Happy New Year! The year 2021 was truly 'A Year of FEELS'. A year right in my feels and yours! In fact we are at the 1 year anniversary of this podcast, time sure flies. If this is your first episode or you have been following this epic journey of digging, discovering, and exploring all the inner depths of our emotions through conversations, reflections, and sheer wonder and curiosity, this is YOUR HOME. For this season finale episode, there is going to be a twist as the love of my life and part...
Jan 11, 2022•57 min•Season 3Ep. 36
Are you stuck at a job or with a career that you are unhappy with? Do you desire quitting a 9-5 job to pursue your dreams? Do you feel not only stuck but unable to make the shift and moves to transition to a new career or opportunity? This is a hugely common problem that many of us face and continue to struggle with how to approach and conquer. My guest this week, Christina Asai, is a superb life coach, friend, and truly a beam of light that has helped many of her clients as well as myself tackl...
Dec 21, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 35
Tis the season, the holiday season! For better or worse... most people are spending a lot of time with FAMILY. In that case there is no better timing and person in Christine Chen, Life coach extraordinaire and my lovely fiance, to talk about Intergenerational Trauma aka Family Trauma. Are you part of a family that shuts down and shuts you down or brushes things under the rug becoming emotionally avoidant or has explosive fights but never works towards any type of conflict resolution or understan...
Dec 14, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 3Ep. 34
There are so many reasons to create this episode about Men in Pain, which is really the conversation on the topic of Men and their mental health. Whether you are a man that struggles with this very darkness or you know somebody in your life affected by it, this is for you. I have felt alone, isolated, letting my past mistakes dictate my present and future, and felt trapped in the darkness of not being able to feel, express, and understand my emotions and traumas in life. We simply can't ignore t...
Dec 07, 2021•38 min•Season 3Ep. 33
We got the one and only Steven Lim in the house! He is the co-founder at Watcher Entertainment and also creator & host of Buzzfeed's hit food show 'Worth It', and newly ENGAGED! You would think for this episode we will be talking about his journey, growth, and things he has learned as Youtuber, content creator, and entrepreneur, but NO instead we are going to talk about the journey, growth, and things he has learned about LOVE. As much work, thought, and development that needs to be put into...
Nov 30, 2021•53 min•Season 3Ep. 32
Have you ever been curious what it takes to build and run a full time travel blog? Well, my friend and guest, Jacob Fu, knows all about it because he along with his wife Esther JuLee have built and grown the travel lifestyle blog 'Local Adventurer', most recently named one of the Top 5 Travel Blogs in the US and World! Jacob takes us behind all the beautiful travels and adventures depicted in their blog posts and pictures into the heart and soul of what has made Local Adventurer a success not ju...
Nov 16, 2021•52 min•Season 3Ep. 31
When discussing SOCIAL MEDIA, the bane of our existence, whether that be current TikTok trends or how we can avoid doomscrolling, I thought of one perfect reinforcement to bring on to have this fun conversation. She is REGINA FANG (my personal source for all things trending), founder of slow fashion clothing brand 'At Last' and cohost of my favorite podcast 'Perfectly Imperfect'. We discuss how social media has evolved for us on a personal use basis since it came into our lives from 2005 until n...
Nov 09, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 30
I'm a man ready to talk about LOVE! How often do we encounter men in our lives that get squeamish, awkward, and extremely uncomfortable when talking about love? There is a reason for this! In this episode I examine this very struggle. How does the experience of growing up with the societal rules of masculinity affect how men process love? We are going to analyze 'the why' this problem exists. Can we unlock the mysteries of the male mind that relates to love? If women are searching long and far f...
Nov 02, 2021•33 min•Season 3Ep. 29
As we approach Halloween, BOO!, it is only fitting we talk about FEAR, the fear of FAILURE *gasp* the horror, I know. This week I have the third installment and a fixture of this show, Edward Lynn, as the guest. He is a nurse by profession, but most importantly he has a deep passion, love, and calling to help others not just physically but mentally in growth and recovery. The fear of failure is much like a disease of the mind that affects everybody to different degrees. It's analogous to a cance...
Oct 26, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 28
For this episode I present to you 2 guests for the price of 1, a true 2 for 1 special! They are the embodiment of the word BROMANCE and my dear friends, Tay "The Bae" Chan and Mike "The Show" Bow. Taylor is the director and writer (the everything) at Wong Fu Productions and Mike is an actor (you can catch him on CW's Kung Fu), content creator, and the easter egg in much of Taylor's work. It only makes perfect sense as Taylor directed the hit series "Dating After College" for WFP and with Mike Bo...
