Episodes

  • 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...
    Show More Show Less
    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...
    Show More Show Less
    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...
    Show More Show Less
    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...
    Show More Show Less
    36 mins
  • E157: Leah Mitchell and Lindsay Rubeniuk on the job hunting strategy that works for rural Canada

    E157: Leah Mitchell and Lindsay Rubeniuk on the job hunting strategy that works for rural Canada
    May 15 2026
    In this episode, I'm joined by Leah Mitchell and Lindsay Rubeniuk, who've spent years working with newcomers building lives in rural Manitoba and are co-hosts of the Move Rural Canada podcast. If you're thinking of moving to rural Canada, know that the...
    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 1 min
  • E156: Vaishali Gauba mostly belongs

    E156: Vaishali Gauba mostly belongs
    May 7 2026
    In this episode, I am speaking with Vaishali Gauba, who moved from India to the US to study journalism, worked her way to CBS News and the Stephen Colbert Show, then watched her plans change. She moved back to India, became an on-air journalist at an i...
    Show More Show Less
    44 mins
  • E155: John Hetherington and Caitlin White on why you can't take anything for granted as an immigrant

    E155: John Hetherington and Caitlin White on why you can't take anything for granted as an immigrant
    May 1 2026
    In this episode, I'm speaking with John Hetherington, who moved from England to Canada 20 years ago, and his niece Caitlin White, who landed a few months ago. I think I've said this before, but immigration is like brute force midlife crisis. You do not...
    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 6 mins
  • E154: Niki Wagh names the pressure immigrants never talk about

    E154: Niki Wagh names the pressure immigrants never talk about
    Apr 24 2026
    In this episode, I am speaking with Niki Wagh, an educator who's done some great work on naming what the immigrant life feels like. Niki and I explore something we immigrants feel but seem to avoid naming, that is the relentless pressure to over-perfor...
    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 1 min