Mx. Asian American

Mx. Asian American

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Mx. Asian American episodes

  • 44 - ABCs for the American Born Chinese with Cathy Lu

    Cathy Lu is the illustrator and author of ABCs for the American Born Chinese, an alphabet book featuring Asian fruits, vegetables, and other foods, from A is for Asian Pear to Z is for Zongzi. She is also a full-time software engineer and works to balance both her career and artistic and creative hobbies. In this episode, we talk about her journey creating this children’s book.

    Connect with Cathy:

    https://www.amazon.com/ABCs-American-Born-Chinese-Cathy/dp/B08QGJBT7Y/

    https://www.youtube.com/c/cathylu/

    https://instagram.com/abcsforabcs

    Connect with us:

    @mxasianamerican

    23 min
  • 43 - Clairvoyance and Spiritual Gifts with Mimi Young

    Mimi Young is a Taiwanese Canadian occultist and shamanic intuitive, and the founder of Ceremonie, an esoteric brand focused on imparting ancient and practical wisdom so clients can actively receive support from spirits and healing energies, break negative patterns, and celebrate their path. Mimi works at the intersection of core shamanism, ancestral wisdom, dream work, chaos magick, and other Chinese mystic practises to communicate with the Unseen, offering education and mentorship, private readings, and skin and aura care.

    Mimi's work has been celebrated by Goop, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Refinery29, and has appeared on podcasts including Almost 30, Hey Girl, So You Think You’re Intuitive, and Healers.

    Connect with Mimi:

    • https://shopceremonie.com/
    • IG:      @shopceremonie
    • Clubhouse:      @shopceremonie
    • Sign      up for UNSEEN, Mimi's free online journal HERE

      • The Wood + Metal Module of the Mystery Mentorship is open for enrollment!

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      @mxasianamerican

      34 min
    • LIVE - Running for Fairfax County School Board with Jung Byun Lau
      Join us for our very first LIVE podcast event!
      Jung Byun Lau recently became a Math Teacher at Poe Middle School. Prior to teaching, she was a Senior Lead Data Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton for 7 years where she analyzed national public education data and policies to improve public education support for military families. During her time at Booz Allen, she ran for Fairfax County School Board in 2019, served as an Education Pioneers Fellow in the New York City Department of Education and cofounded Embolden, a nonprofit that empowers underrepresented high school students to explore diverse careers through cost-free programs. She is passionate about using data in unexpected ways to improve large government organizations, especially in public education. Before moving to Fairfax in 2014, Jung graduated Carnegie Mellon University with her Bachelor of Science in Applied Math. In this episode, we talk about her journey into public education and her experiences teaching during COVID.
      A big thanks to Brack from the Alexandria Public Library branch for reaching out to me for this collaboration!
      Racial Melancholia: https://www.dukeupress.edu/racial-melancholia-racial-dissociation
      Team Embolden: @teamembolden
      Connect with Jung: @jungforschools
      Connect with Alexandria Library: https://alexlibraryva.org/
      Connect with us:
      @mxasianamerican
      52 min
    • 42 - Asian Mom with Thuy Tran
      Thuy Ngo Tran is a mother of four, an optometrist and an online entrepreneur. She teaches women how to create more time and financial freedom to prioritize what's important to them; that's taking care of themselves, taking care of their families and doing more of what they love. Specifically, she helps women start a high-profit and high impact online business that leverages automation and partnering with a company whose mission is to promote health, vitality and sustainability. For more information, please follow her on facebook and Instagram.
      In this episode, we dive into her journey to becoming a mother, the ups and downs, balance between her career and her family, and other juicy stories!
      Connect with Thuy: https://www.facebook.com/thuyntran2020/
      IG @tntran222 and @drthuyngotran
      Check out her story when she decided to go into business for herself:
      https://www.facebook.com/thuyntran2020/posts/10164403917150291
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      @mxasianamerican
      47 min
    • 41 - Asian Dad with Jerry Won
      Jerry Won is a “professional Asian American,” the founder and CEO of Just Like Media, and Asian American storytelling company whose brands include Dear Asian Americans, Beyond the Resumes, MBAsians, The Janchi Show, and Asian Podcast Network. He is the CEO of the Podcast Firm, a podcasting production, consulting, and education company. Before his jump into entrepreneurship, he was a strategy consultant and sales leader. In this episode, we dive into his journey with becoming a father and raising his children while balancing the sociopolitical climate and his career.
      Connect with Jerry:
      @jerryjwon
      @dearasianamericans
      @asianpodcastnetwork
      Connect with us:
      @mxasianamerican
      50 min
    • 40 - Gay Shit and Poetry with Jireh Deng
      Jireh Deng is a writer born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley of Southern California. She is a third-year studying applied math, economics, and international studies at California State University, Long Beach. Her words appear on the Asian American Writer’s Workshop, podcast VS, Edsurge, Level Ground’s film and poetry collaboration Blooming in the Whirlwind, and YouthSpeaks’s anthology Between my Body and the Air. Summer of 2021 she will be an editorial pages intern at the LA Times. In this episode, we dive into Jireh’s journey toward exploring her sexuality and its intersectionality with race and poetry.
      Connect with Jireh: @jireh_deng
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      @mxasianamerican
      1 hr 7 min
    • 39 - Amplify Bookstore with Xuan & Marina
      Xuan and Marina are co-owners and co-founders of Amplify Bookstore. The two were frustrated with the lack of diversity within the publishing world and the difficulty of obtaining BIPOC books through various venues, so they decided to create their own online bookstore. Amplify Bookstore is a space dedicated to making BIPOC books and authors more easily accessible.
      Amplify Bookstore: https://amplifybookstore.com/
      Connect with us:
      IG: @mxasianamerican
      32 min
    • 38 - Vegetarianism/Veganism with Nidhi Shastri
      Nidhi Shastri is the host of the podcast Model Minority: Uniquely America. Currently, she works as a campaign organizer for single-parent healthcare and works as a scientific researcher for environmental science videos. In this episode, we discuss vegetarianism/veganism within the Asian and Asian American community vs vegetarianism/veganism within the Western community.
      Connect with Nidhi: https://anchor.fm/nidhi-shastri/episodes/Introducing-Model-Minority-Uniquely-American-ee15sl
      51 min

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