Bao Tranchi is a multifaceted Costume and Fashion Designer. Bao has built a highly esteemed, 20-year career, renown for extraordinary vision, unstoppable work ethic, and passion to create the most memorable designs from the big screen, to the red carpet, to Music video to the performance stage. Her Feature film credits include Peter Farrelly’s “Greatest Beer Run Ever” 2022, Dustin Nguyen’s “Once Upon a Time in Vietnam” 2013 and Ham Tran’s “Journey From the Fall”. Bao’s high end eponymous Fashion...
Sep 07, 2022•1 hr 35 min
Quyen is a Co-founder and Executive Director of ICAN. She serves on the Board of Directors and Advisors of many organizations, including Healthier Kids Foundation, San Jose Children’s Discovery Museum, Mission College AANAPISI Committee. In 1989, she received the Fulbright Fellowship to work in the Vietnamese refugee camps in Hong Kong, and later went on a fact-finding trip with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to monitor the safety and reintegration of returnees sent back to Vietna...
Sep 03, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Bee Nguyen is an American non-profit executive and politician serving as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the 89th district. Bee is running for Georgia's Secretary of State in the 2022 election. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Sep 01, 2022•38 min
Charlie Nguyen, Vietnamese name is Nguyen Chanh Truc, is Vietnamese–American and is known as a Director, Writer, Producer, Actor, and Editor. Some of his films include The Rebel, Teo Em, Fool for Love, Long Ruoi, My Mr. Wife, to name just a few. He is the older brother of actor Johnny Tri Nguyen. He and Johnny with comedian Van Son are nephews of actor Nguyen Chanh Tin. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://red...
Aug 31, 2022•1 hr 27 min
Carol Nguyen is a Vietnamese Canadian filmmaker, born and raised in Toronto, now based in Montreal. Her films often explore the subjects of cultural identity, silence and memory. Her last film “No Crying at the Dinner Table” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and had its international premiere at IDFA 2019, where she was additionally invited as the Opening Night speaker. In 2020, “No Crying” also received the Jury Prize for Short Documentary at SXSW. Carol is a 2018 Sundance Ig...
Aug 27, 2022•1 hr 5 min
House of Ho is a television series on HBO Max follows the life of the Ho family led by patriarch Binh Ho and his wife, Hue Ho, a Vietnamese family who are living the American Dream in Houston, Texas. Join Judy and Washington as they discuss the new season. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Aug 25, 2022•53 min
Phong Nguyen is the author of three novels: Bronze Drum (Grand Central Publishing, 2022), Roundabout (Moon City Press, 2020), and The Adventures of Joe Harper (Outpost19, 2016), winner of the Prairie Heritage Book Award; and two short fiction collections: Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History (C&R Press, 2019) and Memory Sickness (Elixir Press, 2011), winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award. Along with Robert Olen Butler, he is the co-editor of The Best Peace Fiction: A Social Justic...
Aug 18, 2022•53 min
Phong Nguyen is the author of three novels: Bronze Drum (Grand Central Publishing, 2022), Roundabout (Moon City Press, 2020), and The Adventures of Joe Harper (Outpost19, 2016), winner of the Prairie Heritage Book Award; and two short fiction collections: Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History (C&R Press, 2019) and Memory Sickness (Elixir Press, 2011), winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award. Along with Robert Olen Butler, he is the co-editor of The Best Peace Fiction: A Social Justic...
Aug 18, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Charles Phan is the Executive Chef and founder of The Slanted Door in San Francisco, California and The Slanted Door Group of restaurants. Phan is known for combining Western and Vietnamese ingredients in breakthrough ways and was recognized as “Best Chef: California” by the James Beard Foundation in 2004. In the years that followed, Phan expanded his restaurant group with Out the Door, Hard Water, Rice and Bones at UC Berkeley, Slanted Door San Ramon, and Chuck’s Takeaway. His popularity contin...
Aug 16, 2022•1 hr 46 min
Charles Phan is the Executive Chef and founder of The Slanted Door in San Francisco, California and The Slanted Door Group of restaurants. Phan is known for combining Western and Vietnamese ingredients in breakthrough ways and was recognized as “Best Chef: California” by the James Beard Foundation in 2004. In the years that followed, Phan expanded his restaurant group with Out the Door, Hard Water, Rice and Bones at UC Berkeley, Slanted Door San Ramon, and Chuck’s Takeaway. His popularity contin...
