What Kind of Asian Are You?
139 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago -Tired of not seeing and hearing about Asian stories that reflect your lived experiences in mainstream western media? OR do you want more inspiration and motivation from Asians like yourself? Then, tune in each week to hear conversations with host, Kyle and his awesome Asian guests about being Asian (in the diaspora).
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Always a Gift and Opportunity in Every Situation | Amy Yip | #94
January 25, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBWE are back from a long break! We finally pulled it together and this would be the first of the final 6 episodes for our fifth season. Thank you for your continued support and I hope you will continue to support us and listen to the rest of our season to be released weekly until we finish probably in February. Today, we have Amy Yip joining us for a conversation about: -Being Chinese American in America, trying to fit in while trying to rebel against her family but still staying inside the ...
"Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant" - A Memoir | Curtis Chin | #93
October 17, 2023 17:00 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MBYou know how sometimes you would meet someone and be blown away by the stories and experiences of their lives and how you think their stories should be in a book or a movie? Well, that's how I feel about our guest today, Curtis Chin. Curtis is a writer, filmmaker, director, and activist with a brand new memoir out now called, "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant". Our conversation went in-depth into Curtis's upbringing at a Chinese restaurant growing up in Detroit, his ...
Amplifying Underrepresented Voices | Daniela Hornskov Sun (THIIIRD) | #92
September 11, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBWE ARE BACK! A conversation with a new friend, Daniela Hornskov Sun, writer, musician, producer, and all-around creative. I came upon Daniela through the community she is a part of, THIIIRD. THIIIRD and their team asked us if we are able to help spread the word on their new podcast series, All My Half East Asian BFF that they just released (all episodes are out now so check it out!). If you have been following our feed, we spotlighted an episode of the podcast series here and now we are go...
THIIIRD WAVES - ALL MY HALF EAST ASIAN BFFS - SEX AND DATING
September 06, 2023 16:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBPODCAST SPOTLIGHT Today's not your regular What Kind of Asian Are You? Podcast episode. This is spotlighting a podcast episode from our new podcast friend, THIIRD WAVES's new podcast series, ALL MY HALF EAST ASIAN BFFS. This is their Sex and Dating episode. Listen to it and check out the rest of their podcast series now live on their page. Make sure to follow them and support what they are doing! About the Series Through raucous and poignant discussions, a group of half East Asian, half...
TEASER: ALL MY HALF EAST ASIAN BFFS
September 04, 2023 23:00 - 1 minute - 1.3 MBINTRODUCING: A new podcast series, All My Half Asian East Asian Bffs! About the Series Through raucous and poignant discussions, a group of half East Asian, half white friends connect more deeply with each other and explore new ways to live their identities. About the Podcast Exploring the intersections between culture and activism, THIIIRD Waves spotlights guests whose expertise and lived experience provide insights on topical issues through the lens of representation, access and privi...
FOODIE TALK | Tiffany Ran (Ba Ba Lio Taiwanese Pop Up) | #91
July 17, 2023 02:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBToday's episode features Tiffany Ran, Taiwanese American chef of Ba Ba Lio (886), BB6 Taiwanese Pop Up out in Seattle. We talked all about Tiffany's journey in the culinary world, being a chef, her Taiwanese-American upbringing, and of course, food specifically Taiwanese food and why you need to check out more than just Boba (Bubble Tea) and soup dumplings because Taiwanese food is soo good! Plus, we talked about her pop-up, Ba Ba Lio! Find Tiffany! Website https://www.babaliotaiwan.com/ I...
Asian Diaspora and Belonging | JF Lee | #90
June 26, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBConversation with Wuxia author, JF Lee A conversation on growing up as an Asian Diaspora (Singaporean Chinese Canadian) in Vancouver, Canada, studying in the States, being an accountant, living in the Cayman Islands, becoming a Wuxia author, and an introduction to the Wuxia genre along with recommendations. What is Wuxia? Wuxia is a genre of Chinese fiction that features itinerant warriors of extreme (almost supernatural) martial arts skill in ancient China. These aren’t your average her...
