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00:00:30.000 the peony symbol of prosperity vision and bold leadership representing the spirit of excellence

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00:00:58.480 elevates around you just as the peony radiates confidence and abundance shara makuchi has built

00:01:04.880 an empire of empowerment as a proud leader in the nepalese community she has demonstrated

00:01:10.080 exceptional business acumen while creating widespread economic opportunities across her

00:01:15.280 ventures communicating effectively internally and externally in today's current climate is the

00:01:23.920 exciting challenge we are trying to overcome each day through our various business venture we strive

00:01:30.880 to communicate clearly while adding value to customers always creating good karma we have

00:01:36.960 always believed that successful business art with identifying unmet needs in the market when we

00:01:41.920 established rama gaming house in 2012 we saw an opportunity to create more than just another

00:01:47.840 entertainment venue we envision a premium experience that puts that new standards in the industry

00:01:56.160 at rama gaming house with locations in scarborough and mississauga shana has created immersive

00:02:01.200 entertainment experiences while supporting over 200 charities annually through impulse she reaches

00:02:06.800 300 000 readers monthly fostering authentic community connections her newest venture true patriot love

00:02:12.880 media launches a corporate podcasting network she also established the meadowvale business

00:02:17.520 association to reconnect businesses post pandemic while continuing to help families through her real

00:02:22.320 estate services for us business excellence means continuous evolution and uncompromising quality we never

00:02:34.560 satisfy with status quo we are always looking ahead anticipating market trends and innovating to stay

00:02:42.480 ahead of the curve this forward thinking mindset is what sustains growth and builds lasting enterprises

00:02:49.680 her philosophy of perpetual innovation has earned industry recognition and positioned her as a thought

00:02:55.280 leader in business development and strategic expansion like the peony that commands attention through sheer

00:03:00.640 magnificence her business achievements demonstrate how visionary strategy and exceptional execution can create

00:03:08.080 extraordinary success of extraordinary success we are proud to announce that the recipient of the outstanding

00:03:13.760 women awards 2025 outstanding entrepreneur of the year award is sherema kuchik

00:03:20.880 the markham richmond hill and von chinese business association hosted the prestigious outstanding women award 2025 gala at the markham hilton

00:03:48.880 celebrating celebrating women who have demonstrated exceptional achievements in business

00:03:52.560 in business innovation and community leadership and then it goes on to say this year sherema kuchi was awarded the

00:04:00.560 prestigious outstanding entrepreneur of the year award uh becoming the first south asian woman to receive this

00:04:06.560 honor it is my pleasure to introduce you to my business partner and entrepreneur of the year sherema kuchi

00:04:12.080 thank you so much mike thank you for having me over here today you know what you're being very gracious because

00:04:19.200 we've had to pull you in to do this but the reason that we're doing it is a twofold first of all we're all

00:04:24.480 very proud of you congratulations um but in in the process of being in business with you uh you know when

00:04:32.720 you meet somebody shara in life and you think oh i want to do business associated or in partnership with

00:04:39.680 this person there's many factors involved all of the factors involved in in us being partners from

00:04:45.600 my perspective was honored that night through this award and uh so it is my pleasure if you don't mind

00:04:52.560 i would love to tell your story in fact i'd love you to tell it for sure yeah okay so we're going to tell

00:04:59.520 a lot of things today well okay well let me start with this uh the culmination of this award

00:05:05.600 is meaningful for all of us and certainly mostly meaningful for you and your son chris let's go

00:05:12.160 back in time you came to canada a new immigrant from nepal yep where did that process begin for you

00:05:21.440 what made you think i'm gonna go to canada so i'd like to start with my childhood where i came from

00:05:31.840 tell me about that uh very small village um my father he's still a priest so i grew up with a priest

00:05:40.160 family and they also have farming so we used to eat a lot of organic foods yeah that's how i grew up

00:05:49.600 not a lot of money but we had a lot of love i grew up with two siblings one brother who is older than me

