This year, Sherema Kuchuk was awarded the prestigious Outstanding Entrepreneurship of the Year award, becoming the first South Asian woman to receive this honour. In this episode, she shares her story of how she became the first south Asian woman in the world to receive the award, and how she built an empire of empowerment as a proud leader in her community.
00:00:30.000the peony symbol of prosperity vision and bold leadership representing the spirit of excellence
00:00:52.240and ambition that drives great entrepreneurs to entrepreneurs it means creating value that
00:00:58.480elevates around you just as the peony radiates confidence and abundance shara makuchi has built
00:01:04.880an empire of empowerment as a proud leader in the nepalese community she has demonstrated
00:01:10.080exceptional business acumen while creating widespread economic opportunities across her
00:01:15.280ventures communicating effectively internally and externally in today's current climate is the
00:01:23.920exciting challenge we are trying to overcome each day through our various business venture we strive
00:01:30.880to communicate clearly while adding value to customers always creating good karma we have
00:01:36.960always believed that successful business art with identifying unmet needs in the market when we
00:01:41.920established rama gaming house in 2012 we saw an opportunity to create more than just another
00:01:47.840entertainment venue we envision a premium experience that puts that new standards in the industry
00:01:56.160at rama gaming house with locations in scarborough and mississauga shana has created immersive
00:02:01.200entertainment experiences while supporting over 200 charities annually through impulse she reaches
00:02:06.800300 000 readers monthly fostering authentic community connections her newest venture true patriot love
00:02:12.880media launches a corporate podcasting network she also established the meadowvale business
00:02:17.520association to reconnect businesses post pandemic while continuing to help families through her real
00:02:22.320estate services for us business excellence means continuous evolution and uncompromising quality we never
00:02:34.560satisfy with status quo we are always looking ahead anticipating market trends and innovating to stay
00:02:42.480ahead of the curve this forward thinking mindset is what sustains growth and builds lasting enterprises
00:02:49.680her philosophy of perpetual innovation has earned industry recognition and positioned her as a thought
00:02:55.280leader in business development and strategic expansion like the peony that commands attention through sheer
00:03:00.640magnificence her business achievements demonstrate how visionary strategy and exceptional execution can create
00:03:08.080extraordinary success of extraordinary success we are proud to announce that the recipient of the outstanding
00:03:13.760women awards 2025 outstanding entrepreneur of the year award is sherema kuchik
00:03:20.880the markham richmond hill and von chinese business association hosted the prestigious outstanding women award 2025 gala at the markham hilton
00:03:48.880celebrating celebrating women who have demonstrated exceptional achievements in business
00:03:52.560in business innovation and community leadership and then it goes on to say this year sherema kuchi was awarded the
00:04:00.560prestigious outstanding entrepreneur of the year award uh becoming the first south asian woman to receive this
00:04:06.560honor it is my pleasure to introduce you to my business partner and entrepreneur of the year sherema kuchi
00:04:12.080thank you so much mike thank you for having me over here today you know what you're being very gracious because
00:04:19.200we'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
00:04:24.480very proud of you congratulations um but in in the process of being in business with you uh you know when
00:04:32.720you meet somebody shara in life and you think oh i want to do business associated or in partnership with
00:04:39.680this person there's many factors involved all of the factors involved in in us being partners from
00:04:45.600my perspective was honored that night through this award and uh so it is my pleasure if you don't mind
00:04:52.560i 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
00:04:59.520a lot of things today well okay well let me start with this uh the culmination of this award
00:05:05.600is meaningful for all of us and certainly mostly meaningful for you and your son chris let's go
00:05:12.160back in time you came to canada a new immigrant from nepal yep where did that process begin for you
00:05:21.440what made you think i'm gonna go to canada so i'd like to start with my childhood where i came from
00:05:31.840tell me about that uh very small village um my father he's still a priest so i grew up with a priest
00:05:40.160family and they also have farming so we used to eat a lot of organic foods yeah that's how i grew up
00:05:49.600not a lot of money but we had a lot of love i grew up with two siblings one brother who is older than me
00:05:57.840and one sister who is younger than me so life was good and then all of a sudden around um i just gave a
00:06:09.360grade 12 exam i guess and uh waiting for my result my parents came to me say you have to get married
