Immigrant Entrepreneur: Juan Palacio Juan came to the United States all because Columbia didn't have much opportunities, there was violence and he knew his country wasn't in a good position. Since his sister was already living in Miami, he immigrated at the age of 24. His immigrant struggles included eating from the dollar menu at McDonald's every single day. He was always lost taking the public transporation, but he was never lost in his dreams and passions. Juan, is a college dropout, self-tau...
Dec 11, 2020•49 min
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Alex Robbio Alex came to the United States with his wife and a young daughter from Argentina with only $700 in their pockets. Alex had extremely humble beginnings with very little help. In this episode he shares how his immigrant entrepreneurial mind gets extremely creative to the point of asking their first employees to bring their own desktop computers to work. He started his software company with his brother and father and shares some extremely valuable advice that he ...
Dec 09, 2020•51 min
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Doctor Ashish Mudgal Doctor Ashish Mudgal came to the United States when he was 26 years old from India. Although he always wanted to become a scientist and that is exactly why he came to the States; his journey to entrepreneurship was something out of the ordinary. He came to study on a Soil, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences program to obtain his PhD. Doctor Ashish Mudgal never imagined that he would ever be an entrepreneur but after unique experiences it lead him ...
Dec 06, 2020•52 min
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Alisa Barcan Alisa was born in Romania at the time where Romania was nearing the communist regime. Although growing up, communism was over a lot of people were still living the communist mindset. They could not rely on the purchasing power to buy food, because there was no food. Given that experience, Alisa was able to bring some of the post communism experiences into her entrepreneurial journey. Alisa's immigrant entrepreneur journey didn't bring her to the United States...
Dec 03, 2020•43 min
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Gary Kurek Gary was raised on a bison ranch in Alberta, Canada. He was always a curious kid growing up and he found himself in the robotic industry when his teacher in school encouraged him to participate in the science fair at the age of 14. Gary was self taught throughout his young adult life and actually never got a college degree. After his successes in the science fair where he invented a wheelchair device that can be used both like a walker and like a wheelchair dev...
Nov 30, 2020•48 min
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Nelly Garcia Nelly came to the States when she was 15 years old with her family and knew very little English. She grew up in Mexico where they didn't have central Air Conditioning and she didn't know what she was missing until they moved to the States. At a very young age, she learned that making money is very easy and that she enjoyed it but when life hit her hard at a very tragic place in her life, she lost all of her hope. She was depressed, had no friends and lost her...
Nov 24, 2020•43 min
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Laila Pence Laila was born in Egypt and had a great upbringing, but when war broke out when she was 9 years old she nearly died. She escaped a bomb that landed in her room shortly after escaping with her family. After that, her life completely changed forever. Laila had to be separated from her family and live with her grandmother for a period of time, go to a French school and that was the worst year of her life. Her dad finally filed papers to move to the States but a m...
Nov 22, 2020•49 min
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Mo Hossain Mo lived a freeing and a happy life in Bangladesh, but when he came with his family members to join his father in the States at 13 years old he had to take ESL classes to learn English. He had no idea what business he was going to open. For a period of time he wanted to save money to start some sort of venture to create passive income. However, when he quit his day job he had no plan. There was absolutely no business idea in place, so he went traveling. After s...
Nov 20, 2020•51 min
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Anshu Karki Anshu came to the States when she was 18 years old. She was raised by a single mother in Nepal and her plan was to come get her undergraduate degree in the States and go back to Nepal. However, her journey lead her on an unexpected path. She got her undergraduate degree in business and economics and being an immigration attorney was not something that she dreamed of. As an immigration attorney, Anshu is now serving immigrants all over the nation and businesses...
Nov 15, 2020•29 min
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Doctor Maria Navas Moreno Doctor Maria Navas Moreno came to the States of hoping to do scientific research. She was nearing the journey to becoming a professor when she realized she didn't want to do that anymore. Her journey lead to marrying a Columbian immigrant man and they both landed in Colorado. That is when she became unemployed as an immigrant due to her visa situation. During that entire year she was researching, networking and going to all the events that were c...
Nov 06, 2020•40 min
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Andrey Sokurec Andrey came to the States at 23 with $25,000 in debt. He not only had to start working odd jobs like in the construction business during the day and pizza delivery at nights but also needed to hire a private tutor to teach him English. He had many struggles when he first came to the States and you won't believe it, his entire plan was to make some money in the States and then go back home. It was never his plan to live in America. As life threw curve balls ...
Nov 03, 2020•44 min
Sean is originally from Ireland and was one of 5 kids in his family. His dad always told him that you can be anything you want in America so he held onto that dream. After leaving Ireland and going to London he realized that the successful people that he read about in the library did not have ordinary jobs. So he quit and told everyone that he was going to America to become a millionaire. He came to the States with $500 and a huge dream. He moved in with a far relative that thought he was a luna...
