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Tales From The LaneEpisode 82: Art, Impact, and Responsibility in a Polarized World with Conductor Alyssa Wang What is the role of art in today's political reality—comfort, challenge, escape… all of the above? In this wide-ranging, candid conversation, conductor Alyssa Wang joins Kate to wrestle with the big questions artists, leaders, and audiences are asking right now: Does art really "bring people together"—and what does that actually mean? How do we reconcile fundraising language with tangible community impact? Can programming be both an invitation to joy and a catalyst for reflection? Where does an artist's responsibility begin and end—in the hall, on the podium, or in civic...
2025-09-221h 04
Oh Six AnswersKate MigliaroKate Migliaro joins us from Ringoes, NJ to share her journey from the class ring and crest committee days to her current role at Blackstone. We hear about she first met her husband/fellow classmate (Chris) at Camp Buckner. She also talks about overcoming gender biases which initially hindered her cadet leadership aspirations. Kate highlights the importance of networking and mentorship in her transition to private equity, as well as her passion for serving veterans as chairwoman for America's Warrior Partnership board of directors. Inspired by personal experiences, she emphasizes the significance of community support in addition to talking...
2024-07-3031 min
Model Minority MomsEp89: Taking your kids to the homelandWhen us first-gen Asian-Americans become moms, one journey in particular starts looming in the horizon: introducing our kids to our mother country, with all its foods, sounds, customs. When is the right age? What should we expect? Should we bring a car seat? Is it even possible to take your young child to another country when normal daily life can feel like a struggle? Well, Kate has just taken her girls to Asia for the first time and she's here to give us the good and the ugly of it all.
2024-07-051h 02Model Minority MomsEp82: Maybe we're ok, maybe it's MaybellineSince we were little girls, we got all kinds of messages - both direct and otherwise - about how we looked and how we should look. Even as full-grown women, those messages still echo loudly in our minds. We've had to evolve - sometimes painfully - to grow our confidence and embrace our appearance. As with so many issues, becoming moms has forced us to re-examine what we say to ourselves and our children about appearances, standards of beauty, and how to reconcile it all.
2024-03-291h 04
Just A Quick Pinch3 small talk news stories to keep you in the know ft. Jimmy: Kate Middleton wya, 2024 Olympics updates & moreyou need small talk for the work week, we gotchu! Today Jimmy and I break down 3 small talk news stories to keep you in the know - we break down stories, give our wedding planning updates and share some laughs! Tune in to forget your weekday worries and hear news about the following:
- where in the world is Kate Middleton? What we know so far / did she get bangs
- Summer 2024 Olympics news: Kelly Clarkson and Peyton Manning collab
- Michelin star sushi restaurant scandal hits NYC
IG: @justaquickpinch, @drconniewang
2024-03-1923 minModel Minority MomsEp81: Mom RageDoes any other mom experience blinding anger on the regular? Anyone? Anyone? Ok, so no one right? Then this episode is for us (and for you if you know what we're talking about). We break down why the heck do we get SO mad sometimes, is it normal, is it bad and how to handle it when the anger pressure is building and we're about to blow.
2024-03-1557 minModel Minority MomsEp80: An Exclusive with the author of A Manicurist's DaughterIn this very special episode, we bring you an exclusive interview with Susan Lieu, the author of the forthcoming book, the Manicurist's Daughter, available in bookstores on March 12th and available for pre-ordering now! It is already getting rave reviews from top outlets, including Publisher Weekly, Kirkus, Elle and Goodreads!
Of course, if you listen to our podcast, you will know that Susan is also the co-host of our podcast and that's why we have this amazing opportunity to talk to her in an intimate and familiar forum. We are so so proud of this milestone for Susan and...
2024-03-011h 03
Growthmates: Create and Grow Meaningful Products & CareersWhy PLG Doesn't Fit All: Experimentation vs Foundation | Emily Wang (CEO at Bento, ex-Intercom)Welcome to Growthmates — the place to connect with inspiring leaders to help you grow yourself and your product. Here you can learn how companies like Dropbox, Adobe, Amplitude, Canva, and many more are building excellent products and growth culture. Subscribe to get all episodes right to your inbox on katesyuma.substack.com.Listen now and subscribe on your favorite platforms — Apple, Spotify, or watch on YouTube (new!).Exciting announcement! If you're keen on Mastering Product Growth and User onboarding, join the upcoming course in April. You will get personal guidance to create a stellar onboarding experi...
2024-02-2550 minModel Minority MomsEp79: Getting help as a momAs a mom, it can feel like you're running 24/7 and sometimes even that's not enough. If you can afford it or have people in your life who are available, many moms need help - help with childcare, help with cleaning, help with meals, help with laundry... heck, sometimes just an extra pair of hands to go get towels while your child is throwing up is invaluable. But getting help - whether paid or unpaid - is often more complicated and loaded than is generally acknowledged. Here, we deliver our honest take on getting help that we all desperately need.
2024-02-161h 06Model Minority MomsEp78: Discipline - you got it under control, right?Taking forever to put on shoes. Leaving toys on the floor. Refusing to come to dinner. Fighting with siblings. Sneaking a piece of forbidden candy. When the inevitable need for discipline crops up with our children, how do we react? As is frequently the case, so much of it is informed by how we ourselves were parented. Join us for a discussion of how we were (or weren't) disciplined growing up, how we are (trying) to approach discipline with our own children, and the struggle to reprogram our brains to react in a better way when the inevitable misbehaving...
