Permission to Become

Permission to Become

By Joyce BaoEducationSelf-Improvement
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Permission to Become episodes

  • Ep. 17: Permission to Create JOY

    Show Notes:

    Give the world your love, your service, your healing, but you can also give it your joy. This, too, is a great gift”.  - Desmond Tutu, The Book of Joy

    In this episode, we will dive into:

    1. Difference between JOY and happiness
    2. What is JOY: the 8 pillars of JOY according to Dalai Lama
    3. Permission to create JOY in your life: joy, creativity, and conscious living

      4. Resources:

      • The Book of Joy by 14th Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Carlton Abrams
      • Conscious Living: Finding Joy in the Real World by Gay Hendricks
      • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert

        • For more info on the host, follow Joyce on Instagram @permissiontobecome or visit www.permissiontobecome.com!

        19 min
      • Ep. 16: Permission to Embrace Your Shadow Self
        “It’s ironic that to find the courage to lead an authentic life, you will have to go into the dark rooms of your most inauthentic self. You have to confront the very parts of yourself that you fear most to find what you have been looking for, because the mechanism that drives you to conceal your darkness is the same mechanism that has you hide your light. What you’ve been hiding from can actually give you what you’ve been trying hard to achieve.” - Debbie Ford, The Shadow Effect
        Show Notes:
        In this episode, I will be sharing with you one of the most potent tools I have discovered on my journey of transformation: SHADOW WORK.
        In this episode: I will be walking you through the following:
        What is a shadow and what is shadow work?
        How to uncover your hidden shadow?
        How to work with your shadows to reclaim your true self?
        Resources:
        “Power of Shadow Work” on The Kingdom with Justin Michael Williams
        The Shadow Effect: Illuminating the Hidden Power of Your True Self by Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, Marianne Williamson
        Byron Katie: The Work
        Tara Brach: RAIN Meditation
        For more info on the host, visit www.permissiontobecome.com and follow Joyce on Instagram @permissiontobecome!
        20 min
      • Ep. 15: Christy "ChiChi" Yip - Permission to Choose Yourself, From 9-5 to Becoming a Solopreneur and Coaching Women on Body and Nutrition Empowerment

        In this episode, Christy “ChiChi” Yip, a body & nutrition empowerment coach for women, shares her transformation journey of making a major career pivot from working 9-5 in tech to becoming a solopreneur in the midst of a pandemic.

        In this episode, Christy shares with us:

        • Women & our relationship with food and body image, esp. In the context of trying to fit into Asian American stereotypes
        • Diet culture & diet industry: what people think is healthy v. what’s actually healthy
        • What is self-love and how to actually practice self-love
        • Her transition from 9-5 to becoming solopreneur and working for yourself
        • How she gave herself the permission to fail, rest and find her flow in business
        • How she has redefined success
        • BONUS: she also shared with us her special green smoothie recipe in this episode so stay tune!
          • Christy’s Bio:

          Christy Yip is a Body and Nutrition Empowerment Coach based in San Francisco. She helps women transform their relationship with their body and food so they can love themselves and manifest what they deserve.

          Links:

          Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/christy.h.yip/

          For more info on the host, visit www.permissiontobecome.com and follow Joyce on Instagram @permissiontobecome!

          51 min
        • Ep. 14: Jen Cui - Permission to Reclaim Your Freedom, Journey from Breakdown to Breakthrough and Becoming a Holistic Life Coach

          In this episode, Jen Cui, a holistic life coach shares her riveting and transformative story from struggling with her mental health breakdown to turning her life around to become a holistic life coach and mental health advocate.

          *Trigger Warning: This episode contains content around mental health issues, related to trauma/PTSD, depression and suicide, that may be alarming to some listeners. Please check the show notes for more detailed descriptions and take care of yourself.

          In this episode, Jen shares with us:

          • How being a high-achieving perfectionist at a young age impacted her self-worth
          • Her mental health journey from struggling with social anxiety and feeling disconnected to having her first panic attack
          • How her hospitalization experience in college became the turning point of her life
          • Her road to reclaiming her freedom and how her story abroad experience in Australia brought joy into her life and inspired her to start her own business
          • Her morning rituals, non-negotiables and daily habits and tips that provided agency in her life

            • Jen’s Bio:

            Jen Cui is a holistic life coach and the ultimate hype woman helping women fall in love with themselves so they can confidently live life on their own terms.

            She coaches women through self-doubt, perfectionism, and their fears using her proven methodology, ultimately allowing clients to feel less stress, be more present, satisfied in themselves, and heighten their overall quality of life.

            Jen is also the host of the Find Your Freedom podcast, which is dedicated to helping women tap into their own intuition and up-level their lives.

            Links:

            Website: jencui.com

            Instagram: @jencuihealth

            For more info on the host, visit www.permissiontobecome.com and follow Joyce on Instagram @permissiontobecome!

            1 hr 14 min
          • Ep. 13: Permission to Follow Your Desires

            What is a Desire of yours that has yet to become a reality? Often times, we go through the motions of writing our Desires, creating our vision boards and setting intentions but get stuck when it comes to taking action. Our Desires are actually our source of power. In Napoleon Hill's famous book, Think and Grow Rich, the first step to riches is Desire: the starting point of all achievement. 

            In this episode, I will talking about: 

            • What is a Desire
            • What prevents us from following our Desires
            • How we can give ourselves the permission to follow your Desires 


              • For more info on the host, visit, www.permissiontobecome.com and follow Joyce on Instagram @permissiontobecome!


