Mayor Antonelli awards Milena Origgi and has a project ready for her

BUSTO ARSIZIO – A medal as a city recognition for having brought the name of Busto Arsizio in the world: yesterday morning the mayor Emanuele Antonelli gave it to Milena Origgi, the vocal coach who in recent months has obtained the “green card genius” in the United States for her merits as an entrepreneur and for her innovative educational and cultural method Inborn Voice.

The same green card that was given to Albert Einstein, for the first time assigned to a woman and, moreover, an Italian. The goal is to enhance the skills of the entrepreneur in Busto Arsizio who has convinced the Americans of the value of her work: in spring there will be a conference for entrepreneurs from Busto Arsizio. The first citizen wanted to meet Milena Origgi who arrived in these days in Europe directly from Boston where she has been living for seven years, when she left Italy to realize her entrepreneurial project.

A story that intrigued the first citizen aware of the difficulty of the U.S. world in granting the precious permanent residence permit to foreigners. “I went the hard way, that is, without wanting to ask for support or sponsorship. I went to the embassy asking for a work visa as an entrepreneur because that’s what I am. I was aware that my educational and cultural project was already innovative years ago – said the vocal coach to Mayor Antonelli – They thought I wanted to go to the States to open a restaurant, make pizza, or an ice-cream parlour. But I brought my innovative method as an entrepreneur: I told the embassy I want to work in the United States exporting a cultural project. There was still not much attention paid to the voice, let alone the emotions that can affect the way people speak. “A project that was seen as almost crazy, but precisely because of this and seeing my determination, convinced the Americans to give me my first work visa. I was a woman and moreover Italian: I will always remember the look and then the sound of the stamps, the same ones that allowed me to have the green card”. The first year in the States was particularly hard, admitted Origgi. Not so much because of the language as a polyglot and used to diversity, but to get inside the culture. “Americans have a hard time communicating; my method was disruptive for them. Thanks to my clients, businessmen who have proven my skills and the results obtained thanks to my Inborn Voice method have allowed me to attest to the goodness of the entrepreneurial project. They were the ones who gave me the extra push to apply for the green card and it was a huge job. But it was worth it, because first of all I’ll always have a residence permit, but not only that, genius. Genius. Mayor Antonelli was enchanted by Origgi, who is a native of Busto – one of her grandmothers is called Farioli by surname – but above all he thought about how to take advantage of the availability of the vocal coach, who is a consultant for the main universities in Milan, from Bocconi to Cattolica, where the soft skills for the top managers of the future come from the voice. The first citizen thus opened up to collaboration: “We’re thinking of a congress for entrepreneurs so that we can treasure an extraordinary bustocca and that can also be of help to our community. Innovative projects could be born starting with a convention in spring 2022”.