HeyJaredThe Immigrant Perspective
"Where are you really from?" It's a simple question with a complicated answer. The Immigrant Perspective is a podcast dedicated to the voices of those who live between two worlds - exploring the nostalgia, the culture shock, and the triumphs of the migration journey.
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Episode 18: Not Just an Immigrant: Dr. Lynda Charles on Trading Medicine for a Higher Calling (opens the original)
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Dr. Lynda Charles trained as a physician in Haiti, worked for Haiti's Ministry of Public Health, and landed her dream job with the United Nations after a single cold email. But after moving permanently to Delaware in 2024, she made the deliberate choice to leave clinical medicine behind and reinvent herself as a leadership coach and community health worker so she could be present for her three children. In this conversation, she opens up about surviving sexual abuse as a teenager, the shame and
Episode 17: From Mexico City to Nashville: On Belonging, Medicine, and Seeing People Whole (opens the original)
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Adriana Bialostozky grew up in Mexico City, the daughter of first-generation Mexicans whose own parents had fled Russia and Poland. She trained as a physician, crossed into the US on an H1 visa, and built her life city by city: New York, Miami, Ann Arbor, Nashville, all while navigating the invisible barriers that immigrant physicians face. Today she practices pediatrics at Vanderbilt and teaches cultural competency to medical residents. This is a conversation about medicine, identity, and what
Episode 16: Chasing an Artist Visa to Hug His Mother Again (opens the original)
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Freangel Pacheco fled Venezuela in 2015 after being threatened for his political protests, and he hasn't seen his mother since. Eleven years later, his asylum case is still pending, he has no passport, and there's no guarantee he'd be let back into the U.S. if he left. He has spent the past few years turning that separation into music, releasing under the name Lastdaysofjude, a project built to help him qualify for an artist visa, the one path he can see back to her. His first single, "Dejando e
Episode 15: Home Is a People, Not a Place (opens the original)
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Perry Constantine grew up in a Chicago suburb with a British father and a mother whose family fled anti-Greek violence in 1950s Istanbul, and then he became an immigrant himself, moving to Japan through the JET Program in 2008. Almost twenty years, one divorce, a remarriage, and two kids later, he's still in Kagoshima. Mary Lou talks with him about culture shock (in both directions), building a bicultural family, and why he now thinks of home as people, not a place.
Episode 14: The Accent Switch (opens the original)
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Cathy met my wife Lois 25 years ago at a summer resort in Michigan, long before she settled in the U.S. herself with her husband Mark, also from England. Eleven years and 48 states later, they're raising two kids who speak with British accents at home and switch to American ones with friends, sometimes mid-sentence. We talk about meeting, building a life across two states, being mistaken for "the ambassador" of an entire country, and what "home" really means when you're a green card holder, not
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