Asian Hip Hop & Design | Grace Chen | #89
June 12, 2023 00:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBToday's episode is with a very talented designer, Grace Chen. Our conversation covers her story of being born in China, growing up in the Bay, her work in design, her love of Hip-hop (especially Mandarin and Cantonese hip-hop) and being a creator. Her bio: Design: Grace Chen is a Product Designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is also a bilingual graphic design freelancer who has collaborated with musicians and creatives in the United States and abroad. Grace has provided desig...
Capturing Family Stories w/ Root & Seed | Anika Chabra & Jennifer Siripong Mandel | #88
May 29, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 41.2 MBTo finish Asian American Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Month/Asian Heritage Month strong, we talked with Anika Chabra & Jennifer Siripong Mandel of Root & Seed. Root & Seed is a podcast that explores culture and family heritage. Hosted by Anika Chabra, host Kyle appeared on an episode talking about his story being Asian diaspora and using the podcast to document Asian diaspora stories. That was how we became aware of Root & Seed and all they do. Check out the episode! In addition to...
The Tao of Self Confidence | Sheena Yap Chan | #87
May 21, 2023 18:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBHappy Asian Heritage Month & Mental Health Awareness Month! Today's conversation is with Sheena Yap Chan. It was an honour to have a conversation with such an amazing and inspiring individual that does so much for the community she is part of helping Asian women build self-confidence and helping with Asian representation in media. In our conversation, we touched on topics like her background, her experience with working corporate as an Asian woman, self-confidence, how to build it, how...
Asian Mental Health | Harry Au - MSW, RSW | #86
May 08, 2023 00:00 - 58 minutes - 39.9 MBHappy Asian Heritage Month & Mental Health Awareness Month! Today's episode is with Harry Au (he/him), licensed therapist and registered social worker, 1.5 gen Hong Hong Han Chinese Canadian in Toronto, Canada. Harry is all about helping Asians go from feeling trapped to becoming self-liberated. Our conversation is all about Asian mental health. We touch on the common mental health issues Asians in the diaspora face, working on our Asian mental health, therapy, and much more! Make s...
Being #VeryAsian - TJ Wey (Asian Detox Podcast) | #85
May 01, 2023 00:00 - 56 minutes - 39.2 MBOn today's episode, we have TJ Wey, Ze is an entrepreneur and host of a podcast, called "The Asian Detox" Podcast. Our conversation will cover what TJ does and TJ's podcast. Our conversation touches on topics of being and growing up Asian American, immigrant mindset mentality, hustle culture, and re-evaluating your mindset on what is the right way to live and start being and living your most authentic self. Find and Follow TJ: Website Instagram(Podcast) TJ's Personal Instagram Support the...
Funny Cantonese Memes and Tiktoks - Paji & Iasmin (The Outcasts Podcast) | #84
April 16, 2023 23:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBConversation with Paji & Iasmin, super popular Tik Tokers and podcasters. Paji & Iasmin are Third Culture Kids from Macau now based in the US. They are Cantonese-English bilinguals with Paji being Sri Lankan+Filipino and Isamin being Brazillian+Filipino (not what you expected right?). They got a super entertaining podcast, "Outcasts the Podcast" that documents their hilarious journey as 2 half-Filipinos in America all while speaking some Cantonese. In addition to that, they are also on Tik...
The Importance of Lived Experience for Creativity - HON HOANG / #83
April 10, 2023 00:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBGuest Bio: Hon Hoang is a Vietnamese-American photographer and filmmaker currently based in Los Angeles, California. He was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, but grew up in Los Angeles. He began studying Photography shortly after graduating from UCLA where he studied Psychology. He sees Photography as a medium that answers questions, satisfies curiosity, and showcases the things that are often left unseen. Hon believes that most of us feel a level of existential uncertainty, wondering who...