Oct 19, 2021•58 min•Season 3Ep. 27
This week on RITF I am ecstatic to bring on Ben Buescher, one of many super dads out there, as a guest to talk about the all important topic of FATHERHOOD aka #dadlife! He is the husband to beauty guru Jen Chae, Jen "From head to toe". Together they not only have created an incredibly successful youtube channel and business, but a beautiful family with 2 of the cutest children in the whole wide world in Aria and Ezra. None of this is without extreme hard work in their relationship and personal d...
Oct 12, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 26
This podcast is BACK and Ashley Matsunami as the first guest is back with it in a special Season 3 premier episode! We'll call this 'The Sequel' to her hit first episode, #15 'Why are men are so difficult!?' if you are curious. She is the former producer for Wong Fu Productions and currently working at Marvel Studios and most recently a part of the 'Shang Chi and Legend of the Ten Rings' production! So proud of her. Keep your eye out for her name in the credits. For this episode we get into a bi...
Oct 05, 2021•59 min•Season 3Ep. 25
This is the season 2 finale episode! Episode 24 will affectionately also be known as the Kobe Bean Bryant episode (one of his retired jersey numbers is #24) and will be in memory of him and his daughter, Gianna Bryant, who tragically passed. Long live the mamba mentality! The topic of the episode will be to answer the question "Why men gotta lie?!" from a male perspective. I've long heard from many women who ask 'why it is so hard to find a man they can trust?', and think that good men are so ha...
Aug 17, 2021•25 min•Season 2Ep. 24
For this episode, we welcome back a staple of the show, Christine Chen! (my beautiful fiance, cohost of the perfectly imperfect podcast, host of the xoxo christine podcast, and a life coach)! It's only fitting for an episode about the "C" word, that Christine and I, your host Jack Chen, get nitty gritty and very personal about all the struggles we have dealt with in the course of our 9 year relationship centered around couples COMMUNICATION. The classic problem of women over communicating and me...
Aug 10, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Let's try something new! These episodes will be a little more casual. They will be a window into my life happenings like how I celebrated Christine's birthday this past week, was I able to pull off a birthday surprise!? Also random musings, sparked thoughts, interesting concepts and conversations. For the first episode of Jack's journey entry, I speak a little on Men and Mindfulness. Why aren't men as thoughtful, especially compared to women? Why are guys so bad at buying their girlfriend's gift...
Aug 03, 2021•23 min•Season 2Ep. 22
What does Korean drama and porn have in common!?! Do you want to know all the dirty secrets of MEN and PORN? Should these secrets even be dirty? Are you a man wondering what the role of porn has been or should be in your life and how it might have affected your mentality and your relationships or are you a woman curious as to why men love porn so much, how men view women in real life versus women in porn? Is porn bad for the male psyche? Should women in relationships feel jealous or insecure bec...
Jul 20, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Why is dating so hard? Why do so many men post pictures of themselves and fish on their dating profiles? These are the mysteries and madness of dating that only this week's guest my dear friend Regina Fang (cohost of the perfectly imperfect podcast, founder of slow fashion clothing brand 'At Last'. and a TikTok star) and I can laugh and cry in pain about at the same time. Come join our conversation as Regina reveals what she has learned through the years of 'horrible' online dating experiences a...
Jul 13, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 20
My returning guest, Edward Lynn, has had my back since we were just 2 knuckle head lost boys, but now just 2 grown a little less lost men. He's a caretaker by nature not just by profession, being a nurse. One thing you will never get from our conversations will be sugarcoating and BS. Are you or do you know a guy (a friend, a brother, or boyfriend) that has felt lost and feeling alone because they can't find their HERO or their TRIBE? By hero I mean role model. This episode will be centered arou...
Jul 06, 2021•59 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Do you want exclusive behind the scenes access to how beautiful Wong Fu Production shorts and series are shot and thoroughly planned? Do you want to know what it takes and how you can become an editor, producer, or assistant director for your favorite youtube channel? Well, my guest this week is not just my personal martial arts trainer and good friend, but he is affectionately known as Ben Dad, Benson the builder, and he is the producer and assistant director at Wong Fu Productions, Benson Quac...
Jun 29, 2021•45 min•Season 2Ep. 18
He's a talented musician, he's a Youtuber, he's a creator, he's the cofounder of takko app (the video app that pays, for creators, by creators!), most importantly he's a total ORIGINAL... He's my friend David Choi! This man is one of the hardest working people I know. It's only fitting we dive into how he has developed the true GRIT and GRIND mentality to survive and thrive in the music industry as an independent artist all the way to becoming an app creator with a deeply personal mission to hel...