2024-02-021h 04
Everything Cookbooks79: Collaborating with Family on a Cookbook with the Wang SistersMolly and Kristin speak with the Wang sisters, Stéphanie, Patricia Ho-Yi and Caroline, about their new cookbook, Asian Vegetables and its recently released English edition. They discuss how the idea for the book came about and how they decided to tackle it as a team using their various skill sets as a gardener, dietician and musician. They share their collaboration process, how they divided the labor and what themes they were passionate about including in this all-in-one gardening guide, memoir and cookbook. They talk about crafting one voice, the translation process and design choices including a special connection w...
2024-01-2440 minModel Minority MomsEp77: What's in a baby daddy?What makes a good husband, a good boyfriend, can be a little different from what makes a good baby daddy, in our opinion. Combining our 15 years of child-rearing experience (don't ask us how we calculated that!), we share our highly non-expert opinion on what's important in a baby daddy.
2024-01-1949 minModel Minority MomsEp76: PeriodsBloody, leaky, crampy, moody, inconvenient, embarrassing, painful... yet it's what allows us to create new human life. Yes, we are talking about our periods - what has been our relationship to Aunt Flo throughout our childhood, our teenage years, our young adulthood, trying to get pregnant, being pregnant, post-partum, up until now. How have we interacted with our parents, friends, partners, society at large and now, our kids with this messy yet vital part of life?
2024-01-0556 minModel Minority MomsEp75: Birthdays birthdaysInvites, venue, food, cake, activities, goody bags. Presents or no presents? Invite whole class or just a select few? What's the budget for a three-year-old's birthday? Yup, we're talking about the thing that at a certain point in your parenthood journey, starts taking over your social calendar - kids' birthdays.
2023-12-151h 02Model Minority MomsEp74: Too Enriched for my blood?Providing better for our children than we had is a no-brainer. But how much is too much when it comes to the endless types of activities we can sign up for? How much of our intention to provide exposure and opportunities is more of a projection of our own insecurities? Are we talking about T-Ball or are we talking about trauma? And what’s even the point of all of these activities? All that juice and more.
2023-12-011h 02Model Minority MomsEp73: [LIVE RECORDING] Almost over the hill - Confessions of a recovering, middle-aged overachieverIf you were an overachieving child/ young adult, does it ever leave you entirely? What are the costs (and benefits) of being a perpetual overachiever? Do we secretly want our kids to overachieve though we're trying our best to present a chill demeanor? We bring the honest talk at a live recording at our beloved alma mater and poster child of overachievement, Harvard.
2023-11-1747 minModel Minority MomsEp72: Downshifting careers as a Mom
Ok, we are going there. You’re a working mom who is highly competent, driven, ambitious, well-credentialed and… you’re going to switch to a more flexible, lower-intensity career? Whaaat? It's a common and significant shift among many moms we know, but glossed over with shrugs, shame and a little chip on the shoulder. In MMM style, we unpack all the feelings around choosing to downshift your career as the lead parent–without gaslighting you.
2023-11-031h 20Model Minority MomsEp71: Clinging to the Mother Tongue
Language is loaded. Preserving our mother tongue with ourselves and the decision (and labor!) of passing it down to our children is super complicated. We talk about what it means to feel like a “cultural orphan,” our aspirations for our kids when we were first pregnant, and the honest reality of how it’s going.
2023-10-201h 07Model Minority MomsThe Back to School EpisodeHow do we actually know if a school is a “good” school for our kids? How do we actually get a spot? (spoiler: banana bread yields mixed results). How to manage transitions from a situation you and your kids know to something that is new? What if we feel like we made a mistake moving our kids to the new school at the first dropoff :( Here are the real stories and the real feels behind the happy first-day-of-school pics on IG.
2023-10-061h 08Model Minority MomsBackstreet's Back -- All Right?So yeeeah… we were talking and we are back together. Nope, not with our exes, with our show. Why we disbanded, why we came back, and unpacking how restarting a thing is twisted in the fear of failure. Plus, a live recording opportunity in October!
2023-09-2248 minModel Minority MomsEp68 - Our Final EpisodeYep, you read that right. After publishing nearly 70 episodes over the last 2 years, we are wrapping up our show with one final episode. Tune in to hear how we came to this decision and our parting words to our dear listeners.
The show is ending but you can still keep track of us. Feel free to follow us at:
Jeanette: Instagram @acanary0 and website https://acanary.com
Susan: Instagram @susanlieu and website https://www.susanlieu.me/
Kate: Instagram @wonderfulkatewang and website https://wonderfulkatewang.substack.com
2023-04-0752 minModel Minority MomsEp67: The dreaded teenage years - a book with Dr. Emily KlineMonosyllabic answers. Slammed doors. Huge messes. No, we're not talking about toddlers. We are talking about the other "t" word... teenagers. Believe it or not, like it or not, our chubby little angels will turn into angsty, horny, grumpy teenagers one day. We talk to Dr. Emily Kline, author of "The School of Hard Talks: How to Have Real Conversations with your (Almost Grown) Kids," about an important new book she's just written about the mindset and tools that parents should embrace to have maximal influence on their older children.
If you liked the interview, you can...
2023-03-311h 02Model Minority MomsEp66: Vacationing with kids - the big picture episodeAre there any vacations any more post-kids? Or are there only trips now - a thing you do where you're not in your own home, where you don't have all the things that you've bought to make life a little easier, where your kids will sleep and eat less well? Do you need a vacation from your vacation? In this episode, Kate, Susan and Jeanette talk about the mindset shifts that have helped us enjoy 'vacations' more and how we think about them now with young children.