00:05:57.840 and one sister who is younger than me so life was good and then all of a sudden around um i just gave a

00:06:09.360 grade 12 exam i guess and uh waiting for my result my parents came to me say you have to get married

00:06:16.640 and that was shocking for me that i have to get married when i am 18 right and your whole life and

00:06:24.160 aspirations ahead of you you've just graduated and so now life is going to take a turn in a different

00:06:30.080 direction yeah yeah and then um uh my brother he already left nepal like a few years ago he was in

00:06:38.720 dubai then i asked him and he said okay you might have to listen to the parents maybe they are doing

00:06:44.720 the right thing so even your brother was like you know maybe mom and dad are trying to do the right

00:06:49.360 thing yeah yeah and then yeah then i end up marrying with the guy who was 12 years older than me

00:06:57.280 that's where everything changed everything changed in my life and um i was married with my ex for a few

00:07:05.840 years and then i'm looking to my friends family everyone everybody had a good life home cars everything

00:07:15.360 and then me i'm i'm living in this apartment and then thinking what i did wrong i maybe i could have

00:07:23.600 ended up with a maybe better person or the maybe better future maybe i maybe i was uh i would be going

00:07:31.520 to school getting my master degree because i always wanted to get master degree and then get married

00:07:38.640 when i had a little bit money but then marrying early was a little bit hard for me but um you know

00:07:47.680 yeah i can see you completely your attention to detail completing a master's was completely within

00:07:54.720 the realm yeah for you and you had taken on sort of a uh as i recall a passion for fashion design yeah

00:08:02.000 i did fashion design course i wanted to do more and more and then i did fashion design core here in

00:08:07.600 styling course whatever training i could get in nepal i tried to jump into that and finally i figured out

00:08:15.600 there is no opportunity for me in nepal not just for me for many people over there because politics was

00:08:22.320 getting worse government wasn't stable so i figured out no this is maybe a little bit it's gonna be hard

00:08:30.480 for me to stay here and wait for a good future for me and for my kids so i i decide to move on that's

00:08:39.920 where i landed in canada by myself and um i landed in a snowy day like january 8. the introduction to

00:08:50.320 canada was not a warm one no nobody told me it's gonna be that much snow in canada so i didn't have

00:08:57.120 proper clothes yeah and my we're encouraging you to come to canada it's the last thing we talk about

00:09:02.640 is that snow and the blowing wind so our apologies no no i was i was looking for the better future so

00:09:11.200 it's my responsibility to think about what's gonna be next but i didn't think ahead like they're gonna

00:09:17.200 be this bad because i was born in the era where there was there was internet but a lot of internet

00:09:23.600 i tried to google something it would make around circle like like around five minutes to open one

00:09:29.280 window and of course when it opens to snow you think this can't be right click and you have to shut it

00:09:34.000 i don't but let's start before just before you arrive you know we speak about this casually among us

00:09:42.560 as a group of friends but the truth is you made an incredibly courageous move uh many people around

00:09:51.920 you probably thought yeah i'm gonna leave nepal i'm going to go get a better life too i'm gonna do

00:09:56.160 the same thing yet you are the only one to go yeah from my family say from my area i am the only one

00:10:06.160 who decided to leave country uh for um after dubai my brother was there i decided to go a little bit

00:10:15.840 further so i ended up in canada yeah it's a far trip uh and and to a new place with a different

00:10:22.720 environment and a completely different language and i i didn't know anyone so i had to figure things out

00:10:29.440 and then uh yeah as i said cold winter i landed in the airport and the funny thing is i had a log is

00:10:39.840 is three uh two big one one is small and i i knew i have to take a cab but then before that i knew that

00:10:46.880 i i need a cash in my hand i'm trying to open my bag and it's freezing and i cannot even open my lock

00:10:54.000 those days you are allowed to put lock in your backpack and then and you're shivering i know i

00:11:00.320 don't know why but i was so stressed and uh living back home all the family and everything i i cried

