Edrian is a creative soul who realized early on that in order to live his authentic life that he would need to come out to his parents as gay. However, Edrian also comes from a very traditional Filipino family so this would make the experience doubly hard. None of us want to disappoint our family and we all want validation and love. We want to be accepted and have a bond with our mothers and fathers and if this deep desire doesn’t get met, what do we do? How do we make sense of this day to day and forge ahead with a life that still means something to us. In Edrian’s story he talks about pain and forgiveness, love and family, his art and film and finding his own way. You can connect with Edrian on his social media here: https://msha.ke/edrianpenguino

Edrian is a creative soul who realized early on that in order to live his authentic life that he would need to come out to his parents as gay. However, Edrian also comes from a very traditional Filipino family so this would make the experience doubly hard. None of us want to disappoint our family and we all want validation and love. We want to be accepted and have a bond with our mothers and fathers and if this deep desire doesn’t get met, what do we do? How do we make sense of this day to day and forge ahead with a life that still means something to us. In Edrian’s story he talks about pain and forgiveness, love and family, his art and film and finding his own way. You can connect with Edrian on his social media here: https://msha.ke/edrianpenguino

Edrian is a creative soul who realized early on that in order to live his authentic life that he would need to come out to his parents as gay. However, Edrian also comes from a very traditional Filipino family so this would make the experience doubly hard. None of us want to disappoint our family and we all want validation and love. We want to be accepted and have a bond with our mothers and fathers and if this deep desire doesn’t get met, what do we do? How do we make sense of this day to day and forge ahead with a life that still means something to us. In Edrian’s story he talks about pain and forgiveness, love and family, his art and film and finding his own way. You can connect with Edrian on his social media here: https://msha.ke/edrianpenguino

Edrian is a creative soul who realized early on that in order to live his authentic life that he would need to come out to his parents as gay. However, Edrian also comes from a very traditional Filipino family so this would make the experience doubly hard. None of us want to disappoint our family and we all want validation and love. We want to be accepted and have a bond with our mothers and fathers and if this deep desire doesn’t get met, what do we do? How do we make sense of this day to day and forge ahead with a life that still means something to us. In Edrian’s story he talks about pain and forgiveness, love and family, his art and film and finding his own way. You can connect with Edrian on his social media here: https://msha.ke/edrianpenguino

Barbie has had a ton of amazing success in her past business ventures. She has run a multi-million dollar business but she has also experienced the bitter taste of failure - and I was along for the ride. In a partnered venture with Barbie rebuilt an online platform that despite the amazing idea behind the technology we could not get to product market fit and had many bumps in the road. In todays conversation barbie shared with me a little perspective from her reflections on success and failure, lessons of forgiveness, figuring out how to take care of our own “sides of the street”, being honest and not bringing old wounds into new relationships. Barbie is extremely talented and smart so it was a really good experience for me to be able to talk with her about what she had been thinking about since we folded the company that we had collaborated on many years ago now. You can find Barbie on her Instagram page here: https://www.instagram.com/barbiejohnson/

Barbie has had a ton of amazing success in her past business ventures. She has run a multi-million dollar business but she has also experienced the bitter taste of failure - and I was along for the ride. In a partnered venture with Barbie rebuilt an online platform that despite the amazing idea behind the technology we could not get to product market fit and had many bumps in the road. In todays conversation barbie shared with me a little perspective from her reflections on success and failure, lessons of forgiveness, figuring out how to take care of our own “sides of the street”, being honest and not bringing old wounds into new relationships. Barbie is extremely talented and smart so it was a really good experience for me to be able to talk with her about what she had been thinking about since we folded the company that we had collaborated on many years ago now. You can find Barbie on her Instagram page here: https://www.instagram.com/barbiejohnson/

Barbie has had a ton of amazing success in her past business ventures. She has run a multi-million dollar business but she has also experienced the bitter taste of failure - and I was along for the ride. In a partnered venture with Barbie rebuilt an online platform that despite the amazing idea behind the technology we could not get to product market fit and had many bumps in the road. In todays conversation barbie shared with me a little perspective from her reflections on success and failure, lessons of forgiveness, figuring out how to take care of our own “sides of the street”, being honest and not bringing old wounds into new relationships. Barbie is extremely talented and smart so it was a really good experience for me to be able to talk with her about what she had been thinking about since we folded the company that we had collaborated on many years ago now. You can find Barbie on her Instagram page here: https://www.instagram.com/barbiejohnson/

Barbie has had a ton of amazing success in her past business ventures. She has run a multi-million dollar business but she has also experienced the bitter taste of failure - and I was along for the ride. In a partnered venture with Barbie rebuilt an online platform that despite the amazing idea behind the technology we could not get to product market fit and had many bumps in the road. In todays conversation barbie shared with me a little perspective from her reflections on success and failure, lessons of forgiveness, figuring out how to take care of our own “sides of the street”, being honest and not bringing old wounds into new relationships. Barbie is extremely talented and smart so it was a really good experience for me to be able to talk with her about what she had been thinking about since we folded the company that we had collaborated on many years ago now. You can find Barbie on her Instagram page here: https://www.instagram.com/barbiejohnson/

Barbie has had a ton of amazing success in her past business ventures. She has run a multi-million dollar business but she has also experienced the bitter taste of failure - and I was along for the ride. In a partnered venture with Barbie rebuilt an online platform that despite the amazing idea behind the technology we could not get to product market fit and had many bumps in the road. In todays conversation barbie shared with me a little perspective from her reflections on success and failure, lessons of forgiveness, figuring out how to take care of our own “sides of the street”, being honest and not bringing old wounds into new relationships. Barbie is extremely talented and smart so it was a really good experience for me to be able to talk with her about what she had been thinking about since we folded the company that we had collaborated on many years ago now. You can find Barbie on her Instagram page here: https://www.instagram.com/barbiejohnson/

Barbie has had a ton of amazing success in her past business ventures. She has run a multi-million dollar business but she has also experienced the bitter taste of failure - and I was along for the ride. In a partnered venture with Barbie rebuilt an online platform that despite the amazing idea behind the technology we could not get to product market fit and had many bumps in the road. In todays conversation barbie shared with me a little perspective from her reflections on success and failure, lessons of forgiveness, figuring out how to take care of our own “sides of the street”, being honest and not bringing old wounds into new relationships. Barbie is extremely talented and smart so it was a really good experience for me to be able to talk with her about what she had been thinking about since we folded the company that we had collaborated on many years ago now. You can find Barbie on her Instagram page here: https://www.instagram.com/barbiejohnson/