Sabina Gault, CEO of Konnect Agency, creates pathways for immigrant women by providing opportunities for them at her company. She makes a dedicated effort to hire immigrant women and help them on the path to citizenship.
During her second year of college, one of the U.S. producers that she had been assisting presented her with an opportunity to work in the States. It took close to a year before Gault could move. “First, figuring out what to do and then figuring out how to do it took us seven months,” she explains. “Then, 911 happened. Everything stalled. I thought I'm never going to come. We finally figured out the right paperwork. After I worked for her for a year and a half, my visa was expiring.
“I didn't really want to start my own company,” she explains. “My parents both owned businesses all their lives. I didn't necessarily grow up in a country that was about entrepreneurship. Half my life there was under communism. I didn't really grow up thinking like an American where you were like, ‘I'm going own a business and be successful. This is going to be the most exciting thing ever.
“This job doesn't come with a book to tell you what to do with the next step,” Gault shares. “When I started, I was super impulsive because I thought that opportunities never come a second time. That's part of that immigrant belief where you get something and you think you're never going to get it again; you have to say yes now…Until a couple of years ago, I did a lot of that a lot of saying, ‘yes.’ A lot of grasping for opportunities and jumping for opportunities.
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