00:11:08.560 all the time like it took me two and a half days to land in canada i cried the whole time and then

00:11:15.680 by the time i landed in the airport my hand was shaking and trying to figure out my code and code

00:11:21.440 didn't work so lucky there was a gentleman watching me and he said you couldn't open your

00:11:27.280 lock and i said no can you help me and he cut it that's how i get my money oh wow yeah and i know

00:11:36.320 that now i can take a cab because without money i cannot do it i knew that there was i'm the first

00:11:41.920 one so no credit card or nothing by that time right so now in my mind i see our shara standing

00:11:48.960 at the airport in tears have i made a mistake i'm in the arctic and there's no one there to pick

00:11:56.480 you up as i recall no the place i was going to they told me to take a cab so that's what i did i

00:12:03.520 took a cab went there and uh live in their house for i think um three weeks i lived there and i moved

00:12:10.240 from there too and uh i have to tell you this like after a week i found out i was pregnant

00:12:19.600 and then that was also shocking plus i'm in the new country and then the pregnancy turned like oh it's

00:12:25.920 gonna be tough on your own on my own and i of course i cried a lot and i tried to connect to my

00:12:33.840 family my i talked to my mom i talked to my ex-husband mom was asking me to come back and i

00:12:40.720 know there is no better future for me so i couldn't go back especially with a child on the way yeah and

00:12:45.760 then my ex was saying oh you can do a version and move on and said no i'm not gonna no way i'm gonna do

00:12:52.400 that because i that's a it's a it was a proud moment for me to be a mom after so many years i

00:13:00.240 said i'm not gonna do that i'm gonna give this baby and then i'm gonna bring him in this world and i'm

00:13:07.120 gonna raise him you are there or not i'm doing it baby on the way yeah living with a strange family

00:13:14.880 middle of the winter yeah now you've got to get employed what happens i tried to my first um

00:13:23.840 it was a it was hard i my first job was uh i remember pape station pape subway subway yeah i had to

00:13:34.640 uh exit there and then i had to go a little bit down like it was a salon but uh they had a 0.99

00:13:40.960 uh uh they have a facial and everything and i i knew how to do it i knew how to do threading and

00:13:48.000 stuff clear cut and they hired me for a few days and i didn't like it and uh after that i'm like okay

00:13:59.040 i'm not liking this work because it's a it's a new place and it's a little bit hard and the owner wasn't

00:14:06.160 very nice i'm like oh maybe i can find something else and uh i end up in mississauga after i moved

00:14:15.360 there so you're in scarborough as you point out now you're getting on the transit with child you're

00:14:22.240 pregnant and traveling all the way to mississauga on transit which by the way at the time wasn't there

00:14:27.760 was no direct route you were i think it took me two and a half hours to get to mississauga in transit i

00:14:34.800 remember that feeling you know shara this is a common thread that you hear with uh the migrants

00:14:41.840 the immigrants that come here and the students here that they spend so much time on transit just 0.98

00:14:47.440 trying to get to where they need to be for work or for school yeah i know it's it's not easy no

00:14:53.680 so you're you go to mississauga now for work you've got salon training from nepal you've got a beauty

00:15:00.800 school and fashion training yeah where does that land you in uh in employment the family i was living

00:15:08.640 with they had a salon so they let me work in that salon and plus they asked me to pay rent and for for 0.97

00:15:16.240 food i agreed i lived with them for a few years and after that after a year they decided to move to

00:15:23.840 brampton and i'm like where i'm going right because that by that time i had a baby and i said i'm gonna

00:15:31.760 move with you so i moved with them so and then uh from there uh i i moved to i decided to live on my

00:15:41.120 own so i moved to the basement with my one of my girlfriend we shared two rooms and he took one i had

00:15:47.440 one with my son and that went for another year and after that um i opened my salon on my own so now

00:15:56.880 you've been here for a short time essentially five years four years by this point uh i opened my salon on

