EPISODE · Apr 9, 2026 · 1H 3M
From Refugee Boat to the Boardroom : Dr. Emily Letran's Unbroken Journey
from Beyond The Known · host Jitesh Vaswani
At 13 years old, Dr. Emily Letran was smuggled out of Vietnam in the middle of the night, spent 7 days at sea surviving on sips of water, and landed in America with almost no English and an entirely unwritten future. In this deeply moving conversation, she shares what that journey actually felt like from the inside, and how the love and gratitude she held onto in a refugee camp became the foundation for everything she has built since. From dentist to high performance coach, film festival co-founder, and United Nations speaker, her story is not about hustle. It is about an unbreakable spirit that chose peace every single time it had a choice.
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At 13 years old, Dr. Emily Letran was smuggled out of Vietnam in the middle of the night, spent 7 days at sea surviving on sips of water, and landed in America with almost no English and an entirely unwritten future. In this deeply moving conversation, she shares what that journey actually felt like from the inside, and how the love and gratitude she held onto in a refugee camp became the foundation for everything she has built since. From dentist to high performance coach, film festival co-founder, and United Nations speaker, her story is not about hustle. It is about an unbreakable spirit that chose peace every single time it had a choice.
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