Second Innings: Recent Episodes
Ullaas Menon
Second Innings brings to you the stories of American immigrants who showed strength, tenacity, and faith under life’s most challenging circumstances. These stories will shine a light on the lessons hidden behind adversities in life and will offer you actionable tips and strategies that you can implement when faced with adversity in life. Second Innings is about sharing and helping one another with the lessons learned from any life-changing event like divorce, passing away of a loved one, recovering from a life-threatening illness, or even a complete change in career.
How a childhood dream to come to America and her faith in herself helped Amany Alkhayat win a lottery to get a diversity Visa to immigrate to America from Egypt.
Despite being broke, and not knowing how she was going to afford the visa fees she kept trying and experienced miracles along the way that helped her overcome every obstacle. Her faith and belief in herself always kept her working hard through all challenges. As a single mother, she took a whole year off just to find the right neighborhood to educate her children in New York.
She made every sacrifice that it took to keep her vision and dream alive and managed to create her reality by sheer determination and the power of her will.
She shares how positive affirmations, her belief in the law of attraction, and manifesting what you desire, helped her accomplish every goal that she set her mind on.
She is now pursuing her Doctorate from Columbia University in Instructional Technology and Media Program at teachers College.
She has self-published an eBook called “The Tech Savvy Teacher”
She is a Udemy instructor. She is also the CEO and Founder of Linguatech and Roleomatic.
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Life is what we make of it. Some people make it a point to fill life with a lot of excitement, grit and determination and therefore serve as an inspiration to many. We have one such person with us here today. Dr. Ahmed Samatar, a Kenyan immigrant and founding scientist of Zentallis Pharmaceuticals.
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secondinningspodcast/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/second-innings-podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/secondinningspodcast
If you enjoyed listening to the podcast, then could you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts or the channel where you heard it.
It takes less than 30 second and it really makes a huge difference in convincing hard-to-get guests.
Review Instructions for Apple podcasts:
a)If you’re on an iPhone, simply scroll down to “Reviews” inside the Podcasts app.
b) If you’re on a desktop, click on “Listen on Apple Podcasts” under “Second Innings”
Once inside iTunes, click on “Ratings and Reviews” and you’re all set.
The story of Ullaas Menon, an Indian American Immigrant, who came from New Delhi to New York, leaving everything he had back home to build his life in America, brick by brick through all the adversity and challenges.
How being in the present and focusing on the job helped him go through all the challenges and adversity without ever being depressed. His faith and belief in himself and his appreciation for the great qualities of Americans made it easy to have a positive outlook despite all the challenges.
He walks you through his journey from being a Shoe salesman to a Taxi Driver to Limousine Driver to Wall Street Entrepreneur.
He attributes his success to the goodness of people who helped him along the way and the lessons learned from hardship. He strongly believes that we can all help each other by sharing the lessons we learned from our life experiences and invites everyone to come forward and share their inspiring stories to help others who may be in the same boat as they once were.
Links to SecondInnings:
Website: https://Secondinnings.life
Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/secondinningspodcast/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secondinningspodcast/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/second-innings-podcast
Twitter: https://twitter.com/secondinningspodcast
If you enjoyed listening to the podcast, then could you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts or the channel where you heard it.
It takes less than 30 second and it really makes a huge difference in convincing hard-to-get guests.
Review Instructions for Apple podcasts:
a)If you’re on an iPhone, simply scroll down to “Reviews” inside the Podcasts app.
b) If you’re on a desktop, click on “Listen on Apple Podcasts” under “Second Innings”
Once inside iTunes, click on “Ratings and Reviews” and you’re all set.