Nov 01, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Tsvetta grew up in a post communism Bulgaria and remembers standing in long lines to get a loaf of bread with her grandma. She always craved more in her tiny town and wasn’t getting it. She decided to apply for scholarships outside of her country and with many options she decided to get as far away from Bulgaria and to the most exotic place, she called America. Upon arriving as a 20 year old into a huge city she was constantly lost and didn't have a solid vision of her plan. Although the citizen...
Oct 31, 2020•44 min
Robbie came to the States in his 20s from Dominican Republic with his band partners to pursue music. He was raised by a single mother and he never intended to invent anything. He did loads of odd jobs like valet parking, doing real estate, working in restaurants, and hotels. Robbie’s first side hustle was selling collectibles online and after it wasn’t working out, he ended up selling the business just to recoup some of the debt. While being laid off, depressed and at home with his wife and thre...
Oct 28, 2020•48 min
Doctor Patrick Anquetil was born in Paris where the status quo environment was to set you up only to work on a government focused career. Entrepreneurship was not common at all and in fact if you have told him that he was going to open not one but several businesses when he was young, he would’ve thought that you were from another planet. He was never set out to become an entrepreneur and his parents never motivated him to become one. His studies were done in MIT when he was on a PhD program but...
Oct 26, 2020•38 min
Immigrant Entrepreneur: Mercedes Concepcion-Gray. Mercedes came to the States right after college with 2 suitcases and $200 in her pocket. She had a college degree that wasn't highly recognized in the States but with her broken English and resiliency she was able to make it in the corporate America. After being in corporate America she quit, and started her own company in her mid 40s. She is a true inspiration to all immigrants who want to escape the corporate world and always dreamed of startin...
Oct 20, 2020•32 min
Max Faingezicht came to the States from Costa Rica to study at MIT in the MBA program. Altough his entrace to the States was pretty smooth, his immigrant entrepreneurial path was not at all a straight path. Max was a co-founder at Thrive Hive and one of his biggest successes was raising $1.5 million in capital to continue the launch of Thrive Hive. He now started a brand new company, Telescoped. I call it more of a philanthrapy movement because the mission behind Telescoped is to connect highly ...
Oct 19, 2020•49 min
Sandi's immigrant entrepreneur journey started when she was young, by babysitting in her Jewish neighborhood. She came to the States when she was 10 years old and constantly remembered how her mom's work ethic impacted her entrepreneurial path. In this episode, Sandi shares her experience escaping the corporate world and how she's sailing through COVID season only because she sailed through the 9/11 market. Link to show notes...
Oct 13, 2020•42 min
I'm so excited to have Vladimir Gendelman on my show because he's also from the former Soviet Union, just like I am. He is living proof of starting a business without knowing anything about business growth, or success. But his fire and his passion drove him to be featured in Inc.com as one of the fastest growing companies. He's been in business for 17 years and his revenue is in the millions. Link to show notes...
Oct 10, 2020•46 min
Herby Duverne came to the States when he was 20 years old from Haiti. Life in Haiti wasn't all that great. He got to eat 2 meals a day, the whole family lived in one room, the kitchen was outside and the laundry was done by hand. Herby was in and out of school in Haiti all because his mom couldn't afford putting him through school during the entire school year. Anytime the money would run out, Herby was let go from school until the tuition is all paid for. Herby's immigrant entrepreneur success ...
Oct 02, 2020•1 hr 2 min
JP came to the States when he was 13 years old with his family. As many immigrants he didn't know any English and was set out to become an engineer. His immigrant entrepreneur journey blows me away because he got into real estate through a newspaper ad. Today, his company, JP & Associates Realtors is based out of Texas and has 3,200 agents. It is claimed to be America's fastest-growing 100% commission brokerage & franchise. Link to show notes...
Sep 30, 2020•26 min
Doctor Luis Velasquez went through several paths of life before starting Velas Coaching in Silicon Valley. I'm so delighted to learn how he reinvented himself several times, battled brain tumor to come out victorious. He's a true inspiration to all of us, immigrants, who are desiring to start a business! Link to show notes
Sep 23, 2020•45 min
Today I get to bring my dad on the show! He's a true immigrant entrepreneur example of coming to America without knowing any English, with very little cash and starting his own business at the age of 37! Let's hear the journey he took to the land of opportunities and how he's been able to be in business for over 20 years! Link to show notes
Sep 21, 2020•29 min
Link to show notes Agie Sihotang always says YES to opportunities and then figures it out. He is an absolute genius in reselling everything he puts his hands on. He flipped shoes, he flipped TVs, and even website design services! Agie quit his master’s program to sell TVs and that conversation with his Indonesian parents was not an easy task. When Agie first started his company he had absolutely no investments, no capital, and he told his best friend who was helping him out in the new business a...
Sep 19, 2020•36 min
