Glowing Up Asian

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   1. Glowing Up Asian with Jeremy Lin and his mom Shirley Lin

   What does it mean to thrive as an Asian in America? Jeremy Lin and his mom, Shirley, join the Glowing Up Asian podcast to discuss his glow-up origin story before "Linsanity" put the former National Basketball Association (NBA) champion on the world stage.Throughout his childhood and college years at Harvard, Jeremy was a student-athlete finding balance between his schoolwork and basketball practices. He opened up about the stress he experienced and how he navigated those years with his parents’

   Dec 11,2023 49:08
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   2. Glowing Up Asian with Owl Venture’s Ian Chiu

   Technology isn’t just changing how we learn – it’s changing what we need to learn.Owl Venture’s Ian Chiu joins the Glowing Up Asian podcast to share his glow up origin story. His path to becoming an investor in education technology was not a straight line. He spent many years exploring different careers and industries to discover his passion. In this episode, we discuss the future of education now that we have nearly instant access to information at our fingertips. He offers his advice on how pa

   Nov 06,2023 31:34
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   3. Glowing Up Asian with Asia Society’s Katie Soo

   Representation starts with being in the rooms where decisions are made.Asia Society Southern California Board Chair and Trustee, Katie Soo, joins the Glowing Up Asian podcast to share her glow up origin story: How her early dreams of becoming a painter and artist eventually led her to become an executive leader at several major Hollywood studios and streaming services, including HBO Max, Warner Brothers, DC Comics and Hulu. In our conversation, we discussed her experience with the “Representatio

   Jul 06,2023 24:54
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   4. Glowing Up Asian with TAAF’s Prisca Bae

   Advocacy and allyship is not limited to community organizers or those in the highest levels of leadership.Prisca Bae, Chief Partnership Officer at The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) joins the Glowing Up Asian podcast to share her glow up origin story: From growing up in the suburbs of Chicago after immigrating from South Korea as a young child, to becoming a lawyer as her parent dreamed, and then pivoting her career into corporate giving and philanthropy. In our conversations, Prisca shares he

   Jun 07,2023 22:33
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   5. Glowing Up Asian with LingoAce’s Hugh Yao

   Learning another language as a child can open up so many future opportunities.Hugh Yao, husband, father, and LingoAce Founder and CEO, joins the Glowing Up Asian podcast to share his glow up origin story: how he started learning English at 12 years old and how that propelled him into an international career throughout Asia. He would eventually launch LingoAce, a global edtech company headquartered in Singapore that’s innovating the way children learn languages and other subjects. In serving stud

   May 24,2023 31:07