00:16:04.080 2013. so so really a short time short time to adapt four five five years yeah you have a baby gain

00:16:13.120 employment now you're going to be an entrepreneur how did you get to that place where you could open

00:16:18.960 a salon i had to i had to work a lot i work seven days a week i had a baby but not like others like

00:16:27.360 i can sit there and look at my baby grow or watch him watch his every moment i miss that i had to work

00:16:34.960 seven days a week because i was a single mom that's where i i try to collect money like okay one day

00:16:42.320 i'm gonna have my own alone that was my dream to open my own salon it is um one of the things when

00:16:50.240 we're talking about your history that amazes me the most you literally had to save every dime to open

00:16:56.400 that business there was nobody to give you a loan there was no family to back you you had to open that

00:17:01.360 business still feed your child still pay rent yeah and become a success and and guess what you did

00:17:07.760 it wasn't easy it was uh it was tough but uh i always uh talk to my son i said uh never forget

00:17:18.240 where we came from never forget we used to live in a basement you and i that little basement that's

00:17:25.840 the roots that's your roots when my roots is different but your roots is like you you raised by

00:17:32.880 a single woman for a few years so now you're you're running a salon how does that go um in the 0.99

00:17:41.440 beginning like uh every business it was struggle it was hard but then slowly customer yes get to know

00:17:49.760 me and they like my work they start coming back i used to hire more people so yeah it was fine so now

00:17:57.120 you've got a growing business you've got a son you've got your own place you're making your way

00:18:01.680 in canada how's that feel to you at that point um i wasn't thinking much about it because i i had to

00:18:11.440 think about how to pay my rent and how to pay my employee that was that that was the next level there

00:18:17.360 was no moment for pride and of success at that moment because like many entrepreneurs you have to just

00:18:24.240 keep going yeah what a fascinating place to be in life you know what would have been amazing is that

00:18:31.200 that very moment love would enter your life did it it did in the salon yeah he walked in uh wanted to

00:18:41.120 have a haircut um he told me it was lovers first sight he told me that too and by the way we're talking

00:18:49.520 about uh paul micucci your husband yeah um yeah he told me and i'll share this with you i don't know

00:18:55.760 if you've ever heard this he had more haircuts in a three-month period than any man uh in the history

00:19:01.600 of haircuts he used to come once a week yeah for his haircut yeah and i'm like my other customer they

00:19:10.640 come once a month like and he's once a week or something this guy really likes haircuts yeah i don't

00:19:16.800 know that it was a haircut that he was there for so now you you start to build a relationship with

00:19:21.440 this uh this gentleman who's also an entrepreneur he has a business and you have a business um but

00:19:28.240 let's talk about the development of that relationship and uh how it landed you guys married yeah like we

00:19:34.960 said he used to come for haircut and one day he asked me to go out i took my time because i have a

00:19:40.720 kid with me and um i i had to think about my son what's gonna happen to him and um yeah it worked out

00:19:50.320 paul had his son too so we all we kind of we were in the same boat and then that's where we end up

00:19:59.040 marrying each other it's interesting that um you know the commonality that you had was not

00:20:06.480 not your childhood it was not high school it was not relating through music likely it was really a

00:20:16.480 new place for both of you um language developing on your part him trying to understand all of the and

00:20:24.720 i i certainly do understand this scenario but through that you begin to accomplish something beautiful

00:20:33.040 you begin to create a family yeah language wise i speak different languages so it wasn't that hard

00:20:40.400 for me to to pick up pick up uh uh every languages i speak uh hindi voodoo i understand punjabi i can

00:20:48.960 speak a little bit of punjabi not a lot i'm not very fluent now now english right now of course english

00:20:55.280 i speak one of those languages you just listed and very badly english so my respect english was

00:21:02.720 always my second language was in back home too because i i went to private school so it wasn't

00:21:08.240 very hard to catch up we didn't speak to each other but we always had in writing yeah so it wasn't it