The Stories Behind The Food - Karon Liu (Toronto Star Food Reporter)
April 03, 2023 05:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBSeason 5 is now here! Thank you for all of your patience. We have taken a long but well-needed break, but we are back and looking forward to giving you all the great conversations about being Asians with the cool Asians that you yourself would want to have conversations with as well. To start season 5 with a bang, we had a conversation with Karon Liu, a food reporter for the Toronto Star who is based in the Greater Toronto Area. He is a super-talented writer and reporter telling stories a...
Re-Release Episode - Randy Lau (Made With Lau)
March 27, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 48.4 MB*RE-RELEASE EPISODE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BACK ON DECEMBER 28 2020* Note: 1. It's not a new episode! It's a re-release of one of our favourite conversations that we have had on this podcast. We hope that new listeners of ours would give it a listen if they haven't already. 2. If you are already a fan of Randy and his family (who isn't?) and want to learn about Randy and how he started Made With Lau, this would be a good episode to listen to as this was recorded back when they were still o...
HUGMATCH (INTERACTIVE TOYS FOR KIDS) - GABRIEL LEE (BONUS EP)
December 27, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 45.4 MB~ENDING 2022 WITH A BONUS EPISODE FEATURING GABRIEL LEE OF HUGMATCH~ This episode features Gabriel Lee (Korean American), head of Public Relations of HugMatch, a company that focuses on developing interactive toys for the visually impaired. Gabriel was recommended by a past guest of the show, XinYi as she had Gabriel on her podcast recently and thought that Gabriel would be a perfect fit for the show. After our recording, we couldn't agree more! In our conversation, we explored Gabriel's ...
No Sound Bites, Only Unfiltered Truths - REAL TALK: UNFILTERED / #HATEISAVIRUS / Katherine Ally Zaslavsky
November 01, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBSEASON 4 FINALE We are joined by Katherine Ally Zaslavsky(she/they): 1. Indo-Caribbean 2. PhD candidate in Sociology. 3. a host, writer, and researcher of social truths and real representation. In addition to that, she is a content producer/podcaster for #HATEISAVIRUS podcast series, Real Talk: Unfiltered where she co-hosts with a past guest of the podcast, Raymond Luu of Reel Asian Podcast. In our conversation, we dived into Katherine's background, her experience with having a mom tha...
No Sound Bites, Only Unfiltered Truths - REAL TALK: UNFILTERED / #HATEISAVIRUS / Katherine Ally Zaslavsky
November 01, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBSEASON 4 FINALE We are joined by Katherine Ally Zaslavsky(she/they): 1. Indo-Caribbean 2. PhD candidate in Sociology. 3. a host, writer, and researcher of social truths and real representation. In addition to that, she is a content producer/podcaster for #HATEISAVIRUS podcast series, Real Talk: Unfiltered where she co-hosts with a past guest of the podcast, Raymond Luu of Reel Asian Podcast. In our conversation, we dived into Katherine's background, her experience with having a mom tha...
PODCAST SPOTLIGHT - RAW THOUGHTS (SHANZE) / #79
October 20, 2022 03:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MBConversation with Shanze of Raw Thoughts Podcast, your least favourite podcast. A podcast Listen in to learn more about Shanze, a Canadian-born Pakistani Muslim GenZ with many creative interests that had chosen podcasting as her medium/platform of choice currently to express her most raw and honest thoughts. We covered her feelings about being Asian, her identity as a Muslim living in Canada, her podcasting journey and more! Check her out! Shanze Raw Thoughts Podcast Rest of her links...
PODCAST SPOTLIGHT - RAW THOUGHTS (SHANZE) / #79
October 20, 2022 03:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MBConversation with Shanze of Raw Thoughts Podcast, your least favourite podcast. A podcast Listen in to learn more about Shanze, a Canadian-born Pakistani Muslim GenZ with many creative interests that had chosen podcasting as her medium/platform of choice currently to express her most raw and honest thoughts. We covered her feelings about being Asian, her identity as a Muslim living in Canada, her podcasting journey and more! Check her out! Shanze Raw Thoughts Podcast Rest of her links...