Jun 22, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Guess what? My fiance, cohost of the perfectly imperfect podcast, host of her own podcast xoxo christine, and the best life coach ever, Christine Chen is back! We recorded this very special episode on the 2 year anniversary of our engagement! I hope you enjoy the conversation we have centered around breaking down the 'Nice Guy' complex and construct from both the male and female perspective. I have long been labeled as 'just a nice guy' so I understand fully the frustration and struggle that com...
Jun 15, 2021•59 min•Season 2Ep. 16
For my first guest of season 2, I could not have brought anybody better on than my very, very, and I mean VERY good friend Ashley Matsunami (@ashmats). From way back when we met at San Diego Comic Con selling Awkward Animal plushes to her time working at Wong Fu Productions and now fittingly with her marvelous self working at Marvel, we've had a lot of discussions on "why men are so difficult?!" over the years. Now, I somehow convinced her to record a conversation about that on this podcast. We ...
Jun 08, 2021•48 min•Season 2Ep. 15
In what probably has been one of the hardest episodes I have recorded in the short life span of this podcast "Right in the feels" presents to you: My Tiger Mom. In this episode I talk about why the ferocious Tiger Mom/Tiger parenting exists and where it originates from. Then I tell only a fraction of what I understand and know of the struggles and life of my very own Tiger mom. To end we explore how the children of tiger moms, tiger cubs, MYSELF, can begin to loosen the screws and clutches of th...
Jun 02, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 15
This is the official Season 2 premier and return episode! We are back and ready to kick off the conversation with man feels 102: MASCULINITY. Masculinity is just a box of thoughts, a social construct, made up for boys and men to play the role of man in society. This role prevents you from accessing parts and inner depths of yourself, many of it emotional, to grow as a human. The huMAN growth that takes the emphasis out of MAN. Masculinity as it currently defined is to separate and divide masculi...
May 25, 2021•25 min•Season 2Ep. 13
This is officially the season 1 finale episode of RITF! Wow, 12 episodes, 12 weeks in and later into this podcast we top it off with talking about the proverbial MALE EGO. I can already imagine and hear women listeners out there agreeing with that the male ego can be a PROBLEM, a big one at that. Why do men need to have their egos boosted and massaged? Also if men are supposed to be as tough as nails why are their egos so fragile? For men, have you struggled or are you currently struggling with ...
Mar 30, 2021•31 min
For this week's episode I bring on my soul brother Joshua Fu (@mistahfu) to navigate and talk about a topic that has deeply affected us personally and our communities which is, #StopAsianHate. The surge in hate crimes against the Asian American Pacific Islander community has left us with more questions than answers, more pain than hope. We only hope this sheds just a little light as well as start the conversation and dialogue on the things we can control and be active in to help this cause. With...
Mar 16, 2021•35 min
For many boys and young men growing up, including myself, there was a struggle and hardship in being vulnerable and emotional within groups of male friends aka bro squads. This week I bring on my very good friend Edward Lynn, a nurse with many years of experience in healthcare as well as a mentor and coach for many young men, to discuss THIS STRUGGLE that we had with each other growing up as well as how we've matured and grown our perspective on it. If you are a woman maybe you are wondering wha...
Mar 09, 2021•54 min
This is truly a 2 for 1 special as newlyweds actress Amy Okuda and Mitchell Hashimoto, founder of the software company HashiCorp, join me in sharing their amazing 9 year relationship journey, what a ride! They had to balance 2 very different and demanding careers in the emotional ups and downs of an acting career and the struggles of a startup company early in dating all while dealing with long distance. How did they go from almost breaking up by putting their careers first to putting each other...
Mar 02, 2021•1 hr 3 min
This is the story of my home boy Ant Ma, a true asian hustler and entrepreneur! What if I told you that he got kicked out 2 colleges, worked 17 hour days as a sushi chef, sold drugs to make ends meet, but ended up working at Just Kidding Films doing everything imaginable, then using his chef experience to partner with them to own multiple food businesses, and finally becoming a family man creating relatable and vulnerable content on his youtube channel with his wife and kids. He's an inspiration...
Feb 23, 2021•48 min
Welcome to the first ever Valentine's Day SPECIAL episode for 'Right in the Feels'! Of course it only makes all the sense in the world that my fiance, Christine Chen, is the guest to talk about love day. Come join our conversation as we discuss what V-day has meant for us, how we celebrate it, and our true thoughts on what it represents. We also reveal if we believe in the concept of "The ONE" and soulmates. Are we "The ONE" for each other? The answer might shock you! Follow and find Christine h...
Feb 14, 2021•45 min
