Insight with Emma Sat, 23 May 2026 11:05:10 -0400 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2619746 en-us © 2026 Insight with Emma yes 0ed253ab-55a6-5957-b030-cb74b25c9305 emma@saegeconsultants.com f036b560-5647-11f1-b7e9-c3bb362123f1 Emma Sargsyan episodic false INSIGHT is the first Armenian-English language power and culture podcast in the United States.

Hosted by Emma Sargsyan - media founder, PR strategist, and owner of Tribune.am, one of the world's most widely read Armenian-language platforms with 30 million monthly readers , INSIGHT brings you long-form conversations with extraordinary guests at the intersection of business, identity, leadership and culture.

Each episode goes beyond the résumé. Beyond the highlight reel. Into the real story - what it actually cost, what it actually took, and what the person sitting across from Emma learned that they could not have learned any other way.

Guests include Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Marine veterans, fashion designers who kept their dreams secret through military deployments, Freemasons, political activists, financial economists who survived war and revolution, and the builders — seen and unseen — who are shaping the Armenian diaspora and the broader world.

INSIGHT is distributed globally and amplified through Tribune.am's editorial reach across Los Angeles, Yerevan, Moscow, Beirut, Paris and the Armenian diaspora on four continents.

New episodes every week.

If you have ever built something from nothing — or wanted to — this show is for you.

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Emma Sargsyan emma@saegeconsultants.com https://storage.buzzsprout.com/f3usg0spqad0z6v2shilif7av0zi?.jpg Insight with Emma Without Armenia There Is No Diaspora. A Man Who Has Spent 30 Years Proving It With His Own Money Without Armenia There Is No Diaspora. A Man Who Has Spent 30 Years Proving It With His Own Money Adam Kablanian has spent his career building things nobody can see.
Microchips. Molecular layers that make screens produce light. Embedded memory inside the devices billions of people hold every day. The infrastructure nobody notices until it stops working.
He grew up in Aleppo as an Armenian — which means he grew up as the grandchild of people who survived something unsurvivable, in a city that no longer exists as he knew it. He watched Artsakh fall too. He visited in 1998 and saw that there were not enough people to defend the land. He told people. Nobody listened.
He left Aleppo at eighteen to study astrophysics at Berkeley. He wanted to understand how the universe works — where it started, what the forces are, what the fate of everything is. He recognised at Berkeley that his classmates were smarter than him. So he found what he was actually good at. Circuit design. Fifteen patents. A company he started as a consultant that he took public on NASDAQ in four years.
He hired his first Armenian engineering team in 1998 over five days of cognac and lunch at a colleague's house in Yerevan. At the time Armenia had no cellular network. The government had no idea what IT was. The tax authority tried to get bribes. He set boundaries and they never tried again. Those engineers designed three chips that ended up inside the first Apple iPod. Billions of people held that device. None of them knew.
He then built and sold companies to Cisco, Samsung and Aixtron. He invested in quantum computers in Finland when the field was a decade from viability. He is the founding chairman of Paradromics — a neural interface startup competing directly with Neuralink on a fraction of the funding. He brought broadband internet to Armenia.
And then he planted vines.
Not in Napa Valley — in Proshyan, Armenia, on a parcel of land he already owned. His first Chardonnay was not good enough. He sold it as bulk wine and started again. His 2024 White Cuvée — a blend of Chardonnay and Armenia's indigenous Voskehat grape, east meets west — won double gold and champion in class at the Houston Rodeo wine competition.
He also founded Friends of the Armenian Soldier and Family three months after the 44-day war ended. He personally pays every overhead cost — every dollar of administration, marketing and operations — so that one hundred percent of every donation reaches the families of fallen and disabled soldiers. He has raised over $300,000 and run six programs. He stepped down from the Zinapah board after five years deliberately, to let others lead.
He said in this conversation: without Armenia there is no diaspora. In another hundred years there will hardly be any.