The Asian American Fashion Model Life - Julia Zou / Ep 78
September 15, 2022 12:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBJulia Zou: Chinese American designer/fashion model living in NYC Our conversation is about Julia's path as a designer/fashion model. The conversation went into the ups and downs of being in the modelling industry, her experience working as a model, her views on beauty and beauty standards for Asian Americans, her family's reaction to her career choice, and how to pose for photos. Find Julia and support her! Instagram Website Find us! Linktree: https://linktr.ee/whatkindofasianareyoupo...
The Creative Chimera - XinYi Tan / Don't Be Strangers Podcast / Ep 77
September 08, 2022 12:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBToday's episodes with the super creative and interesting XinYi Tan from the "Don't Be Strangers" Podcast. Kyle, our host was on an episode of "Don't Be Strangers" check that out as well! Episode We talked about finding your passions, creativity, being creative and loving art but not making it a career intentionally and the journey she took to become a creative chimera nomad. More about XinYi Tan: I was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and moved with my family to Dallas, Texas at age 7. M...
Creativity & Career Coaching for Creatives / Betty Xie / #76
August 25, 2022 15:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBConversation with Betty Xie focused on the following: -her Asian Canadian immigrant experience -her journey to a creative career (from fundraising for film festivals, filmmaking/producing, podcasting, and career coaching for creatives) -being a career coach for creatives -creativity and making a career out of being a creative -filmmaking and podcasting Betty is a Filmmaker, Fundraising Consultant, and Career Coach for Creatives. Betty on Never Jaded: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/po...
Overcoming the Asian Diaspora Identity Struggle / Maim Kim / #75
August 22, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBTrigger Wanting: childhood trauma, suicide, self-harm Today's conversation is about hating one's Asian Diaspora identity (due to childhood trauma and family circumstances) while growing up in America to embracing and reconnecting with one's culture through learning one's mother tongue and moving back to the motherland. This is the story of our guest, Maim Kim. Maim Kim is a copyeditor and podcaster (Maim Time Podcast - A show about overcoming the Asian diaspora identity struggle to become...
Pursuing Your Passion With a Plan / Ravi Ray / #74
July 28, 2022 02:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MBAn Indian-American ex-petroleum engineer now mix- engineer/business owner pursuing his passion in music. This is our guest, Ravi Ray. Join in on our conversation about pursuing one's passion with a plan, how he has been doing it so that his parents are on board with his vision (as much as they could), and the ups and downs of being a business owner in the creative industry. Find Ravi and inquire about his services if you ever need assistance in your music related projects! Instagram Web...
Pursuing Your Passion With a Plan / Ravi Ray / #74
July 28, 2022 02:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MBAn Indian-American ex-petroleum engineer now mix- engineer/business owner pursuing his passion in music. This is our guest, Ravi Ray. Join in on our conversation about pursuing one's passion with a plan, how he has been doing it so that his parents are on board with his vision (as much as they could), and the ups and downs of being a business owner in the creative industry. Find Ravi and inquire about his services if you ever need assistance in your music related projects! Instagram Web...
Podcast Spotlight - Shit We Don't Tell Mom / Kristy Yee & Angie Yu / #73
July 14, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 43.8 MBToday's conversation features Kristy Yee & Angie Yu, co-hosts of the award-winning podcast called "Shit We Don't Tell Mom". The podcast, "Shit We Don't Tell Mom" is where two Millenials (Kristy and Angie) share vulnerable stories about how to improve one's well-being & relationship with oneself. In our conversation, we learn more about Kristy and Angie and their podcast along with their mental health journey and topics regarding therapy and feelings. A good one to check out if you love A...
