Tea Ho has been a staff writer on The Sympathizer (HBO) and We Were the Lucky Ones (HULU). Tea is a proud alum of the Sundance Episodic Lab, Lena Waithe's Hillman Grad Mentorship Lab, and Giant Leap Accelerator's Development Lab. In their past lives, Tea worked as a web developer, designer, and wedding photographer. Tea's writing balances dark truths with levity to tell socially-conscious stories. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donations Advert...
Mar 27, 2023•1 hr 16 min
In 1999, Quan Huynh shot and killed another man in a gang-related incident in Hollywood, California. Quan Huynh proceeded to spend the next 22 years of his life behind bars. In the midst of a life sentence, he found his freedom from within. He wishes to share that freedom with others. Today, Quan is an author and executive director of an organization called Defy Ventures, a nonprofit helping those with a criminal past transform their lives through the journey of entrepreneurship. Support this po...
Mar 23, 2023•55 min
Trấn Thành is a Vietnamese comedian, actor, and film director. Hís last two films are Bố Già and Nhà Bà Nử. 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...
Mar 20, 2023•1 hr 21 min
Lo van Pham is the first Asian-American official in NFL history. Lo shares his journey to the NFL. 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...
Mar 17, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Dzung Metts is a retired Vietnamese translator for the FBI. She worked as a language specialist in multiple capacities for the U.S. government for 31 years. 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...
Mar 15, 2023•54 min
Each year, Len Duong Camp provides approximately 250-300 young people the opportunity to develop and refine their leadership skills in a camp setting. Participants get exposed to the concepts, elements, and processes of leadership; learn to recognize group dynamics and understand their effects on the leadership process; and enhance critical thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, and conflict-resolution skills. This year 2023, Len Duong Camp will be held from May 26 – 29, 2023 at the YMCA C...
Mar 14, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Kirk is the Director and Executive Producer for the award winning documentary film series, "Intersections". In 2017, on a whim, Kirk submitted to a DNA test simply to determine his full ethnicity and maybe connect with a distant biological relative. The results led Kirk to discover that his birth mother and birth father were indeed alive and well and that he had brothers and sisters that he didn’t know existed. Kirk also discovered that his birth mother had been searching for him for over 40 yea...
Mar 10, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Leenda Dong has been an internet comedy creator since 2012. Leenda is a lovable TikTok personality and creator with over 17 million followers. 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...
Mar 08, 2023•46 min
Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia, specializes in the Vietnam War, U.S.-Southeast Asian relations, and the global Cold War. Professor Nguyen is currently working on a comprehensive history of the 1968 Tet Offensive for RandomHouse. She is the general editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, 3 vols., as well as co-editor of the Cambridge Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations. Support this podcast at — https:/...
Mar 06, 2023•1 hr 18 min
Thalia Tran is an actress from Orange County, California who will be playing the role of Mai in Netflix’s upcoming live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender . She has had a lifelong passion for the arts, from singing to playing instruments to acting. As an actress, she is best known for playing Charlotte Perry in the NBC series Council of Dads, Raina in the Universal film Little , and Little Noi in Disney’s Oscar-nominated film Raya and the Last Dragon . She has also guest starred in ...
Mar 03, 2023•54 min
Andy Van is an LA based comedian. He is a co-founder of Embarrassed by Night and the 626 Laugh Market. 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...
Mar 02, 2023•44 min
Tai Nguyen join the U.S. Marines in 1977. 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
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 21 min
Brian Hoang is a Canadian fine artist. He discusses AI and how the technology is affecting artists like himself. 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...
Feb 27, 2023•50 min
Mic Nguyen ( @nicepantsdude ) is a writer and comedian living in Brooklyn. He's host of a podcast named Asian Not Asian. He’s appeared on Ronny Chieng’s “Chinatown Takeaway” and on NPR’s “Everyone and Their Mom.” He’s written for “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” and McSweeney’s. 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...
Feb 24, 2023•51 min
Phan Quang Tue was the son of a Vietnamese politician, and he grew up in South Vietnam during Ngo Dinh Diem's dictatorship. He fled to the United States in 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War, and he went on to serve as an Immigration & Naturalization Service trial attorney from 1988 to 1993, as an administrative law judge from 1993 to 1995, and as a Republican judge on the San Francisco Immigration Court from 1995 to 31 December 2012. In 2014, he lost a bid for the US House of Representative...
Feb 23, 2023•1 hr 11 min
Tuan Nguyen is a Managing Director at Rockefeller Capital Management. 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
Feb 22, 2023•57 min
Chris Ngo is a co-founder of The Leverage which began as a boutique mens’ streetwear agency and has now evolved to so much more, including wholesale and direct-to-consumer sales, in-house design, production, and distribution, while owning and creating more brands within the umbrella including - Embellish, Haus of JR, Crysp, Lifted Anchors, Diet Starts Monday and many others). Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donations Advertising Inquiries: https...
Feb 20, 2023•45 min
Sahra Nguyen is the founder of Nguyen Coffee Supply. Through Nguyen Coffee Supply, her mission is to build the most influential Vietnamese coffee brand in the world while promoting diversity, sustainability & cultural integrity. Sahra has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, VICE, Forbes, New York Times, Saveur, Imbibe Magazine, Vietcetera, CNN. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brand...
