Da Eun: We’ve been friends for almost a decade now, hard to believe, but we always have so much to learn from each other given our expertise, our lived experiences, and the synergy that is our friendship. Today, I need your advice, Sophia.

Sophia: And I’ll need your advice, Da Eun, in the next episode. Hopefully, people can gain some more insight into the vulnerable aspects of our friendship, and also hear our personal thought processes when it comes to supporting our loved ones.

TODAY'S TOPIC: Dear bamboo & glass, at work, I lack a lot of confidence and catch myself having incredibly invasive self-talk. I tell myself “oh my goodness, everyone thinks I’m a fraud and I am not capable. They’re just tolerating me at this point.” “how I could I be so dumb? There’s no way I can keep up.” I’m tired of how that can ruin my day and week so easily, and I know that it’s the meaning that I put behind these incidents that give it so much power. How can I get rid of this self-talk, especially when I am prone to believe it’s over 60% true?

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"A professional change in midlife can provide a much-needed reset—at least when you’re looking for a career that more closely aligns with your passion. But finding what you love, especially once you’ve gone down an entirely different path, can feel impossible."

On bamboo & glass, we talk about the abundant possibilities of who we can choose to be, and one pillar we discuss is career. We all know the career jump is challenging. It’s oftentimes where most of us get stuck: the fear of pursuing our dreams or stepping outside of our comfort zone. But what we don’t talk as much about are the questions and sobering realizations we continue to have months, even years into the new venture, and how we relate that back to our “old selves.” We'll hear two past guests, Karen Mok and Serena Lee Kim, share their meandering journeys of wandering through career, unpacking success and passion alongside reinventing and redefining their identities.

Our guests:
Karen Mok | Twitter @itskmok
Serena Lee Kim | Youtube @SerenaLeeKim

Edited by Sarah Park

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Episodes mentioned
🎙️ Building The Cosmos: a Digital Community of Asian Womxn ft. Cassandra Lam & Karen Mok
🎙️ Redefining Self Worth Through Serendipitous Digital Connections ft. Serena Kim

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"Would you rather like your crush more, or vice versa? If you couldn’t ask/share about someone’s age or career, what would you ask/share to get someone to choose you to go to Paradise?"

Single's Inferno 2 was a fun show that also challenged our assumptions about others and our habits for how we present ourselves. We chat about: 

• If it felt clear that your crush liked someone else, what would you do? Would you be more like So E (step back) or Jong Woo (keep pursuing)?
• What makes a someone a pick-me girl?
• How do the same actions come across differently based on how you look?
• What makes Jinyoung so charming?? Is he the Song Jia of Season 2?  Flirting 101: 10 Tips with Song Jia (Single's Inferno)
• How we'd spice up Season 3

Episodes mentioned
🎙️ Flirting 101: 10 Tips with Song Jia (Single's Inferno)

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Career can be simple or it can be complicated. As we're getting older, we're realizing how much more common it is to take a chance on a new career path, but that doesn't make it any less intimidating. In this episode, we're sourcing from interviews we did in 2020 with fellow career changemakers to provide you with 6 things to keep in mind as encouragement and affirmation as you ponder upon an important change in your life.

Episodes mentioned
🎙️Testing Hypotheses: From Animal Welfare to Tech to Medicine and Beyond ft. Jen Ren
🎙️From Professional Violinist to Software Engineer ft. Reina Murooka
🎙️Going After Her Childhood Dream: From Pharmacist to Actress ft. Susan Cho
🎙️Connecting the Dots: From Public Health to Acting, Producing, and Writing ft. Minji Chang

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Get to know our 2023 theme ("discovering the abundant possibilities of who we can choose to be") - and if you're new, get to know us and the friendship behind our  4-year weekly podcast!

Episodes mentioned

• Here's How to Enjoy Meeting New People
• “Asian American podcast”: Duties & Possibilities
• How the American Dream Has Failed International Students ft. Na He Jeon & John Suh

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While it's easy to focus on "highlight reel achievements" that make sense to others, we're here to 🥳 celebrate work in progress and internal victories that don't have to make sense to anyone but YOU.  

