From Here
89 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago -From Here, hosted by Delia and Dawn, features fresh perspectives from Asian American parents who are striving to build community and raise kids with socially conscious, and anti-oppression commitments. Join us for timely conversations that affirm where you’re from, make you laugh, and inspire and strengthen you, as you find your voice in the messiness of parenting. Keep in touch with us at @FromHerePodcast on Instagram.
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Episodes
Black History Month
February 29, 2024 14:00 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MBDelia and Dawn discuss their approaches to teaching their kids about Black History Month. Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out to Jeanne Tyan for coming up with our podcast name. Find us on Instagram @FromHerePodcast
Lunar New Year Holiday
February 14, 2024 14:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBDelia and Dawn discuss Lunar New Year and what it means to have this day off from school. Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out to Jeanne Tyan for coming up with our podcast name. Find us on Instagram @FromHerePodcast
Post Thanksgiving Q&A
December 07, 2023 14:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBDelia and Dawn chat about their Thanksgivings. Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out to Jeanne Tyan for coming up with our podcast name.
Tattoos
November 13, 2023 15:00 - 39 minutes - 26.8 MBDelia and Dawn talk about their tattoos. Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out to Jeanne Tyan for coming up with our podcast name.
Divorce
September 27, 2023 13:00 - 30 minutes - 20.6 MBDelia and Dawn finally talk about.... divorce. Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out to Jeanne Tyan for coming up with our podcast name.
Traveling in Asia
September 13, 2023 13:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBDelia and Dawn are back!! After taking a break this summer, Delia and Dawn are back to talk about their experiences traveling in Asia as Asian Americans. Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out to Jeanne Tyan for coming up with our podcast name.
Affinity Space
May 17, 2023 13:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBHappy Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Delia and Dawn talk about affinity space and their experiences with AANHPI affinity space for their kids. Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out to Jeanne Tyan for coming up with our podcast name.
Navigating Therapy
May 02, 2023 13:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBHappy Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! This month is also Mental Health Awareness Month, and so we are kicking off the month with a new episode about navigating therapy. Delia and Dawn talk about their challenges and experiences deciding to seek therapy and finding a therapist. Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out to Jeanne Tyan for coming up with our podcast name.
Talking to kids about money
April 12, 2023 13:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBDelia and Dawn share their approaches to talking to their kids about money Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out to Jeanne Tyan for coming up with our podcast name.
Microaggressions, continued
April 04, 2023 13:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBDelia and Dawn revisit the topic of microaggressions. Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out to Jeanne Tyan for coming up with our podcast name.
Social Media
March 06, 2023 14:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBDelia and Dawn talk about Dawn's recent social media break, and how they navigate being on social media. Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out to Jeanne Tyan for coming up with our podcast name.
I love you
February 14, 2023 14:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBDelia and Dawn talk about when they say "I love you." Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out to Jeanne Tyan for coming up with our podcast name.
Home Alone
February 06, 2023 14:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBWe're back! Delia and Dawn discuss their thinking behind leaving their kids home alone. Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out to Jeanne Tyan for coming up with our podcast name.
Invisible Labor
December 19, 2022 14:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBDelia and Dawn talk about work and invisible labor. Some previous episodes mentioned in this episode: F the elf Bonus episode: Delia's wrapping paper Elf Body Parts and Another COVID Holiday Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out to Jeanne Tyan for coming up with our podcast name.
Sports Culture and Our Kids
December 08, 2022 14:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBDelia and Dawn talk about their experiences with sports and their kids. Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out to Jeanne Tyan for coming up with our podcast name.
Choosing our battles
November 18, 2022 14:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBDelia and Dawn reflect on their reactions to the idea that there are 8 battles you should choose to take on with your kids. The original 8 fights to pick with your child. Untigering's 8 battles NOT to pick with your child Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out to Jeanne Tyan for coming up with our podcast name.
Application Season
November 02, 2022 13:00 - 30 minutes - 20.6 MBDelia and Dawn share about their experiences with school applications. And congrats to anyone who has recently submitted a school applications!! Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out to Jeanne Tyan for coming up with our podcast name.
