Meet Anne Gu! We celebrate Anne and her friends' initiative in starting Subtle Asian Traits and building a global movement that has changed the lives of millions and have inspired countless Asian communities globally. We support her and fellow community builders to create spaces for likeminded people to connect, laugh, and create together. We are inspired by the positive impact that can be initiated by a few people who decided to create something to bond over. ***** Anne Gu is one of the co-foun...
Apr 19, 2020•56 min
Meet Nathan Nowack ! We celebrate Nathan for all his awesome achievements and in raising a beautiful family of three children with his wife. We support his photography businesses and all other creatives as they navigate their businesses through these challenging times. We are inspired by him sharing the story of finding his biological family the so many stories like his. ***** About Nathan ... Photography has been a passion of mine for over 15 years. In 2007, I decided to step away from the mult...
Apr 14, 2020•52 min
Meet Han Ju Seo ! We celebrate Han Ju for her decision to create a community that she felt lacking in the community and her dedication and hard work the past 18 months to build Asian Creative Network to what it is today. We support her creation, the Asian Creative Network, a home for Asian creative globally, and her future endeavors as a Venture for America fellow! We are inspired by her vision and her passion and are excited to see all that she will create in her life. ***** Han Ju Seo is a cur...
Apr 09, 2020•53 min
Meet Julie Yeeun Kim ! We celebrate Julie's academic achievements in pursuing graduate studies and teaching Asian American studies to help all of us better understand our history, identity, and way to help the community. We support Julie's singing and writing work as she entertains and nourishes our soul with her gifts. We are inspired by Julie's relentless work in helping our students be their best Asian American selves as they enter adulthood. ***** Julie Yeeun Kim is a professor of Asian Amer...
Apr 07, 2020•40 min
Welcome back Dr. Jang Cho to the show for Episode 021. I speak with the child psychiatrist on ways we can best support our children and ourselves during these challenging times by sharing how to best deal with the new realities of being home, how to best support our frontline healthcare friends and family, and on how to deal with anti-Asian racism and hate crimes. Available online resources mentioned in the episode. American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: https://www.aacap.org/AACAP...
Apr 04, 2020•51 min
Meet Tai Tran ! We celebrate Tai's success of building Asians Never Die into a community on Facebook that is one million strong. We celebrate his ability to take his comedic genius and help Asian across the world find comedy, culture, and community. We support Tai and his work to help bring not only humor, but also important issues in Asian American community. We are inspired by his humble beginnings, his dedication to his craft, and his bold leap into making Asian Never Die his full-time job af...
Apr 03, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Meet Benny Luo ! We celebrate Benny's successes and achievements, including winning Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2018. We celebrate his decision to create something that the community now relies on so much. We support Benny and his team as they work tirelessly to bring us relevant stories and perspectives and to provide us places to have important discussions. We are inspired by the story of his mother's journey to America and his relentless mission and purpose drive pursuit to create something meaning...
Apr 02, 2020•1 hr 4 min
Meet Juanny Romero ! We celebrate Juanny's successes in being a successful minority female CEO and in opening and running the longest operating independent coffee chain in Las Vegas. We support Juanny and all other small business CEOs who are doing their best to manage this crisis while putting their employees and community first. We are inspired by her drive, passion, and mission to be authentically herself in all she does. ***** Juanny is the CEO of the long running independent coffee chain in...
Apr 01, 2020•45 min
Meet Stacey Kwong ! We celebrate Stacey successes in being a business owner in three states, leading with her vision of creating a place where anyone can feel welcome. We support her business, MILK + T, and all small businesses during these challenging times. We are inspired by her courage and conviction to always put the needs of her team members as well as those who need help more first above her own. ***** About Stacey From slangin' mac and cheese in middle school, to reselling iphones in hig...
Mar 31, 2020•26 min
Meet Jin Yu ! We celebrate Jin's professional achievements in co-founding Surkus and Vezt, two technology start-ups changing the game in their respective industries. We support Jin's efforts in creating a safe and supportive environment to help tackle the community and personal economic impact COVID-19 will have on all of us. We are inspired by his passion to help, share, and give as much as he can to ensure we will get through these challenging times together and stronger on the other side. ***...
Mar 30, 2020•32 min
Meet Catalina Kaiyoorawongs ! We celebrate Catalina for all she's achieved in her academic and professional journeys and her family for teaching her the right things to set her up for success. We support her and the mission of LoanSense to help tackle the student loan problem by providing employers an option to provide support as an employee benefit. We are inspired by Catalina to use her experience, network, and education to solve a real world problem that so many of us can benefit from. ***** ...
Mar 30, 2020•32 min
Tune into our conversation with Wing as we learn about how his family became a Chinese-Brazilian-American family whose Chinese restaurant in Newport Beach became a Balboa Island icon, how the three brothers ended up selling fish tacos, and the one event that turned Wahoo's from a regional chain of 13 restaurants into the household name that we know it to be today. Wing Lam is the eldest of the three founding brothers and the enigmatic character widely recognized as the face of the iconic Wahoo’s...
Mar 27, 2020•42 min
Dear Asian Americans - The Helpers Series features everyday heroes who are doing what they can, where they can, however they can to help members of the community and beyond get through these challenging times. If you know of someone whose story and work deserves to be shared, contact jerry@dearasianamericans.com We're all in this together. Stay safe and stay strong. ***** Bryan Pham is a software engineer turned real estate investor turned entrepreneur and one of the two founders of the Asian Hu...
