EPISODE 60: [MINDFULNESS] IT'S OKAY TO LET YOUR GUARD DOWN
When exploring trauma, a lot of things can come up. Today’s practice helps you handle those feelings with care, and gingerly move towards a deeper kind of healing. Discover what it’s like to breathe and let your guard down.
EPISODE 59: HOW TO HEAL TRAUMA WITH KJ NASRUL
Licensed psychotherapist and Red Cross first aid responder KJ Nasrul joins us to talk about trauma - both the big T and small t trauma. Tune in and know the difference, and get plenty other insights, including how to embrace your Asian identity when you were adopted into a white family.
EPISODE 58: WHAT IF YOUR FAMILY DOESN’T LOVE YOU?
I’ll be sharing in this episode, a little bit of the trauma that I have experienced from the most unexpected people - my own family. This episode opens up this week’s topic on Trauma, and the ways you can process every day little moments of it to the big experiences, too.
EPISODE 57: [MINDFULNESS] FIND YOUR INNER STRENGTH
This week’s mindfulness practice is to remind you how powerful you are, and how to exercise that power to live the kind of life you want, not what the kind of life other people think you should have. Discover your inner strength today.
EPISODE 56: HOW TO BE A VEGAN TRIATHLETE WITH CHI PHAM
Vietnamese American triathlete and Google team member Chi Pham, joins us in this episode where we talk about what it was like to pursue competitive sports AND become plant-based with traditional Vietnamese parents... and how we're changing the story of female beauty for Asian Americans everywhere.
EPISODE 55: MY CHINESE PARENTS DON'T UNDERSTAND VEGETARIANISM
Listen in to today's episode about growing up and wanting to express yourself, but not get any support from family and other people close to you. In this episode, we talk about how difficult it is to go on a plant-based diet when you’re coming from an Asian family.
EPISODE 54: [MINDFULNESS] HOW TO HANDLE ECO-GRIEF
This Mindfulness Practice is to bring awareness about eco-grief and use meditation and breathing to give yourself a kind of relief and healing.
EPISODE 53: WHY SUSTAINABILITY IN FASHION ISN'T TALKED ABOUT WITH DAISY CHEN HUTTON
Check out this interview with Daisy Chen Hutton, founder of The Fixx Collective, where we talk about why sustainability in fashion is so essential, and how growing up with traditional Chinese parents both showed her what it was like to not be wasteful, and why rising in socioeconomic status doesn't mean you need to buy-buy-buy!
EPISODE 52: FROM HAVING NOTHING TO WANTING TO BUY EVERYTHING
This week, we’re talking about sustainability — namely the lessons you may have learned in your immigrant household and how that can translate into a greater good for all. I hope this serves as a reminder that it’s never too late, and we can make a beneficial impact even with small shared efforts to help our planet. Listen today!
EPISODE 51: [MINDFULNESS] MINDFUL MEDICINE
This week’s episodes were dedicated towards healing — both physically and mentally. Here’s a guided meditation toward self-reflection and becoming whole.
EPISODE 50: TRULY BRIDGING EAST + WEST MEDICINE WITH ERIN WILKINS
Erin Wilkins shares about her business, an acupuncture and herbalism practice in Northern California, where she is actively bridging of Eastern and Western medicine. We also talk about code switching and learning how to fit in a community. Don’t miss this beautiful, beautiful episode!
EPISODE 49: NEEDLES, HERBS & TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE WHILE GROWING UP
In this episode, we talk about the different aspects and practices of acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine handed down through the generations — and what it looks like now.
EPISODE 48: [MINDFULNESS] PLAY TIME — FOR ADULTS!
Play should never end with childhood. I’m inviting you to join me in this Episode as we look at the idea of play and how it can benefit you as adults.
EPISODE 47: CHANGING COLLEGE ADMISSIONS TO FOCUS ON RACIAL JUSTICE WITH MARIE BIGHAM
My guest on this Episode is Marie Bigham of Accept or Admissions Community Cultivating Equity and Peace Today. Listen in as we relate to each other’s cultural and professional backgrounds, as well as talk about the real world of college education today.
EPISODE 46: SEND YOUR KIDS TO A HIPPIE SCHOOL
In the here and now, if you are going through a challenging time, it is one slice of your life that, you know, there might be such beauty that comes out of it, such wisdom, such purpose, and the ability to help somebody else. And if we are all in the shared humanity together, I feel like the thing that makes our lives, the richest and the most fulfilling are those connections that we can really open up our hearts and be vulnerable and authentic with the other people around us.
EPISODE 45: [MINDFULNESS] MAKE YOUR OWN HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY
If you've been following this week, we've been really focusing on joy and how to create more of it on how to parent or show up differently, especially if you were raised in rigid traditional environments that maybe didn't align with how you are as a person and who you want it to be
EPISODE 44: HOW TO MAKE MORE HAPPY & JOY WITH THE MOYLE SISTERS
In this episode, Eunice and Sabrina Moyle of Hello! Lucky, share their story that it's never too late to create joy, even if you grew up in a strict family culture where being “perfect” is more important than being happy.
EPISODE 43: WHEN KIDS CAN’T BE KIDS
I share my intimate story on how I created a joyful life despite the kind of family culture I grew up in, making sure toxic family practices stop so we no longer perpetuate intergenerational trauma.
EPISODE 42: [MINDFULNESS] EVERYTHING IS ALWAYS WORKING OUT FOR ME
This one minute practice is going to be really helpful for those moments of doubt or reflection, or when you just need a little bit more juice to keep on moving forward in the pursuit of your dreams.
EPISODE 41: YOUR BRAND SHOULD BE GAY (EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT)
We talk about entrepreneurialism – and coming out professionally – with Re Perez, CEO of Branding for the People in Austin, Texas. His book, Your Brand Should Be Gay (Even If You’re Not), is a bestseller, and he shares how to live authentically in all realms of your life.