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The Newcomers Podcast 🎙️

Dozie Anyaegbunam

Interviews with immigrants and stakeholders involved in the immigration process where we explore the immigration journey, raising kids in a new culture, cultural adaptation, integration, identity, and everything in-between. thenewcomerspod.com

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00:44:06

E135: Precious Kolawole has learned how to debug the...

The Newcomers Podcast 🎙️ ·

2025/11/27

In this episode, I’m chatting with Precious Kolawole, who moved from Nigeria to Canada through the Shopify Dev Degree program, and has also seen her TEDx talk “How coding can change your life-and the world” go viral.There’s a trap that awaits most immigrants. It’s subtle, and it sounds like self-awareness: Maybe they won’t pick me because of my accent. Maybe I don’t belong here. Maybe I should expect less.Precious knows this too well. She describes sitting before a performance review at Shopify,

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00:42:04

E134: Bryan McInnis knows all about the temptations...

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2025/11/26

In this episode, I’m speaking with Bryan McInnis, who moved from the United States to Kampala, Uganda with his wife and two daughters.Every immigrant has felt the tension of the pull towards your people as you settle into the new country. The comfort of shared references, familiar jokes, conversations that don’t require any literal or cultural translation.Bryan McInnis was no different. But he and his wife left the United States specifically to give their kids a more robust picture of the world. You

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00:52:21

E133. How do we help immigrants access the hidden job...

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2025/11/21

In this episode, I’m speaking with Simon Trevarthen, who leads the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC). A big part of their work is helping helping immigrants see their skills through a different lens while helping employers access talent they desperately need.And so the big question I hoped to answer with this episode is one I have been noodling on for a bit, which is:"How do we help more immigrants see that their skills are exponential, not linear? And that the work you did in

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00:38:52

E132: Aman Chawla on how he's made Fredericton home

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2025/11/21

In this episode, I’m speaking with Aman Chawla, who moved from India to Fredericton, New Brunswick in 2023.Canada wasn’t Aman’s first choice when he and his wife started considering immigrating. He wanted Ireland. The time-zone difference wasn’t much. Flights back home lasted about 13 hours.But the pandemic meant that didn’t happen. They also considered Australia. That didn’t work out too. So Canada it was. His wife moved over first for an MBA.Aman and their toddler followed along six months after

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00:34:16

E131: Yauhan Mehta knows immigrants don't need more...

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2025/11/14

In this episode, I’m speaking with Yauhan Mehta, a career coach who’s helped 750+ immigrants land jobs they love at global companies.A major part of his success is an interesting approach he takes to career coaching. He won’t start coaching with resume work. Instead, he begins with a soul-searching session to identify what people want.Then, if they have the financial means, they can focus on getting their target role. If they don’t have savings, they get something quickly that’s still somewhat

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01:00:43

E130: Selene Ricart doesn't want to be your perfect...

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2025/11/12

In this episode, I’m speaking with Selene Ricart, who moved from Argentina to Canada five years ago.There’s this unspoken rule about being the good and perfect immigrant. Don’t say too much. Stay in your box. Be grateful. And if you ever step out of line, if you ever start speaking up about stuff you think could be better, someone will curtly remind you to go back and fix your country.And sadly, it happens to immigrant women more often than not. It happened to Selene on LinkedIn.But after five years

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00:39:33

E129: Rim Aoude knows what it's like to be born...

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2025/11/07

In this episode, I’m speaking to Rim Aoude, marketer, poet, and all-round amazing human.Rim moved from UAE to Canada as a teenager. And we explore what it means when you’re born without a place to call home. Her granddad left Palestine. Her parents were born in Lebanon as refugees. She was then born in UAE with refugee documents. And her kids, they were born Canadian. The first in three generations to be born with citizenship. “It was a huge deal in our family,” she says. She talks about arriving in

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00:57:15

E128: Kundan Joshi on how failures reveal your blind...

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2025/10/31

In this episode, I’m speaking with Kundan Joshi, Founder and CEO of TheAppLabb & AI Labb, a leading app innovation firm that boasts of clients like Unilever, Samsung, Dell, Suncor, Petro Canada, RBC, TIFF, among others.However, Kundan fell into entrepreneurship by accident. He needed a summer job after first year as his Dad was struggling to find work. He looked for software engineering jobs but couldn’t find any.But not having a job wasn’t an option as he had to support the family. So Kundan

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00:40:47

E127: Jennifer Aikoroje now understand why her Dad...

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2025/10/24

In this episode, I’m speaking with Jennifer Aikoroje, host of the Inside Your Finance podcast. Jennifer and I explore what happens when you’re too young to grasp the full weight of immigration, when you don’t have the words to explain the churning feelings inside you. But then you grow up. You become an immigrant yourself. And suddenly, your parents’ impossible choices start to make sense.She talks about that moment when her dad left her in Canada and returned to Nigeria for two more years. As a

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00:36:41

E126: Imole Ashogbon thinks Canada has treated...

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2025/10/21

In this episode, I’m speaking with Imole Ashogbon, a fractional HR consultant who helps small and mid-sized businesses, executives, and HR teams when they need senior-level HR leadership, without the cost of a full-time executive.Imole and I explore a nagging question I have about Canada’s much-talked about productivity decline: Are we declining in productivity because we lack talent OR because our broken systems aren’t able to take advantage of all the talent we have seating around in Canada?Imole

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00:27:14

E125: Jerry Onyegide wants you to stop making these...