Aug 16, 2022•59 min
With over 60 million streams across her catalog, and press support from Refinery 29, Teen Vogue, NYLON, Forbes, HypeBeast, The Line of Best Fit and L’Officiel TRACE feels she has only just begun creating a voice she hopes you keep coming back to. In the Spring of 2021, TRACE did a takeover curating Spotify’s DOPE AF playlist, which highlights Asian Female artists. Specifically spotlighting awareness to both the #stopAsiannhate movement as well as her non-profit of choice: Asian Mental Health Col...
Aug 11, 2022•54 min
With over 60 million streams across her catalog, and press support from Refinery 29, Teen Vogue, NYLON, Forbes, HypeBeast, The Line of Best Fit and L’Officiel TRACE feels she has only just begun creating a voice she hopes you keep coming back to. In the Spring of 2021, TRACE did a takeover curating Spotify’s DOPE AF playlist, which highlights Asian Female artists. Specifically spotlighting awareness to both the #stopAsiannhate movement as well as her non-profit of choice: Asian Mental Health Col...
Aug 11, 2022•1 hr 20 min
In this wide-ranging talk, we discuss how Tony Ngo went from overcoming failure and fear at Stanford to becoming an uber-networked professional, how the topic of du học sinh became the catalyst for Tony to develop a career bridging Vietnamese communities to international ones, and how he explained to his parents who left Vietnam as refugees his career pivot from the US to the country many of us left. Tony grew up in Orange, CA as the oldest son of refugees, and has lived the idealized American i...
Aug 08, 2022•53 min
In this wide-ranging talk, we discuss how Tony Ngo went from overcoming failure and fear at Stanford to becoming an uber-networked professional, how the topic of du học sinh became the catalyst for Tony to develop a career bridging Vietnamese communities to international ones, and how he explained to his parents who left Vietnam as refugees his career pivot from the US to the country many of us left. Tony grew up in Orange, CA as the oldest son of refugees, and has lived the idealized American i...
Aug 08, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Mike Van is the President of Billboard. He is responsible for all revenue operations and the financial performance for the Billboard brand. In his previous role as Executive Vice President and Head of Global Brand Partnerships Mike oversaw global monetization across all brand revenue channels including direct digital, social, live events, branded content, licensing, and distribution. In partnership with Billboard’s executive team, Mike also contributes to fiscal and strategic business planning, ...
Aug 02, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Mike Van is the President of Billboard. He is responsible for all revenue operations and the financial performance for the Billboard brand. In his previous role as Executive Vice President and Head of Global Brand Partnerships Mike oversaw global monetization across all brand revenue channels including direct digital, social, live events, branded content, licensing, and distribution. In partnership with Billboard’s executive team, Mike also contributes to fiscal and strategic business planning, ...
Aug 01, 2022•1 hr 35 min
Cung Le is an actor, retired mixed martial artist, Sanshou fighter and kickboxer. He competed as a middleweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), holding a record of 2–2 with the organization. In kickboxing and sanshou, he is a former International Kickboxing Federation Light Heavyweight World Champion, having a professional kickboxing record of 17–0 before moving to mixed martial arts. He defeated Frank Shamrock to become the second Strikeforce Middleweight Champion before vacating t...
Jul 28, 2022•1 hr 25 min
Thi Bui was born in Vietnam and came to the United States in 1978 as part of the “boat people” wave of refugees fleeing Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam War. Her debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do (Abrams ComicArts, 2017) has been selected for an American Book Award, a Common Book for UCLA and other colleges and universities, an all-city read by Seattle and San Francisco public libraries, a National Book Critics Circle finalist in autobiography, and an Eisner Award finalist in re...
Jul 19, 2022•53 min
Thi Bui was born in Vietnam and came to the United States in 1978 as part of the “boat people” wave of refugees fleeing Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam War. Her debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do (Abrams ComicArts, 2017) has been selected for an American Book Award, a Common Book for UCLA and other colleges and universities, an all-city read by Seattle and San Francisco public libraries, a National Book Critics Circle finalist in autobiography, and an Eisner Award finalist in re...
Jul 19, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Together, Andy and Brian Le, and their friend, Daniel Mah, formed the independent action group 'Martial Club'. In 10 years of independent filmmaking, Martial Club has garnered tens of millions of views and opportunities to work with Kung Fu superstars such as Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh. Andy and Brian Le are known for their work on 'Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings', 'Everything Everywhere All At Once', 'The Paper Tigers', and 'Wu Tang: An American Saga'. Andy and Brian grew up in Or...
