I should have aired this episode a couple weeks ago, around the 4th of July. I get a little patriotically misty-eyed with today's guest, Kinza Azmat. Kinza at one point marvels at her own trajectory from six-year-old Pakistani girl newly arrived in New York, overwhelmed and intimidated, to today the new owner of a thriving 35-year-old real estate brokerage with locations across Texas. Of course, Kinza's success is more to her own credit than to America's. Hers is an immigrant success story that humbles me, a native-born man who has encountered no such friction. And Kinza's story isn't just about that. It's also, more significantly maybe, about self-actualization. Kinza was on a pretty traditional path. She jokes about it being the typical "daughter of Asian immigrant parents" path and was eventually employed at one of the world's most revered companies, Apple. But along the way she felt called to do something else. Something harder and weirder, but ultimately for her, much more rewarding, much more suited to who she really is. That's a theme that runs through most Acquiring Minds interviews, really. So if you feel such a calling, hopefully my guests embolden you to heed it. For now, please enjoy this guest, Kinza Azmat.

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