Episodes

  • E164: Ebrahim Al-Yousefi is giving back, everyday

    E164: Ebrahim Al-Yousefi is giving back, everyday
    Jul 1 2026
    In this episode, the second in our four-part series with Immigrant Services Society of BC (ISSofBC), I'm speaking with Ebrahim Al-Yousefi, who fled Yemen as a child during the 2015 war, moved through Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Egypt, and arrived in Can...
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    47 mins
  • E164: Musap Abdelhag thinks we need to do better by immigrant youth

    E164: Musap Abdelhag thinks we need to do better by immigrant youth
    Jun 26 2026
    In this episode, I'm speaking with Musap Abdelhag, known across Calgary as Moose. He's a first-generation Sudanese-Canadian who grew up here as an immigrant kid, fell into the streets, went back to Sudan in his early twenties, and then moved back to Ca...
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    59 mins
  • E163: Dacious Richardson won't wish the hard parts away

    E163: Dacious Richardson won't wish the hard parts away
    Jun 24 2026
    In this episode, the first in our four-part series with Immigrant Services Society of BC (ISSofBC), I'm speaking with Dacious Richardson, who came to Canada from Liberia as a refugee in 2011 and has since become a youth mentor and community leader in B...
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    45 mins
  • E162: Abhishek Asthana on building a business in Canada as an immigrant entrepreneur

    E162: Abhishek Asthana on building a business in Canada as an immigrant entrepreneur
    Jun 19 2026
    In this episode, I'm speaking with Abhishek Asthana, co-founder of Shivani's Kitchen, who has spent the last decade learning what it takes to put an immigrant food brand on national shelves. When Sobeys came knocking during COVID and offered to carry t...
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    49 mins
  • E161: Jatin Shory on the choices no immigrant wants to hear

    E161: Jatin Shory on the choices no immigrant wants to hear
    Jun 12 2026
    In this episode, I'm speaking with Jatin Shory, Partner- Immigration and Refugee Law at Shory Law LLP, and Table Officer (National Immigration Section), Canadian Bar Association. Hundreds of thousands of people sit in the Express Entry today without fi...
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    42 mins
  • E160: Carolyn Watson says we'll feel today's cuts in three to five years

    E160: Carolyn Watson says we'll feel today's cuts in three to five years
    Jun 5 2026
    In this episode, I'm speaking with Carolyn Watson, who runs CEW Immigration Consulting and spent close to twenty years in the settlement sector before moving into immigration consulting. The work that I think usually has the biggest impact on immigrant...
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    40 mins
  • E159: Templeton Sawyer on why he created the Belonging Tour

    E159: Templeton Sawyer on why he created the Belonging Tour
    May 29 2026
    In this episode, I am speaking with Templeton Sawyer, who who started his career helping newcomers find work as an employment support practitioner, and then co-founded Alive House and built its Belonging Tour, which heads to Calgary and PEI over the ne...
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    49 mins
  • E158: Theresa Evanoff and Tehmina Chaudhry are solving early-stage capital for immigrant founders

    E158: Theresa Evanoff and Tehmina Chaudhry are solving early-stage capital for immigrant founders
    May 22 2026
    In this episode, I sit down with Theresa Evanoff, Executive Director, Global Angel Investor Network (GAIN), and Tehmina Chaudhry, who founded and runs the Canada Startup Association, and is also a member of GAIN's board of directors. The conversation a...
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    36 mins