2023-03-2457 minModel Minority MomsEp65: Traveling with kids - the nuts and boltsDo you miss those days when you could breeze into the airport 45 minutes prior to departure in your Uber and carry-on-only luggage? With diapers, pack n plays, strollers, wagons and more traveling with kids is different now, to say the least. In this episode, we share our learnings and tips of making traveling with kids a little less stressful (with the usual healthy dose of humor and occasional f-bomb :)
2023-03-1741 minModel Minority MomsEp64: To au pair or not to au pair?Some of us may have heard about the au pair program, considered it or even participated as a host family. Is it a Mary-Poppins-dream-come-true or is the reality having a foreign teenager live in your house, driving your car and not being of much help? Susan, Jeanette and Kate bring our honest perspectives of participating in the au pair program as well as channeling some of the anonymous au pair stories we've received on the DL over the years.
2023-03-1052 minModel Minority MomsEp63: Potty trainingElimination communication. Child-led toileting. Pullups. Incentives. Potty training books. Pee everywhere. Poop smeared on walls. Kid and parent meltdown. What are the visions floating around in your head when you think of potty training? As Susan approaches potty training time, Jeanette and Kate talk through their experiences (the good and the fails) and give a real-life perspective on potty training your child in the modern age.
2023-03-031h 03Model Minority MomsEp62: For Real Tho - what we expect from our kids in our retirementWhat our parents expect of us in their retirement is one thing. What we expect of our kids in our own retirement is another... or is it? In the second part of this episode, we ponder what we expect of our kids in our own retirement. Financial help? Emotional companionship? Occasional Popeye chicken drop-off at an aging hippie commune? (ok that last part only applies to Susan). Join us as we take a moment to look farther out into the future and share how we think our kids might play a role in our golden years.
2023-01-131h 00Model Minority MomsEp61: FOR REAL THO - supporting parents in old ageIt's one of the main markers of Asian filial piety - supporting your parents in their old age. Except historically, women shouldered most of that burden and were also shut out from working outside the home. Except historically, very few people lived for years and decades with severe chronic illnesses. Except historically, no one had much of a choice. And except historically, we were expected to expect it from our old children.
In this episode of our FOR REAL THO series, we ponder a listener's question about supporting parents in their old age. What would it actually l...
2022-12-2335 minModel Minority MomsEp60: Bonus - Figuring Out the Santa Policy (repost)This was our Episode #18 from Christmas last year that was a surprise hit. We recorded it on a lark and it ended up being one of the most popular episodes of 2021. Reposting it for the enjoyment of fans new and old!
Having kids brings a whole slew of questions, stresses, and joys around the end of year holidays. What do you actually believe in (Santa, Jesus, Buddha, any others???) and want to tell your kids? What kind of holiday memories do you want to make with them? How do you handle potentially triggering family gatherings? In this...
2022-12-1625 minModel Minority MomsEp59: FOR REAL THO - How do you find a decent therapist?A lot of listeners have asked us about our mental health journeys - what prompted us to seek mental therapy, how we dealt with the stigma of seeking therapy, how we found a therapist that was a good fit. In this next episode of FOR REAL THO, we answer one listener's question about our mental health journeys, how we think it's helped us and our thoughts on finding the right one for you.
2022-12-0935 minModel Minority MomsEp58: FOR REAL THO - Help! My mom distorted my body image growing up and now she is doing the same to my daughters.We are SO excited to introduce a new series of episodes called FOR REAL THO where we discuss questions and topics that our listeners have submitted to us through our website. We will periodically release these short episodes where we give you our straight-talk about what we think about your question. Have a question of your own? Submit it through our website modelminoritymoms.com.
Our first FOR REAL THO episode, we talk through a submission by Carol, a first-gen Vietnamese-American who experienced body shaming by her mother growing up, and who is seeing her mom say similarly...
2022-12-0224 minModel Minority MomsEp57: Holding onto relationships when we disagreeThere's a lot of talk today amongst millennials about cutting ties with the people who hurt you, bring you down, disagree with you - our show wades into that territory quite often as well. And while that route might be the wiser one at times, the fact is that we will have disagreements at some point with almost everyone in our lives and we can't cut ties with all of them. Not only will that hurt us and our families, but arguably it has contributed significantly to the deep political dysfunction we see in the US today. We talk...
2022-11-181h 00Model Minority MomsEp56: Rupture and repair (or no repair?) between parents and kidsIt will happen to almost everyone. One day, you will react to your kids' behavior in a way that you aren't proud of. What does that look like and how do you handle the aftermath? Well, it probably is heavily influenced by how your parents dealt with (or didn't deal with) the ruptures in your relationship with them. We started this episode intending to just have a frank conversation about dealing with challenging behavior from our children, and how we try to repair the relationship if we responded in a way we wished we didn't. But... we started talking...
2022-11-111h 17Model Minority MomsEp55: Second time around - navigating inter-sibling tension and rivalriesFighting over toys/parental attention/who gets to talk/who picks the next song or TV show. Crying over mean words and hurts, real and perceived. Competition with your sibling to be the smarter/cuter/funnier/stronger/more interesting one. On the other hand, we melt when our offspring get along with each other. Welcome to the world of parenting siblings!!!
2022-11-0449 minModel Minority MomsEp54: Second time around - can we maintain our sanity?When you have your first kid, your discretionary time goes from 100 pre-kid to 50. When you have a second, it goes from 50 to 5 (but it feels like -50). When the options go from "do you want to take our kid or go for a run?" to "do you want to take our 2 year old to sing-along or watch our infant?", the challenges of life (and sanity) management increase to a whole new level. Join Kate, Susan and Jeanette as we share how we try to manage life after having the second child, and of course, all the emotional/cultural/mental...
