S3 EP5: AANHPI Heritage

In today’s episode, we honor the stories, achievements, and influences of the AANHPI (Asian-American, Native-Hawaiian, Pacific-Islander) by speaking with two local leaders. We are delighted to have Julie Pham, Phd – CEO of CuriosityBased and Maya Mendoza-Exstrom – COO of Seattle Sounders FC on the podcast.

The stories shared wove a tapestry of traumatic experiences like fleeing from Vietnam and entering the United States as refugees, the loss of family members, and feeling excluded. However, there are also stories of joy and pride like demonstrating successful leadership in organizations where AANHPI women are not well-represented, researching and rediscovering the cultural roots that connect us back to the countries we are from, and feeling pride in our cultural heritage.

As per our custom, we would like to highlight the projects and successes of each of our guests.

Julie Pham, PhD just self-published an Amazon best-selling book called 7 Forms of Respect. You can purchase it for kindle or as a paperback. Dig into Julie’s research and advice on how to transform your relationships at work!

Maya Mendoza-Exstrom is one of the co-founders of the Our Stories are Your Stories campaign that we highlighted a year ago. They have added new stories this year from amazing locals like Laura Clise of Intentionalist, Uyen Nguyen of Viets for Afghans and Moni Tep who is both a talented musician and the Director of Education for Creative Justice.

Thanks again to Bobby Choy (aka Big Phony) for letting us use his music for our intros and outros!

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

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