E17: Sahar Rahmani on dealing with overwhelm

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Join us as we explore the bitter-sweet world of the immigrant.

In this episode, I'm speaking with Sahar Rahmani, the former data science leader at RBC and Shopify, who moved from Iran to Canada.

Sahar Rahmani could run rings around you all day if you both talked about cybersecurity, fraud prevention, and data science. But that didn’t stop her from feeling overwhelmed by the milk aisle on her first visit to a supermarket in Canada.

She ended up calling a friend to ask which one was closest to what they had back home in Iran.

I had a similar experience - only mine was with Benylin, the cough expectorant.

It’s wild how the things we take for granted back in our home countries suddenly become tripwires as we go through the motions of settling into our new country.

In this conversation, Sahar and I chat about:

* The importance of finding your community

* Passing on the beauty of your culture to your kids

* Her saddest moments as an immigrant in Canada

* The one thing she would have done differently

* The tradeoffs she has had to make, and much more.

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