The Theresa and Eddie Show - Life and Business With the Woman On TOP
37 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThis show is from the perspective of children of refugees … the non-traditional couple - a 21st century asian American sugar mama and a hilarious one of a kind stay-at-home dad.
Our mission is to humanize the refugee and immigrant experience. We share the real and raw behind the scenes details of how these incredibly successful people overcame their fears and struggles as well as the best kept secrets to their success in life.
It's not all serious! We want to bring laughter back into your life and keep you endlessly inspired.
For more info on how you can contact us, go to www.moretimemoreyou.com
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Two Generations Fighting For Different Causes
July 04, 2021 05:04 - 34 minutes - 62.7 MBAmerica is home to millions of immigrants and refugees who share our blessings of liberty. They came to enjoy the same rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that should be the birth right of all mankind. Today, in honor of July 4th, I wanted to share a special story with you. This is my friend, Michael. He’s got an interesting tale to tell. At the turn of the century, Michael’s great grandfather, stowed away on a merchant vessel to the US. He arrived in California and late...
Turning Their Circumstances Into Resilient Growth
June 17, 2021 02:12 - 40 minutes - 73.7 MBAmy Tran-Calhoun (she/her/hers) is the proud daughter of Vietnamese refugees. Aware that there is no social justice without racial justice, Amy has devoted her career to developing anti-racist leaders. Listen as she shares her parents' stories and how they turned their circumstances into resilient growth. Today, Amy wears many hats including Chief of Staff at Diversity Talks, a consulting company that provides youth-led antiracism professional development for adults, racial equity coach ...
Moving to America to Move Up
May 12, 2021 21:28 - 39 minutes - 72.3 MBThis story sounds familiar. Her family secretly snuck out in the middle of the night and piled into a single wooden boat with over 20 people. What's atypical of their escape was the calm waters and relatively easy 2 day journey to the refugee camp. This was the only easy part on their journey to the US. Kim shares her family's story of how the Communists ripped away everything from her father's family and how like many refugees, they started over with the help of a compassionate and generous...
It's Never Too Late to Reinvent Yourself
May 04, 2021 02:19 - 37 minutes - 68.6 MBImagine building up a career as a renown artist in your country with your work displayed in the Hong Kong Museum of Art, then making a decision to leave everything, move to a completely different country and starting over. Instead of using clay and creating with your hands, you are now using them to pour cement into molds, day in and day out. This is just one part of the story. Meet Annabel Tsang. She was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the US when she was 7. Her parents reinvented the...
Her Mission: Break Bread Break Borders
April 25, 2021 23:57 - 45 minutes - 84.1 MBJin-Ya Huang is a descendent of refugees who escaped mainland China from communism. She and her family resettled in Taiwan where “Girls are like buckets of water you pour out” The value of a woman was not considered an investment you can get back, and being one of 6 girls, Jin-Ya’s parents knew they wanted a different life for their daughters. Her parents were offered an opportunity to move to the US when Jin-Ya was 13. Through two of her biggest, darkest moments - as a survivor of domes...
Anti-Asian Racism: Help Stop the Violence
April 21, 2021 10:00 - 48 minutes - 92.3 MBKaryne Nguyen is a proud Vietnamese-American, with roots in Saigon, Vietnam from her parents, Jay (Nhan) and Jane (Danh). She is a diversity, equity, and inclusion professional and an Inclusion Institute™ Certified Diversity Practitioner. In her career, she focuses on fostering a culture of inclusion in all aspects of the team member experience at Mr. Cooper Group, a home loan company based in Dallas, TX. She enjoys contributing to the North Texas community through nonprofit volunteerism,...
Rescued at sea at 7-years-old
June 15, 2020 05:00 - 43 minutes - 79.2 MBBrave 7-year-old Lauren Vuong escaped Vietnam with her family and 57 other refugees on a small wooden fishing boat at the end of the brutal Vietnam War. After 10 days at sea, they were lost and depleted of food, water, and fuel. Death seemed imminent. From seven miles away, a U.S. flagged cargo ship spotted them. The captain ordered their rescue and changed the course of 62 lives forever. Finding The Virgo is the story of Lauren’s decades long search for the heroic captain and crew of the LN...
And Then There Were 3
December 30, 2019 19:28 - 43 minutes - 78.9 MB“When you talk about the American dream, it was more than a place where you become wealthy … it was a place where you would not be killed.” Her mother told horror stories of babies being taken by their feet by German soldiers and slammed against brick walls. There is not even a shadow of a doubt that the Holocaust happened. Isabell shares with us about her family’s life after surviving the holocaust. Biography: sabell Rossignol grew up in Louisiana where she was not afraid of the swamp o...
