2021 has FINALLY arrived. 2020 was a long year, and many of us have been waiting for this new year for what feels like ages. 2020 was a uniquely challenging year, one that many of us may not encounter again in this lifetime. Where do we go after a year like 2020? In our last episode we reflected on 2020, and after processing such a heavy year, we are ready to set our vision toward 2021. Join us as we each share our personal resolutions for this coming year. What are your resolutions for 2021? Th...
Jan 08, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 8Ep. 97
If you’re an avid listener & playing this episode the moment it drops, we are officially 12 hours from 2021!!! (If you’re on the West Coast). It seems like everyone has been holding their breath, waiting for 2020 to end so that we can all close the door on this year. Thinking ahead & setting resolutions for a new year is a common practice, but it can be incredibly beneficial to reflect on the past year before doing so. And as much as many of us may prefer to just forget about 2020, we wa...
Dec 31, 2020•57 min•Season 8Ep. 96
Tis the season to…drink a little and be jolly :)! As we enter the holiday season, we thought it would be fun to spice things up and play a game to test out how we actually perceive each other. We’re taking it back to episode one and will be doing a little sip sip for this recording! We each have a drink, and we're ready to get this party started!! If you are joining us for this game, please drink at your own discretion. So... take your bets now! Who do you think will be sippin the most?! This ep...
Dec 25, 2020•1 hr•Season 8Ep. 95
In true AsianBossGirl form, when Maggie got frustrated with the modern day dating experience, she built a company to do it better! Maggie co-founded GetSetDate, a dating consultancy that takes a human approach to dating, believing that people are not just a collection of facts that can be matched by an algorithm. GetSetDate provides photography, matchmaking, and coaching services, and has been described by The Washington Post as “Why Silicon Valley singles are giving up on the algorithm of love”...
Dec 18, 2020•59 min•Season 8Ep. 94
Now that we are fully in the holiday season and your Christmas decorations that went up in early November finally make sense to the rest of the neighborhood, we wanted to bring up a topic that we’ve experienced our whole lives. Celebrating Western Holidays, like Thanksgiving and Christmas, as Asians! Whether our families serve duck instead of turkey during Thanksgiving or have a good ole spicy hot pot going, these are all traditions that we’ve experienced as 2nd generation Asian Americans, toein...
Dec 10, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 8Ep. 93
Trying out dog food for the first time on a first date? Guess nothing should surprise us any longer in 2020, hm? Now that the holidays are in full swing, we're bringing you another fun and juicyy holi-date episode! Helen put on her cupid wings again, and this time, she's setting up Mel with an actor, and someone who is equally passionate about the API community, the arts, and *shocker* also doesn't like hiking??? His name is Hayden Szeto, @haydenszeto. You might recognize him from The Edge of Se...
Dec 04, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 8Ep. 92
People, Places, and things - in the most simple and direct translation, they are simply the definition of a noun. But these nouns are what makeup experiences, the many experiences throughout our lives that have shaped us into who we are today. From the people who left a lasting impression on us, the places that are painted with memories, to the inanimate objects that feel more living than not...all of these experiences have left a lasting impression on us for different reasons. In the Disney mov...
Nov 27, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 8Ep. 91
Is age truly just a number? How important is age when it comes to dating? Can two people who are ten years apart really connect romantically? To spice things up this holiday season, Helen took on the role of Cupid here at ABG! And she is aiming her arrows at the single ladies of this podcast, Janet & Mel! You have all heard their dating woes on the podcast by now, but you've never heard them on an actual BLIND FIRST DATE! This week, Helen took aim and hit Janet and content creator, Jeffrey C...
Nov 20, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 8Ep. 90
Our guest today is the founder and CEO of Jubilee Media, a media company with over 5M subscribers, founded on the single idea to create a movement of empathy for human good. Since its start 10 years ago, Jubilee Media has created countless videos and short films exploring uncomfortable conversations between human beings, often from contrasting backgrounds, and the deep connections they make through sharing vulnerability. When our country and world feel so divided, empathy - the ability to share ...
Nov 13, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 8Ep. 89
One can argue that gratitude is the most powerful of human emotions. There have been studies that show that the benefits of practicing gratitude include: improved physical health, better sleep, greater happiness, more self-esteem, stronger relationships, greater resilience, less anxiety, reduced symptoms of depression, and so much more. Practicing gratitude not only helps you to feel more grounded and peaceful, but it also improves your ability to share that love with others. To give back. To sa...