Jul 13, 2022•59 min
Together, Andy and Brian Le, and their friend, Daniel Mah, formed the independent action group 'Martial Club'. In 10 years of independent filmmaking, Martial Club has garnered tens of millions of views and opportunities to work with Kung Fu superstars such as Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh. Andy and Brian Le are known for their work on 'Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings', 'Everything Everywhere All At Once', 'The Paper Tigers', and 'Wu Tang: An American Saga'. Andy and Brian grew up in Or...
Jul 13, 2022•1 hr 12 min
The Poreotics dance crew competed on the fifth season of America's Best Dance Crew. The crew danced to several songs including those of Taylor Swift and Beyonce. Through their creative ideas and synchronized choreography, they managed to utilize the stage to its fullest and become extremely popular with the audience. They brought comedy mixed with popping to America's Best Dance Crew. The live season finale aired on April 8, 2010, and Poreotics was crowned the champions of season 5 and also perf...
Jul 07, 2022•49 min
The Poreotics dance crew competed on the fifth season of America's Best Dance Crew. The crew danced to several songs including those of Taylor Swift and Beyonce. Through their creative ideas and synchronized choreography, they managed to utilize the stage to its fullest and become extremely popular with the audience. They brought comedy mixed with popping to America's Best Dance Crew. The live season finale aired on April 8, 2010, and Poreotics was crowned the champions of season 5 and also perf...
Jul 07, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Tracey Nguyen Mang is the creator and host of the Vietnamese Boat People (VBP) podcast and nonprofit. She fled Vietnam with her family at the age of three and grew up ashamed by the stigma of being a refugee and struggled with navigating her own Asian American identity. In 2018, she began to document her family's story and along the way, discovered that there are many others like her, trying to piece together the history. Tracey started VBP by publishing her family’s story in Season 1 of the pod...
Jun 30, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Viet Nguyen is the young founder and executive chef of Kei Concepts, a restaurant concept creation and management group that develops and manages proprietary brands and incubates emerging concepts. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Jun 24, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Ben Tran’s research examines the politics and aesthetics of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Southeast Asian, Asian American, and Anglophone literatures. As the repercussions of colonialism and decolonization, modern warfare, climate change, and globalization continue to unfold in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim, he examines how literary and cultural works depict and resist modernity’s vertiginous transformations. His first book, Post-Mandarin: Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity in Coloni...
Jun 14, 2022•1 hr 31 min
Jimmy-Nhựt Hà đã có hơn 100 tập phỏng vấn trong Jimmy TV. Người hâm mộ cho rằng đây là chương trình duy nhất đưa các nghệ sĩ thế hệ trước đến gần hơn với khán giả nhỏ tuổi. Tại Little Saigon, Jimmy Nhựt Hà khởi nghiệp làm MC và ca sĩ ở Hội Quán Lạc Cầm vào năm 2016. Nửa năm sau đó, Jimmy chính thức được nhận vào làm việc với SBTN cho đến giờ. Bên cạnh “Jimmy TV,” hiện tại, Jimmy còn làm người điều khiển chương trình cho nhiều chương trình trực tiếp thu hình của cuae trung tâm Asia,Trúc Hồ Music ...
Jun 07, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Please join Ham Tran and Jenni Trang Le as they talk about directing and producing Maika. The film releases in the U.S. on June 3rd. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Jun 03, 2022•53 min
Trúc Hồ là một nhạc sĩ người Mỹ gốc Việt nhà sản xuất, được biết đến với những đóng góp cho các chương trình ca nhạc tạp kỹ Asia (do công ty Asia Entertainment sản xuất), cũng như kênh SBTN Saigon Broadcasting Television Network của anh 24 giờ tiếng Việt. Truc Ho is an award-winning Vietnamese American composer, musician, and activist, renowned for his hundreds of compositions, most notably, “Đáp Lời Sông Núi,” “Triệu Con Tim,” and “Tinh Yêu, Tình Người,” which seeks social justice through music...
Jun 01, 2022•1 hr 45 min
Chu Diệp Anh là nữ diễn viên chính trong phim Maika. Hãy tham gia cùng Kenneth va Maika khi chúng tôi thảo luận về những hy vọng và ước mơ của cô ấy để phát triển sự nghiệp showbiz của mình. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
May 27, 2022•33 min