00:06:16.640and that was shocking for me that i have to get married when i am 18 right and your whole life and
00:06:24.160aspirations ahead of you you've just graduated and so now life is going to take a turn in a different
00:06:30.080direction yeah yeah and then um uh my brother he already left nepal like a few years ago he was in
00:06:38.720dubai then i asked him and he said okay you might have to listen to the parents maybe they are doing
00:06:44.720the right thing so even your brother was like you know maybe mom and dad are trying to do the right
00:06:49.360thing yeah yeah and then yeah then i end up marrying with the guy who was 12 years older than me
00:06:57.280that's where everything changed everything changed in my life and um i was married with my ex for a few
00:07:05.840years and then i'm looking to my friends family everyone everybody had a good life home cars everything
00:07:15.360and then me i'm i'm living in this apartment and then thinking what i did wrong i maybe i could have
00:07:23.600ended up with a maybe better person or the maybe better future maybe i maybe i was uh i would be going
00:07:31.520to school getting my master degree because i always wanted to get master degree and then get married
00:07:38.640when i had a little bit money but then marrying early was a little bit hard for me but um you know
00:07:47.680yeah i can see you completely your attention to detail completing a master's was completely within
00:07:54.720the realm yeah for you and you had taken on sort of a uh as i recall a passion for fashion design yeah
00:08:02.000i did fashion design course i wanted to do more and more and then i did fashion design core here in
00:08:07.600styling course whatever training i could get in nepal i tried to jump into that and finally i figured out
00:08:15.600there is no opportunity for me in nepal not just for me for many people over there because politics was
00:08:22.320getting worse government wasn't stable so i figured out no this is maybe a little bit it's gonna be hard
00:08:30.480for 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
00:08:39.920where i landed in canada by myself and um i landed in a snowy day like january 8. the introduction to
00:08:50.320canada was not a warm one no nobody told me it's gonna be that much snow in canada so i didn't have
00:08:57.120proper clothes yeah and my we're encouraging you to come to canada it's the last thing we talk about
00:09:02.640is that snow and the blowing wind so our apologies no no i was i was looking for the better future so
00:09:11.200it's my responsibility to think about what's gonna be next but i didn't think ahead like they're gonna
00:09:17.200be this bad because i was born in the era where there was there was internet but a lot of internet
00:09:23.600i tried to google something it would make around circle like like around five minutes to open one
00:09:29.280window and of course when it opens to snow you think this can't be right click and you have to shut it
00:09:34.000i don't but let's start before just before you arrive you know we speak about this casually among us
00:09:42.560as a group of friends but the truth is you made an incredibly courageous move uh many people around
00:09:51.920you probably thought yeah i'm gonna leave nepal i'm going to go get a better life too i'm gonna do
00:09:56.160the same thing yet you are the only one to go yeah from my family say from my area i am the only one
00:10:06.160who decided to leave country uh for um after dubai my brother was there i decided to go a little bit
00:10:15.840further so i ended up in canada yeah it's a far trip uh and and to a new place with a different
00:10:22.720environment and a completely different language and i i didn't know anyone so i had to figure things out
00:10:29.440and then uh yeah as i said cold winter i landed in the airport and the funny thing is i had a log is
00:10:39.840is 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
00:10:46.880i 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
00:10:54.000those days you are allowed to put lock in your backpack and then and you're shivering i know i
00:11:00.320don't know why but i was so stressed and uh living back home all the family and everything i i cried
00:11:08.560all the time like it took me two and a half days to land in canada i cried the whole time and then
00:11:15.680by the time i landed in the airport my hand was shaking and trying to figure out my code and code
00:11:21.440didn't work so lucky there was a gentleman watching me and he said you couldn't open your
00:11:27.280lock 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
00:11:36.320that now i can take a cab because without money i cannot do it i knew that there was i'm the first
00:11:41.920one so no credit card or nothing by that time right so now in my mind i see our shara standing
00:11:48.960at the airport in tears have i made a mistake i'm in the arctic and there's no one there to pick
00:11:56.480you 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
00:12:03.520took a cab went there and uh live in their house for i think um three weeks i lived there and i moved
00:12:10.240from there too and uh i have to tell you this like after a week i found out i was pregnant
00:12:19.600and then that was also shocking plus i'm in the new country and then the pregnancy turned like oh it's
