Latest Asian-american women Podcast Episodes
When Your World is Turned Upside Down - Part One
Beyond Blending In - August 23, 2022 17:00 - 46 minutesI am elated to have my latest guest on the Beyond Blending In Podcast, Shakur Collins, who was also one of the powerful women of color leaders in my Diverse Leadership Cohort with Realitychangers. As a young African-American woman, Shakur Collins grew up feeling like she had to work extra hard,...
Passion to Purpose
Beyond Blending In - January 05, 2022 22:00 - 55 minutesIn this episode, we interview, author, Kara Johnson on her new book: Digital Tidiness. We talk about her experience growing up as Tongan-American, bi-racial woman mainly in Virginia. We cover her journey of going Beyond Blending In to put her passion for tidying digital spaces into the world. K...
Building Bridges in Being Biracial
Beyond Blending In - July 13, 2021 16:00 - 58 minutesI got to interview the amazing Kendra Lewis who is an entrepreneur and life-long learner. We talked about what it was like for her to grow up bi-racial, how she learned to build bridges between the white and black people in her life, what it was like to move to San Diego (which has a small Afric...
Women of Color Slay & Play
Beyond Blending In - June 07, 2021 21:00 - 1 hourI got to interview the most recent cohort of the latest Slay and Play Sisterhood: a group of incredible, powerful, vulnerable, deep and playful women of color: Michelle Fujisaki, Alicia Hilbert, Kara Johnson, Kendra Lewis and Denise Li (see bios below) . During this program, these amazing women ...
Cultural Differences=Superpowers
Beyond Blending In - May 06, 2021 20:00 - 40 minutesI had the joy of interviewing Carolina Bravo-Karimi who is a partner at Wilson Turner Kosmo LLP. Carolina is bi-racial and half-Chilean Catholic and half-Iranian Muslim. She is a member of the firm’s employment law and class action groups with her practice focused on representing employers in a ...
Standing Up & Speaking Out
Beyond Blending In - April 14, 2021 20:00 - 52 minutesI had the pleasure of interviewing Maya Hu-Chan who is a globally recognized keynote speaker, best selling author, leadership educator, and Master Certified Coach. We had a great conversation talking about addressing anti-Asian hate, what to do when you don't fit the standard profile, assimila...
Asian-American Pacific Islander White Proximity
Beyond Blending In - February 16, 2021 23:00 - 37 minutesIn this episode, we interview Dr. Stacey Diane Arañez Litam in a fascinating conversation covering mental health, internalized racism, colorism, white proximity, anti-blackness and assimilation in the Asian-American Pacific Islander Community. Stacey Diane Arañez Litam (she, her, hers) Ph.D., ...
What Can One Person Do?
Beyond Blending In - November 10, 2020 18:00 - 1 hourEpisode 11-What Can One Person Do? I learned so freaking much from this episode. Nikki Blak is our special guest (see bio below). We discussed the impact of black women influencing art, parenting black girls, how one person can make a difference when you feel overwhelmed, how to use your privil...
Beyond Obstacles and Shame
Beyond Blending In - October 14, 2020 05:00 - 1 hourEpisode 10-Beyond Obstacles and Shame. This definitely is my most controversial podcast episode to date. I got to interview one of my favorite people, Kimra Luna, who has overcome and gone beyond circumstances to become a super successful entrepreneur and has recently transitioned to step out an...
Transgender & Triumphant
Beyond Blending In - September 24, 2020 05:00 - 43 minutesEpisode 9 - Transgender and Triumphant. Got to interview the inspirational, Jamila Huerta. Jamila Huerta is an openly transgender woman of color, DACA recipient, a survivor of sexual exploitation, and a recent first-generation college student graduate from San Diego State University. She has bee...
Culture, Sexuality and Beauty Standards
Beyond Blending In - September 04, 2020 00:00 - 45 minutesGrowing up, body image, beauty standards and standards around sexuality are imposed upon us by our culture and religion. What would it look like to go beyond blending in and to be self-expressed sexually and to define for ourselves what beauty is? Also, how do we have greater intimacy and connec...
Speaking Your Truth
Beyond Blending In - August 20, 2020 23:00 - 33 minutesSo excited about Episode 7 of the Beyond Blending In Podcast-Speaking Truth, with an amazing guest, Nicole Cruz! We talk about her journey and challenges following her truth and speaking truth to power, following your heart, along with the importance of community of care and getting support for ...
How To Be A Good Ally
Beyond Blending In - August 05, 2020 05:00 - 53 minutesEpisode 6 of the Beyond Blending In Podcast: How to Be A Good Ally. "When those who are most marginalized get free it creates more freedom for everyone." -- Jessica Denise Dickson. This was one of the amazing quotes from our conversation. I had the joy of interviewing Jessica Denise Dickson, ...
Weaponization of Model Minority Myth
Beyond Blending In - July 26, 2020 22:00 - 1 hourFor this episode I interviewed Dr. Thao Ha, who is a Vietnamese refugee and professor of Sociology at MiraCosta College. She earned a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. She's published in the areas of race, immigration, and Vietnamese American in the South. She is an ...
When You Can't Blend In
Beyond Blending In - July 14, 2020 03:00 - 1 hourEpisode 4 of the Beyond Blending In Podcast: When You Can't Blend In, is a really powerful episode. Although, the podcast is focused on amplifying women of color I felt it really important to have a black man's perspective with everything that's been going on. Our guest this week, Quinton Smith...
From Addiction to Inspiration
Beyond Blending In - May 20, 2020 00:00 - 1 hourOur guest, Gisselle Galloway, is the founder of OTIRecovery.org, and is passionate about helping women stuck in addiction and struggling through recovery. Gisselle had been recovered for almost 20 years when she joined the Beyond Blending In movement, and realized she was trying to just blend in...
Unconventional Financial Wisdom via Taiwanese Proverbs with Denise Li
Beyond Blending In - May 05, 2020 05:00 - 47 minutesIn this podcast, I interview Denise Li, the author of the book: The Ocean Accepts All Rivers: Life and Money Lessons from my Taiwanese American Upbringing. Denise talks about how to be empowered financially with wisdom from her culture. She also talks about how she overcame perfectionism and fea...
Why the "Beyond Blending In" Podcast?
Beyond Blending In - April 28, 2020 04:00 - 16 minutesBest-selling author of the book, Beyond Blending In: An Immigrant Daughter's Guide To Overcoming Cultural Bonds For A Life Of Authenticity and Abundance, Professional Public Speaker and Transformation Coach, Wendy Kim, talks about why she started the Beyond Blending In Podcast. This podcast is i...
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