Wassia Kamon
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887 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Jul
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And I didn't have any family here.
So that adjustment really built something in me that I didn't know I would will help me later on in my career.
And that was I can do it.
To me, like if I could come here at 17 and graduate and do all those things, I always had in my mind, it means I can do it.
And it's really with that idea that I really went through a lot in my career, especially being in the U.S., being a minority, being a Black woman, having an accent, being young, all those things that to a lot of people may, you know, you may see it as a barrier, but
In my head, I was like, I can do it if that's what I want to do.
Which meant that the part when you said people don't see the part of the journey, for me, it was a lot of prayers and a lot of loneliness.
Because that is something that has been really the thread in my whole career is the frustrations and also the loneliness.
Loneliness because one, it was either from, you know, just friends, for example, is that you want too much.
Most people in my community, they were like, oh, it's working at a Walmart or having a, you know, a cab, you know, like you say, in the UK, like small, small jobs.
But you want to be in corporate.
It's like, what's wrong with you?
You don't even speak English well.
Like, why are you having those big dreams?
Like, what do you think?
I realized.
I realized.
Here, a lot of them work in grocery stores.
Yes.
And so, coming here was like, you need to...
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