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My Immigrant Story
by Nino Melikidze
“My Immigrant Story” is a podcast dedicated to sharing the stories of first generation immigrant Canadian entrepreneurs and tech professionals. During each episode we deconstruct the speakers’ recipe to successfully moving and professionally establishing themselves in Canada. The goal is to build a strong immigrant community together by sharing our knowledge and experiences!The podcast is hosted by Nino Melikidze, the Co-Founder of Immitracker.Immitracker is an immigration application tracker and service marketplace for immigrants relocating to Canada and Australia.
Episodes
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Parveen Mandviwalla - Customer Success Lead at HiredHippo
Disclaimer: This is a special episode of My Immigrant Story! Typically we bring Canadian newcomer professionals and entrepreneurs to learn more about their immigration journey. However this time, our guest is an immigrant HR tech professional who works for a known Canadian HR startup. Parveen is…
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Roy Pereira - Serial Entrepreneur, Startup Mentor & Angel Investor
Disclaimer: This is a special episode of My Immigrant Story! Typically we bring Canadian newcomer professionals and entrepreneurs to learn more about their immigration journey. However this time, our guest is a first generation Canadian immigrant serial entrepreneur who moved to the country when…
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Blayne Kumar - Co-Founder of Immitracker, Founder of Bright Immigration, Licensed Canadian Immigration Consultant
Disclaimer: This is a special episode of My Immigrant Story! Typically we bring Canadian newcomer professionals and entrepreneurs to learn more about their immigration journey. However this time, our guest is a licensed Canadian immigration consultant and serial entrepreneur with multiple years…
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Prateek Bawa - Partnerships Manager & Community Ambassador
Prateek Bawa is a partnerships manager with over 10 years of experience in various industries including FinTech, SaaS, and E-commerce. Currently, he’s a is a Partner Consultant at Freshbooks – a company that builds accounting software for self-employed individuals and their teams. Additionally,...
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Janey Buz - Founder of Immiducation, Career Coach & Startup Program Mentor
Janey Buzugbe (Janey Buz) is a startup founder, career coach, and program mentor and consultant. She has been running her own YouTube channel for over five years. In this channel she provides relevant resources for newcomer students and professionals to navigate their careers and education in...
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Aashni Shah - Founder & CEO of Mido and HypeDocs
Aashni Shah is the Founder and CEO of Mido – a product that allows users and companies to securely store and share their personal documents. She’s also the Founder of HypeDocs, an app that helps users track their achievements and gain confidence. Aashni graduated from the University of Toronto…
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Amir Feizpour - Co-Founder and CEO of Aggregate Intellect
Amir Feizpour is the Co-Founder and CEO of Aggregate Intellect – a platform that curates the world’s technical knowledge with the help of artificial and crowd intelligence. With the help of NLP (natural language processing) and an AI community of 10K+ members, they make finding technical...
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David Mendoza - Director at Orbit5 and Professor at George Brown College
David Mendoza is the Director of Orbit5, an Ed-Tech startup supporting international students in launching amazing careers. They support students struggling with life, school, and career through free weekly webinars, events, and on-one-on coaching. David specializes in career development,...
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Mia Nguyễn - Operations & Partnerships Associate at The Knowledge Society (TKS)
Mia Nguyen is an Operations & Partnerships Associate at TKS (The Knowledge Society) – an organization focused on exposing students to emerging STEM fields that are shaping the future of our world. Additionally, at the time this episode was recorded she was also working as the co-founder of…
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Josh Schachnow - Co-Founder & CEO of Visto AI, Canadian Immigration Lawyer
Disclaimer: This is a special episode of My Immigrant Story! Typically we bring Canadian newcomer professionals and entrepreneurs to learn more about their immigration journey. However this time, our guest is a Canadian immigration lawyer with multiple years of experience working with both tech...
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Pavla Bobosikova - Co-Founder & CEO at WFHomie
Disclaimer: This episode was recorded in the January, 2021. At the time, there were still Covid-19 related lockdowns and restrictions happening in different parts of Canada. We reference the difficulties related to networking during lockdowns during the episode. Pavla Bobosikova is the co-founder...
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Tobi Oluwole - SMB Sales Manager at Shopify and Co-Founder at 3Skills
Tobi Oluwole is a SMB Sales Manager at Shopify - working strategically with merchants $10MM+ in revenue to help them grow. Additionally, Tobi is the Co-Founder of 3Skills - a community of over 20,000 people where he helps them become the most employable versions of themselves. Tobi’s professional...
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Samuel Baddoo - Founder & CEO of Fleri
Disclaimer: This is a special episode of My Immigrant Story, our guest this week is a Ghanian immigrant in the US (the rest of our guests are based in Canada). Samuel (Sam) Baddoo is the founder and CEO of Fleri. Fleri is a company that directs remittance funds into the health services immigrant...
