Today we’d like to introduce you to Shivan Mahadeo
Hi Shivan, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
I grew up in poverty in Plantation, Florida. My family is from Trinidad. I am an American born citizen. I was apart of gifted classes and had the top grade out of my entire school from 3-5th grade. Basically, I was unofficial valedictorian. I was the only person in my school to participate in the county science fair representing my school. I also was in all honors classes in middle school, Gem Math and finished Spanish 1 and 2 honors by 8th grade. During high school I was the only person in my school to win a literary fair for a haiku on World War 2. I worked at Levi’ as a cashier, then Dr. Juice as a Barista, and got into IBM headquarters and a company on the Branham 300 List. This was suddenly broken by Dad getting Cancer. I was able to earn an IT certification that people typically do after university where I had the highest across three schools. I had joined York University. And got me to 7.0 GPA in an honors program. I held several positions at my school such as Senator, Student Caucus leader of the Senate, and Chief Administration officer of the Senate. I was an academic integrity representative, Petitions and Appeals senior member, peer member and of course a volunteer note sharer. I was the most requested peer mentor in my entire university. Nowadays, I have recently became the 3rd place quarter finalist of Rolling Stone Magazine 2024, became a contestant for Milan fashion show, became a feature for this amazing Voyage ATL. I then was requested for professional acting and modeling. I had been competitively running and exercising in the freezing temperatures of Canada up until now battling through midterms to get myself into law school. I opened 3 financial companies and 1 business for quite a few doctors. Also, I opened two of own record labels.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
It has not been a smooth road. I had a few bumps in the road, such as having a family member murdered by another family member. I had my mom deported in 8th grade and it changed my life. I was only 14 when my educated mother was deported. I was left with A Father who struggled to pay bills now as a single father. Many people targeted my house after. They watched my house during the day while I went to school and work. They knew me and my dad worked al day. So, kids were going around destroying the cars of foreigners and rob jewelry from their parents. They came into my backyard to even steal beer from my dad. We didn’t ideally like where we lived but thought it would pan out. It didn’t. It got worse and worse. The neighborhood drug dealers put my name on a list for being an “immigrant illegally possessing scary weapons”. I am an American citizen who can bare arms. Police followed me looking for guns but never found any illegal guns. It got worse when my mom became ill because her whole life was taken, and she was severely traumatized for 10 years preventing her form working. When I was 18, I didn’t want to be in a classroom with a person who put me on a police list also while attempting to perform robberies on my household while he distracts me in class and has his buddies come to my house while I’m at school. These people also told me to never take economics because it’s the biggest waste of time. I told them I wanted to be an attorney, and they said that it wasn’t possible, and no one goes to law school. Days later they had an aunt illegally obtain law textbooks from a school and started studying law despite telling me no one goes into law. I told them I am going to search for a law undergrad. And they said law undergrads don’t exist, trust me I’m in university I would know. I refrained from looking that up from age 18 until 26. Where I was halfway done with an IT degree with a lot of law roles at school I served, and my classmates told me there was a law degree and asked why I joined IT to go to law school. I told them because someone told me it doesn’t exist and not don’t even bother looking it up. This person by the time I figure out he lied to for him to catch up to me. He then told me he’s already in law school. Which he told me for 4 years not to go. He tricked me. Then him and his brother alongside a few of his friends decided to indoctrinate me. They called me every three days just to erase anything I learned and tell me conspiracy rather than what I was originally doing…. Figuring out how to go to law school…. Before their intervention law is the only thing, I looked up online and self learned for years. I realized they were attempting to distract me only for 10 years until they can form a gap. The reason is so they can increase their mating chances because my chances of mating were way hirer than expected. I always thought of my self as an average person, nonetheless.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I’m most proud of winning contest for most of the duration of the contest and placing third place as a quarter finalist. I did this contest for charity for MusiCares, who helps professionals dealing with addiction and health issues. Together, all contestant raised 2.1 million for charity. I also did charity events for Great Canadian Cycle challenge for children with cancer. And will be participating in a run at night with glowsticks for charity for children with out food to eat. I personally experienced starvation several times in my life and had a father that almost died of cancer. In the past, I have participated in Trick or Treat for UNICEF, Cancer walks, and autism walks. I raised money for Taste of Home, The Coca Cola Company, Paws, The National Breast Cancer Foundation Inc, Rolling Stone, Tony Hawk, The James Beard Foundation, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Ocean, and Gibson gives. I am the proudest of these achievements.
What I personally specialize in, is Business with a focus on going into Law school in the US very soon. I would like to pursue Criminal Justice specifically to help children in the criminal justice program with an effort to rehabilitate them rather than sentence them to a cycle not designed to get out of. I have special experience with murder trials as I have sat in them and had a family member go through one. I have almost every single one of my minority friends harassed while others did worse and went to state universities. I’ve seen law enforcement target underprivileged areas by household income to automatically fill quotas with people who couldn’t afford a lawyer anyways. I had many times were I called the police and they did nothing. And this is why I am going into Law. Although I know many hard worker law enforcement or really try to serve their community. But there are also those who want to destroy it for monetary gain and social political atmosphere. I vowed to protect not just every American, but every Canadian and as many places globally as I can because that’s what humans do for each other. I would like to move humanity at least 1% forward.
We’d be interested to hear your thoughts on luck and what role, if any, you feel it’s played for you?
Yes, I was lucky enough to have these opportunities who can have very easily been given to someone else. Will forever be appreciative that I am lucky enough to be here and share my past to improve the life of the next person who may be going through a hard time. I would like to be their boulder. And show them what it means to be a Rolling Stone.
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