2022-10-2857 min
That Took a TurnThis is Ben WangActor and high school friend Ben Wang is here! The trio sits down to chat about his starring role in the Disney+ series American Born Chinese (2023), Hollywood how-to's, and representation within Asian American media.
2022-10-2451 minModel Minority MomsEp53: Second time around - we got a PhD in nursing, pumping, milk storage and formula!We're only half-kidding. There's no actual PhD in infant feeding that you can get (that we are aware of). But after having learned about the intricacies of latches, lip ties, tongue ties, lipase, craniosacral therapy, breast milk banks, pumps, flanges, let-down, expression, just to name a few topics in infant feeding... don't you think we deserve at least a master's degree? :) Send this episode to an expecting friend or someone who recently gave birth just so that they don't feel alone in this strange and confusing universe of infant feeding.
2022-10-211h 11Model Minority MomsEp52: Second time around - sleep is hard to come by'Nap when your baby is napping' they say to exhausted moms... but what if this is your second baby and you have a toddler running around 24x7? What if your baby is sleeping fine but your toddler is suddenly experiencing a sleep 'regression'? Or God help you if both of your children are waking up multiple times a night. With Kate five months into being a mom of two, we re-visit the sleep question... do we still believe in sleep training? What if our child was sleep trained but is now un-trained? Did we damage our kids for life b...
2022-10-141h 10Model Minority MomsEp51: Second time around - the early daysThinking about having a second kid? Or already have more than one? (or you have none but just curious?) A newly minted mom-of-two, Kate shares how her experience with her second baby has been so different from the first... and how a lot of common advice for transitioning to life with two children just hasn't worked thus far :( Take it as inspiration, birth control, commiseration -- these stories are the unvarnished, hard and hilarious truths about becoming a mom of two.
2022-10-0757 minModel Minority MomsEp50: Why does 'fusion' food make us so mad?In the final episode of our food series, we try to get to the bottom of this question: Why does 'fusion' food make us so mad? Is it because it's bad? Is it because it's ignorant? Not authentic? Not respectful? Is it ever good? Isn't all food fusion anyway?? Susan, Kate and Jeanette have a frank conversation about why 'fusion' food provokes so many strong feelings.
2022-09-3054 minModel Minority MomsEp49: The Last Bite Rule (alternative title: How to eat with Asian Ladies)As Asian-American first-generation women, we were marinated in all the unspoken rules of food throughout our childhoods. And even though almost nothing was taught explicitly, those food rules are still very much alive and well within us, kicking us to do certain things in a certain way, holding others to certain expectations, taking us on guilt trips when we opt out. We feel this doubly as we operate in a world where many others don't share (or even know about) those unspoken expectations, which can lead to disappointment, resentment and dare we say occasional rage? Join us on this...
2022-09-231h 11Model Minority MomsEp48: Meal plan, grocery shop, wash, chop, cook, clean and repeatDid you know that you have to feed kids (and adults) every day? Multiple times a day, it turns out. And each meal made at home involves some sort of plan, grocery shopping, prep (washing, chopping, measuring, mixing), cooking and clean up. Though it might have been a hobby or an afterthought in pre-kid life, the logistics around feeding the family becomes a whole system of tasks in and of itself post-kids. 75% of American women report being their household's primary food preparer and they spend an average of 1 hour per day just making and cleaning up the food, which...
2022-09-161h 02Model Minority MomsEp47: Food is our sixth love languageWe are starting an episode series on food and looking at it through the lens of our families, Asian-American culture, our situation as working moms, gender and everything else. For all three of us, we grew up with food as our 'sixth love language'. But it also came loaded with its own baggage of gender expectations and time costs. And now we're operating in a completely different context than our parents' and grandparents' generation in terms of how we want to spend our time, how we want to relate to our spouse, our own ambitions and the cultural context...
2022-09-091h 01Model Minority MomsEp46: What is the American in the Asian-American?What does "American" mean in "Asian-American"? Does it mean legal status, shared culture, shared language, shared benefits, shared commitment and sacrifice? How does that differ for our parents' generation vs ours? How do we reconcile that with the fact that despite being Americans, we as people of Asian descent still face discrimination and more recently even violence at the hands of other Americans? Take a listen as Susan, Jeanette and Kate all bring their different perspectives and personalities to this sometimes uncomfortable but important question of what being American means to each of us.
2022-09-0249 minModel Minority MomsEp45: Let's have a real conversation about Roe vs WadeSo how do you really really feel about abortion? And do you have anywhere you can talk about it? With Roe v Wade being overturned by the Supreme Court, we dig into where we stand with respect to abortion rights and how we got there. Wherever you are on the issue, we can all agree that it's important, especially for women. At the same time, our cultural and political environment feels super-polarized right now, eliminating spaces to voice different views in a civil and safe space. In this podcast episode, we seek to reclaim that in our own way...
2022-08-261h 03Model Minority MomsEp44: Choosing self-expressionFor those of us coming from families with deep dysfunction and/or trauma, we often choose different ways of coping - achievement, power, money, control, even addiction. Anything but despair right? For poet, writer and artist Shin Yu Pai, she chose the path of self-expression through language as a way of making sense of her past, present and future. Her experience of growing up in 1980s Riverside, California as the child of Taiwanese immigrants has profoundly shaped her projects, as well as her relationship to her son. We got to know her as the creator of The Blue Suit...