00:12:25.920gonna be tough on your own on my own and i of course i cried a lot and i tried to connect to my
00:12:33.840family my i talked to my mom i talked to my ex-husband mom was asking me to come back and i
00:12:40.720know there is no better future for me so i couldn't go back especially with a child on the way yeah and
00:12:45.760then 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
00:12:52.400that because i that's a it's a it was a proud moment for me to be a mom after so many years i
00:13:00.240said 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
00:13:07.120gonna raise him you are there or not i'm doing it baby on the way yeah living with a strange family
00:13:14.880middle of the winter yeah now you've got to get employed what happens i tried to my first um
00:13:23.840it was a it was hard i my first job was uh i remember pape station pape subway subway yeah i had to
00:13:34.640uh exit there and then i had to go a little bit down like it was a salon but uh they had a
00:13:40.960uh uh they have a facial and everything and i i knew how to do it i knew how to do threading and
00:13:48.000stuff clear cut and they hired me for a few days and i didn't like it and uh after that i'm like okay
00:13:59.040i'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
00:14:06.160very nice i'm like oh maybe i can find something else and uh i end up in mississauga after i moved
00:14:15.360there so you're in scarborough as you point out now you're getting on the transit with child you're
00:14:22.240pregnant and traveling all the way to mississauga on transit which by the way at the time wasn't there
00:14:27.760was no direct route you were i think it took me two and a half hours to get to mississauga in transit i
00:14:34.800remember that feeling you know shara this is a common thread that you hear with uh the migrants
00:14:41.840the immigrants that come here and the students here that they spend so much time on transit just
00:14:47.440trying to get to where they need to be for work or for school yeah i know it's it's not easy no
00:14:53.680so you're you go to mississauga now for work you've got salon training from nepal you've got a beauty
00:15:00.800school and fashion training yeah where does that land you in uh in employment the family i was living
00:15:08.640with they had a salon so they let me work in that salon and plus they asked me to pay rent and for for
00:15:16.240food i agreed i lived with them for a few years and after that after a year they decided to move to
00:15:23.840brampton and i'm like where i'm going right because that by that time i had a baby and i said i'm gonna
00:15:31.760move with you so i moved with them so and then uh from there uh i i moved to i decided to live on my
00:15:41.120own so i moved to the basement with my one of my girlfriend we shared two rooms and he took one i had
00:15:47.440one with my son and that went for another year and after that um i opened my salon on my own so now
00:15:56.880you've been here for a short time essentially five years four years by this point uh i opened my salon on
00:16:04.0802013. so so really a short time short time to adapt four five five years yeah you have a baby gain
00:16:13.120employment now you're going to be an entrepreneur how did you get to that place where you could open
00:16:18.960a 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
00:16:27.360i can sit there and look at my baby grow or watch him watch his every moment i miss that i had to work
00:16:34.960seven days a week because i was a single mom that's where i i try to collect money like okay one day
00:16:42.320i'm gonna have my own alone that was my dream to open my own salon it is um one of the things when
00:16:50.240we're talking about your history that amazes me the most you literally had to save every dime to open
00:16:56.400that business there was nobody to give you a loan there was no family to back you you had to open that
00:17:01.360business still feed your child still pay rent yeah and become a success and and guess what you did
00:17:07.760it wasn't easy it was uh it was tough but uh i always uh talk to my son i said uh never forget
00:17:18.240where we came from never forget we used to live in a basement you and i that little basement that's
00:17:25.840the roots that's your roots when my roots is different but your roots is like you you raised by
00:17:32.880a single woman for a few years so now you're you're running a salon how does that go um in the
00:17:41.440beginning like uh every business it was struggle it was hard but then slowly customer yes get to know
00:17:49.760me and they like my work they start coming back i used to hire more people so yeah it was fine so now
00:17:57.120you've got a growing business you've got a son you've got your own place you're making your way
00:18:01.680in canada how's that feel to you at that point um i wasn't thinking much about it because i i had to
00:18:11.440think about how to pay my rent and how to pay my employee that was that that was the next level there
00:18:17.360was no moment for pride and of success at that moment because like many entrepreneurs you have to just
00:18:24.240keep going yeah what a fascinating place to be in life you know what would have been amazing is that
00:18:31.200that very moment love would enter your life did it it did in the salon yeah he walked in uh wanted to