Whether you want to reflect on your own or with a loved one, here are some questions and conversation starters: 

• Is there anything you've acknowledged to be outside of your control this year?
• Is there anything you've finally taken control of this year?
• Is there a boundary you've proudly set for yourself this year?
• What's a new perspective you've come to accept this year?
• Is there an area of life that's historically been neglected that you've tended to this year?
• What's a seemingly trivial bucket list item that you've finally checked off this year?
• What have you made progress on that, to others may have seemed linear, but was actually full of ups and downs and thus something to be even prouder of?
• What's the best support you've received this year?
• What's something new that you realized brings you much happiness?
• What's something in your life that you're talking your time on?
• What’s an unseen victory of the other person’s that you want to call attention to?

Episodes mentioned

• I Took a Medical Leave from Tech
• The $1000 Fine That Kickstarted My Personal Finance Journey
• What Makes a Goal Worth Pursuing? Sophia's Goals
• What Makes a Goal Worth Pursuing? Da Eun's Goals
• How to Enjoy Reading Fiction & Non-fiction

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There's so much we're grateful for, eager to release, and hopeful about as 2022 comes to a close. Vision boards are a great way to visualize your goals and hopes for 2023, so listen along and let's make one together!

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What does it take to tell a good story, make your friends laugh, and help everyone have a grand old time? Turns out, not much. Niles Wilson, resident storyteller, tells us his 5 tips to flexing that storytelling muscle, just in time for the holidays as you gather with loved ones and reminisce on some of the best memories from this year.

Remember, good storytelling isn’t looking for content, it’s giving the content that’s already happening in your life the “spotlight” it deserves.

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How do you create a sense of closeness and intimacy with your loved ones from afar? Even with technology like video calls and friendship lamps, there hasn't been a tool that enhances the love language of physical touch, or presence, the way that Tangible does. Our guest is Akshay, the founder of Tangible, a magical neck pillow that creates physical presence over distance.

Join us for this conversation as we dive deep into Akshay's story about how the harrowing experience of losing his mom during the pandemic instigated this question, and what it took for him to go from tinkering on a few prototypes to fleshing out his vision into a company.

About Akshay:
Akshay Dinakar is a consumer product designer from Stanford University, currently passionate about taking “the distance” out of long-distance relationships. The creator of over a dozen different inventions, Akshay’s career vision is to help take a leap forward for humankind.

When he’s not in design studio mode, you’ll likely find him sketching architectural blueprints, recording classical/pop violin, writing short story mysteries, hanging rim on the basketball court, or cooking really spicy Asian food.

www.akshaydinakar.com
https://tangible.team

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⟡ Sophia: @sophiasysun

What stories about death and the afterlife did you grow up with? We chat with filmmaker Eleanor Cho about her short film Dinner is Ready, Korean folklore about death, and the connections between film and mental health. Watch Dinner is Ready.

About Eleanor:
Eleanor Cho is a Korean American filmmaker and graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She is dedicated to writing and directing stories of underrepresented communities, and highlighting the extraordinary stories of ordinary people in order to humanize others and inspire empathy. She worked as a Writers’ Production Assistant on THE NEVERS (HBO). She is part of Creative Visions’ Women Excel Project, Visual Communications’ Armed with a Camera Fellowship, and a finalist for NBC Writers on the Verge and Hillman Grad Rising Voices. She also won the Ghetto Film School (GFS) x Dolby Institute “Finish the Script” competition, where she wrote and directed a short film while being mentored by Academy Award-nominated director, Carlos López Estrada (Raya and the Last Dragon). She is currently being mentored by Academy Award-nominated director, Bing Liu (Minding the Gap) through Sophia Chang’s Unlock Her Potential program.

Website: eleanorcho.com
Instagram: @smileyelly

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