2022-08-1955 minModel Minority MomsEp43: When kids get sick, how do working parents cope?Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Between COVID and flus/colds/random GI virus raging through our communities, it can feel like moms just can't catch a break. When your kid is sick home from care, how do you manage to care for them while keeping a toehold at work and keeping everything running in the household? We get real about what life looks like for working mamas when their little ones get sick.
2022-08-1349 min
Model Minority MomsEp42: What is the meaning of meaning in a career?Capping off our series on career decisions as Asian Americans, working parents, immigrant kids and products of elite schools, we talk about finding meaning in our careers and how that has evolved from our teens into our thirties. What does meaning in a career even mean? Our discussion took us to a somewhat unexpected destination that perhaps will resonate with you too.
2022-07-0155 minModel Minority MomsEp41: Inspiration for your career journey - interview with Maggie HsuMatchmaker, co-founder of a magazine for Asian-American teenage girls, co-founder of the Gold House collective (a leading AAPI organization for advancing media representation and commercial success), former management consultant, former chief of staff to Tony Hsieh the founder of Zappos, now a venture capitalist with Andreessen Horowitz... Maggie's career has been interesting and impressive to say the least. On this episode, she shares her career management philosophy with typical MMM candor and how parenthood and career have influenced each other. Listen for some great inspiration for anyone's career journey.
2022-06-2453 minModel Minority MomsEp40: Career and MoneyWhat's money got to do with your career? Is it everything, nothing, somewhere in between? How does the level of compensation influence how you feel about your job? What was your parents' message to you? What's your message to your kids? We tackle these questions and more in our episode on career and money, and our experiences trying to navigate these sometimes treacherous and confusing waters.
2022-06-171h 00Model Minority MomsEp39: Managing careers with your spouseWhat's your strategy for managing career decisions with your spouse? Do you take turns prioritizing one person's career over the other? Do each of you have a defined role? What does money have to do with it? How do you factor in risk/passion/other contributions to the household?
In this episode, we talk about how we have managed - or not! :( - career decisions with our spouses and what we've learned so far.
2022-06-1058 minModel Minority MomsEp38: Tiger dad in a foreign land (Part 2 of 'what do your parents think about your career?')In part 2 of "What do your parents think of your career?" Susan shares her reflections on how her parents and family have shaped her career decisions. Susan says that her dad was a "tiger dad in a foreign land" - can you immediately relate? Have no clue what she's talking about? Tune in to hear how Susan has tried to keep her performative streak alive while trying to keep her parents happy.
2022-06-031h 01Model Minority MomsEp37: What do your parents think about your career?Ah parents... Some of them have strong opinions about your career but have no clue about the actual reality you face. Some of them might have a clue but offer no support. And for some reason, they always seem to say the wrong thing about what you do. If this isn't your experience, we are happy for you. For those of us who feel a small stab to the heart whenever our parents say something about our work, this episode is for you. In this episode, Kate and Jeanette share how their parents have influenced the career choices they've...
2022-05-2752 minModel Minority MomsEp36: Susan's large intestine career journey (Our mid-thirties career crisis Part 2)From human right NGO work in Vietnam, to starting a boutique chocolate company, to working as a consultant to the world's largest tech firms, to producing a national one-woman show about her mom, Susan's career has taken many twists and turns. Through it all, she has asked herself the questions 'Who am I and what am I supposed to be doing in this world?" In this episode, Susan shares the many hilarious and often moving stories of her career journey as only Susan can.
2022-05-201h 18
Meta TalkzEp. 11 Web3 Isn't Just About Bitcoin and NFTs, Individuality is the Key to Success with Borui Wang, Founder & CEO of PolarrBorui Wang is the Co-founder and CEO of Polarr, where he and his team work toward his passion for empowering creators with the tools they need to create and share their identities with others.Polarr is founded in 2015, it offers online photo and video editing tools that allow creators to put their own mark on their content. Utilizing computer vision and artificial intelligence to improve image and video editing, the platform allows users to create and share their own unique filters through its sharing ecosystem as well as via users' own social media pages wi...
2022-05-1744 minModel Minority MomsEp35: Our mid-thirties career crisesForget the mid-life crisis. For many in our generation, we've been going through major career questioning since our mid-twenties. What do we want to do 'when we grow up'? What are we supposed to do with our lives? Careers take up so much mindspace and time in our lives but it can still feel like a struggle. In this first episode of a series on careers, Jeanette and Kate talk through their sometimes winding career paths, what they learned and where they are now.
2022-05-131h 13Model Minority MomsEp34: Choosing to be a single momSo many more unmarried women in their 30s and 40s are choosing to become a mother without a partner, but it still feels taboo to discuss. You might be one of these women yourself and if not, you probably have a friend who is considering this. We are so honored to have our friend Tamar on our show this week, to walk us through her decision to become a single mom by choice with so much openness and honesty.
2022-05-061h 09Model Minority MomsEp33: When Moms are JudgedMom Judgement is the cherry on top of the huge mountain of responsibilities we have to manage as parents. Why is there so much Mom Judgement in the world? From family? From friends? From society? Even other... moms?? In this episode, we discuss times when we felt Mom Judgement in our lives and try to get to the bottom of why it exists and what we can do about it.
2022-04-2958 minModel Minority MomsEp32: Sugar, Screens and Salt - What's your policy?What's your sugar, screens, salt policy for your kid? Like Mike Tyson said, everyone has a plan until your kid finds the snack bag or walks into a birthday party. We talk through our approaches and how they work out in real life.
2022-04-221h 00Model Minority MomsEP31: Dating Lessons LearnedKate, Susan and Jeanette walk down memory lane and reassess their dating histories (including that time that Susan thought she was going to marry a cult leader). Predictably, we all had really different dating experiences but we all learned some common lessons that we wished we knew when we were starting out.
