The transitional phase that no one really talks about: graduating college to the professional world.  This episode explores many of the emotions, feelings, and experiences one feels leading up to graduating college and then transitioning into the professional world.  This life transition is a huge part of many 20 year old's life experience but can often feel like someone throwing you off the deep end and letting you figure it out. 

My guests, hosts of the podcast Y.E.S. - Yoko, Emily, and Sandy and I, discuss our current life experiences with our mid-20 crisis.  We are all in different parts of our 20s, with some of us still in college, some just about to graduate college, and some currently working in the professional world.  We share the struggles we endured and currently live with, including high family expectations, mental health struggles, and feeling lost in purpose.  We are not here to give you solid solutions for your life problems but rather we are here to create space for you to exist in this mid-20 crisis and to take in all the bad and good that surrounds you.  No one is ever too young or too old to experience a life crisis but it's how you go through that crisis that can change your life.  

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Is one of the differences between your 20s and 30s, lack of confidence for those in their 20s? I think that is a fair statement and have overwhelmingly witnessed talented 20 year old’s doubt their abilities in comparison with older and more experienced folks. I don’t believe this should be a pitting matter but is a common experience of those in their 20s. The idea of confidence has been molded around an extrovert’s world, steeped in patriarchy, and embodies ageism.

In this conversation, as two BIPOC women in their mid-20s, Celina and I discuss the complexities and diversity in confidence. We walk through the ways we navigate confidence in the professional world, friendship world, and romantic relationship world. We work to debunk the way confidence has been historically imagined and work to recreate a narrative of confidence that is more inclusive and authentic.

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The conventional life in the United States: go to school, graduate, apply for jobs, work a 9-5, get married, buy a house, have kids, and spend the rest of your life raising them.  There's nothing wrong with living the conventional life but there is something wrong with forcing everyone to live that way. 

In this episode, I talk with Salina, author of Thoughts to the Universe and designer, about rejecting the conventional life and redefining what living a self-fulfilled life looks like to them.  Salina talks us through their journey of living an unconventional life from majoring in fashion design at UW - Madison, to publishing a poetry book at a young age, and to not wanting to conform to a 9-5 after college.  Salina and I hold space for young 20 year olds to really challenge the conventional norms that are continuously pushed on to us.  Join Salina and I, as they reject the conventional life and really redefine what it can look and feel like. 

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Growing up in predominately white areas as a BIPOC made it easy to always stick out.  It made it easy for me to avoid speaking my native language.  It made it easy for me to wish my parents spoke English.  It made it easy for me to not want to wear my traditional Hmong clothes.  It made it easy for me to resent my own ethnic identity, Hmong.  It made it easy for me to wish to be white.  It made it easy for me to be lost in my own identity. 

Many BIPOC who grew up in predominately white areas, have phases in their life where they resent being their racial or ethnic identity. Billy, host of the Hey Billy podcast, and I sat down to talk about how we resented being Hmong for parts of our lives.  We talk about how we grew up wishing we were white, how our society did not teach us to love ourselves, how we've come to love much of our Hmong identity, and how we set healthy boundaries with it.  We also highlight how the Hmong identity can constrain young 20 year olds and talk about how to develop a mindset of the culture that can add to the lives of young and adventurous adults. 

Join Billy and I on this podcast, as we bring you through stories of our journeys, our journeys of finding solitude in our Hmong identities as young 20 year olds.  Not all of the Hmong culture is beautiful and there are many things that need to change but we talk about how it is empowering to now appreciate the language we were raised with and love the people who we used to resent.  

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2020 forced many people to sit with their thoughts and think about what their true life passions are.  Many people either started or continued to grow their passion projects that sometimes turned into small businesses.  Living in a time of uncertainty can be extremely stressful but at the same time offers room for growth and new in sights.  

Join me, as I sit with the two Womxn, Pachia & Ying Ye, of Villainous Flower and discuss what it is like being lost in passion and how that can lead to creating a small business.  Villainous Flower is a small business started by two Hmong Womxn who strive to create impactful art.  They aspire to create merchandise that is comfortable, casual, and cute, they hope to empower you.  Do you know the HMOOB AF shirts?   Well if you do, Villainous Flower created them and if you don't, go get yourself a shirt!