Nov 06, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 8Ep. 88
Happy early Halloween everyone!! In episode 79, we shared with you all some of our spooky horror stories from our time working in corporate. Not a lot of us like to air out our dirty laundry when it comes to our jobs, out of fear of looking like a disgruntled worker, or even the possibility of getting fired. But we asked you on IG if you were open to sharing, and to our surprise, our DMs were FLOODED with your messages. From physically, emotionally, and verbally abusive bosses to countless stori...
Oct 30, 2020•54 min•Season 8Ep. 87
This month, we are focusing on the topic of Self Exploration, and as we near the end of October and edge closer to the spooktacular day of Hallow’s Eve, otherwise known as Halloween, we thought it would be appropriate to dedicate an episode to OUR GREATEST FEARS!! Fear is one of the seven universal emotions experienced by everyone around the world. Fear arises with the threat of harm, either physical, emotional, or psychological, real, or imagined. While traditionally considered a “negative” emo...
Oct 23, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Season 7Ep. 86
Breakups...ugh they suck! Sometimes it's a clean break. But more often than not, the period that follows can be messy and often left with words unsaid. As time passes and more life and love insight are gained, we may have even more we'd like to say to our former partner. The 3 of us have thought back into our dating history and each selected one ex. We then each took the time to write a letter to this ex, and we’re going to spend this episode sharing and discussing those letters with each other ...
Oct 16, 2020•46 min•Season 7Ep. 85
The Asian American identity & the stories that exist within our community are vast & extremely nuanced. The three of us have explored our own identities through various episodes (Episode 25: ABM-AsianBossMoms, Episode 63: APAHM - Growing Up in An Asian Household, Episode 64: My Asian Am Identity) with the lens of us specifically being 2nd gen Asian Americans. If you listened to those episodes, you heard us talk about our parents’ immigration stories and how we balance the culturally trad...
Oct 09, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 7Ep. 84
Happy October everyone! This month, we are focused on the topic of self-exploration. And today, we will be talking about the fascinating theory of attachment styles. This theory has studied how parents/caregivers have played a significant role in the attachment styles of their children. As children interact with these caregivers as a secure base to explore from and return to, the response from these caregivers leads to the development of patterns of attachment for the child, i.e. are the parent’...
Oct 02, 2020•50 min•Season 7Ep. 83
On today’s episode, we have Liah Yoo, beauty influencer and founder and CEO of KraveBeauty. Liah has an international social media following of over 1 million people. She creates content that educates her followers on low-maintenance and effective skin care, sharing her unconventional acne-fighting tips based on her own personal skincare experience. Liah worked for AmorePacific, South Korea’s largest beauty company, before starting her own brand, Krave Beauty, whose mission is to challenge the f...
Sep 25, 2020•57 min•Season 7Ep. 82
This month, we are focused on the topic of careers and entrepreneurship. To find a career that is the right fit, it’s important to not only understand WHAT we want but WHO we are - what are we good at? Understanding our personal strengths, weaknesses, and work values is not a one-time exercise. It requires a lot of patience, dedication, and active energy to understand ourselves, and also account for all the ways in which we change over the span of our working years. To prepare for this episode, ...
Sep 18, 2020•59 min•Season 7Ep. 81
For this month’s theme of Careers and Entrepreneurship, we bring on a good friend and serial entrepreneur, Mylen Yamamoto Tansingco!! She has a background in education and taught media at the college level while starting her own media company, where she produced digital videos on the side. Now, she runs a full-fledged talent company and manages some familiar faces in the Asian American digital world. On top of that, she also started Cropsticks, a sustainable goods company that was featured on Sh...
Sep 11, 2020•49 min•Season 7Ep. 80
Although the three of us now work on AsianBossGirl full time, we all have had experience working in corporate. From that obnoxious coworker who loved hearing the sound of his own voice, to horrible bosses that lacked a single empathetic bone in his/her body, to comments from coworkers about race and an unnerving correlation with some aspect of your work. As kids, we would make up scary stories to tell our friends, but now as adults, we STILL have scary stories to tell – only this time, they’re 1...
Sep 04, 2020•53 min•Season 7Ep. 79
2020 is proving to be a challenge. On a larger scale, the world is facing a global pandemic that is trickling down and unveiling an ugly side to our country. All of these things happening in the world, whether we want to admit or not, affect all of us on an individual level. Through our conversations with each other & with our loved ones, we realize there also exists a feeling of guilt. Guilt that tells us that we don’t “deserve” to feel sad or down because “someone else is going through som...