Podcast Spotlight - Shit We Don't Tell Mom / Kristy Yee & Angie Yu / #73
July 14, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 43.8 MBToday's conversation features Kristy Yee & Angie Yu, co-hosts of the award-winning podcast called "Shit We Don't Tell Mom". The podcast, "Shit We Don't Tell Mom" is where two Millenials (Kristy and Angie) share vulnerable stories about how to improve one's well-being & relationship with oneself. In our conversation, we learn more about Kristy and Angie and their podcast along with their mental health journey and topics regarding therapy and feelings. A good one to check out if you love A...
Celebrating Small Businesses with NCP Mag - Aya Lanzoni / #72
June 30, 2022 03:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MBAbout our Guest: Aya Lanzoni is the owner of Tinydragon Bytes, a web design and SEO agency that works with small to medium size businesses to provide a unique digital and strategic experience to move your brand forward. She also co-founded No Cilantro Please Magazine, a quarterly digital magazine that celebrates small business and the diversity of entrepreneurship through food and lifestyle discoveries. This magazine is meant to be a digital hub and resources for like-minded individuals, an...
Third Culture Kid, Food Media and Decolonization - Amanda Jeysing / #71
June 16, 2022 17:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBToday we have Amanda Jeysing. She is a writer, food blogger, model, dancer, creative and Malaysian-Indian third culture kid. The conversation is about Amanda's Malaysian-Indian third culture kid upbringing (born and raised in Malaysia), diaspora feelings and identity, and her passion for writing, food, dancing and creative expression. We also touched on food media, decolonization, supporting local eats and amplifying underrepresented voices through storytelling. Find Amanda! Instagram Li...
Podcast Spotlight - But Where Are You Really From? - Angela & Jesse Lin / #70
June 02, 2022 13:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBAnother Podcast Spotlight episode featuring "But Where Are You Really From?" Podcast About the podcast: "But Where Are You Really From?" Podcast: Hosts and life-long best friends Angela Lin and Jesse Lin explore their identities as Asian-Americans through the lens of their first-generation upbringings and how those influences have shaped how they see the world and their place in it. Each episode explores a different topic of identity or common struggle. Many episodes feature special gue...
The Immigration Experience in Hong Kong vs Canada - JOHNA BAYLON / #69
May 26, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 41.2 MBThis episode features the story of Johna Baylon (she/her), a journalist, writer, and editor based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Born in the Philippines, Johna grew up in Hong Kong, where she also spent the earlier part of her professional life writing about food and design. In 2019, she moved to Vancouver, B.C., where she has since been based. This is a conversation about third culture-ness, immigration experience first as a child in the east and then the immigration experience as an adult in t...
New Asian Dads Talk - Steven Ngo / #68
May 12, 2022 11:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBSteven Ngo is a lawyer, social entrepreneur, podcaster and new ASIAN DAD (much like our host, Kyle). So the two got on a call and had a great conversation about being new fathers, the journey from pregnancy, to delivery, to now raising their own daughters with their wife and family's support and also fatherhood as an Asian diaspora. The two also shared tips and advice for those that are expecting to be or planning to be an Asian dad in the diaspora. Steven's podcast is called, "2 Dads 1 Ca...
Podcast Spotlight - Reel Asian Podcast - RAYMOND LUU / #66
May 05, 2022 11:00 - 51 minutes - 35.9 MBPodcast Spotlight is an episode that we will do where we will be talking to another podcaster that is Asian and is doing a podcast that is AAPI specific /Asian themes or Asia diaspora specific. We hope by doing this we are able to build relationships with other Asian podcasters and help each other build/grow in the podcast space that needs more Asian voices. Today, we are talking to Raymond Luu of Reel Asian Podcast. We talked about his background, the reason that he got into podcasting a...
