Holly Oh Diamond: Bringing Dignity to Job Hunting

Holly Oh Diamond Shares How Work Onward is Changing Job Hunting

New York, NY – August 14, 2025 – On the latest episode of The Uplifters Podcast, Holly Oh Diamond, CEO of Work Onward, shares her inspiring journey from immigrant struggles to creating a platform that helps small businesses and hourly workers connect.

Arriving in New York in 2009 with just $400, Holly experienced the challenges of finding work firsthand. When her Korean-immigrant parents lost their restaurant jobs during the pandemic, she opened a restaurant and had a “lightbulb moment”: workers and businesses need a better way to find each other. That idea became Work Onward, a map-based hiring platform designed for immigrant-owned businesses and blue-collar industries.

Holly’s story is a masterclass in courage, resilience, and dignity: turning survival skills into professional superpowers, creating solutions from lived experience, and building the change she wished existed.

Support Holly and Work Onward:

• Use the Work Onward website for job seekers and small business owners

• Visit her family’s restaurant (Mista Oh, located in Flatiron, NYC) and experience their authentic Korean cuisine

• Share the podcast episode with anyone navigating career transitions or job searches

• Follow Work Onward on Instagram and LinkedIn for updates

Listen to Holly’s full story on The Uplifters Podcast and discover how she’s helping thousands navigate the job market with dignity, purpose, and courage.