From Seeking Asylum To Finding Purpose In Meaningful Careers With Triska Hamid

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In this inspiring episode with Triska Hamid, we touch upon experiences that will ignite purpose and inspiration in you to do the greater good. Triska shares her memoirs of life as a refugee, being displaced from her homeland and finding her way through the struggles and fulfilling her dreams and aspiration through strict perseverance and courage. Triska shares what it’s like to still recall the horrors of fledding a region that was afflicted with war and turmoil, the trauma that stays and having the will to fight it everyday. She also talks about scaling her career through multiple venues as a journalist and editor and even an entrepreneur. Catch her episode, out now!
Triska Hamid is a journalist, editor and entrepreneur. Born in Erbil, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, she is a survivor of the First Gulf War having fled with her family to Iran, mostly on foot. She grew up as an asylum seeker in the UK where she graduated from Oxford University. Today, Triska is the editorial director at Wamda and is also the founder of London-based Mokaya Brownies, the company behind the most awarded brownies in the UK.