00:18:41.120have a haircut um he told me it was lovers first sight he told me that too and by the way we're talking
00:18:49.520about uh paul micucci your husband yeah um yeah he told me and i'll share this with you i don't know
00:18:55.760if you've ever heard this he had more haircuts in a three-month period than any man uh in the history
00:19:01.600of haircuts he used to come once a week yeah for his haircut yeah and i'm like my other customer they
00:19:10.640come once a month like and he's once a week or something this guy really likes haircuts yeah i don't
00:19:16.800know that it was a haircut that he was there for so now you you start to build a relationship with
00:19:21.440this uh this gentleman who's also an entrepreneur he has a business and you have a business um but
00:19:28.240let's talk about the development of that relationship and uh how it landed you guys married yeah like we
00:19:34.960said he used to come for haircut and one day he asked me to go out i took my time because i have a
00:19:40.720kid with me and um i i had to think about my son what's gonna happen to him and um yeah it worked out
00:19:50.320paul had his son too so we all we kind of we were in the same boat and then that's where we end up
00:19:59.040marrying each other it's interesting that um you know the commonality that you had was not
00:20:06.480not your childhood it was not high school it was not relating through music likely it was really a
00:20:16.480new place for both of you um language developing on your part him trying to understand all of the and
00:20:24.720i i certainly do understand this scenario but through that you begin to accomplish something beautiful
00:20:33.040you begin to create a family yeah language wise i speak different languages so it wasn't that hard
00:20:40.400for me to to pick up pick up uh uh every languages i speak uh hindi voodoo i understand punjabi i can
00:20:48.960speak a little bit of punjabi not a lot i'm not very fluent now now english right now of course english
00:20:55.280i speak one of those languages you just listed and very badly english so my respect english was
00:21:02.720always my second language was in back home too because i i went to private school so it wasn't
00:21:08.240very hard to catch up we didn't speak to each other but we always had in writing yeah so it wasn't it
00:21:16.000wasn't hard uh did you use google translate at all when not at that time i didn't know about that i'm
00:21:22.880gonna be honest with you it was a a savior in my relationship i i want to add something about um
00:21:29.920how i end up marrying paul please because it mystifies all of us so please yeah um i needed a
00:21:37.520barber in my salon because lots of men were coming to get a haircut and lots of men were asking is there
00:21:44.080a barber so i advertised i think on kzz or there was some platform that i advertised that i needed a barber
00:21:52.400and 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
00:22:01.440me that's fine let's let's start and then slowly we got closer and then as you know uh he ended up being
00:22:11.440my godfather and now hard uh yeah he passed away four months ago and it's gonna be always hard because
00:22:22.560i miss him so much i think as a father figure um really your family scenario began with ash and his
00:22:31.200family he him and his family with the family where i started to learn and grow he's the one he's the
00:22:42.240the backbone he was a backbone for me he always he taught me a lot of things how to listen learn and grow
00:22:50.480and uh he's the one keep telling me that paul is the right guy you have to marry it's good for your
00:22:57.760son chris will be so good you'll be so happy just trust me as a father i i want to give you this
00:23:05.920advice he's the right guy and he didn't just say that i mean uh paul tells me stories that ash would
00:23:12.960go and just be with paul chat with him for hours at a stretch they would just get to know one another
00:23:20.320and the net result of that was ash coming back and saying i think this might be
00:23:24.480these two asses to call me every day to make sure how
00:23:33.680i miss that good news is what ash imparted in you i see every day in you and paul you did a good
00:23:41.280job ash he was a good godfather so now you and paul are together you're developing a beautiful uh
00:23:48.320life and chris uh is uh uh adopting a new father figure in his life really for the first time ever
00:23:56.080uh funny thing is um when we we met i didn't want to bring chris in the beginning and we met a couple
00:24:04.720times and when we thought okay it's time for chris to meet paul um we put him in the back seat and then
00:24:12.720he looked at paul and he said are you my dad and chris was um three year old unbelievable yeah and then
00:24:24.720paul said yes kiddo yeah he knew they both knew they both knew what they were doing i'm like okay
00:24:35.200this is very strange this is the first the first time they seem to still have that relationship where
00:24:39.600they they know what's going on yeah i get it you're the boss but they also seem to have their
00:24:45.120own language uh among them oh yeah which is uh very sweet you know and at that time chris used to