InnerGenerational: Trauma & Healing - ANTO CHAN & SIDDARTHA & SHQDEL / #67
May 05, 2022 11:00 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MBIn today's episode, we talked to three Asian Canadians who will be performing a series of shows in the Greater Toronto Area revolving around the Asian experience during Asian Heritage Month (MAY). We talked about who they are, what they do, what is the showcase about, what we can expect from them in the shows, their healing process and being Asian. If you are in the Greater Toronto Area, definitely check them out at their shows. It will be a fun one, for sure! InnerGenerational: Trauma & ...
PODCAST UPDATE! SEASON 4 (MAY 5, 2022)
April 28, 2022 03:00 - 9 minutes - 6.65 MBWe are back! After being MIA for close to two months, the podcast is back and ready for more conversations about being Asian. We hope you are ready for that as well. Anyways, this is just a short episode going over what had happened since the last episode upload and a clip from a future episode in season 4. If you want a TLDR of this episode, go to our Instagram post to get caught up on the podcast! https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc3m-nNp5-k/ Again, season 4 May 5th! Stay tuned! Thank yo...
FEEL EVERYTHING and Asian Talk w/ Ben Aqua / #64
January 28, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBPlease give us a 5 ⭐ rating on Spotify, Apple Podcast, and wherever you can give us a rating! An Apple Podcast Review is greatly appreciated as well. Don't forget to share this with friends and family and now to our episode today with the awesome artist, photographer, musician, content creator, and cute Asian, Ben Aqua (they/them). We talked previously on Never Jaded Podcast about his creative journey/process. However, after that conversation, Ben brought up the fact that we didn't talk ab...
Being Trans In Asia (Emery's Transition Story) w/ Emery Fung / #65
January 28, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBThis is the season finale for season 3. Thank you for joining us on this great journey and we hope that you have gained something from it. We will be taking a small break from uploading and will be back in the spring. So please don't forget about us and please come back to us when we are back in a few months. Also, please give us a 5 ⭐ rating on Spotify, Apple Podcast, and wherever you can give us a rating! An Apple Podcast Review is greatly appreciated as well. Don't forget to share this ...
Being Trans In Asia (Emery's Transition Story) w/ Emery Fung / #65
January 28, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBThis is the season finale for season 3. Thank you for joining us on this great journey and we hope that you have gained something from it. We will be taking a small break from uploading and will be back in the spring. So please don't forget about us and please come back to us when we are back in a few months. Also, please give us a 5 ⭐ rating on Spotify, Apple Podcast, and wherever you can give us a rating! An Apple Podcast Review is greatly appreciated as well. Don't forget to share this ...
South Asian Activism and Youth Empowerment w/ Alisha Gupta / #63
January 20, 2022 23:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBThank you for clicking this episode. If you like this podcast and would like to help it grow, consider following the podcast on Instagram, sharing it on your social media, leaving a 5-star rating on BOTH Spotify and Apple Podcast, and leaving a review on Apple Podcast. And now onto this week's guest. In this week's episode, we have Alisha Gupta, a South Asian American student at UT Austin. Alisha is a speaker, entrepreneur, social activist, and student all at the same time! She focuses on ...
Reexamining Your Relationship with Your Body and Food w/ Vincci Tsui RD / #62
January 10, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 47.6 MBThank you for clicking this episode. If you like this podcast and would like to help it grow, consider following the podcast on Instagram, sharing it on your social media, leaving a 5-star rating on BOTH Spotify and Apple Podcast, and leaving a review on Apple Podcast. And now onto this week's guest. This week, it's all about nutrition and our relationship with our body and food. We touched on dieting, Intuitive Eating and Mindful Eating. Of course, we also talked to our guest about her b...
Being a New Diaspora Hongkonger in Canada w/ Veta Chan /#61
January 04, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 47.8 MBThis week's episode is featuring Veta Chan, a Hongkonger now based in Vancouver that is a multimedia producer, previously a journalist that covered the 2019 Hong Kong Protests. In this conversation, we got into Veta's background growing up in Hong Kong attending International School which made her feel "third-cultured", her experience finding her Hong Konger identity again as a result of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests, covering the Hong Kong Protests, how she got into journalism and content ...