              15 min
            • Ep. 12: Abby Wen Wu, Permission to Feel

              In this episode, I interviewed Abby Wen Wu (she/her), who is a first-generation Chinese-American woman. Her work currently focuses on helping individuals in organizations find their voice to have courageous conversations, and also teach others advanced listening skills so the world has more spaces for us all to be heard.

              In this episode, we chatted about:

              • Root of our emotional discomforts & how that ties to the Asian American culture & upbringing
              • Permission to feel: how to fully feel through an emotion or overwhelming sensations in the body
              • Power of emotions and somatic experiencing to finding one’s true voice
              • Dealing with workplace burnout & stress and post-recovery
              • How emotional healing plays a role in our mental health and well-being
              • How emotional healing plays a role in our collective well-being

                • Also, stay till the end for a 5-minute BONUS practice session as Abby guides us to feel our bodily sensations via a practice called Focusing. 

                Resources: 

                • Body Heat Map 
                • Feelings Wheel

                  • To learn more about Abby and her work, you can visit her website at https://www.abbywenwu.com/.

                  1 hr 8 min
                • Ep. 11: Amy Yip, Permission to Be Authentic

                  In this episode, I had the honor of interviewing Amy Yip, a transformation life coach focused on helping Asian American women become the author of their own lives and empower them to let go of "shoulds" & confidently own their worth.

                  After 16+ years of corporate life, most recently at Google, she found the narrative that she wanted to write for herself and followed that path. In 2020, she took a bold action and left the corporate world and is currently coaching remarkable women whilst volunteering and traveling around the world with her husband.

                  I absolutely love Amy’s authenticity in this episode as we dived into vulnerable conversations about fertility, quitting a corporate job, redefining success while unraveling our identity as an Asian American woman in the midst of cultural clashes, exploring femininity and overcoming challenges in interracial relationship.

                  Tune into this episode as Amy shares with us invaluable and practical tips on how to get in touch with your needs, tap into your emotions and work with the stories in our head to connect compassionately with ourselves, our needs & desires and our partners.

                  Resources mentioned: 

                  • Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by John Gottman

                    • You can connect with Amy via her website: https://amyyipcoaching.com/ 

                    Amy also hosts a FREE monthly Asian Pacific American Real Talks series, where she creates a space space for Asian Americans to come together and have REAL conversations and explore the typically taboo topics within the APA community. Register here: APARealTalks.com

                    1 hr
                  • Ep. 10: Jun Yi, Permission to Become Ordinary
                    From pursuing a PhD in Geophysics at Yale on track to become a renowned professor to becoming a STEM educator, yoga teacher, Argentine tango dancer and international DJ, Jun Yi shares with us her courageous journey of self-discovery and radical truth-seeking in this episode.
                    Tune into this episode to hear Jun's story about: 
                    Her transition from the journey of becoming extraordinary to the radical acceptance of being ordinary, from persistent self-improvement to an awareness of the balance, between self-acceptance and self-improvement, and becoming and being.
                    How she became a dedicated yoga practitioner and teacher, aspiring to empower her students to come home to themselves.
                    The art of Argentine tango, the dance gave her space to be radically human, messy, imperfect, real and alive.
                    Her path to becoming a DJ working internationally at festivals.
                    How education, yoga and tango have been the three pillars of her life that hold her intellectual, social, creative and spiritual self.
                    How she dived into the practice of compassion and embodiment of befriending herself.
                    ‘Start from where you are’ is her daily practice to engage life from the new frontier of her current experience.
                    You can learn more about Jun via her instagram (@junyoga108) and her website https://www.junyogaonandoffthemat.com/
                    If you have any comments or feedback on what resonated with you on this episode, I'd love to hear from you! 
                    Instagram: @permissiontobecome
                    54 min
                  • Ep. 9: Turning Perfectionism into Permission

                    In this episode, I will be talking about 

                    1. Different ways perfectionism shows up in our lives 
                    2. How perfectionism is actually fear-in-disguise, preventing us from taking action 
                    3. How you can break the pattern of perfectionism and turn that into your permission to become the truth of you are 
                      4. 19 min
                    4. Ep. 8: Season 2: Permission to BLOOM into your true essence, my story to becoming
                      In this episode, I am kicking off Season 2 of the PTB podcast, called Permission to BLOOM into your true essence. In this season, I am embracing radical honesty and will be sharing with you the lessons I have learned along my journey of giving myself the permission to become my true self. I will also be sharing more resources, tools and inviting guests who have expertise in the field of personal transformation and self-discovery to empower you to fully step into your truth. In this episode, I am sharing my own journey to becoming and the parts of my story that I have felt too ashamed and vulnerable to share in the past. Finding the courage to own and accept my story has given me the permission to reclaim my power and step into the Truth of who I am. So I hope that by sharing my truth, you can find the courage to BLOOM into your true essence. 
                      "One has just to be oneself. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights".
                      —Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
                      I'd love to hear from you.  Feel free to share any comments or feedback on what resonated with you on this episode by emailing me at [email protected] or DM me on Instagram (@permissiontobecome).
                      38 min

                    About Permission to Become

                    From the publisher's feed

                    This is a podcast about the untold tales of Asian American women breaking out of who they should be, becoming who they truly are, and living their dream life. This podcast is for any Asian American women who are curiously exploring their boundaries and permissions around self-discovery and personal empowerment. This podcast is also for any curious souls who want to learn more about the journeys of Asian American women's own becoming.