Martha Nino: Fighting for the American Dream - One first generation families success story

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Guy Kawasaki

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4.6 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Meet Martha Nino. She was born in a grass shack, her parents picked cotton, they had very little education and her only role models were laborers. She was also not legal in this country for fifteen years. Today she is a Senior Marketing Manager at Adobe, one of the biggest technology companies in the world. What you'll learn from Martha is with proper guidance, an opportunity, and a positive outlook we can do hard things. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	In my years of entrepreneurship, I've seen countless startups. And here's the truth.
0:07.3	Smart spending drives growth, which is something Brex has championed. Brex isn't just a corporate credit
0:14.0	card. It's a strategic tool to help your company achieve peak performance. Corporate cards, banking, expense management, all integrated
0:24.1	on an AI-powered platform that turns every dollar into opportunity. In fact, 30,000 companies
0:32.9	are trusting Brex to help them win. Go to brex.com slash grow to learn more.
0:44.4	I'm Guy Kawasaki and this is remarkable people. This episode's remarkable guest is Martha Nino.
0:56.0	It's unlikely that you've heard of her, but someday you will.
0:59.9	She currently works at Adobe in a marketing position.
1:03.4	How she came to be a guest here is a good story.
1:07.3	Ten years ago, she saw me give a keynote speech.
1:10.5	I guess I impressed her. A year ago, Adobe
1:13.6	held a diversity conference and invited employees to submit stories. Hers was one of eight
1:19.4	selected. Let's just say that typically, one doesn't seek opportunities to talk about an illegal
1:25.5	alien past in front of your company, so that took courage.
1:29.9	A few months ago, she happened upon one of my LinkedIn live chats and reached out to me.
1:35.3	I usually ignore LinkedIn messages because most are requests to be best friends for life from people I don't know,
1:42.3	but I read hers. It pointed me to a video of that speech, and I liked it so much that I sent it to Jacob
1:48.8	Martinez, the executive director of Digital Nest, an organization in Watsonville, California
1:55.0	that helps young people gain digital skills.
1:58.3	I asked him if her message was suitable for this podcast. He loved her talk and
2:03.6	told me to go for it. So I reached out to her and asked her to be a guest. How she achieved success
2:09.6	is remarkable because she was born in a grass shack in central Mexico. Her parents were laborers
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