Careers and leadership
Rebuilding a professional life in a new country, growing into senior roles, and the unwritten rules nobody explains on arrival.
A podcast from Calgary, for the world
Global business, built across borders.
Honest conversations with immigrant founders, operators, and global professionals on building careers, companies, and trade across countries. Immigration is the context. Building is the subject.
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New episodes
15+
Years working with founders
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Immigrant host
YYC
Calgary to the world
The show
Where the immigration story ends, the real work begins.
Most shows stop at the move. This one starts after it: rebuilding a career, raising capital, scaling a company, and doing business between countries.
Every two weeks, Sam sits down with people who have actually done it. Founders who built companies in a new market. Operators who rebuilt careers from zero. Trade builders who connect Canada to the world. No scripts, no rose-coloured glasses, and always something you can use.
Why this show
A different seat at the table.
Hosted by an operator, not a fan
Sam is an entrepreneur, global citizen, and lifelong student of leadership. Having spent more than 15 years working alongside founders, executives, and business owners, he knows that every success story is built on challenges, difficult decisions, and resilience. That’s why he asks the questions others don’t, bringing practical insight and authentic conversations that inspire listeners to grow, lead, and navigate change with confidence.
Built for builders
Careers, capital, and cross-border growth. Practical conversations for people who are building something, in Canada and beyond.
Access you cannot fake
Real founders, operators, and decision-makers who have lived the rebuild: from family manufacturing legacies to Canada’s trade corridors with Latin America and Africa.
Calgary roots, global reach
Recorded in Calgary with a local network and an international lens. The stories start here and stretch across borders.
What we talk about
Three conversations, one thread.
Business, export, capital
Starting, funding, and scaling a company in a new market: from a family bakery that became a Calgary institution to tech firms built from a cold start.
Trade, culture, markets
Doing business between countries: immigrant networks as trade channels, reading new markets, and what global business really runs on.
Podcasts
Every conversation, in one place.
Why a Will Is Your Family’s Lifeline
Gary KirkLawyer · Kirk Montoute Dawson LLP
Canadian Investors Want This (If You’re an Immigrant)
Andrew SandenCEO & co-founder · Immigrant business supporter
Get Your Immigration Right
Alexandra LiebrechtRegulated Canadian Immigration Consultant
Your Personal Brand Is Your Superpower
Toni GuffeiRatio Marketing · Personal branding
How Immigrants Can Land Their Dream Career
Vivian ChengCareer strategist · Global recruiter
Your Accent Is Not the Problem
Alisa ZavialovaPhD linguist · Founder, CELS
From Survival to Living in Canada
Dennis AgbeghaCommunity builder · Banking & VC
A 60-Year Family Business Legacy
Peter PlešaDirector of BD, GN Corporation
Building a Bakery, Building a Life
Louis BontorinCo-owner, Calgary Italian Bakery
When Immigrant Women Rise
Zulfira PulotovaFounder, Connect Local & Global
Canada–Africa Trade Bridges
Wunmi AdekanmbiQM Consult · Immigrant Techies Network
Building Bridges: Why Immigrants Strengthen Communities
Jan EdenBusiness leader · Connector
Your host
Sam Musayev has lived the rebuild. Three times.
As an immigrant child, an international student, and now a husband, father, entrepreneur, and professional building a life in Canada, Sam understands what it means to start over.
He knows the uncertainty of arriving somewhere new, the pressure of proving yourself, and the resilience it takes to build a life from the ground up. Those experiences didn’t just shape his career, they shaped how he sees people, leadership, relationships, challenges, failure and success.
For more than 15 years, Sam has worked alongside founders, executives, entrepreneurs, and business owners as they expanded into new markets, navigated uncertainty, overcame setbacks, and built organizations that create lasting impact. Along the way, he discovered something that fascinated him: the most valuable lessons are almost never found on LinkedIn profiles, company websites, or award stages. They’re hidden in the difficult decisions, the failures no one talks about, the moments of doubt, and the people who refused to give up.
That realization became the foundation for The Global Nomads’ Podcast.
This isn’t a show about titles or résumés. It’s about the human stories behind them and the real advice these experts of life can provide.
As someone who has rebuilt his own life more than once, Sam doesn’t interview guests as an outsider. He asks questions from lived experience, with curiosity, empathy, and the perspective of someone who understands that success is rarely a straight line.
His hope is simple: that every conversation leaves listeners feeling a little wiser, a little more connected, and a little more confident about writing the next chapter of their own story. And most importantly, a little more positive and motivated.