00:21:16.000 wasn't hard uh did you use google translate at all when not at that time i didn't know about that i'm

00:21:22.880 gonna be honest with you it was a a savior in my relationship i i want to add something about um

00:21:29.920 how i end up marrying paul please because it mystifies all of us so please yeah um i needed a

00:21:37.520 barber in my salon because lots of men were coming to get a haircut and lots of men were asking is there

00:21:44.080 a barber so i advertised i think on kzz or there was some platform that i advertised that i needed a barber

00:21:52.400 and then all of a sudden asked soda he said i want to be a barber i'm like okay if you want to work with

00:22:01.440 me that's fine let's let's start and then slowly we got closer and then as you know uh he ended up being

00:22:11.440 my godfather and now hard uh yeah he passed away four months ago and it's gonna be always hard because

00:22:22.560 i miss him so much i think as a father figure um really your family scenario began with ash and his

00:22:31.200 family he him and his family with the family where i started to learn and grow he's the one he's the

00:22:42.240 the backbone he was a backbone for me he always he taught me a lot of things how to listen learn and grow

00:22:50.480 and uh he's the one keep telling me that paul is the right guy you have to marry it's good for your

00:22:57.760 son chris will be so good you'll be so happy just trust me as a father i i want to give you this

00:23:05.920 advice he's the right guy and he didn't just say that i mean uh paul tells me stories that ash would

00:23:12.960 go and just be with paul chat with him for hours at a stretch they would just get to know one another

00:23:20.320 and the net result of that was ash coming back and saying i think this might be 0.87

00:23:24.480 these two asses to call me every day to make sure how 1.00

00:23:33.680 i miss that good news is what ash imparted in you i see every day in you and paul you did a good 0.99

00:23:41.280 job ash he was a good godfather so now you and paul are together you're developing a beautiful uh

00:23:48.320 life and chris uh is uh uh adopting a new father figure in his life really for the first time ever

00:23:56.080 uh funny thing is um when we we met i didn't want to bring chris in the beginning and we met a couple

00:24:04.720 times and when we thought okay it's time for chris to meet paul um we put him in the back seat and then

00:24:12.720 he looked at paul and he said are you my dad and chris was um three year old unbelievable yeah and then

00:24:24.720 paul said yes kiddo yeah he knew they both knew they both knew what they were doing i'm like okay

00:24:35.200 this is very strange this is the first the first time they seem to still have that relationship where

00:24:39.600 they they know what's going on yeah i get it you're the boss but they also seem to have their

00:24:45.120 own language uh among them oh yeah which is uh very sweet you know and at that time chris used to

00:24:53.200 speak punjabi because he grew up with a man he was from pinjab and she did a good job with chris

00:25:01.760 she still calls me okay i want to see my son he he loved him so much i think this is an important

00:25:10.880 story to tell the award is beautiful and i don't know if you can see here on the table we'll certainly

00:25:15.920 make sure you get a full look at it yeah very beautiful um i watched you receiving this but

00:25:22.560 i think that the reward that i see you getting in life um has very little to do with acknowledgement

00:25:29.440 which is very nice you and paul then go on to create a business together yeah that has made

00:25:36.240 an enormous difference in the province of ontario and canada um i hope that the people that uh you

00:25:44.880 left behind in nepal see this and hear what a difference you and your husband have made in this

00:25:52.800 province in the communities where you have businesses and right within the walls where you do that business

00:25:59.760 yeah i hear i hear good things about it my especially my parents they talk about it a lot my cousins

00:26:07.920 yeah they they talk about uh it's a good thing we are doing helping the communities over here

00:26:14.240 i don't know if you want to put a number on how much uh charities have received in ontario through

00:26:20.800 the operations that you and paul have uh have run but i it is in the millions and millions and millions of

00:26:28.320 dollars um charities that would normally not have it so let's talk a little bit about this now you're

00:26:34.640 married and uh paul's in the gaming business what happens um we we got married and after a while we