2022-04-151h 13Meta TalkzWeb3 Isn't Just About Bitcoin and NFTs, Individuality is the Key to Success | Ep. 11 with Borui Wang, Founder & CEO of PolarrBorui Wang is the Co-founder and CEO of Polarr, where he and his team work toward his passion for empowering creators with the tools they need to create and share their identities with others. Polarr is founded in 2015, it offers online photo and video editing tools that allow creators to put their own mark on their content. Utilizing computer vision and artificial intelligence to improve image and video editing, the platform allows users to create and share their own unique filters through its sharing ecosystem as well as via users' own social media pages with a personalized...
2022-04-0944 minModel Minority MomsEP30 Career + Kids = ?How did parenthood change your perspective on your career? Did it force you to buckle down so that you could provide the kind of life you wanted for your kids? Pull back so that you could have more time and energy for them? Switch tracks so that you could work on something that inspires you and may be also your kids someday? In this episode, we talk about how becoming moms changed (or didn't change) the way we approach our work.
2022-04-081h 02Model Minority MomsEP29 The Realities of ChildcareIt's an open secret - getting reliable, high-quality childcare as a working mom/dad is tenuous at the best. Even with full-time care, managing a professional career that often demands more than 8 hours a day with kids and home responsibilities is really hard. At its worst, you're paying a whole lot of money for childcare while you're trying to juggle work and a sick toddler staying home. In this episode, we talk openly about the elephant in the room for working parents - the reality of childcare.
2022-04-011h 10Model Minority MomsEP28 The Midwestern Hapa Dad: Jeanette’s Husband Tells AllPerhaps our #1 fan, Jake joins us on our podcast to talk about why he loves our show (even if it sometimes makes him a bit uncomfortable), what he really thought when Jeanette gave him a book about bombs for Valentine's Day in college, and what it's like to be a white guy living with your Korean mother-in-law.
2022-03-1155 minModel Minority MomsEP27 The Harvard-sized Crater in Our LifeTell-all about how to get your kid into Harvard…JUST KIDDING. Some people think a Harvard degree guarantees you wealth but it’s a double-edged sword, especially for children of immigrants.
We dish about applying, getting in, and how the degree sprinkled some fairy dust on our professional and personal lives. We cast off the rose-tinted lenses and give you our unfiltered take on the H-bomb.
2022-03-041h 16Model Minority MomsEP26 How an MD Start-Up Dad Juggles Career and Family: Kate’s Husband Tells AllDoctor, Entrepreneur, Dad - Nirav, Kate's husband wears many hats. In our interview we found that he has worn many different hats in his life. He shares about his journey growing up as an only child of Indian immigrants in small town America, dropping out of medical school to try photography, marrying a type A Chinese-American and becoming a girl dad.
2022-02-251h 15Model Minority MomsEP25 - How We Almost Broke Up (Part 2 of Adult Friendships)Sometimes it’s easier to let friendships fade away when there’s conflict or just put up with dysfunction without saying anything. It’s easier that way to avoid the drama. And tbh, we almost broke up ourselves–but then we fought to keep us together. It was superrr scary, but we did it. Because…we’re supposed to be a role model to our kids right?
2022-02-1839 minModel Minority MomsEP24 The Awkwardness of Adult Friendships & How We Almost Broke Up (Part 1)Sometimes it’s easier to let friendships fade away when there’s conflict or just put up with dysfunction without saying anything. It’s easier that way to avoid the drama. And tbh, we almost broke up ourselves–but then we fought to keep us together. It was superrr scary, but we did it. Because…we’re supposed to be a role model to our kids right? And also, we wanted to keep doing the podcast together.
2022-02-1155 minModel Minority MomsEP23 Asian Shame, Guilt, and Anger - the Tyranny of “Should”By listener request: we tackle two giant elephants that loooove to populate Asian American lives: shame and guilt. Both are seemingly built into many traditional cultures, and we have all been traumatized by these feelings. As adults responsible for creating a healthy emotional environment for our own kids, we discuss why we experience these emotions, the impact on our kids, whether they are valuable, and how to let them go when they don't serve us.
2022-02-041h 17Model Minority MomsEP22 Extreme Introvert Survives Extreme Extrovert: Susan’s Husband Tells AllBased on listener feedback, we did it! We wrangled our husbands to be on the show. In this episode, Susan’s husband Marvin reveals what he thinks of the podcast, supporting Susan’s dream to become an artist, and what it’s like to be married to your complete opposite. Meet Marvin: a Canadian- American-Hong Kong-Korean who doesn’t feel like an outsider and loves to mountaineer.
2022-01-281h 15Model Minority MomsEP21 COVID Holds Me HostageNavigating the emotional rollercoaster and hairy logistics of COVID has taken over our life at times. In this episode, we talk about the challenges of life as a working mom during COVID, how it's different now vs the beginning of the pandemic and what we hope the future will hold.
2022-01-211h 00Model Minority MomsEP20 The FOMO and Fear of Having a Second KidWhether or not to have a second kid is a looming decision for many of us. The “2 Under 2” plan seems good in theory but a nightmare in practice. Does 1 plus 1 equal 2? 1.5? 11?
