The best part of podcasting is meeting people who look at the world in ways that rewire your own vision. Today’s guest is Dr. Neri Karra Sillaman, author of Pioneers: 8 Principles of Business Longevity from Immigrant Entrepreneurs, speaker, entrepreneur, and former child refugee. Our conversation begins with a poem Neri wrote putting us right into a single moment of her life. From there, we talk about the beauty of ambition, how she learned to see opportunity in discarded materials, immigrant entrepreneurship and the lessons that immigrants can teach us, why legacy is more important than profit, and what she sees in the next generation that fills her with hope for the future.

“Resilience means you know that you can get back up…you have faith in yourself.” – Dr. Neri Karra Sillaman

Show Links

• Dr. Neri Karra Sillaman
• Neri Karra
• Moda Métiers
• Pioneers: 8 Principles of Business Longevity from Immigrant Entrepreneurs by Dr. Neri Karra Sillaman
• Eckhart Tolle
• Isaac Larian
• Hamdi Ulukaya
• “The Summer Day” by Mary Oliver
• Charles Frederick Worth (1825–1895) and the House of Worth
• Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
• Hala Alyan
• Photo by Jayanth Muppaneni on Unsplash