Eating Bugs On The Journey To Freedom
May 02, 2019 13:20 - 33 minutes - 61 MB“We were forced out of our home into the direction that gunshots were directing us with.” The first 8 years of Thear’s life were spent in war and refugee camps. When the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia, her parents and 4 siblings were forced out of their homes and sent into different labor camps. Thear, too young to work, stayed with her grandmother. After 4 years under the rule of the Khmer Rouge, it’s a miracle that their entire family survived as millions of people died during this time....
People Come Into Your Life For a Reason, Season or Lifetime
May 01, 2019 22:09 - 28 minutes - 52.2 MBSeema Deshpande came from humble beginnings. From a small town in India, she was determined to move to the US to get her Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering. While in the states, she fell in love and got married. Unbeknownst to her, this change in marital status also changed her immigration status and was told she had 10 days to work a miracle or get deported. Terrified, she went to her employer, and they helped her find an immigration lawyer, who would end up rewriting Seema's fate an...
Surviving the Cambodian Genocide
April 30, 2019 22:51 - 32 minutes - 58.7 MB“If anybody was educated, if you could speak a different language, if you wore glasses, you were executed.” Mey’s mom had to make herself ugly and unappealing so that she wouldn’t be a target of rape. Children were taken away from their families, brainwashed and trained as soldiers to fight for the Khmer Rouge Entire families were massacred and millions of people died from illness, execution and starvation. Mey takes us through her parents’ story of escape out of Cambodia and their jou...
Every Struggle Becomes a Strength
April 29, 2019 17:19 - 33 minutes - 61.6 MB14 million people were displaced and 1 million people died during the Partition of India. Neena Newberry shares the story of her family’s history, a time of insane violence because of a religious partition line; the separation of India and what is known today as Pakistan. That was just one of the many struggles her family has overcome before finding their way to freedom and peace. After her parents married and had children, Neena’s dad, who was highly educated, migrated (without his family...
The Journey From Poverty to Prosperity
April 24, 2019 06:52 - 38 minutes - 70.2 MBCarina Reyes is the middle child of 9 children. Her parents had successful careers in the Philippines while under the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. Even though she was from a upper middle class family, her parents feared that the conditions of the country would only become worse with this corrupt government. There would be no future if they didn't leave soon. Carina’s father during this time was also part of a political opposition group. Right before things took a turn for the worst and...
Big Purpose, Big Title, Big Mission
April 09, 2019 01:26 - 32 minutes - 59.5 MBAs a girl born last into a traditional Chinese family in the 1960s -- when boys were valued over girls and birth order often decided a child’s future in the culture -- Cynthia learned about the concept of inequity. She was fortunate. Her family moved to America when she was a year old, so she had access to education from kindergarten through college. The births of many girls like Cynthia, however, were viewed as burdens eliminated through adoption. Other girls who remained with their famili...
Scar Tissue Left From The Past
April 04, 2019 06:40 - 50 minutes - 91.6 MBMy dear friend Carmen Pei shares about the loss of her mom who suffered with depression and took her own life. This is not a topic she shares openly very often. I asked if she would be vulnerable and courageous to speak about how the aftermath of mental illness has affected her life growing up in the hopes of helping someone else who feels alone, scared, ashamed, lonely, unworthy ... know that the answer doesn't have to be you ending your life. Thank you sweet Carmen for talking so openly a...
The Unlikely Woman Who Won the Race for Senator
March 13, 2019 06:02 - 42 minutes - 77.9 MBSenator Tina Maharath shares about the physical abuse by the hands of her father, what life was like without her mom and two brothers after they were killed in a car accident and living with depression. It has not been an easy journey for her. When she ran for office, the odds were stacked against her, this Laotian American girl, the daughter of refugees, won the hearts of the people. Today, Senator Maharath is the first Asian-American state senator in Ohio, and the first Asian-American wom...
It All Started With Her Great Grandfather, a Martyr
March 06, 2019 06:19 - 42 minutes - 77.7 MBGrace Koo’s family story is a fascinating one. Grace’s great grandfather was a martyr. He was killed for trying to set up a Southern Baptist church in Korea. Her family fled to Manchuria to avoid persecution of their religious beliefs. Grace shares about how her family was sponsored over to the US and her life growing up here - one of constant struggle; trying to figure out where she fit in. After dropping out of pharmacy school, she moved to Seoul, Korea where she trained as a pastry chef i...
This world owes us nothing, yet we owe it to the world to make it a better place
January 18, 2019 05:45 - 35 minutes - 65 MBMary Ann Thompson Frenk is the daughter of the former 7-11 Corporation founders. She was born in Mexico, adopted by these amazing people. She is one of the most humble, genuine, passionate and giving people I have encountered. I strongly feel like it is important for people to be aware of this. Why? Because while her history is intriguing, she has created her own legacy - one I wouldn’t be able to match, not in this lifetime! Mary Ann shares with us about her family’s history and their unex...