2022-01-141h 11Model Minority MomsEP18 (Bonus) Figuring Out the Santa PolicyHaving kids brings a whole slew of questions, stresses, and joys around the end of year holidays. What do you actually believe in (Santa, Jesus, Buddha, any others???) and want to tell your kids? What kind of holiday memories do you want to make with them? How do you handle potentially triggering family gatherings? In this episode, we discuss Susan’s urgent parent dilemma: what do you tell your almost-two-year-old about Santa? Do you say he's real? If you say he exists, is that a lie? Do you take him to see an Asian Santa? Is that a healthy al...
2021-12-1725 minModel Minority MomsEP19 (Bonus) Surviving the Holiday Chaos.What do you get your kids, nieces and nephews who might already have a ton of stuff? Are you stressed by everyone else’s Instagram-perfect holiday decorations that appear like magic right after Thanksgiving, when you’re still lying around with your pants unbuttoned? On this episode, we discuss our real thoughts about and experience of the winter holidays, and provide our own survival tips. Hint: at least one of us is a grinch and at least one of us loves Christmas.
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Without PicturesFrom Normality to Abstraction: Diener & Diener's Recent Work, Wilfried WangFrom Normality to Abstraction: Diener & Diener's Recent Work, Wilfried Wang
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2021-11-1025 minModel Minority MomsEP17: Triggered by your family? You're not alone!Our families of origin are often the source of the deepest love and the deepest hurt. Even in our mid-thirties, we struggle to break the cycle of hurtful interactions with those closest to us. With kids, figuring out some way to do it better seems even more urgent. We're told to set boundaries by our therapists, but how do you do that with an older generation that doesn't know what boundaries mean? Spoiler: We haven't found any magic bullets but we share some ideas that have helped us better manage our relationships with family.
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The Raw EntrepawneurTRE PawdX 5 Kate Solisti 1 (S1-85)Visit her at www.KateSolisti.com.https://www.facebook.com/kate.solisti The Raw Entrepawneur:https://www.facebook.com/TheRawEntrepawneur https://www.instagram.com/raw_entrepawneur
2021-10-0716 minModel Minority MomsEP16: Our bodies, our selvesAs young girls, we all struggled with body image issues or eating disorders, so how did pregnancy and postpartum affect how we see our physical self? How have conflicting messages about beauty and body image from our Asian elders and the influence of pop culture influenced how our self-confidence? And how can we develop a more grounded sense of our own beauty and pass that on to our mixed-race kids?
2021-10-011h 03Model Minority MomsEP15: Free range tiger (parenting)Hate it or love it, "tiger parenting" has become a byword for Asian-American moms in the last decade. We share our opinions on what we think tiger parenting actually is, and how it differs from other parenting philosophies, like "free-range parenting". We dig into how racial and socio-economic dynamics impact people's perceptions of parenting philosophies, and how we struggle to define what it means for our children to "succeed".
Link to the resources mentioned in this episode are here: https://modelminoritymoms.com/season-2-episode-6-free-range-tiger-parenting-is-our-thing/
2021-09-241h 07Model Minority MomsEP14: So, what's your attachment style?Confessional time - we go into the deep recesses of our childhood to evaluate how safe we felt with our parents, and whether we were emotionally attached to our parents in a healthy way. We talk about attachment theory, which says that our childhood relationships with our parents impact our whole lives. Does being poorly attached as a child ourselves doom us to a poor attachment relationship with our kids?
Link to resources we mention in the episode: https://modelminoritymoms.com/season-2-episode-5-so-whats-your-attachment-style/
2021-09-1756 minModel Minority MomsEP13: What's so great about being a mom?Motherhood can be really hard. Like tired-to-the-bone/cry-in-the-bathroom/scream-into-my-pillow hard. So, why have kids at all? It wasn't our dream-since-forever to have kids, and yet, now that we're moms, we can't imagine not having our children. We share stories about how parenting our kids teaches us to live fully in the present, gives us moments of matchless delight, pushes us to grow, and allows us to experience a love we've never known - cliche but absolutely true.
2021-09-101h 15Model Minority MomsEP12 The Fertility JourneyFertility can be kind of a paradox - sometimes it seems like getting pregnant is so easy (it even happens by accident!) but sometimes despite our very best efforts, it can take a ton of time, money, and our emotional and physical energy with no guarantee of a baby. With more and more women choosing to delay motherhood to make time for careers and other interests, complex fertility journeys are becoming more common. We share our own fertility journeys and talk to Sarah LaFleur, founder and CEO of M.M.LaFleur, a company she founded in 2013 to help women...
2021-09-031h 16Model Minority MomsEP11 Mental Health // I’m Fine Until I’m Not FineOur striving for achievement keeps us functioning most of the time but we've all experienced times when we've approached meltdowns. In this episode, we talk about our breaking points that led us to therapy, the stigma of meds, and the critical role our partners play in our well-being. We share ways we get unstuck, fears of how our kids will perceive our low periods, and ways to befriend the inner critic when it all seems too much. We may never *not* feel overwhelmed and anxious, but we have come up with small steps that help get us moving again.
2021-08-271h 00Model Minority MomsEP10 Choosing the "Best" SchoolThe obsession about putting our kids in the "right" school so they can have the "best" outcomes can put us in dangerous territory real fast (with a nerve-wracking spreadsheet!). Our immigrant parents wanted better for us so is it wrong to want better for our kids? And what is the end game in all of this? Early childhood education can heavily influence a kid's future so the pressure is on to choose the "best" school.
In this episode, we share what we're thinking about as our kiddos start formal schooling in a few years. What environment will...
2021-08-201h 00Model Minority MomsEP9 (Bonus) Why "Model Minority Moms"?Our embarrassing turn-our-cheeks-pink first name snafu and how we landed on our podcast name today.
