Becoming

Becoming is a show that’s all about womxn, work, and how they’re finding their “why’s”. And we’re wrapping up Season 1 on founders! I’ve taken some time to reflect on what I’ve learned from one year of podcasting and to revisit some highlights from this season. Excited for you to take a listen!

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Carrie Zhang is the founder of Asian Mental Health Project or AMHP, an initiative that aims to educate and empower Pan-Asian communities in making mental healthcare more accessible. Founded in 2019, the project currently uses social media, multimedia content creation and community events to de-stigmatize topics of mental health, critical social issues and provide tangible resources. A daughter of Chinese and Taiwanese immigrants, she graduated from the University of Southern California and currently works as a communications and marketing professional in the tech, entertainment and music space. In our conversation we talk about AMHP - what inspired her to start it, what she’s learned, and what’s next for AMHP in the next year. We’ll go into her personal mental health journey, why she chose to cater her project to the Pan Asian experience, cultural stigma, and of course, how she’s becoming. I’m excited for you to take a listen!

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Tagan Horton, known as TheTagan, is a storyteller translating knowledge through data, marketing and technology. Currently, she is a podcaster and tech innovation strategist. She founded Founders Get Funds, a podcast and newsletter, to reduce misinformation targeted to founders building businesses from the ground up. She is also the co-host of "The Lay of The Land", a weekly podcast mapping tech innovation in Cleveland. In our conversation we talk about Founders Get Funds - what inspired her to start it, lessons she’s learned, and what’s next for FGF in the next year. I’m glad I caught her at this point of developing her business, because she’s tried a few different things with it, and is taking time to learn, question, and decide how to best tackle the problem that she sees: misinformation around funding. We go back to how she’s developed as a fintech leader. From studying abroad in Senegal getting hands-on experience in economic development through L’Entente Feminine to her time in Cleveland working at a startup, and of course, how she’s becoming. 

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Marlin has over 20 years’ experience as a Global Diversity and Inclusion Officer for two Fortune 500 organizations. Currently she is serving as the Vice President of Global Diversity and Inclusion for StockX. She began her tech career as a coder at Compuware Corporation, where her passion for inspiring women and people of color to join her field gained notice. She is the founder of Sisters Code, which educates, empowers and entices women ages 25–85 to explore the world of coding and technology. In our conversation, we talk about how she began her career as an aspiring mortician and eventually found her way into the tech world, how she incorporates her passion for speaking and uplifting others into her DEI work, why supporting other womxn is so important to her, and of course how she’s becoming her fullest self. I’m excited for you to take a listen. 

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Millie is the founder of the Institute of Global Entrepreneurship and Talent and is currently the Vice President of Global Entrepreneurship and STEM Talent, where she supports international founders by providing a pathway to establish their business in Michigan, create new jobs, attract investment, and improve economic prosperity for Michigan. In addition to her full time job and company, she does probably five or six other things but it all connects to what she calls her North Star: building vibrant communities by helping entrepreneurs, professionals, and families create the life they have envisioned. In our conversation, we talk about how her immigrant experience influences her passion for her work, why supporting immigrant entrepreneurship is so important to her, and of course how she’s becoming her fullest self. Excited for you to take a listen!

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Sarah is the founder of Write For The Job. Write For The Job is built on a theory that “if more people had jobs that made them happy, the world would be a kinder and friendlier place.”  She has really leveraged her natural curiosity in people and love for learning + her writing and storytelling talent to revamp professional materials for her clients. In our conversation we talk about where her passion for storytelling and words first started, what inspired her to start Write For The Job, specific tactics & strategies she uses for her clients, and of course, how she’s becoming her fullest self. I’m excited for you to take a listen!

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Wilshia is a Creative Strategist at Maker Lab at Google, who works on digital marketing campaigns and pilots that elevate Google APAC’s social presence. Outside of her day job, she is a self-published children’s book author-illustrator who loves to write and draw meaningful stories for children. She hopes that her children's picture book series, Bucky The Dino, can spread positivity and reach the hearts of children all around the world. Wilshia is also the co-founder of a ground-up initiative, HopeFull, that contributes to the wider social movement tackling the resource-divide in Singapore that stems from systemic inequality through their programmes. From writing and illustrating her first childrens’ book character and story to founding Hopefull, a ground-up initiative that creates, gathers, and provides engaging educational resources for children and youth from low-income families, her heart and her head for leveraging her passion for creativity, curiosity, design and education, are inspiring to see. I’m excited for you to take a listen!

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This month’s episode is a bit different. There’s no guest and no interview. Instead I cover three things in this episode: 1) Recommendations of Black hosted podcasts you should listen to. 2) An anti-racism resource compilation in my shownotes that will be an ongoing doc. You can either go to my website or this is the direct link to the doc. 3)Some thoughts and associated actions regarding my podcast

Esther Choo, MD MPH is an Associate Professor in the Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University. She is a practicing physician and researcher, with expertise in drug policy, injury, and gender disparities in healthcare. With some experience in journalism, coming from a public health background and now a physician-scientist , and being an activist for women and minorities in healthcare, the intersections of Esther’s interests and passions come to a head in everything that she does. From founding her company Equity Quotient, a company that provides metrics of healthcare culture, to helping found TIME’S Up Healthcare, an initiative of the TIME’S UP Foundation, her heart and head for investigating issues in healthcare, policy, advocacy, and equity, are inspiring to see. I’m excited for you to take a listen!

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