00:24:53.200speak punjabi because he grew up with a man he was from pinjab and she did a good job with chris
00:25:01.760she still calls me okay i want to see my son he he loved him so much i think this is an important
00:25:10.880story to tell the award is beautiful and i don't know if you can see here on the table we'll certainly
00:25:15.920make sure you get a full look at it yeah very beautiful um i watched you receiving this but
00:25:22.560i think that the reward that i see you getting in life um has very little to do with acknowledgement
00:25:29.440which is very nice you and paul then go on to create a business together yeah that has made
00:25:36.240an enormous difference in the province of ontario and canada um i hope that the people that uh you
00:25:44.880left behind in nepal see this and hear what a difference you and your husband have made in this
00:25:52.800province in the communities where you have businesses and right within the walls where you do that business
00:25:59.760yeah i hear i hear good things about it my especially my parents they talk about it a lot my cousins
00:26:07.920yeah they they talk about uh it's a good thing we are doing helping the communities over here
00:26:14.240i don't know if you want to put a number on how much uh charities have received in ontario through
00:26:20.800the operations that you and paul have uh have run but i it is in the millions and millions and millions of
00:26:28.320dollars um charities that would normally not have it so let's talk a little bit about this now you're
00:26:34.640married and uh paul's in the gaming business what happens um we we got married and after a while we
00:26:43.600figured out chris's chris needs a little bit time uh from one of us so we decided to sell the
00:26:51.760air saloon business so we parked that on the side and then we just had a charitable gaming house at
00:26:58.560that time and i decided to go back to school to use my time with chris so i had a i took a computer
00:27:06.000programming and graduated with honors yeah and after hold on let's not just pass that okay so now you've
00:27:13.360run a business yeah you're assisting in the in the uh in the gaming business i know that you're raising
00:27:19.920a child but that's not enough no no you have to go and continue your education in a completely different
00:27:25.520field this is the story of the immigrant to canada more extend expand learn it's a commonality that i
00:27:39.120think many people don't understand is how you achieve from starting at an airport when you
00:27:46.320couldn't open your luggage and you didn't know where you were going to land that day yep you get there
00:27:52.400through this kind of pure determination that in many ways north americans don't have that same
00:28:00.240hunger you have the desire to still create a family and position yourself proudly as a mom
00:28:06.240a mom something that is quickly dissipating also in north america so when we talk about this award
00:28:14.320to me the greatest thing about this award is that you made that balance that you created a scenario
00:28:21.040where you could be a mom a wife and a mentor within the business walls of ram a gaming house to other
00:28:30.080immigrants while you're giving back charitably this is the product of real determination
00:28:40.000one thing i always remember is you can be anything you want you just have to choose your path and go for
00:28:47.840it yeah there will be ups and downs but you're gonna get there what advice would you give
00:28:55.680shara the modern day shara sitting in nepal saying i want canada what would you say to that person
00:29:06.400i will tell them and this is uh with the internet i was talking to one of our staff yesterday
00:29:13.600when i came i didn't know anything about it because there was no internet there was an internet but it
00:29:19.520was in dot com era and uh it was a little bit hard to research everything about canada but now they
00:29:28.000can see canada from their phone what's canada look like what is toronto where is mississauga and where
00:29:34.000is scarborough so do your homework and try to figure out where you're gonna go try to connect to that
00:29:39.120person you're gonna go meet make sure they're okay try to figure out the community center or community
00:29:45.600leaders or anyone who is already successful try to connect with them and make sure you are coming
00:29:52.720to the right place uh to meet the right person great advice i mean it would have been wonderful
00:30:00.880yeah if you had the same advantage but to be able to say you have this opportunity now take advantage of
00:30:06.800it before you arrive start to make your arrangements i want to add something else like a lot of
00:30:12.000uh now my uh staff who came to work with me as a student they used to tell me different story about
00:30:21.120what happened to their life even they connect to the community later they didn't get help as they
00:30:25.920expected uh it was a little bit tough so now uh you and paul own uh rama gaming house in uh with uh with
00:30:35.040some incredible partners uh i hear you talk about them all the time together you guys have built
00:30:40.720uh a remarkable operation in scarborough and in mississauga in both of those locations i see you
00:30:49.200mentoring i see paul mentoring a wide array of uh nepali and other nationalities yeah we have mix of