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2025/10/17

In this episode, I’m speaking with Jerry Onyegide, who built a tax business by accident, just from answering questions about Canadian taxes on Twitter for years.Jerry never intended to formalize his knowledge. He’d see misinformation about Canadian taxes, correct it with detailed explanations, and move on with his day. People stopped arguing and started asking more questions. Eventually someone told him, “You need to formalize this. We don’t have anyone in the community who explains taxes this

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01:10:28

E124: Roy Ratnavel on how to stop being the victim

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2025/10/10

In this episode, I’m speaking with Roy Ratnavel, a retired financial services executive and the author of the #1 Canadian national bestselling book Prisoner #1056.Roy’s philosophy for life seems simple but I think it’s a hard one for most of us to adopt: fix yourself before you fix the world. If you’re a good husband, you raise good kids. Good households create good communities. Strong communities build strong societies. Strong societies make stronger countries.And I think Canada needs a lot of this

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00:46:27

E123: Nisrine Maktabi understands how trauma creates...

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2025/10/08

In this episode, I’m speaking with Nisrine Maktabi, a trauma-informed coach and registered psychotherapist with over a decade of experience supporting newcomers, international students, and multicultural professionals in Canada and globally.Nisrine usually works with newcomers and second-generation immigrants, helping them work through something most immigrants don’t recognize as trauma: people-pleasing.Surprised? I was too. She says people-pleasing isn’t about being nice or accommodating. It’s a

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00:46:51

E122: Kristina McPherson on feeling at home in...

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2025/10/03

In this episode, I’m speaking with Kristina McPherson, who moved from Jamaica to Canada in 2014, and now runs As Told By Canadian Immigrants, where she’s the guide she wishes she had before she moved to Canada.There’s a lot to unpack in this episode, but the part I can’t stop thinking about is when Kristina talks about “post-immigration stress disorder,” a term she coined to describe what many immigrants go through as they try to settle into their new home. I believe it’s also called Ulysses

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00:27:08

E121. Paul Bakhmut on why he's running for Mayor of...

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2025/09/30

In this episode, I'm speaking with Paul Bakhmut, who moved from Ukraine to Edmonton, Canada 15 years ago as an international student and is now running for mayor. Paul is big on first impressions. And he still remembers his first impression of Edmonton: no bus from the airport to the city. You had to drive or find a cab. Even now, the bus only goes to the train station, not downtown. His vision for Edmonton in two years if he wins? A city that looks and feels alive, not one littered with "for lease"

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51:08

#120. Keely Cronin says your survival job is valuable...

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2025/09/26

Please forward this to ONE friend today and tell them to subscribe here.In this episode, I’m speaking with Keely Cronin, Co-Founder of WorkSpark, where they support professionals who have migrated to Canada as well as anyone looking to make a mid-career transition. One conversation she has over and over again with the folks she coaches is the gap, or more like valley between your qualifications, experience, skillset, and the infamous first survival job most newcomers have to start with in Canada

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27:52

#119. Mher Mardoyan knows how you can get your dream job

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2025/09/19

Please forward this to ONE friend today and tell them to subscribe here.In this episode, I'm speaking with Mher Mardoyan, a career coach who's been helping newcomers to Canada find jobs with a 90%+ success rate.With the rise and rise of AI in job applications, it's beginning to seem like traditional online job applications are a losing game for newcomers to Canada. Because for every job posting, there are thousands of applicants and only a tiny weeny number get called in for interviews. Mher thinks

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48:55

E118: Ben Joffe wants you to move beyond your default...

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2025/09/13

Please forward this to ONE friend today and tell them to subscribe here.In this episode, I am speaking with Ben Joffe, a French native who's lived and worked across Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, United States, Germany, and currently Portugal. Ben also speaks fluent French, English, Japanese, pretty bad Korean and Chinese, and average Portuguese (thanks to high school Spanish classes).Talk about being a global citizen. Living across many cultures means Ben has developed a great

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45:29

E117: Gabriela Casineanu says 'You're not your job...

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2025/09/05

Please forward this to ONE friend today and tell them to subscribe here.In this episode, I'm speaking with Gabriela Casineanu, author of Job Fairs: How to Get the Most of Your Participation, and founder of Introverts Academy.A big part of why I wanted to chat with Gabriela is because I believe that when you move, you temporarily become an introvert. She did disagree with my theory. She thinks immigrants or newcomers become quiet or withdrawn because when you face a lot of rejection while job

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36:17

E116: Sweta Regmi says 'It's dangerous to figure it...

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2025/08/29

Please forward this to ONE friend today and tell them to subscribe here.In this episode, I'm speaking to Sweta Regmi, who's lived in Canada for over two decades.Two decades is a while, and Sweta says if she were to compress all she's learned over those years into one piece of advice for new immigrants, it would be "ASK FOR HELP."I agree. I learned this the hard way. And maybe someday I'll tell that story. But yes, ask for help. Don't try to figure it out all on your own. But there are caveats here

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