00:26:43.600 figured out chris's chris needs a little bit time uh from one of us so we decided to sell the

00:26:51.760 air saloon business so we parked that on the side and then we just had a charitable gaming house at

00:26:58.560 that time and i decided to go back to school to use my time with chris so i had a i took a computer

00:27:06.000 programming and graduated with honors yeah and after hold on let's not just pass that okay so now you've

00:27:13.360 run a business yeah you're assisting in the in the uh in the gaming business i know that you're raising

00:27:19.920 a child but that's not enough no no you have to go and continue your education in a completely different

00:27:25.520 field this is the story of the immigrant to canada more extend expand learn it's a commonality that i

00:27:39.120 think many people don't understand is how you achieve from starting at an airport when you

00:27:46.320 couldn't open your luggage and you didn't know where you were going to land that day yep you get there

00:27:52.400 through this kind of pure determination that in many ways north americans don't have that same

00:28:00.240 hunger you have the desire to still create a family and position yourself proudly as a mom

00:28:06.240 a mom something that is quickly dissipating also in north america so when we talk about this award

00:28:14.320 to me the greatest thing about this award is that you made that balance that you created a scenario

00:28:21.040 where you could be a mom a wife and a mentor within the business walls of ram a gaming house to other

00:28:30.080 immigrants while you're giving back charitably this is the product of real determination

00:28:40.000 one thing i always remember is you can be anything you want you just have to choose your path and go for

00:28:47.840 it yeah there will be ups and downs but you're gonna get there what advice would you give

00:28:55.680 shara the modern day shara sitting in nepal saying i want canada what would you say to that person

00:29:06.400 i will tell them and this is uh with the internet i was talking to one of our staff yesterday

00:29:13.600 when i came i didn't know anything about it because there was no internet there was an internet but it

00:29:19.520 was in dot com era and uh it was a little bit hard to research everything about canada but now they

00:29:28.000 can see canada from their phone what's canada look like what is toronto where is mississauga and where

00:29:34.000 is scarborough so do your homework and try to figure out where you're gonna go try to connect to that

00:29:39.120 person you're gonna go meet make sure they're okay try to figure out the community center or community

00:29:45.600 leaders or anyone who is already successful try to connect with them and make sure you are coming

00:29:52.720 to the right place uh to meet the right person great advice i mean it would have been wonderful

00:30:00.880 yeah if you had the same advantage but to be able to say you have this opportunity now take advantage of

00:30:06.800 it before you arrive start to make your arrangements i want to add something else like a lot of

00:30:12.000 uh now my uh staff who came to work with me as a student they used to tell me different story about

00:30:21.120 what happened to their life even they connect to the community later they didn't get help as they

00:30:25.920 expected uh it was a little bit tough so now uh you and paul own uh rama gaming house in uh with uh with

00:30:35.040 some incredible partners uh i hear you talk about them all the time together you guys have built

00:30:40.720 uh a remarkable operation in scarborough and in mississauga in both of those locations i see you

00:30:49.200 mentoring i see paul mentoring a wide array of uh nepali and other nationalities yeah we have mix of

00:30:58.240 everything uh like we have students we have people who are in work permit we have permanent residents we

00:31:03.920 have canadian citizens we have all kind of people and in fact it seems like you've created a place in

00:31:11.360 which they can create community i would say it's just a place in my mind it's um it's a home yes and

00:31:19.680 i'm creating the family i see that so here's here's and let's let's really focus on that because before we

00:31:26.560 go what i am here sitting to tell you is every day we all learn from you we all learn from paul we all

00:31:35.040 learn something very very different from you we learn how to be a family we learn how to have respect

00:31:43.360 for one another even as adults who have had jobs in other places there is a better way to operate and

00:31:49.040 it is to care for one another to mentor for one another when there is no uh festive moment that is

00:31:57.520 uh common to your home it might happen at rama gaming house we we celebrate everything from christmas to

00:32:06.640 diwali to we celebrate all the culture i want to my staff to not to miss their home