Halloween and Costumes
October 12, 2022 13:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBDelia and Dawn talk about their feelings about Halloween, costumes, and cultural appropriation. Resources from this episode: Happy Anti-Racist Halloween from @TheConsciousKid (originally from @little_kotos_words Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out to Jeanne Tyan for coming up with our podcast name.
The COVID Episode
October 04, 2022 12:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBDelia and Dawn reflect and process their experiences having COVID. Thankfully, both have fully recovered. Stay safe out there! Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out to Jeanne Tyan for coming up with our podcast name.
Phases of Motherhood
September 13, 2022 13:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBIn this episode Dawn spends some time talking with writer and journalist Grace Hwang Lynch. They reflect on motherhood as they approach 50, their identities as Asian American women, and how these identities and experiences have influenced our respective career paths. Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out to Jeanne Tyan for coming up with our podcast name. Resources related to this episode: Grace’s website
Dealing with Food Allergies
September 06, 2022 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBDelia shares with Dawn all about the adventures of parenting kids with food allergies.
Roe, Dobbs, and Asian American Women (Jenn Fang Part 2)
August 09, 2022 13:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBIn this episode, Jenn Fang, founder and editor of Reappropriate, the oldest and most popular Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) race advocacy and feminism blogs, returns for another convo with Dawn. In the second part, Dawn and Jenn dig into the issue of reproductive rights, Asian American women’s health care, and the implications of the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn Dobbs. Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out...
Return to work and pressure to be productive (Jenn Fang Part 1)
August 09, 2022 13:00 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MBIn this episode, Jenn Fang, founder and editor of Reappropriate, the oldest and most popular Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) race advocacy and feminism blogs, returns for another convo with Dawn. In this first part, Jenn and Dawn catch up on navigating return to work life, especially the pressure to be productive. In the second part, Dawn and Jenn dig into the issue of reproductive rights, Asian American women’s health care, and the implications of the recent Supreme Court decis...
Remembering Vincent Chin and Who Gets to Learn This History
June 30, 2022 18:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBDelia and Dawn reflect on the 40th anniversary of the murder of Vincent Chin and how learning about his murder impact their respective lives. If you don’t know who Vincent Chin is, that’s not surprising. They also consider who gets and doesn't get to learn about this significant moment for Asian Americans, even after 40 years have passed. Credits: Podcast logo designed by Charisse Ann Celestial. Podcast theme created by QT. Shout out to Jeanne Tyan for coming up with our podcast name.
We love libraries!
June 14, 2022 17:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBDelia and Dawn gush and share about their deep love and appreciation for libraries!!
Catching up with Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
May 31, 2022 12:00 - 40 minutes - 27.5 MBDawn hangs out with writer, poet, and journalist Frances Kai-Hwa Wang and talks with her about her new collection of prose poems and lyric essays You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is In Braids (Wayne State University Press). In celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we will be featuring interviews with authors of books centering the experiences of the Asian American community. From Here is also hosting a book giveaway for May 2022. You can enter ...
Catching up with Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
May 31, 2022 12:00 - 40 minutes - 27.5 MBDawn hangs out with writer, poet, and journalist Frances Kai-Hwa Wang and talks with her about her new collection of prose poems and lyric essays You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is In Braids (Wayne State University Press). In celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we will be featuring interviews with authors of books centering the experiences of the Asian American community. From Here is also hosting a book giveaway for May 2022. You can enter ...
Comic books with Pornsak Pichetshote
May 24, 2022 13:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBDawn hangs out with producer, writer, and director Pornsak Pichetshote and talks with him about growing up reading Spider Man, the process of writing, and his latest comic series The Good Asian (Image Comics). In celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we will be featuring interviews with authors of books centering the experiences of the Asian American community. From Here is also hosting a book giveaway for May 2022. You can enter our drawing her...
Flying while angry with Phil Yu
May 18, 2022 12:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBDawn checks in with Phil Yu about being a newish dad, trying to avoid explaining you’re the Angry Asian Man to someone on a plane, and his latest book Rise: A Pop History of Asian American from the Nineties to Now (Harper-Collins Publishers), co-written with Jeff Yang and Philip Wang. In celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we will be featuring interviews with authors of books centering the experiences of the Asian American community. From Here ...