Telling Stories & Invoking Memories through Food Recipes w/ Jeannette (Wok&Kin) / #60
December 25, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBNew Episode! This week we have home cook, recipe writer/designer, food lover, blogger Jeannette of Wok&Kin on the podcast. She is a home cook with Chinese and Vietnamese family recipes that she shares online to over 30000+ followers on Instagram! She was so gracious with her time and shared her story with us being a food content creator, her connection to food, how food and family interconnect for her, and her content-creating journey. If you are a foodie, this is not an episode to miss!...
From Being a Working Professional to Being a Work-From-Home Mom w/ Kaiyan Wong (@heymommio) of USMOMMIOS PODCAST / #59
December 16, 2021 13:00 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBA work-from-home mom that embarked on a content-creating journey as a result of the pandemic. She creates content on Youtube about raising her mixed child in America, Cantonese teaching content (as she is teaching her son Cantonese, her native language), and a podcast series all about conversations with moms (mostly Cantonese background) around the world about their parenting stories. Kaiyan Wong is our guest for this week's episode. Kaiyan Wong is a Diaspora Asian that immigrated to the w...
What's Going on With What Kind of Asian Are You? Podcast??
December 09, 2021 23:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBAn update episode and featuring a clip of another podcast episode that Kyle (host) guest co-hosted on. TLDR: (although we would love to have you listen to the podcast to find out what's going on) 1. The Podcast has been slacking on uploads and posting 2. This is all because of the host's move back to Canada with his wife 3. The host is currently spending most of his time resettling in Canada and working multiple jobs so podcasting will have to wait 4. The host is expecting a baby with h...
How to Teach Your Kids Your Native Language w/ Jack Hsieh (DIU Podcast) / BONUS
November 22, 2021 05:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBTwo childless friends discuss how to teach their future kids their native language (Cantonese). Lots of discussion regarding how to preserve one's culture. Bonus Content from the previous season that should see the light of day! Follow Jack and his podcast! Jack's Instagram DIU Podcast's Instagram Check out the Linktree for all the links: https://linktr.ee/whatkindofasianareyoupod Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0vSqGIRXpJozlfiCDjpv5K?si=Xe9qxPdORCyu_8SDPkRmKw<clid=ca3c72c2-62...
Hustle the Right (Your) Way w/ AJ Tolentino / #58
November 11, 2021 12:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBAJ Tolentino is a Filipino-American artist based in NYC. His passion is in art, photography, and fashion. He shares his immigration story/experience coming over to America at the age of 10 from the Philippines feeling not fitting in and now finally finding himself and his place being in NYC. We also talked about his passion/career in photography and being an artist who focuses on the art and the business side of things as being a starving artist is not cool. Last, we dived into the discuss...
White Supremacy, Lifelong Learning and Mental Health w/ Kaitlin Jingco / #57
October 31, 2021 03:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBToday's Guest: Kaitlin Jingco, also known as Lels of Learn with Lels, is a podcast and blog all about lifelong learning. Kaitlin is a writer, communications professional, and learner. She loves to share people's stories—including her own—in hopes of helping to create a more empathetic world. Talk to her about travelling, mental health, longboarding, sports, and food. In our conversation, we talked about Kaitlin's childhood in Curtis, Ontario (not very diverse aka. very white), unlearnin...
Let's Talk about Asian Media Representation w/ Malaika Ravindran / #56
October 21, 2021 23:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBToday we gave Malaika Ravindran. She is a senior at the American University studying journalism and political science. We came to know her from the BPWK podcast hosted by Suraj, a past guest of ours, Episode 29 as Malaika is involved in the podcast helping with production and guest scouting. In today's episode, we talked about Malaika's Indian background, family and childhood. the latter part of the episode goes more into Asian representation in media, something that Malaika is interested ...