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]]> Adam Kablanian has spent his career building things nobody can see.
Microchips. Molecular layers that make screens produce light. Embedded memory inside the devices billions of people hold every day. The infrastructure nobody notices until it stops working.
He grew up in Aleppo as an Armenian — which means he grew up as the grandchild of people who survived something unsurvivable, in a city that no longer exists as he knew it. He watched Artsakh fall too. He visited in 1998 and saw that there were not enough people to defend the land. He told people. Nobody listened.
He left Aleppo at eighteen to study astrophysics at Berkeley. He wanted to understand how the universe works — where it started, what the forces are, what the fate of everything is. He recognised at Berkeley that his classmates were smarter than him. So he found what he was actually good at. Circuit design. Fifteen patents. A company he started as a consultant that he took public on NASDAQ in four years.
He hired his first Armenian engineering team in 1998 over five days of cognac and lunch at a colleague's house in Yerevan. At the time Armenia had no cellular network. The government had no idea what IT was. The tax authority tried to get bribes. He set boundaries and they never tried again. Those engineers designed three chips that ended up inside the first Apple iPod. Billions of people held that device. None of them knew.
He then built and sold companies to Cisco, Samsung and Aixtron. He invested in quantum computers in Finland when the field was a decade from viability. He is the founding chairman of Paradromics — a neural interface startup competing directly with Neuralink on a fraction of the funding. He brought broadband internet to Armenia.
And then he planted vines.
Not in Napa Valley — in Proshyan, Armenia, on a parcel of land he already owned. His first Chardonnay was not good enough. He sold it as bulk wine and started again. His 2024 White Cuvée — a blend of Chardonnay and Armenia's indigenous Voskehat grape, east meets west — won double gold and champion in class at the Houston Rodeo wine competition.
He also founded Friends of the Armenian Soldier and Family three months after the 44-day war ended. He personally pays every overhead cost — every dollar of administration, marketing and operations — so that one hundred percent of every donation reaches the families of fallen and disabled soldiers. He has raised over $300,000 and run six programs. He stepped down from the Zinapah board after five years deliberately, to let others lead.
He said in this conversation: without Armenia there is no diaspora. In another hundred years there will hardly be any.

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]]> Emma Sargsyan Buzzsprout-19225477 Sat, 23 May 2026 11:00:00 -0400 4150 1 7 full false A Real Freemason Was Asked Every Question You Were Never Supposed to Ask. He Answered All of Them. A Real Freemason Was Asked Every Question You Were Never Supposed to Ask. He Answered All of Them. Armenian Freemasons and the men who orchestrated the Armenian Genocide sat in the same Masonic lodges.
Both believed in brotherhood. Both professed a belief in God. Both paid their dues. And one side used that same network to try to destroy the other.
My guest today is Vram Martirosyan — Freemason, diaspora activist, and one of the most honest people I have interviewed about what this brotherhood actually is and is not.
We talked about everything.
Whether Freemasons control governments and elections. Why you cannot become a Freemason if you are an atheist. Why the Illuminati and Freemasonry are not the same organisation. Why Iran banned Freemasonry and the Grand Lodge of Iran operates in exile in California. What actually happens in a lodge. How you get expelled. The full and almost unknown history of Armenian Freemasonry going back centuries before the First Republic. Why Armenian and Turkish Freemasons were in the same lodges and working toward completely opposite ends. Why he said Armenians who didn't join the Sacred Struggle lack national dignity — and whether he still stands by it. Why Pashinyan went after the Armenian church — and what the real calculation was. Why the diaspora is losing its ability to influence Armenia. And what every Armenian watching this needs to understand right now.
This is the conversation about Freemasonry that nobody else is having.
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]]> Armenian Freemasons and the men who orchestrated the Armenian Genocide sat in the same Masonic lodges.
Both believed in brotherhood. Both professed a belief in God. Both paid their dues. And one side used that same network to try to destroy the other.
My guest today is Vram Martirosyan — Freemason, diaspora activist, and one of the most honest people I have interviewed about what this brotherhood actually is and is not.
We talked about everything.
Whether Freemasons control governments and elections. Why you cannot become a Freemason if you are an atheist. Why the Illuminati and Freemasonry are not the same organisation. Why Iran banned Freemasonry and the Grand Lodge of Iran operates in exile in California. What actually happens in a lodge. How you get expelled. The full and almost unknown history of Armenian Freemasonry going back centuries before the First Republic. Why Armenian and Turkish Freemasons were in the same lodges and working toward completely opposite ends. Why he said Armenians who didn't join the Sacred Struggle lack national dignity — and whether he still stands by it. Why Pashinyan went after the Armenian church — and what the real calculation was. Why the diaspora is losing its ability to influence Armenia. And what every Armenian watching this needs to understand right now.
This is the conversation about Freemasonry that nobody else is having.
Subscribe. Share this with someone who thinks they already know what Freemasonry is. Leave a comment with the question you would have asked.

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]]> Emma Sargsyan Buzzsprout-19225506 Fri, 22 May 2026 23:00:00 -0400 3615 1 5 full false They Dropped Us Off at the Airport. That Was It. | George Young | Vietnam Veteran They Dropped Us Off at the Airport. That Was It. | George Young | Vietnam Veteran George H. Young was 19 years old when he was drafted into the United States Army. He didn't choose Vietnam. Vietnam chose him.
In this episode, George - a decorated Vietnam veteran, wounded in action, and current Chaplain of Burbank VFW Post 8310  sits down for one of the most honest conversations about war, coming home, and what happens after that we have ever had on this show.
He talks about the moment his innocence was gone. About being dropped off at an airport with no debriefing, no ceremony, no support — just a bus ticket and a life to figure out. About watching his buddies not come home. About the 41-year marriage that saved him. About holding the flag at funerals and what it costs him every single time.
And about why he still shows up. Every single day.

