3. Not your typical immigrant story

Welcome to Brown People Problems, where your host, Nikita Sehgal, along with her guests chat about what it means to navigate life while being South Asian! In this episode I chat with Aashima Verma, a South Asian immigrant to Canada, and successful entrepreneur, about her experiences navigating immigration stress as an adult. While working in the beauty industry, where all of the employees and clients were women but the profits went to a middle aged white man, Aashima saw a gap in the system and wanted to change that profit distribution. She turned her 6-year “side-hustle” into a full-time marketing agency in 2021. She has since worked with some phenomenal women ranging from Ecom geniuses like Crystal Perkins, leading Canadian productivity coach like Alyssa Coleman to the poetry sensation Rupi Kaur. She has helped them launch, strategize, and scale with some of the most unique ad campaigns. You can find out more about Aashima here: Website: https://www.aashimaverma.com/site/about Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theaashimaverma Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theaashimaverma/?hl=es-la LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aashima-verma/?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aashimaverma.com%2F Hope you enjoyed today's podcast! Don't forget to subscribe & follow! Who am I: Hi! Thank you for stopping by. I’m Nikita, a full time brown Psychotherapist, living in Toronto 🇨🇦 and love to create creative content part time. Through book reviews and my podcast, called Brown People Problems, I chat about inclusion and diversity in lives of BIPOC and specifically SA lives, in both literature and in real life! Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@nikitasehgal Instagram: @inlcusivepsychotherapy Disclaimer: The guests and the host at ‘Brown People Problems’ do not offer individualized therapeutic advice, and our conversations should not be interpreted as such. This podcast is not a replacement for therapy. This podcast exists for educational purposes only. Please consider your circumstances and engage with the content mindfully.