00:30:58.240everything uh like we have students we have people who are in work permit we have permanent residents we
00:31:03.920have canadian citizens we have all kind of people and in fact it seems like you've created a place in
00:31:11.360which they can create community i would say it's just a place in my mind it's um it's a home yes and
00:31:19.680i'm creating the family i see that so here's here's and let's let's really focus on that because before we
00:31:26.560go what i am here sitting to tell you is every day we all learn from you we all learn from paul we all
00:31:35.040learn something very very different from you we learn how to be a family we learn how to have respect
00:31:43.360for one another even as adults who have had jobs in other places there is a better way to operate and
00:31:49.040it is to care for one another to mentor for one another when there is no uh festive moment that is
00:31:57.520uh common to your home it might happen at rama gaming house we we celebrate everything from christmas to
00:32:06.640diwali to we celebrate all the culture i want to my staff to not to miss their home
00:32:14.960well it doesn't matter where they came from so you create the same scenario they would have at home
00:32:21.200yeah for them to experience here yeah but that that was that was important for me because i didn't get
00:32:28.240that when i was here in the beginning so i want to make sure they get it i want to make sure they have
00:32:36.160enough money to pay their rent i want to make sure they eat properly i want to make sure they have their
00:32:41.680clothes there are so many employees that i do personally pay their rents buy them clothes buy
00:32:47.760them groceries i want to make sure they don't feel alone like i was alone in that time it's incredible
00:32:54.880to 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
00:33:02.560your head i've seen you do it for everybody who works for you in some way at some level that care is
00:33:10.240always there and and by the way you don't want to hang on to anybody forever your mission is to give
00:33:16.160them their start and then watch them flourish i want them to fly i want them to do better than what
00:33:22.640i'm doing right now i want to give them wings to fly and tell them you know what you can go and just
00:33:30.080do your own thing you're free to go these are the things that i see in this award i don't see the bottom
00:33:37.200line i don't see uh which is there i don't see the um entrepreneurial pathway although it's there
00:33:47.840i don't necessarily see super business success although congratulations i have witnessed it what i see
00:33:56.320here is the route to becoming a better person as an entrepreneur and i hope that the next person
00:34:05.680that receives this award has done as much in the community realizes their dreams the way that you
00:34:12.400did and uh can impart upon the group that they're mentoring a better way forward that's why i really
00:34:21.360wanted to do this interview shara because i think there's a model that you represent as a canadian coming
00:34:27.440to canada thank you so much for doing this interview and thank you for markham richmond hill bond chinese
00:34:34.640business association for giving this award to me for recognizing me what i have done in these
00:34:42.240communities because community is everything for me family is everything for me i want to help more
00:34:48.480communities i want to help community to grow i wanna community start with the person so i want to help each
00:34:54.880of them who needs help and i want them to grow i don't just want them to sit beside me and waiting for me
00:35:04.160to tell what to do i want them to go find their own path like i did you have to be hungry enough to be
00:35:11.920successful yeah yeah and you need the people around you to believe in you as well even in the moments
00:35:17.920where you don't think you can do it yeah um shara thank you i really appreciate this thank you so much
00:35:25.600i should point out one more time this is probably the last thing that you'd want to do but i really
00:35:29.600appreciate that you do it because i do think uh there's some value in it and i want to say thank
00:35:33.680you you're an amazing business partner thank you and then i would like to add more stuff to it like
00:35:39.200it's not just ram a gaming house we do we have newspaper and pulse oh my goodness may i okay so
00:35:46.960if you don't mind i'll take a moment and we'll cover this off yeah you guys have two community
00:35:51.360newspapers i'm sorry i have forgotten this i don't know why your story was so charming to me that i lost it
00:35:57.440yeah no you have ram a gaming house but from ram a gaming house you realized quickly hey there's no
00:36:02.560community newspapers in either of these communities so you started one yeah because we see the void
00:36:08.720that everybody was telling us uh after kobe that we didn't get anything to read about so paul and i
00:36:16.640talked about maybe we need to fill that void so we started newspaper we have more than 300 000
00:36:24.400readers right now and we distribute more than 100 000 copies in the neighborhoods it's basically the
00:36:32.640community news what's going on in your community it's beautiful because the feedback in the communities
