Glowing Up Asian

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’ support. Meanwhile, Shirley shared how she focused on character building above everything else – being upright, uplifting others, doing your best, and following faith. We also talked about childhood dreams, learning his heritage language and culture, and taking advanced math classes and piano lessons, as shared in the HBO documentary 38 At The Garden.
We also explore the years following as he learned to take better care of his mental health and became an advocate against the stigma, starting with his own parents. He also shared his work as an impact investor and philanthropist through the Jeremy Lin Foundation. Closing out the episode, Jeremy and Shirley share their hopes for the future as a new generation of parents raising their own children.
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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 parents today can prepare their children for an ever-changing world by teaching them skills that can’t be augmented or automated.
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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 “Representation Matters” movement in Hollywood and what it took to advocate for more diverse storytelling. We also dive into her work at Asia Society Southern California where she helped form the Asian Women Empowered (AWE) initiative and explore why early career sponsorship is so critical to improving and increasing representation across all industries.  
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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 her insights on the state of Asian American representation in the corporate sector and how it’s improved over time. We explore the importance of starting somewhere, even if it’s performative in the beginning.  She also offers her advice to Asian leaders advocating for the community within their companies but are getting pushback, as well, as to those who want to get involved but don’t know how to start. 
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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 students in more than 100 countries, Hugh shares his observations of Asian and Western-style education and parenting and helps deconstruct why many Asian parents place such a heavy emphasis on test scores and getting into a good college. He also shares his personal experience working at multinational companies early in his career and how learning to embrace both Asian and Western cultures and workplace expectations helped him build a successful global company. 
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