Mar 25, 2020•42 min
Dear Asian Americans - The Helpers Series features everyday heroes who are doing what they can, where they can, however they can to help members of the community and beyond get through these challenging times. If you know of someone whose story and work deserves to be shared, contact jerry@dearasianamericans.com We're all in this together. Stay safe and stay strong. ***** Jang Cho, MD is a child and adolescent psychiatrist from Washington who works with children and their families, with particul...
Mar 24, 2020•37 min
Dear Asian Americans - The Helpers Series features everyday heroes who are doing what they can, where they can, however they can to help members of the community and beyond get through these challenging times. If you know of someone whose story and work deserves to be shared, contact jerry@dearasianamericans.com We're all in this together. Stay safe and stay strong. ***** Sheela Lal is a consulting manager who has spent the majority of her life caring about and working for others. With her deep ...
Mar 23, 2020•34 min
Dear Asian Americans - The Helpers Series features everyday heroes who are doing what they can, where they can, however they can to help members of the community and beyond get through these challenging times. If you know of someone whose story and work deserves to be shared, contact jerry@dearasianamericans.com We're all in this together. Stay safe and stay strong. ***** John Ma is an entertainment executive by day who spends most of his days thinking about and doing work to help the most needy...
Mar 22, 2020•44 min
Jerry speaks to jason chu about his Facebook / Twitter post from yesterday that went viral, sharing his thoughts and concerns on the spike in anti-Asian racism in North America. He lists what he observes as his top 5 justifications for these racist comments and uses research, fact, and cites expert opinions to dig into each one. Jason is a rapper, poet, community activist, and philosopher. While many know him for his viral YouTube videos as a solo performer and his group NITEMRKT , Jason shares ...
Mar 19, 2020•27 min
Dear Asian Americans - The Helpers Series features everyday heroes who are doing what they can, where they can, however they can to help members of the community and beyond get through these challenging times. If you know of someone whose story and work deserves to be shared, contact jerry@dearasianamericans.com We're all in this together. Stay safe and stay strong. ***** John Lim is a 25 year-old Korean American entrepreneur, founder, and CEO of AZNFLUSH. It is a social drinking game designed w...
Mar 17, 2020•30 min
Jerry shares his conversation with Dr. Paul Song about coronavirus updates and tips for the community. Recorded on Thursday 3/11/2020 at 1pm. Listen to Dear Asian Americans on all major platforms: Transistor.fm : http://www.dearasianamericans.com Apple : https://apple.dearasianamericans.com Spotify : https://spotify.dearasianamericans.com Stitcher : https://stitcher.dearasianamericans.com Google : https://google.dearasianamericans.com Follow us on Instagram : http://www.instagram.com/dearasianam...
Mar 17, 2020•30 min
Dear Asian Americans, Please tell your stories. They're important and we would love to hear them. I wish you much success and much happiness in all your endeavors. Love, Helena ***** We celebrate Helena and her second children's book, The Paper Kingdom, and her bold decision to create books for our children with characters who look like them and whose stories are all too familiar. We support her in her work and all fellow Asian American authors and creators as we honor the sacrifices of our pare...
Mar 11, 2020•33 min
Dear Asian Americans, I really hope that we can be encouraged and inspired by everything that's going on today, with all the Asians that are making it. It's really because of our parents' sacrifice, our grandparents sacrifice. So I hope that we never ever forget that. It's all because of them and we need to honor them more. Give. Life's about love. If we're not giving, then what are we doing? I hope, I hope, I hope that we all remember it just to give. Love, PK ***** Meet Paul PK Kim on Episode ...
Mar 07, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Dear Asian Americans, I hope that you see yourself for who you are, because we belong here. Love, Trisha ***** Meet Trisha Sakuja-Walia on Episode 004 of Dear Asian Americans! We celebrate her achievements and her dedication to building community for South Asians throughout her life. We support her and Brown Girl Magazine and its 200+ freelance writers who are dedicated to sharing stories, creating community, and building a home for South Asian women. Trisha inspires us to take pride in sharing ...
Mar 05, 2020•51 min
Dear Asian Americans, Continue telling your stories... Keep fighting for what you believe in... we live better than any group of people in the world in history. I think that we have the ability to hold onto our culture, I think that we have the ability to assimilate, and I think that with all the challenges that we face, every community faces challenges, we're at a point in time where it's better to be alive now, it doesn't seem like it sometimes, better than any time in history. We're living in...
Mar 04, 2020•53 min
Dear Asian Americans, You are so worthy of the time, energy, and effort to get to know your deepest self, and you are so worthy of taking into your history, of looking into the mirror, and loving on the features, the nuances of complexities, of what makes you, you. And furthermore, you must do that self work with responsibility because your existence on this earth matters. And someone out there who's looking at you and the way that you treat yourself, and that is a message for how they might see...
Mar 04, 2020•1 hr 10 min
Dear Asian Americans, Meet Jonathan Wang on today's Episode 001 of Dear Asian Americans ! We celebrate Jonathan's role as the Executive Director of USC Asian Pacific American Student Services (APASS) and the work he continues to do to help APA students find their voice, place, and mission in the world. We support him and so may others in higher education and non-profit sectors who have dedicated their lives for the academic, social, and professional advancement of Asian Americans. Jonathan inspi...
Mar 03, 2020•47 min
Opening Episode for Dear Asian Americans. Introduction to show, guests, and host. Show launching March 2, 2020.
Feb 22, 2020•5 min