Aug 28, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 7Ep. 78
This year's August 18th marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, which guaranteed and protected women’s constitutional right to vote. As Asian American women, however, this celebration was a little different for us. The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote, but women of color were still marginalized under this law. The fight for voting rights for women of color continued for many years after 1920, and it wasn't until the Voting Rights Act in 1965 that racial discrimination was f...
Aug 21, 2020•48 min•Season 7Ep. 77
We welcome Philip Wang and Tim Hwang back onto the pod - one is a newly engaged creative and new media entrepreneur, the other a single, date-loving pharmaceutical marketing executive - both are men in their mid-30s who share their viewpoints and experiences on love and dating and how these have evolved since their 20s. What's an ideal age pairing for men and women? Is it dangerous to date someone for their potential versus their current state? What's the most attractive thing about a person, an...
Aug 14, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 7Ep. 76
In Episode 58, we welcomed two ABBs in their 20s to the pod, and things got juicy! (Hello Jason and Mike!). Today, we are upping the average age with two very special ABBs in their 30s, Philip Wang and Tim Hwang. In this part 1 of 2 series, we focus on the topic of Lifestyle and Career. What is a piece of advice these men have for their younger selves? In their 20s, what did they envision 30 to be like? What's it really like now? It's an episode filled with deep reflection and even deeper, heart...
Aug 07, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 7Ep. 75
The Enneagram is a personality model made up of 9 types. We have had a couple of episodes in which we analyze each other’s personalities - there was Episode 14 where we discussed each of our horoscopes and zodiac signs, and Episode 17 which focused on our Meyers Briggs personality types. Our listeners have requested that we also dedicate an episode to the Enneagram - so here it is! We review each of our results, discuss how accurate we think this test is, what shocked us the most about our resul...
Jul 31, 2020•58 min•Season 6Ep. 74
Girlboss - What is the movement associated with this term all about? In today's chaotic social and economic climate, many systems and structures are being called into question, and the #girlboss movement is no exception. Join us as we discuss the history of this movement, what it represented, and where it went wrong. We reflect on how each of us was personally affected or influenced by the #girlboss movement, its role in relation to AsianBossGirl, and how all the recent criticisms of this moveme...
Jul 24, 2020•50 min•Season 6Ep. 72
We have been friends for over 5 years now (working together for 3 of those years) - we've recorded over 70 episodes together, spent many late nights meeting for both work and play, exchange messages on the daily (if not hourly), and have gone on multiple international trips together. But how well do we really know each other? Listen and find out as we guess each other's answers to questions about our careers, love and sex, friends and family, childhood, favorite foods, and some juicy random ques...
Jul 17, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Season 6Ep. 72
Today's episode features the lovely Abigail Hing Wen, author of "Loveboat, Taipei", a novel about teenager Ever Wong as she navigates love, family relations, and her identity during her trip on the cultural phenomenon, Loveboat. It’s a vivid story all set on the backdrop of the rich culture of Taiwan. "Loveboat, Taipei" debuted on the New York Times Best Sellers List, was featured in Entertainment Weekly, recognized by Seventeen Magazine as 1 of 7 Best New YA Books of 2020, and was recently opti...
Jul 10, 2020•49 min•Season 6Ep. 71
The time has come... the moment Mel has been waiting for, for OH SO LONG! We’re finally reviewing the popular K-drama that has taken over the world by storm -- Crash Landing on You!! From the scenes that made our hearts flutter (helloOo Captain Ri) to the parts that made our jaws drop... we’re going to chat through all of that today, while also discussing why this show plays such a huge role in the Hallyu Wave (global rise & popularity of South Korean culture). So if any of you have NOT watc...
Jul 02, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 6Ep. 70
This episode is dedicated to the wonderous, sensual, powerful, confusing, beautiful, sometimes hairy topic of… our Vajayjays! We indirectly touched upon our vaginas on Episode 24: Periods & Poop. And seeing that May was Women’s Health Month, we were reminded that it was about time we dedicate another episode to a very active part of our bodies. Listen in as we discuss everything from anatomy to personal first experiences, to what our vaginas would be if they each had a monologue. Thank you t...
Jun 25, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 5Ep. 69
"Coming out is a journey."- Justin R "Coming out never ends."- Anna Lee Sending you all love for Pride Month! In Episode 66, we were joined by our close friends, Anna and Justin. Anna shared her complex experience of confronting her sexuality and identity as someone who grew up in a deeply religious family, and Justin shared his fears, reservations, and feeling of freedom from finally addressing his sexuality and identity as a public figure for the first time. Today, the conversation continues i...
Jun 18, 2020•58 min•Season 6Ep. 68
