Welcome to episode 51 of The American Dream in The Eyes of Immigrants Podcast. I am your host, Heidy De La Cruz, and I am on a mission to change the narrative of immigration one immigrant story at a time! Today’s guest is immigration attorney Anique Samuel. She grew up on the island of Antigua and Barbuda and moved to the United States at age 17 after graduating from high school. Before moving, she had visited because her mom was living here in the States, so adapting to the US was different for her than for other guests.  Anique shares that she knew she wanted to be an attorney in high s ..read more

Welcome to episode 50 of The American Dream in The Eyes of Immigrants Podcast. I am your host, Heidy De La Cruz, and I am on a mission to change the narrative of immigration one immigrant story at a time!   Kevin is the host of the Latin American Educational Opportunities Podcast, where he shares his passion for various topics like business, finance, technology, politics, and mental health - that he believes deserve greater attention within the Latin American community, as his website states.  Today, he shares with us his story of growing up as an undocumented immigrant in the US and ..read more

Welcome to episode 49 of The American Dream in The Eyes of Immigrants Podcast. I am your host, Heidy De La Cruz, and I am on a mission to change the narrative of immigration one immigrant story at a time! Today’s guest is Kim Decena from Decena Media, a marketing agency. Kim shares with us her experience growing up in the US with Colombian immigrant parents. She discusses the cultural norms that her parents kept from Colombia and the American norms they adopted. Kim talks about her experience of visiting Colombia for the first time and why she ended up leaving the US eleven years ago!  Wi ..read more

Welcome to episode 48 of The American Dream in The Eyes of Immigrants Podcast. I am your host, Heidy De La Cruz, and I am on a mission to change the narrative of immigration one immigrant story at a time! Today’s guest is Christina Rodriguez, the founder of Latina’s with Masters. This is a community to inspire, empower, and educate our community and future generation leaders with equitable pathways, academic advancement, and professional growth, as stated on their Facebook page. In today’s episode, Christina shares her upbringing with immigrant parents from Nicaragua. She is the middle child ..read more

Welcome to episode 47 of The American Dream in The Eyes of Immigrants Podcast. I am your host, Heidy De La Cruz, and I am on a mission to change the narrative of immigration one immigrant story at a time! Today’s guest is Annie Woods - a coach for immigrants and a public speaker. She also hosts the Substack newsletter, “Homecoming,” where she shares life as an immigrant, a mother, and a human.  Annie shares that her love for books and reading began at the age of eleven. It opened a whole new world for her and the possibility of moving to the US. She says that she never felt like she belon ..read more

Welcome to part one of episode 46 of The American Dream in The Eyes of Immigrants Podcast. I am your host, Heidy De La Cruz, and I am on a mission to change the narrative of immigration one immigrant story at a time! Today’s guest is Maydelli Mendoza, she is a mental health advocate, speaker, podcaster, and transformational life coach! And in today’s episode, she shares very candidly about her experience living undocumented in the United States. Maydelli grew up in an unstable home in LA, then moved to Utah, where no one looked like her, and even struggled to read. This episode is so special b ..read more

Welcome to episode 45 of The American Dream in The Eyes of Immigrants Podcast. I am your host, Heidy De La Cruz, and I am on a mission to change the narrative of immigration one immigrant story at a time! Today’s guest is Kelly Dominguez. Kelly is an injury and immigration attorney. She was born in Mexico and lived there until she was about five because after her parents divorced, her mother wasn’t able to make ends meet and saw the United States as an opportunity to better her life and her children’s lives. Her mom left first to get settled, and then she sent for Kelly and her brother. She wa ..read more

Welcome to episode 44 of The American Dream in The Eyes of Immigrants Podcast. I am your host, Heidy De La Cruz, and I am on a mission to change the narrative of immigration one immigrant story at a time! Today’s guest is Ilona Phillips. She is an eating disorder specialist. Ilona came from the Czech Republic, and the original plan was to stay for a short while to learn English. Growing up in former Czechoslovakia, Ilona couldn’t learn English until high school, and Western media wasn’t allowed there. Her father used to sneak and listen to the radio from Europe, and her mom would be terrified ..read more

Welcome to episode 43 of The American Dream in The Eyes of Immigrants Podcast. I am your host, Heidy De La Cruz, and I am on a mission to change the narrative of immigration one immigrant story at a time! Today’s guest is Laura Fortuna. She is a financial coach for immigrants, and she provides educational information about finances in Spanish on Instagram. Laura was born in the Dominican Republic and moved to Switzerland when she was three years old. She and her mom then moved back to DR, and eventually, she moved to the US Virgin Islands when she was 18 years old. After two years of college i ..read more

Welcome to episode 42 of The American Dream in The Eyes of Immigrants Podcast. I am your host, Heidy De La Cruz, and I am on a mission to change the narrative of immigration one immigrant story at a time! Today’s guest is Leticia Gonzalez Dos Santos! She runs the podcast-producing company Pod Media Lab. Leticia was born and raised in Brazil she moved to California to learn English and play college tennis. In order for an international student to be accepted into a university in the US, they have to take the TOEFL or Test of English as a Foreign Language, and Leticia didn’t know any English! Sh ..read more