Awesome Asian Americans with Oliver Chin
May 10, 2022 12:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBIn this episode, Delia chats with Oliver Chin, children's book author and publisher at Immedium, about representation in children's books, and how this changed over time. In celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we will be featuring interviews with authors of books centering the experiences of the Asian American community. From Here is also hosting a book giveaway for May 2022. You can enter our drawing here. Thanks to Eastwind Books of Berkeley...
Asian American Media Representation
May 04, 2022 12:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBDelia and Dawn talk about Asian Americans in the media when they were growing up, and how that contrasts with the landscape of Asian Americans in the media for their kids.
Hot Take: Everything Everywhere - Part 1
April 18, 2022 12:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBDawn talks with Winnie Tam, faculty and Chair of Ethnic Studies at Cosumnes River College, about the film Everything Everywhere All at Once. Warning: spoilers and strong language.
Hot Take: Everything Everywhere - Part 2
April 18, 2022 12:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBDawn continues her conversation with Winnie Tam, faculty and Chair of Ethnic Studies at Cosumnes River College, about the film Everything Everywhere All at Once. Warning: spoilers and strong language.
On-going anti-Asian violence
March 22, 2022 13:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBDelia and Dawn reflect and talk through their feelings on the one year anniversary of the shootings in Atlanta, and at a time when there are continued attacks on Asian and Asian American women. Some resources discussed in this episode: AAPI Crime Victims & Education Fund Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta
Talking to kids about Ukraine
March 08, 2022 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBDelia and Dawn share and reflect about talking to their kids about current events in Ukraine.
Gender and Sports
February 18, 2022 13:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBDelia and Dawn talk about the Olympics, gender and sports, and talking to their kids about gender.
Lunar New Year
January 28, 2022 13:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBDelia and Dawn share (or gush!) about Lunar New Year. Some resources discussed in this episode: Asian Lit for Kids: Why calling it Lunar New Year matters Sam and the Lucky Money Eastwind Books
The (Board) Games We Play
January 19, 2022 12:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBDelia and Dawn talk about some of the board games we play with our families, and share some of the conversations and reflections that this sparks.
Anxiety
January 12, 2022 12:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBDelia and Dawn process their renewed anxieties about return to school and omicron.
Elf body parts and another COVID holiday
December 14, 2021 12:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBDelia and Dawn reflect on being back in the holiday season and new elf trends. Past episodes that were mentioned in this episode: F the Elf Bonus: The Wrap
Muppets of Color
November 22, 2021 15:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBDelia and Dawn discuss muppets of color and the importance of representation of Asian American voices and stories in the media. Resources related to this episode: LAAUNCH: Leading Asian Americans to Unite for Change Staatus Index Report 2021
Survival Mode
November 16, 2021 12:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBDelia and Dawn talk about the times when it feels like its just about surviving.
Wild Turkeys and Niblings
October 19, 2021 12:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBDelia and Dawn discuss wild turkeys, niblings, and oh yeah, family structures.
Parent Friends: Vaxxed or Not?
September 28, 2021 12:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBDelia and Dawn talk about parents friends and navigating vaccination status in the era of COVID.
Back to school
August 24, 2021 11:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBDelia and Dawn chat about what back to school feels like this year.
Ask me anything
August 09, 2021 13:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBDelia and Dawn spend some time getting to know each other even more - answering some serious and some not-so-serious questions. Related to this episode: 36 questions that lead to love
What not to say
July 27, 2021 11:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBDelia and Dawn talk about small talk and reframing some of those awkward questions and comments.
Crispy but not burnt out
July 13, 2021 13:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBDelia and Dawn talk about the current stressors in their lives - ranging from summer to navigating re-opening.
Crispy but not burnt out
July 13, 2021 13:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBDelia and Dawn talk about the current stressors in their lives - ranging from summer to navigating re-opening.
Fancy pants colleges
July 06, 2021 12:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBDelia chats with Dr. OiYan Poon, a Chiacgo-based educational researcher and parent, about those fancy pants colleges, college admissions and rejections, and breaking down what's best for our children when it comes to education. Some resources related to this episode: Find OiYan on Twitter @spamfriedrice