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In this episode, I interviewed Iris Guo, a truly inspirational Asian American Gen Z woman, who is taking huge strides towards making social impact via OpenMeal and Neutrify by alleviating hunger, addressing racial injustice for the Asian American community, and raising awareness to reduce carbon footprint and save our planet!

In this episode, we dived into Iris’ upbringing in China and how she decided to move to Canada when she was 17 because she wanted to live a different life than what was prescribed by her society.

This is a super insightful episode as Iris shared her wisdom on:

You can get in touch with Iris via social media channels if you are interested to learn more about Neutrify or her career path.

If you are interested in learning more about Iris' company, Neutrify, check out the website (https://mailchi.mp/c11c1b6d22f8/neutrify-launch) and if you'd like to support her initiative in climate change, check out this survey (https://form.typeform.com/to/I8TNWEgY).

If you have any comments or feedback on what resonated with you on this episode, I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me at [email protected].

In this episode, I interviewed Ammarah Maqsood, a human rights and gender justice activist and feminine philanthropist.

In this episode, we dived into Ammarah’s own journey of challenging the traditional paradigms and standing up for her truth as the only daughter in her South Asian family and a minority in a predominantly white neighborhood. As a female warrior goddess with the heart of an Aquarius, Ammarah shares her passion for human rights, social and gender justice and how she defined her own success as a woman of color and is redefining the world of philanthropy, wealth and power dynamics through the lens of femininity.

As we dive in conversations around gender justice, wealth decolonization and privilege, this might be an uncomfortable conversation for some. Part of discovering and living our truth is to step into the discomfort and get vulnerable.

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You can get in touch with Ammarah via LinkedIn if you are interested to learn more about feminine philanthropy.

If you have any comments or feedback on what resonated with you on this episode, I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me at [email protected].

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This is a very special interview I conducted with Cindy Gu, feminine energy coach (@the.femininecoach). In this episode, we went into the deep end of Cindy’s heroine journey, of how she transformed her deepest wounds into incredible personal power that ultimately propelled her to find her soul purpose. Now she is on a bold mission to elevate femininity and help women find inner alignment, abundance, and freedom.

In this episode, we talked about:

You can find Cindy here:

Instagram: @the.femininecoach

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gucindy/

Also, Cindy is generously offering the Permission to Become podcast listener a free 1:1 alignment session with her. Here is the link to complete an assessment prior to booking the session: https://www.thefemininecoach.com/assessment

If you have any comments or feedback on what resonated with you on this episode, I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me at [email protected].

Instagram: @permissiontobecome

Website: permissiontobecome.com

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In this episode, I interviewed Christian Ou, the founder of One Happy Bite, a baking blog that features Asian-inspired ingredients, such as matcha, ube, and taro in traditional western baking.

In this episode, we talked about how Christian became a self-taught baker from her college dorm and later turned her passion into what is now her blog, One Happy Bite, with almost 5,000 followers on Instagram (@onehappybite).

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You can find Christian here:

Blog: https://onehappybite.com/

Instagram: @onehappybite

If you have any comments or feedback on what resonated with you on this episode, I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me at [email protected].

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What is your true value? This one simple question changed the course of Hillary’s life’s path.

Tune into this episode and listen to Hillary share her step-by-step transformation from being burnt out and unhappy working at a 9-5 to becoming a self-taught personal brand photographer and strategist, living her passion and purpose through helping women entrepreneurs elevate their online brand.

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You can find Hillary here:

Website: https://hillaryjeanne.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hillary_jeanne/

If you have any feedback or comments, I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me at [email protected].

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In this episode, we will be diving into Brenda’s journey from being a premed at Cal to becoming a real estate investor, founder of Venus Ventures, life enthusiast and adventure capitalist. She currently works as the Head of Sales at Conventus, personalized financing for real estate investors. 

In this episode, we will talk about:

You can find Brenda here:

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://brendatchen.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brendachen.re/

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In this episode, Brenda shared some of her inspirations and powerful tools she’s used:

If you have any comments or feedback on what resonated with you on this episode, I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me at [email protected].

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In this episode, we will be diving into Charlene’s journey from being a software engineer and later product manager at Google to becoming a life coach, writer, and author of Model Breakers.

In this episode, we will talk about:

Charlene Wang is a model breaker. She is the founder of LivingOS, an online community dedicated to helping high achievers get more out of life. Charlene has spent years coaching high achievers and her pioneering coaching practice has helped startup founders, angel investors, and seasoned operators find their true values and motivations in life. She wrote this book, “Model Breakers” to break the model minority stereotype and change the Chinese immigrant narrative at scale. Charlene currently works as a product manager at Google and lives in the Bay Area with her fiancé and is a bit obsessed with oolong tea. You can connect with Charlene Wang at [email protected]

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If you have any comments or feedback on what resonated with you on this episode, I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me at [email protected].

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In this episode, you will learn about my 3 Why's for starting this podcast. I will share with you my inspiration for choosing the name for this podcast. I will also  share why I wanted to create this podcast on Asian American women defying permission and why this podcast might be interesting to you. Thank you so much for tuning into this podcast and I hope you will enjoy!