00:32:14.960 well it doesn't matter where they came from so you create the same scenario they would have at home

00:32:21.200 yeah for them to experience here yeah but that that was that was important for me because i didn't get

00:32:28.240 that when i was here in the beginning so i want to make sure they get it i want to make sure they have

00:32:36.160 enough money to pay their rent i want to make sure they eat properly i want to make sure they have their

00:32:41.680 clothes there are so many employees that i do personally pay their rents buy them clothes buy

00:32:47.760 them groceries i want to make sure they don't feel alone like i was alone in that time it's incredible

00:32:54.880 to me you just made a list of things that you do like off the top of your head it's not off the top of

00:33:02.560 your head i've seen you do it for everybody who works for you in some way at some level that care is

00:33:10.240 always there and and by the way you don't want to hang on to anybody forever your mission is to give

00:33:16.160 them their start and then watch them flourish i want them to fly i want them to do better than what

00:33:22.640 i'm doing right now i want to give them wings to fly and tell them you know what you can go and just

00:33:30.080 do your own thing you're free to go these are the things that i see in this award i don't see the bottom

00:33:37.200 line i don't see uh which is there i don't see the um entrepreneurial pathway although it's there

00:33:47.840 i don't necessarily see super business success although congratulations i have witnessed it what i see

00:33:56.320 here is the route to becoming a better person as an entrepreneur and i hope that the next person

00:34:05.680 that receives this award has done as much in the community realizes their dreams the way that you

00:34:12.400 did and uh can impart upon the group that they're mentoring a better way forward that's why i really

00:34:21.360 wanted to do this interview shara because i think there's a model that you represent as a canadian coming

00:34:27.440 to canada thank you so much for doing this interview and thank you for markham richmond hill bond chinese

00:34:34.640 business association for giving this award to me for recognizing me what i have done in these

00:34:42.240 communities because community is everything for me family is everything for me i want to help more

00:34:48.480 communities i want to help community to grow i wanna community start with the person so i want to help each

00:34:54.880 of them who needs help and i want them to grow i don't just want them to sit beside me and waiting for me

00:35:04.160 to tell what to do i want them to go find their own path like i did you have to be hungry enough to be

00:35:11.920 successful yeah yeah and you need the people around you to believe in you as well even in the moments

00:35:17.920 where you don't think you can do it yeah um shara thank you i really appreciate this thank you so much

00:35:25.600 i should point out one more time this is probably the last thing that you'd want to do but i really

00:35:29.600 appreciate that you do it because i do think uh there's some value in it and i want to say thank

00:35:33.680 you you're an amazing business partner thank you and then i would like to add more stuff to it like

00:35:39.200 it's not just ram a gaming house we do we have newspaper and pulse oh my goodness may i okay so

00:35:46.960 if you don't mind i'll take a moment and we'll cover this off yeah you guys have two community

00:35:51.360 newspapers i'm sorry i have forgotten this i don't know why your story was so charming to me that i lost it

00:35:57.440 yeah no you have ram a gaming house but from ram a gaming house you realized quickly hey there's no

00:36:02.560 community newspapers in either of these communities so you started one yeah because we see the void

00:36:08.720 that everybody was telling us uh after kobe that we didn't get anything to read about so paul and i

00:36:16.640 talked about maybe we need to fill that void so we started newspaper we have more than 300 000

00:36:24.400 readers right now and we distribute more than 100 000 copies in the neighborhoods it's basically the

00:36:32.640 community news what's going on in your community it's beautiful because the feedback in the communities

00:36:37.280 which i hear all the time is we lost our newspaper now we have it back yeah and uh that that community

00:36:43.520 connection speaks again to to that theory of we need to be a community to make things happen properly

00:36:50.160 yeah and then uh before that we started medical business association paul and i we both founded it

00:36:57.040 now meadowvale to put it into perspective for people who aren't watching is uh known in ontario

00:37:01.760 as pill hill it's where all the pharmaceuticals are a number of the major head offices and they didn't