Feb 18, 2023•56 min
Wendy Lieu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Socola Chocolatier, an award-winning San Francisco chocolate company. Socola is the word for chocolate in Vietnamese, honoring her parents who fled Vietnam in 1981 as Boat People, landing in a Malaysian refugee camp where Wendy was later born. Her Vietnamese heritage is reflected in her product flavors and grit to pursue her dream. In 2001, Wendy, 19, taught herself how to make chocolate truffles and began selling them in front of her parent's nail salon i...
Feb 08, 2023•52 min
Frank Jao (Triệu Như Phát) is a prominent Vietnamese-American businessman, philanthropist, and educational consultant. He is the founding donor of the Harvard Global Vietnam Wars Studies Program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Jao was a presidential appointee to the Vietnam Education Foundation, which provides educational exchanges between the United States and Vietnam, and served as its Chairman in 2002. He was also served as a board trustee ...
Feb 06, 2023•39 min
Ashley Nguyen DeWitt has worked in voiceover for over a decade, starting as an intern for a commercial voice casting company. She then hopped around from commercials to animation, working in the casting/talent relations department at DreamWorks TV. From there, she worked her way into becoming an animation casting and voice director for studios like Netflix, Warner Bros, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney and others. Her casting and voice directing credits include Emmy Award Winning series "Ada...
Feb 04, 2023•53 min
Thach Nguyen is the CEO & Founder of Thach Real Estate Group , a. Seattle-based real estate company, a seasoned investor, developer and popular content creator. As an inspirational leader Thach is a sought after speaker, philanthropist and author and co-founder of “The Gift”. Thach has been featured The Seattle Times, NW Asian Weekly, The Early Show, Puget Sound Business Journal, The International Examiner and many more. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-ken...
Jan 27, 2023•59 min
Scott Ly's stars as the male lead in the NETFLIX feature film A TOURIST GUIDE TO LOVE opposite Rachel Leigh Cook. It was filmed throughout Vietnam. The story is about an executive, played by Rachel Leigh Cook who goes through an unexpected breakup, then accepts an assignment to go undercover and learn about the tourist industry in Vietnam. She falls in love with her Vietnamese tourist guide. Ly plays the hunky love interest to Cook, a Vietnamese tour guide whom she falls in love with. Ly's famil...
Jan 24, 2023•1 hr 27 min
Steven Ho is a an LA based comedian and content and digital creator known for his viral “Tips from the ER” videos on TikTok and Instagram. He was previously an ER Technician. Learn more about Steven: https://linktr.ee/steveioe Find Steven on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveioe Find Steven on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/steveioe Find Steven on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@steveioe Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donations Advert...
Jan 18, 2023•55 min
Raised in Seattle with roots in California and Vietnam, Helen Nguyen has always had a passion for food. After a decade in real estate business and sales, she pursued her passion and moved to New York and attended the Institute of Culinary Education. While at school, she started an apprenticeship at L'Appart under Chef Nicolas Abello, who led his team to their first Michelin star within the first few months of opening and then worked her way into the kitchen of Chef Daniel Boulud's famed Restaura...
Jan 13, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Join Nam C. Kim and Tuan Lee as they explore their Vietnamese Korean heritages. 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
Jan 11, 2023•1 hr 20 min
James Nguyen is a high school student at La Quinta in Orange County. He has developed a cancer detecting electric toothbrush and was a finalist for the Rise Challenge, a global competition that finds "brilliant people who need opportunity and supports them for life as they work to serve others." 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...
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr
Amy M. Le is a Vietnam War survivor and Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) warrior. She is the founder of Quill Hawk Publishing, a woman-owned, Asian American company that helps writers indie publish their books while amplifying diverse voices through storytelling. Amy grew up in Seattle and had a successful career at Microsoft and T-Mobile before pivoting to become a writer, publisher, and speaker. She is the award-winning author of the Snow trilogy: Snow in Vietnam, Snow in Seattle, and Snow’s Kitc...
Jan 02, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Described by Huffington Post as, “The most grounded spiritual entrepreneur on the planet”, recognized as an original ‘Rare Bird’ – Australia’s top 50 Influential Female Entrepreneurs and included in Blackwell and Hobday’s global recognition of ‘200 Women Who Will Change the Way You See the World’, Pauline is nothing short of extraordinary. Unable to be pigeon holed, the mother of two speaks and teaches from direct experience with a unique process to self-mastery, which has helped heal and upleve...
Dec 29, 2022•1 hr 17 min
Hưng BlackhearteD (Nguyễn Tiến Hưng) người thành lập đồng thời là ca sĩ sáng tác chính của ban nhạc rock Black Infinity. Hưng BlackhearteD được bầu chọn là 1 trong 10 Rocker Hot nhất của Rock Việt, gương mặt Cosmo Man của tạp chí Cosmopolitan 2012 và là đại sứ cho thương hiệu rượu Jack Daniel's tại Việt Nam. Anh sáng tác và sản xuất 3 Albums cùng Black Infinity và 2 Albums trong dự án Solo mang tên "Hưng BlackhearteD". Hiện tại Hưng BlackhearteD đang sinh sống và làm việc với vai trò Đạo Diễn ch...
Dec 28, 2022•1 hr 3 min