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Pat Chaisang, Co-Founder & CEO of Isempower
Disclaimer: When this episode was originally recorded, Pat was living in Vancouver, BC and also working as a Product Manager at Telus - building content merchandising strategy for Optik TV. Since then, Pat left her job at Telus and moved to Toronto, Ontario to focus on building Isempower…
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Shreyas Sali - Director of Product at Spocket & PMP Book Author
Shreyas Sali is the Director of Product and Data (Marketplace Product) at Spocket. Spocket is a Vancouver-based dropshipping marketplace that is serving over 60,000 merchants. Shreyas is also an author of his own book regarding the PMP exam and an active member of the BC startup and product...
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Natalia Bialkowska - Immigration Lawyer & Owner of NB Law Firm
Natalia Bialkowska is a lawyer and the owner of NB Law Firm. NB Law Firm specializes in Canadian immigration and personal injury law. The firm also offers services of Notary Public and Commissioner of Oaths. Natalia completed her undergraduate studies, law degree and doctorate in the US. After...
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Rajat Jain - Founder and CEO of EOXS
Rajat (Raj) Jain is the founder and CEO of EOXS. EOXS is a silicon valley venture backed startup where Steel Meets Technology. He has been working in the steel industry in a variety of roles for over 5 years before devoting his career to entrepreneurship. Nino and Raj originally met in Toronto at…
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Assel Beglinova - Co-Founder & CEO at Paperstack
Assel Beglinova, the co-founder and CEO of Paperstack. Paperstack is an app that provides working capital and financial insights for e-commerce sellers. Through this, Paperstack supports online merchants in purchasing inventory, investment in advertising, and hiring more talent. When this episode...
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Patience Badze - Serial Entrepreneur & Marketing Professional
Patience Badze is a female entrepreneur, recent immigrant, creator, and problem-solver. She’s been a marketing professional for over 10 years with a focus on strategy and operations management. Patience is the co-founder of edgeBD Inc. where she drives growth and business development strategies…
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Sidharth Iyer - SEO Expert, Marketing Mentor & Professional Consultant
DISCLAIMER: At the time this episode was recorded (December, 2021), Sid was employed as the Regional Head of SEO at resulta. Since then, Sid has left his role in resulta and is working with Aisera. Additionally, this year he started his own company called Sid Organic Growth Consulting. Sidharth...
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Enrique Suarez - Startup Founder, Revolutionizing Real Estate By Blockchain
Enrique Suarez is the founder and CEO MountX Real Estate Capital. They are creating the next generation of digital financial products to enable access to International Real Estate Investing to millennials around the world. He is a world-class professional, entrepreneur and forward thinker, with a...
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Vartika Manasvi - Serial Tech Entrepreneur, Angel Investor & Startup Podcast Host
Vartika Manasvi is a 2x Tech Entrepreneur with over eleven years of experience, Human Potential Coach, Angel Investor, and a Generalist. She has domain expertise in building diverse, transparent & equitable teams, networks, and communities. Vartika lived and worked across the U.S., Singapore,...
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Sergei Timshin - Senior Data Analyst & Rocket Scientist
Sergei Timshin is a Senior Data Analyst at Index Exchange. He completed a Master’s program in Data Analytics at the Fox School of Business at Temple University and is originally an Aerospace Engineer from Russia. Sergei has an interesting story of moving to New Zealand and the US prior to coming…
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Deep Singh - Canadian Tech Entrepreneur & Startup Operations Expert
Deep Singh is the co-founder of Canada Mentors - a platform to help highly skilled software engineers across the globe connect with leading Canadian tech companies. They are on a mission to make Canada North America's most preferred destination to build ace tech teams! Prior to working on Canada...
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Ayo Owodunni - Podcast Host, Management Consultant, & Community Activist
Ayo Owodunni is a Senior Manager at the Black Professionals In Tech Network (BPTN) Inc. Since moving to Canada, he has worked as a Management Consultant, Real Estate Investor, and a Community Activist. Ayo founded the Coalition of African Associations, a not for profit that had 15 African...
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Ron Johnson - International Author, Podcast Host & Entrepreneur
Ron Johnson is an educator at heart, connector in spirit and a problem-solver by passion. He is an international best-selling author, entrepreneur, podcast host and startup founder. Ron is currently building a safe and supportive startup ecosystem for professionals and students entering Canada...
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Podcast Introduction
Welcome to the My Immigrant Story Podcast! During each episode, we'll be deconstructing the success stories of first generation Canadian immigrant tech entrepreneurs and professionals. We'll talk about how they discovered Canada as an immigration destination, settled, and grew their careers upon...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
“My Immigrant Story” is a podcast dedicated to sharing the stories of first generation immigrant Canadian entrepreneurs and tech professionals. During each episode we deconstruct the speakers’ recipe to successfully moving and professionally establishing themselves in Canada. The goal is to build a strong immigrant community together by sharing our knowledge and experiences!The podcast is hosted by Nino Melikidze, the Co-Founder of Immitracker.Immitracker is an immigration application tracker and service marketplace for immigrants relocating to Canada and Australia.
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“My Immigrant Story” is a podcast dedicated to sharing the stories of first generation immigrant Canadian entrepreneurs and tech professionals. During each episode we deconstruct the speakers’ recipe to successfully moving and professionally establishing themselves in Canada. The goal is to build a...
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My Immigrant Story is created and hosted by Nino Melikidze.
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