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]]> George H. Young was 19 years old when he was drafted into the United States Army. He didn't choose Vietnam. Vietnam chose him.
In this episode, George - a decorated Vietnam veteran, wounded in action, and current Chaplain of Burbank VFW Post 8310  sits down for one of the most honest conversations about war, coming home, and what happens after that we have ever had on this show.
He talks about the moment his innocence was gone. About being dropped off at an airport with no debriefing, no ceremony, no support — just a bus ticket and a life to figure out. About watching his buddies not come home. About the 41-year marriage that saved him. About holding the flag at funerals and what it costs him every single time.
And about why he still shows up. Every single day.

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]]> Emma Sargsyan Buzzsprout-19225501 Fri, 22 May 2026 23:00:00 -0400 3128 1 4 full false The Man Managing Your Neighbour's Millions Has One Rule Nobody in Finance Talks About. The Man Managing Your Neighbour's Millions Has One Rule Nobody in Finance Talks About. What does it take to be truly unbreakable?
Vahick Yedgarian has survived war. Revolution. Financial collapse. A gun held to his head. He built a financial empire from nothing, earned five advanced degrees while working full time, and turned a small soup brand into a major operation in Russia.
He thought he had seen everything.
Then his wife got sick.
In this episode of INSIGHT, Emma Sargsyan sits down with Vahick Yedgarian — CFP, financial economist, and lecturer at five universities — for one of the most honest conversations about money, resilience, love and legacy ever recorded on this show.
This is not a finance episode. This is a masterclass in what it means to build a life.

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]]> What does it take to be truly unbreakable?
Vahick Yedgarian has survived war. Revolution. Financial collapse. A gun held to his head. He built a financial empire from nothing, earned five advanced degrees while working full time, and turned a small soup brand into a major operation in Russia.
He thought he had seen everything.
Then his wife got sick.
In this episode of INSIGHT, Emma Sargsyan sits down with Vahick Yedgarian — CFP, financial economist, and lecturer at five universities — for one of the most honest conversations about money, resilience, love and legacy ever recorded on this show.
This is not a finance episode. This is a masterclass in what it means to build a life.

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]]> Emma Sargsyan Buzzsprout-19225330 Fri, 22 May 2026 22:00:00 -0400 3661 1 3 full false The Untold Story of Yura Movsisyan. The power of not having a plan B The Untold Story of Yura Movsisyan. The power of not having a plan B This is not a football story.Yura Movsisyan arrived in California from Baku as a refugee with no organized football experience, no academy, no structure. He became the 4th overall pick in the MLS SuperDraft. He signed for Spartak Moscow - Russia's most iconic club - for €7.5 million, and scored a hat-trick on his debut in front of 80,000 people. Then he was publicly accused of match-fixing by the very federation he had given his life to. FIFA investigated. They found nothing. He was never apologized to.Then he came back. And scored 4 goals in 70 minutes.In this conversation, Yura Movsisyan teaches us 8 lessons about discipline, sacrifice, pressure, losing, injustice, and what it means to never give up — not as a motivational phrase, but as a lived decision.This is one of the most honest conversations I have ever had.

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]]> This is not a football story.Yura Movsisyan arrived in California from Baku as a refugee with no organized football experience, no academy, no structure. He became the 4th overall pick in the MLS SuperDraft. He signed for Spartak Moscow - Russia's most iconic club - for €7.5 million, and scored a hat-trick on his debut in front of 80,000 people. Then he was publicly accused of match-fixing by the very federation he had given his life to. FIFA investigated. They found nothing. He was never apologized to.Then he came back. And scored 4 goals in 70 minutes.In this conversation, Yura Movsisyan teaches us 8 lessons about discipline, sacrifice, pressure, losing, injustice, and what it means to never give up — not as a motivational phrase, but as a lived decision.This is one of the most honest conversations I have ever had.

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]]> Emma Sargsyan Buzzsprout-19224620 Fri, 22 May 2026 17:00:00 -0400 3378 full false He Managed a $1 Billion Budget at Amazon and Said It Was Killing Creativity| Leo Macias He Managed a $1 Billion Budget at Amazon and Said It Was Killing Creativity| Leo Macias advertising, creativity, Amazon Prime Video, Snapchat, creative director, TBWA, Latin American creativity, AI and creativity, brand marketing, immigrant entrepreneur.

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