2021-06-1620 minModel Minority MomsEP8 Never Feeling at Home with RaceCautiously unpacking anti-blackness with our Asian parents, microaggressions we get as Asian women, and remembering the Atlanta Spa Shootings. We're tired of being Othered -- within our families and in the world.
2021-06-0956 minModel Minority MomsS1E8 Never Feeling at Home with RaceCautiously unpacking anti-blackness with our Asian parents, microaggressions we get as Asian women, and remembering the Atlanta Spa Shootings. We're tired of being Othered -- within our families and in the world.
2021-06-0456 min
OmFin ChannelMembangun Kekayaan ala Kate Wang | Dari Rugi 6,4 Milyar Kini Profit 243,3 MilyarApa sih sisi mulia dari Pasar Modal, Khususnya pasar saham? Salah satunya adalah tempat untuk berbagi kekayaan, berbagi kesejahteraan, berbagi kemakmuran, dan tentu saja sekaligus juga berbagi risiko. Bagaimana bisa? Pada episode ini Vina mau sekalian menceritakan tentanng perempuan keren yaitu Wang Ying alias Kate Wang, sang pendiri Relx Technology asal Tiongkok. Kate Wang merupakan perempuan terkaya di dunia dengann kekayaan bersih lebih dari 300 Triliun Rupiah dari kepulan bisnis rokok elektrikm Vape. Yuk kita simak. Oh iya, kebetulan saat video ini diupload, IHSG sedang naik. Selamat ya buat kamu yang cuan. Ka...
2021-06-0211 minModel Minority MomsEP7 "Hey Society, A Little Help Here?" Love, MomsWe scream into a pillow about the invisible labor of running the household, the impossible standards of instagram moms, and the confusion of being a good feminist. The social contract of women is messy with a capital M.
2021-05-2854 minModel Minority MomsEP6 Intercultural and Interracial RelationshipsDeconstructing our white guy tendencies, hating our hyphenated selves, and taking on the extra labor of raising our kids with complicated identities. Not to mention in-laws. We love our multicultural family, but this shit is hard.
2021-05-211h 05Model Minority MomsEP5 The Anxiety and Pleasures of MoneyAs immigrant kids, we're really triggered by money. TBH, it controls us sometimes. We rethink our relationship with money to add real value, mental sanity, and metaphorical bagel chips to our lives.
2021-05-141h 13Model Minority MomsEP4 I Like Like YouCult leaders and Chinese literary fantasies are no match for the real work (and endearing moments) of long-term partnership.
2021-05-061h 08The Raw EntrepawneurTRE S1-61 Kate SolistiKate Solisti: www.KateSolisti.comThe Raw Entrepawneur: https://www.facebook.com/TheRawEntrepawneur
2021-05-061h 21Model Minority MomsEP3 Now We're the AdultsKiddo, follow your passion, but don't live in my basement. Figuring out how to teach grit with privilege when our parenting philosophy is light years from where we came from.
2021-04-301h 03Model Minority MomsEP2 Get me a Diaper, My Identity Just ImplodedThe insurmountable envy, loneliness and exhaustion as a newborn parent.
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Model Minority MomsEP1: What Really Happened During BirthOur deliveries were as different as our personalities: Kate prepared for it like a PSAT National Merit Scholar, Jeanette was on laughing gas, and Susan took selfies with her placenta.
2021-04-2851 min
Roads Less TakenCapturing Passion in Film: Robin WangFilms have become a pivotal part of not only my journey growing up, but cultural markers of generations and eras. From opening up societal commentary to providing comedic relief, filmmakers have the unique ability to create widespread impact in mass media through the power of storytelling.
Robin Wang is an award-winning director, screenwriter, and current MFA candidate at USC. Having been an amateur filmmaker since high school, Robin realized he couldn't leave behind his passions for film, dropping his Statistics major at Duke. Soon after, he launched his first narrative short film, which garnered international recognition...
2021-03-0232 min
Money, Love, & Freedom with Coach George Wang031 - My Wife & I pt 2 - How We Grow Our Relationship Through Tough Times2020 has been a challenge for many people, and for couples who now live and work together, these challenges seem to be magnified. What if instead of allowing these challenges to induce stress, you were to use these challenges to deepen your relationship?On this episode, Coach George Wang brings his wife Kate Wang on for a 2nd edition of “My Wife and I” where they talk about what they have been doing to continually grow their relationship during these tough times.Whether you are in a relationship now or would like to be in one, they...
2020-08-1040 minThe Raw EntrepawneurTRE S1-13 Kate Benjamin Part 2Kate Benjamin is the founder of Hauspanther and co-author with Jackson Galaxy of two New York Times bestselling books, Catification and Catify to Satisfy. She has been writing about cats and design since 2007 and is dedicated to making the world a better place for cats and the people who love them. Kate has created a unique business niche using her skillset and talents in a way that fulfills her passion for cats. www.hauspanther.comhttps://www.facebook.com/Hauspanther/https://www.facebook.com/katebenjamin The Raw Entrepawneur: https://ww...
2020-06-041h 00The Raw EntrepawneurTRE S1-4 Kate Benjamin Part 1Kate Benjamin is the founder of Hauspanther and co-author with Jackson Galaxy of two New York Times bestselling books, Catification and Catify to Satisfy. She has been writing about cats and design since 2007 and is dedicated to making the world a better place for cats and the people who love them. Kate has created a unique business niche using her skillset and talents in a way that fulfills her passion for cats. www.hauspanther.comhttps://www.facebook.com/Hauspanther/https://www.facebook.com/katebenjamin The Raw Entrepawneur: https://ww...
2020-05-0719 min