Fitting In As A FOB
November 06, 2018 06:16 - 49 minutes - 92 MB"Our Vietnamese names were butchered before we arrived in America. “Tram Nguyen” looked like a fragmented sentence to me on our refugee paperwork. Cutting out half of my name was like truncating my identity and mutilating what remained. Trâm quickly degraded to Tramp or Tram (the mode of transportation). In English-speakers’ struggle to say my name – Trum[p]? Tram[p]? – and my struggle to explain, I settled on “Can you say trombone? It’s kinda like that: Trom.” And I learned to live with an ...
Relentless Determination to Survive
October 24, 2018 06:14 - 1 hour - 115 MBQuynh Chau Stone is a firecracker! Her story will touch many of you and it is one of the most compelling and lengthiest podcasts because I couldn't decide what to cut out. At the age of 13, she left Vietnam with her four brothers for 13 days without any food or water. They were captured by pirates, robbed and then stranded on an oil derrick. Once she was finally sponsored over by her dad, she endured months of physical abuse at the hands of her father. Yet through the worst years of her life,...
Granddaughter of the Dragon Lady
October 04, 2018 05:26 - 50 minutes - 92.3 MBMeet Sarah Porkalob. She's funny, witty, bold and beautiful. I think she's going to be my new west coast BFF. Sara is an artist activist and award winning solo-performer based in Seattle. She served as Intiman Theatre's 2017 Co-Curator and is the Programs Director for their Emerging Artist Program. She was one of the first recipients of a Village Theatre Original Writers Residency. Dragon Lady, her first full length work, has garnered a Seattle Times Foot-light Award and Broadway World Award ...
A Calculated Plan With Unexpected Surprises
September 07, 2018 05:30 - 48 minutes - 89.5 MBUyen's parents planned their escape from Vietnam for 10 years after the Fall of Saigon. One failed attempt after another only motivated them to find new ways to leave a country that was no longer "home" to them. Even during the "successful" moments in their lives when their family was creating income, the Viet Cong applied such high taxes that they barely scraped by with two small meals a day, which was just the equivalent of a bowl of rice. Finally, her dad and older brother escaped and were...
From Being a VP of a Bank and Biology Professor to Workers in a Factory - Sacrifices Made By Immigrants
August 02, 2018 05:46 - 41 minutes - 75.6 MBNikki's dad was a Vice President of one of the Banks in Vietnam and owned a chain of gas stations. Her mom was a Biology Professor. They were incredibly successful and well off until the Fall of Saigon when the Viet Cong took everything away. In the early 80's, after the 7th attempt to escape Vietnam, Nikki's family succeeded and found themselves starting over in Cambodia with her Dad working as a fisherman and her mom selling pastries. A year later, they left again and arrived on the beaches...
My Family is a Melting Pot
July 26, 2018 05:43 - 40 minutes - 73.2 MB"We invited all of my dad's family to join us in church for our ceremony, unsure if our Muslim family would feel comfortable coming. They showed up, alongside our Jain friends, our Jewish friends, our Hindu friends, our non-denominational friends and our international, multigenerational cast of friends and family. My uncle, showed up fully dressed in traditional Palestinian robe and head scarf and a beautiful smile with his lovely wife. I looked around at all my beautiful muslim family, who h...
I Am a 5th Generation American
July 18, 2018 05:00 - 50 minutes - 93.2 MBThis week, we talk with writer, Amber Wong, who shares her personal stories about her fifth-generation Chinese American life. We hear about how her physician Chinese dad was rejected because of his ethnicity when he wanted to join a local country club, how even recently, someone shouted “Hey you! Chinese lady! You! Get out!” These stories are not to portray anyone as a victim, but to help you perceive life through another person's lens and be more thoughtful about how we ask even a simple que...
Finance, Fashion Design, Fertility and Free Falling
July 12, 2018 05:52 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MB"To live life you have to FREE FALL in order to FEEL." Oh man. Loved this quote from Theresa Pham. We had so much to talk to about in this awesome interview. During the fall of Saigon, Theresa's dad refused to leave his single mom behind and faced the punishment of living in a "reformation camp" aka concentration camp for 6 1/2 years. He survived on insects and bugs and to this day will not kill these little creatures because they kept him alive! Theresa gets honest with us as she shares eve...
Writer, Speaker, Actress, ER Doctor ... and Under 30
July 05, 2018 05:45 - 34 minutes - 63 MBTalk about crazy, insanely successful. My jaw dropped when I read about this young woman who not only has a career in medicine, but also a nationally-published writer and speaker AND part time actress. How awesome and fun it was to chat with the fabulous Amy Ho in this episode. Her parents immigrated from Taiwan to start over in the US because they knew there would be so much more opportunity for their future generations. This was a very heart warming and fun conversation with Amy. I am so in...
