Chief Executive Auntie

In this episode, I speak with Penguin Random House Editor Ashley Hong (she/her) about what makes a book marketable and her path to the publishing world with a couple detours through Grey's Anatomy and computer science.

Ashley's website: https://ashleysunghae.com/

In this episode I talk to Hanna Chiou, the co-creator of one of my favorite products, the Habbi Habbi Reading Wand and Global Library. We discuss her journey from global consulting to toy and book manufacturing as well as the power of seeing your identity in books.

Feminist Asian Dad Eugene Hung (he/him) shares about his journey from teacher to blogger and activist and back to teacher, what his kids really think of his blog, and how he amplifies female voices without taking away space.

Eugene's blog: https://feministasiandad.com/

In this mini episode, my business bestie joins me in going through our year-end reviews, talking specifically about which income metrics are *actually* informative and important.

Sam Brandt (they/them) provides a fascinating (seriously!) glimpse at technical writing, which I now think is the most underrated niche in the writing world. Marketing copywriters get customers and clients in, but good documentation keeps them coming back for more. Tune in to hear Sam talk about what a technical writer really does all day, how being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult helped them understand their work and life better, and the power of putting their identity into their fiction work.

In this (ironically long) mini episode, I talk about how to raise your overall rates by reducing the amount of time you spend working. Here are 7 ways to improve your business efficiency and your bottom line.

In this episode, I somehow manage to not pee myself while talking to Rebecca Kuang, award-winning author of The Poppy War trilogy about her writing process, changing her major (we’d all be sad if she’d stayed in economics and finance), and the many complexities of Asian/Asian American representation in stories and publishing.

In this episode, Auntie throws down over freelancers and creatives price shaming one another and pours the tea about what a "good" client actually means.

In this episode, Los Angeles County Youth Poet Laureate Sophie Kim shares the benefits of taking a gap year, her experience as poet laureate, and her hopes for her creative work during and beyond her education at Harvard.

In this episode I discuss the words and phrases I don't use in my brand communications and why it's not really about "not offending people." (Which seems like a perfectly worthy goal to me, but what do I know.)

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