00:36:37.280which i hear all the time is we lost our newspaper now we have it back yeah and uh that that community
00:36:43.520connection speaks again to to that theory of we need to be a community to make things happen properly
00:36:50.160yeah and then uh before that we started medical business association paul and i we both founded it
00:36:57.040now meadowvale to put it into perspective for people who aren't watching is uh known in ontario
00:37:01.760as pill hill it's where all the pharmaceuticals are a number of the major head offices and they didn't
00:37:07.680have a business association no they didn't we try to call so many people to figure out if there is a
00:37:13.680business association that we can join so there wasn't one so somebody had to do it so we said okay let's
00:37:19.840open the business association it's it's in my mind it's very important to you need to talk to your
00:37:26.720neighbors b2b communication is very important if you want to grow your business you need another
00:37:33.840business to help you helping each other is growing the community or even growing the countries you have to
00:37:42.480help each other to grow to succeed now that's not enough you needed to add one more business to it and
00:37:48.880and why not do the most difficult thing you can do start a news uh talk network in canada you're the
00:37:56.400the head of true patriot love um that you you you are my partner so thank you so much no i'm delighted
00:38:02.560i mean uh and this once again uh here i find a partner that wants to change things for the better
00:38:11.600always if there's crime we should focus on trying to improve it if there's uh lack of housing we need to
00:38:18.000tell those stories and what we were getting in the news by and large from these various topics
00:38:23.360was very one line a very yeah you you know i know how hard you work because i know the mainstream media
00:38:31.920just give you one line story but what is behind that one line story and then you you paul everybody
00:38:38.480go around and dig like what is behind that one line story because we need to know more about it yeah
00:38:45.040even there is a crime in the neighborhood why that happened how that happened what police is doing
00:38:51.440about that right and who did it and is our neighborhood is safe now or not and it's interesting
00:38:58.560because the perspective that you put on this business is go deeper guys like we this is a
00:39:03.920conversation but it's not a real conversation until we have the real story um and on a regular basis
00:39:11.760we stop ourselves from doing things because those elements that you put in place
00:39:19.200are not necessarily getting the check marks nope it's not the whole story no it's not the right guest
00:39:24.880no it's not the right time and then to actually find the right time the right guest in those moments
00:39:30.000uh i commend you because what the mission is is very patriotic it even has the name in it
00:39:36.800you want a better canada yeah we we want we want more people to be patriot what does that what does
00:39:45.680that even mean to you because people say to me oh patriot oh you're a right-wing nut bar i don't
00:39:51.600know that that's what patriot means that's not a patriot patriot mean you you have you patrioted mean
00:39:58.880you you want to die for your country you are you want to save your country i left nepal and i came
00:40:06.320here then i make this country my own country this is my home now this is my country now and this is the
00:40:14.240country gave everything to me so i want to be a patriot and i want to live for this country and if
00:40:20.560i have to die for this country i will do tomorrow like many before us have yeah in this country all
00:40:27.360these war happened in the past they were all patriots yeah so i want to be the same patriot
00:40:34.480everyone is looking for we i think everyone who came to this country
00:40:40.720should be a patriot to save this country to help each other growth country has to grow country has to
00:40:47.520sustain on its own you know it behooves me in a lot of interviews to say to somebody at the end of
00:40:54.480the interview so what's next but if i ask you that i'm afraid because it's probably bigger than this
00:41:01.840the next plan is probably even bigger than this and you know i hear rumblings in in your business mind
00:41:10.560the next stop for you is caring for our health even
00:41:13.680that's all of it yeah community family i am all about community and families i'm all about charities
00:41:25.120so it doesn't matter which charity and which community needs me i'll be there for them
00:41:31.600i want you you don't have to be a leader or the politician to help communities you can do on your own
00:41:39.040even tomorrow if somebody asks me to run for something i will say i want to hear from my
00:41:45.200community i'm going to be honest with you if if you want shara to run for something i say no
00:41:50.480i have to i have to say no we neither uh but i know that whatever uh the nation calls on you
00:41:56.720you will deliver i've watched it time and time again um thanks for being an inspiration thank you
00:42:02.400for doing this i appreciate it thank you so much thank you for having me today