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Moving communities forward, through social justice grounded work, is absolutely necessary to create a more equitable and just world.  Access to information about movement building and social justice work is becoming more readily available and many generations of people are starting to be more open to social justice work.  With the movement of normalizing activism work, there comes the question - am I an activist?

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This was a last minute recording in response to the current situation with pro-Trump supporters, that are White terrorist, storming the Capitol.  Conversations need to be had surrounding the topic of white supremacy, white terrorism, and how racism is backwards.  I bring in examples to talk and expand on those three topics.  

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It's the time of year to celebrate the graduates of Fall 2020, as a fresh batch of graduates just entered the professional world.  I will be talking about how life right after graduating from your undergrad, post grad, can be filled with moments of frustration and uncertainty but will eventually lead to growth.  I will emphasize the importance of not lying to yourself when it comes to this uncertain time of your life.

I touch on how, after college, it is difficult trying to pursue my dreams as a child of refugees.  How I navigate expressing love to my parents while pursuing my own dreams, how intergenerational trauma has impacted me, and how I worked through the reality that my parent's dreams are not my dreams - but I can still let them guide me in life.

I also talk about how redundant the 9-5 life can be and my struggles with it as I pursued therapy to help me through the transition from college to the 9-5 life.  Also, I'll highlight how no one really openly talks bout the transition from college to the 9-5 life.  I'm still transitioning, so this episode is to merely share my experiences so that people do not feel alone if they're a little lost in post grad life.

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EP 01.5: Lost in Love: Post half-decade long relationships.  Don't do it!  Just kidding: Join Juoodles and I as we continue our conversations about being lost in love in Part II of the Lost in Love episode.  We will focus on how the breakup happened, how we felt lost during and after the breakup, and in hindsight what did we learn and how did we change.  

Are you in a relationship and find yourself checking your partner's phone often?  Do you feel a little insecure or not confident in your relationship with your partner?  Juoodles (@juoodles), a Twitch streamer and one of my best friends, and I are here to say, look, you're not alone.  We did that too, we've checked phones, we've felt insecure, and we've definitely felt moments of not feeling confident.

This is two part episode.  Part I will focus on the beginning of the relationship and how we felt lost during the relationship.  Part II will focus on how the breakup happened, how we felt lost during and after the breakup, and in hindsight what did we learn and how did we change.

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If you're a lost soul, you're not alone!  Follow us on Instagram and Facebook at @thelostsoulspodcast.  Ask your questions and share your stories at [email protected].  Find Juoodes on Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter at Juoodles. We are all lost souls, no matter how successful we are in life.

Welcome back lost souls, to another episode of The Lost Souls Podcast.  Where we are all lost souls in a world and society that glorifies success.  This first season is called The Lost 20 Year Olds, where we will be amplifying stories of 20 year olds who are lost in all parts of their lives.  We publish episodes every other Monday, more frequently if needed.  

EP 01: Lost in Love: Post half-decade long relationships.  Don't do it!  Just kidding: Are you in a relationship and find yourself checking your partner's phone often?  Do you feel a little insecure or not confident in your relationship with your partner?  Juoodles (@juoodles), a Twitch streamer and one of my best friends, and I are here to say, look, you're not alone.  We did that too, we've checked phones, we've felt insecure, and we've definitely felt moments of not feeling confident. 

This episode highlights how Juoodles and I were lost in love in our 5+ year long relationships.  We touch on being hurt and staying, insecurities, checking our partners phones, and much more.  If you are feeling lost in love, even a little bit, this episode may be for you.  Love can be a wonderful experience and feeling, if you do it right and refrain from being lost in love. 

This is two part episode.  Part I will focus on the beginning of the relationship and how we felt lost during the relationship.  Part II will focus on how the breakup happened, how we felt lost during and after the breakup, and in hindsight what did we learn and how did we change.

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If you're a lost soul, you're not alone!  Follow us on Instagram and Facebook at @thelostsoulspodcast.  Ask your questions and share your stories at [email protected].  We are all lost souls, no matter how successful we are in life.