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Her Migrant Spirit
by Natalia Garcia
Her Migrant Spirit is a storytelling series celebrating the courage, creativity, and success of migrant women building their dreams in Aotearoa New Zealand. Too often, the migrant story focuses on the barriers. Here, we celebrate the breakthroughs. In each episode, host Natalia Garcia sits down with a migrant woman to talk about the journey, the leap of leaving home, the messy middle of starting over. These are honest, warm, and often funny conversations about belonging, resilience, and what it really takes to start again in a new country. If you've ever arrived somewhere with a suitcase full of dreams, these stories are for you. Be part of a new narrative for Aotearoa, one told through a lens of abundance and possibility.
Episodes
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She learned to trust her voice. Now she’s building a movement for climate action.
Gautami moved to New Zealand from India for her Master’s, knowing little about the country beyond its cricket team. She always had a passion for nature, but it took time to figure out how to turn that into a career. In this episode, Gautami shares how finding the courage to speak up and being…
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From Humble Beginnings to Big Dreams, Financial Indepence, and Empowering Others
In this episode of Her Migrant Spirit, Dani Paim shares her journey from humble beginnings in Brazil to moving to New Zealand at 21, without speaking a word of English. She opens up about starting again in a new country, navigating years of visa stress and uncertainty, and the powerful moment she...
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She left Kazakhstan at 16. She built a community that changed lives across Aotearoa.
Elina Ashimbayeva arrived in New Zealand alone at 16, before she even knew where it was on a map. It took years for Auckland to feel like home, and some of those years were harder than she ever let on. For five years she ran Storyo, a storytelling platform that amplified the voices of women,...
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She grew up in a house of 45 in India. Now she's building a fintech startup.
Shweta grew up in a joint family of 45 people in small-town India, where she never had to lift her own plate. At 19, she left it all behind for New Zealand, alone, determined to build a life on her own terms. In this episode, Shweta shares the winding road that followed: the "no New Zealand...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Her Migrant Spirit is a storytelling series celebrating the courage, creativity, and success of migrant women building their dreams in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Too often, the migrant story focuses on the barriers. Here, we celebrate the breakthroughs. In each episode, host Natalia Garcia sits down with a migrant woman to talk about the journey, the leap of leaving home, the messy middle of starting over. These are honest, warm, and often funny conversations about belonging, resilience, and what it really takes to start again in a new country. If you've ever arrived somewhere with a suitcase full of dreams, these stories are for you.
Be part of a new narrative for Aotearoa, one told through a lens of abundance and possibility.
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Natalia Garcia
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