Building Communi-Tea

Building Communi-Tea

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Building Communi-Tea episodes

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once!

    What's not to love about "Everything Everywhere All at Once"? It's sci fi, fantasy, and action all in one! We talk about our favorite parts of the movie and why it was so relatable to the Asian American Diaspora.


    Follow us on Instagram @buildcommunitea!

    53 min
  • Excel-ing at Your Career! with Special Guest Dr. Sirisha Kuchimanchi

    Happy 2023 everyone! We are kicking off the new year with Dr. Sirisha Kuchimanchi. Sirisha is the host of Women, Career and Life Podcast and gives millennials sage advice on ways that you can begin to take steps in making positive changes in your career. She also demystifies a lot of things that many millennials find daunting and out of reach such as investing, networking, and creating a work life balance. 


    Listen to Sirisha's podcast Women, Career and Life here!

    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/women-career-life/id1579216583

    Instagram:@womencareerandlife



    Building Communi-Tea is a completely independent and self produced podcast. Being both Asian and Queer owned, we create this podcast to serve as a resource for the AAPI and greater BIPOC communi-teas. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider donating at our ko-fi link below so we can keep creating content. 


    If you can't donate, leave us a positive review and rating on Apple Podcasts so we can get into as many ears as possible.Ko-fi.com/buildcommunitea


    Follow us on Instagram: @buildcommunitea


    Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/buildingcommunitea/support




    1 hr 8 min
  • Creating Zines for Community with Special Guest Katherine Leung

    Whitney and Anu are joined by Katherine Leung the founder of Canto Cutie, a literature and art zine that publishes the work of Cantonese artists and writers around the world! With a dedicated team, Katherine creates a colorful empowering zine that is as diverse as the Cantonese diaspora. We later talk about how we believe that Asian Americans and Asians from Asia can better understand each other. 

    Buy Canto Cutie Zine Here! https://cantocutie.square.site/

    Instagram: @cantocutie 

    Building Communi-Tea is a completely independent and self produced podcast. Being both Asian and Queer owned, we create this podcast to serve as a resource for the AAPI and greater BIPOC communi-teas. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider donating at our ko-fi link below so we can keep creating content. If you can't donate, leave us a positive review and rating on Apple Podcasts so we can get into as many ears as possible. 

    Ko-fi.com/buildcommunitea

    Follow us on Instagram: @buildcommunitea

    1 hr 25 min
  • A Balancing Act with Special Guest Nikki Soohoo

    Whitney and Anu welcome Los Angeles based actress Nikki Soohoo! 

    Nikki brings wealth of experience in the entertainment industry. She has starred in numerous Disney shows such as The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Phil of the Future, , Drake & Josh, Pretty Little Liars and Star Wars Resistance.

    On the big screen, she has been in Stick It, Bring It On: Fight to the Finish, and The Lovely Bones. Recently she has been Featured in an article by TeenVOGUE called “37 Asian Actors You Should Know,” and has also joined LA based entrepreneurs group “the League of Badass Dogooders.

    You can find more information about Nikki on her instagram @nikkisoohoo and http://www.nikkisoohoo.com/ 


    Building Communi-Tea is a completely independent and self produced podcast. Being both Asian and Queer owned, we create this podcast to serve as a resource for the AAPI and greater BIPOC comuni-teas. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider donating at our ko-fi link below so we can keep creating content. Consider it like buying us a coffee! (of tea for that matter). If you can't donate, leave us a positive review and rating on Apple Podcasts so we can get into as many ears as possible.  Ko-fi.com/buildcommunitea Follow us on Instagram:@buildcommunitea  

    Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/buildingcommunitea/support





    1 hr 10 min
  • Ask a Future Auntie!

    Inspired by advice columns from their teenage years, Whitney and Anu take on the persona of a "future Asian Auntie" and give you semi solicited advice that any auntie would love. 

    This episode is sponsored by Ana Luisa Jewelry. Please visit: https://shop.analuisa.com/communitea and go treat yourself and your loved ones. Use the code COMMUNITEA to get BOGO 40% off! We absolutely recommend them. They are a great brand, making beautiful sustainable jewelry, so go check out https://shop.analuisa.com/communitea code COMMUNITEA #analuisany

    53 min
  • Dressed to Chill


    Whitney and Anu discuss various types of clothes that they wore throughout their childhood as well as fashion trends of the past. Then they talk about how they express their personal style now. 

    This episode is sponsored by Ana Luisa Jewelry. Please visit: https://shop.analuisa.com/communitea and go treat yourself and your loved ones. Use the code COMMUNITEA to get 20% off. We absolutely recommend them. They are a great brand, making beautiful sustainable jewelry, so go check out https://shop.analuisa.com/communitea code COMMUNITEA #analuisany

    50 min
  • Spill the Astrolo-Tea
    Whitney and Anu discuss astrology, their signs, compatibility between signs, and a story about how animals got their place in the Chinese zodiac. This episode is sponsored by Ana Luisa Jewelry. Please visit: https://shop.analuisa.com/communitea
    and go treat yourself and your loved ones. Use the code COMMUNITEA to get 10% off. We absolutely recommend them. They are a great brand, making beautiful sustainable jewelry, so go check out https://shop.analuisa.com/communitea code COMMUNITEA #analuisany
    47 min
  • Ask an Asian Auntie *preview*
    Hi everyone! Thanks so much for supporting Building Communi-Tea Podcast. We are working on creating a collaborative episode that is inspired by old school advice columns from the 90s. To make that happen we need your questions! This is your chance to get solicited advice from *future Asian aunties*. Email us at [email protected].
    1 min
  • 50 Shades of Color
    "Colorism is the daughter of racism"- Lupita Nyong'o
    Whitney and Anu talk about various aspects of colorism within the AAPI community as well as their own experiences dealing with it. How do we reconcile our own experiences with colorism as well as show up for others that our skin color gives us privilege over? 
    COMING UP: "Ask a Future Asian Auntie"
    Growing up we loved reading advice columns from "Dear Abby" to the random lady giving advice to your 15 year old self. We want to give you kind, empathetic #asianauntie advice on all aspects of your life but to do that we need YOUR questions! message us at our instagram @buildcommunitea or at [email protected]! 
    Building Communi-Tea is a completely independent and self produced podcast. Being both Asian and Queer owned, we create this podcast to serve as a resource for the AAPI and greater BIPOC comuni-teas. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider donating at our ko-fi link below so we can keep creating content. Consider it like buying us a coffee! (of tea for that matter). If you can't donate, leave us a positive review and rating on Apple Podcasts so we can get into as many ears as possible.
    Ko-fi.com/buildcommunitea
    Follow us on Instagram:@buildcommunitea
    Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/buildingcommunitea/support
    44 min

About Building Communi-Tea

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Long distance friends Whitney and Anu explore their identities as Asian-American millennials through the lens of their upbringings and how those influences have shaped how they see the world.