The Ultimate Sacrifice - Splitting Up To Be Free
June 22, 2018 05:19 - 49 minutes - 90.5 MBIn this week’s episode, my friend and entrepreneur, Cindy Park, shares about how after many attempts by her family to escape Vietnam and subsequently put in jail, her parents made a heart-wrenching decision … they had to split up the family and have 7 year old Cindy and her brother leave in the middle of the night by boat under the care of her 16 year old cousin. Cindy was only 7 years old when she and her brother left their home, not understanding why her parents didn’t come too. Listen in...
Fishing Solves Everything .... According to Eddie
June 14, 2018 05:00 - 29 minutes - 54.8 MBIt's funny that Eddie can relate almost any of my challenges and obstacles related to entrepreneurship to FISHING. Yes, you read that right. We have a great discussion and comparison about fishing and how we can use the same thought process and beliefs and apply it to business. Only Eddie would creatively come up with these kinds of analogies!
How to NOT Find Yourself Sleeping on the Couch
May 31, 2018 06:03 - 27 minutes - 49.9 MBMarriage is EASY - said no one EVER!! In this episode, we speak openly about what frustrates us in our marriage - specifically what we do that bugs the other person. We didn't script this out at all and thankfully, no one slept on the couch that night! It's all about us and how we make it work, with the woman on TOP.
From the Projects to An Appointment By the White House
May 25, 2018 00:56 - 44 minutes - 61 MBBo Thao - Urabe is a community leader and world shifter. We were honored to have her on the podcast and have her share with us about her life growing up in the projects of St. Paul, Minnesota. As early as second grade, her english was good enough to become the translator for her parents and extended family, for all things big and small - from Dr's appointments to sorting out junk mail for the relatives. It was a big responsibility for a child to have to take on and while she resented being...
Finding the Light When You Are Forever Deep in Darkness
May 02, 2018 05:00 - 52 minutes - 72.4 MBIn this episode, we talk with Tina Somsith, the founder of Wanderwear, an online boutique, where Tina is able to influence other women and let them know that they too can and will see light through their darkness. In addition to this company, Tina also owns 2 Painting With a Twist franchises as well as a real estate investing business. She did this all as a single mom and while in a relationship which not only depleted her 401k savings, her emotional energy and unfortunately ended in a horri...
Pepsi, Please
April 26, 2018 05:03 - 51 minutes - 70.5 MBOne of the first things Kristy Yang did when she came to the United States as a 6 year old refugee, was grab one of the flight attendants and pointed to the vending machine, saying the only words in English she knew, "Pepsi, please". Today she is the FIRST elected Hmong Judge in the nation and the first female Hmong-American judge in the US. We were so honored to be able to talk with her in this episode about her journey to the US, how her parents fed the mouths of 11 children with just a $3...
A Narrative of In Between Generations
April 18, 2018 12:21 - 45 minutes - 62.1 MBBee Vang Moua shares her story and her husband’s family’s story of their escape from Laos to Thailand and then to the US. Bee’s husband and his family escaped Laos in 1973 and crossed the treacherous Mekong river until they reached a refugee camp in Thailand. Bee was part of the generation of children who were born in the refugee camps in Thailand and delivers a unique perspective on her people’s history, how she has become a leader - the first and among the few of female clan councilors. ...
Two Generations Going Against the Grain
April 12, 2018 02:07 - 46 minutes - 63.9 MBWe are not victims. We are VICTORS. My friend Tammy Nguyen Lee shares with us her mom's story of escape and how Tammy almost died as a child before making it to the US. Her amazing mom, started working the lowest paid positions to then years later earning her Master's Degree and becoming one of the few and first female executives in a large accounting firm. Today, Tammy is a filmmaker and philanthropist - a mover and shaker showing us that going against the grain is going towards your true...
The Journey to America
April 04, 2018 09:30 - 33 minutes - 46.4 MBWe wanted to dedicate this podcast to JoAnne Jankowski who passed away on April 4, 2006 battling cancer. She and Leonard Jankowski were the angels who sponsored my family to the United States of America. In this episode, Eddie and I go deeper into our stories and how our families escaped Vietnam and the people who helped us on the way.
An Introduction and our TOP 3 Tips on How We Keep Marriage Interesting
March 24, 2018 03:48 - 41 minutes - 56.5 MBIn this episode Theresa and Eddie introduce each other - who they are, where they came from and why they wanted to do a podcast of all things! They like to keep it real. They like to keep it interesting. We hope you enjoy and come back for more!