00:37:07.680 have a business association no they didn't we try to call so many people to figure out if there is a

00:37:13.680 business association that we can join so there wasn't one so somebody had to do it so we said okay let's

00:37:19.840 open the business association it's it's in my mind it's very important to you need to talk to your

00:37:26.720 neighbors b2b communication is very important if you want to grow your business you need another

00:37:33.840 business to help you helping each other is growing the community or even growing the countries you have to

00:37:42.480 help each other to grow to succeed now that's not enough you needed to add one more business to it and

00:37:48.880 and why not do the most difficult thing you can do start a news uh talk network in canada you're the

00:37:56.400 the head of true patriot love um that you you you are my partner so thank you so much no i'm delighted

00:38:02.560 i mean uh and this once again uh here i find a partner that wants to change things for the better

00:38:11.600 always if there's crime we should focus on trying to improve it if there's uh lack of housing we need to

00:38:18.000 tell those stories and what we were getting in the news by and large from these various topics

00:38:23.360 was very one line a very yeah you you know i know how hard you work because i know the mainstream media

00:38:31.920 just give you one line story but what is behind that one line story and then you you paul everybody

00:38:38.480 go around and dig like what is behind that one line story because we need to know more about it yeah

00:38:45.040 even there is a crime in the neighborhood why that happened how that happened what police is doing

00:38:51.440 about that right and who did it and is our neighborhood is safe now or not and it's interesting

00:38:58.560 because the perspective that you put on this business is go deeper guys like we this is a

00:39:03.920 conversation but it's not a real conversation until we have the real story um and on a regular basis

00:39:11.760 we stop ourselves from doing things because those elements that you put in place

00:39:19.200 are not necessarily getting the check marks nope it's not the whole story no it's not the right guest

00:39:24.880 no it's not the right time and then to actually find the right time the right guest in those moments

00:39:30.000 uh i commend you because what the mission is is very patriotic it even has the name in it

00:39:36.800 you want a better canada yeah we we want we want more people to be patriot what does that what does

00:39:45.680 that even mean to you because people say to me oh patriot oh you're a right-wing nut bar i don't

00:39:51.600 know that that's what patriot means that's not a patriot patriot mean you you have you patrioted mean

00:39:58.880 you you want to die for your country you are you want to save your country i left nepal and i came

00:40:06.320 here then i make this country my own country this is my home now this is my country now and this is the

00:40:14.240 country gave everything to me so i want to be a patriot and i want to live for this country and if

00:40:20.560 i have to die for this country i will do tomorrow like many before us have yeah in this country all

00:40:27.360 these war happened in the past they were all patriots yeah so i want to be the same patriot

00:40:34.480 everyone is looking for we i think everyone who came to this country

00:40:40.720 should be a patriot to save this country to help each other growth country has to grow country has to

00:40:47.520 sustain on its own you know it behooves me in a lot of interviews to say to somebody at the end of

00:40:54.480 the interview so what's next but if i ask you that i'm afraid because it's probably bigger than this

00:41:01.840 the next plan is probably even bigger than this and you know i hear rumblings in in your business mind

00:41:10.560 the next stop for you is caring for our health even

00:41:13.680 that's all of it yeah community family i am all about community and families i'm all about charities

00:41:25.120 so it doesn't matter which charity and which community needs me i'll be there for them

00:41:31.600 i want you you don't have to be a leader or the politician to help communities you can do on your own

00:41:39.040 even tomorrow if somebody asks me to run for something i will say i want to hear from my

00:41:45.200 community i'm going to be honest with you if if you want shara to run for something i say no

00:41:50.480 i have to i have to say no we neither uh but i know that whatever uh the nation calls on you

00:41:56.720 you will deliver i've watched it time and time again um thanks for being an inspiration thank you

00:42:02.400 for doing this i appreciate it thank you so much thank you for having me today

From Nepal to Canada： Shara’s Unbelievable Rise

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