurship.
...
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Yuting Su
Yuting grew up in Taiwan and she never imagined living in the States. Her dad came out to States to get his master's degree when she was 4 years old and she thought she would do the same.
She came to the States to study on a master's program and her plan was to leave back to Taiwan after graduating. But after launching a prototype during her thesis at University of Southern California, the product...
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Sahar Roques
Sahar fled to America alone at 25 years ago to pursue a higher education degree where she was banned by the government of Iran to achieve due to my religious beliefs.
In the U.S. she studied Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics at University of Maryland College Park while working over 30 hours a week to earn a living.
After graduating she worked at biotech companies for a few years until she got ...
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Doctor Gemi Bertran
Gemi was lead by love to come to the US and that's when she married her then, husband.
At one point she was juggling and running so many things at once, alongside with raising her 2 children she had a breakdown. She was stressed, depleted in so many ways, and was running her dad's business that was overseas. Her brain stopped working, and the doctors had no idea what was going on. So sh...
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Yasir Shirazi
Yasir came from Pakistan to study in college and earn his M.B.A degree. He launched 2 other business ventures but kept on a lookout for something more creative and meaningful.
He kept noticing that he's running into the same problems on a regular basis. Taking care of business back home while being overseas was somehow extremely difficult to do and manage. There were constantly issues and dela...
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