The Adult Table

Wesley Chow is in the house! Want to learn about the life of a consultant? Want to hear how a college student was able to get complimented on their stage presence by a C-suite executive? Want to hear how someone was able to visit all 7 continents? All of this is packed into this fun, one-of-a kind episode. Wes has a wealth of knowledge in his professional space, on top of all of the diverse activi...

It’s a Full House (minus Aaron 🙁) To officially close out 2023 and start to looking forward to the new year -  Jason, Jenny, Amberly, Amy, and Ronak come together for their 2023 Wrapped (Spotify Wrapped Style). This presentation party let everyone present on what wild adventures and experiences defined each of their year and what their goals are for the next one. Find out why Amy can’t climb stai...

Liz Fujita joins Jenny and Jason at the Adult Table to talk about how she is leaning into her new role as the SASE Director of Collegiate Programs! She brings us through her professional journey through student affairs and how her network got her to where she is now. While her initial goals were not to pursue higher education in the first place, having an undeclared major starting college, she fou...

Zoe Imansjah joins Jenny and Jason at the Adult Table. Zoe currently is a production engineer at Dow Chemical, an admin for the Facebook group Subtle Asian Traits, Programming Co-Manager for SASE National Convention, the list goes on! She tells us how she is navigating her rotational program, what it’s like moving to different parts of the country, how to become friends with coworkers by talking a...

Join Aaron, Amy, and Ronak as they fill in for Jason, Jenny, and Amberly! Learn more about the 3 as they play we are not really strangers. How well does everyone know each other? Listen to hear their perceptions, stories, and friendship!

We finally did it! An episode dedicated to personal finance, thanks to our friend Frederica Shih. Frederica sits down with Jason and Jenny to go through her professional journey and her unique time working for Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) during the infamous crash. We then discussed how she originally started on her personal finance journey, and what led her to take finances seriously in this stage o...

Content warning: In this podcast episode, we will be discussing topics around mental health that may include topics involving depression, anxiety, suicide ideation, and self harm. Please listen at your own discretion. In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month in May, we are bringing on two friends from the Mental Health Initiative in SASE, Aishwarya Mantagani and Alex Hattori. We talked about thei...

Alex Hattori joins Jason and Jenny on The Adult Table to talk about his life after college, especially his gap year after working full-time for a year, where he’s been able to travel around the world to places including Columbia, Australia and New Zealand. Alex shines a light on this uncommon life path (at least for people in the US); taking advantage of time now to travel and understand the cultu...

Retired P&G Vice President of R&D and SASE celebrity Dennis Hirotsu joins Jason and Jenny on The Adult Table this month to break down his career, his biggest lessons learned throughout his journey and how post-work/retirement life has been treating him. The episode starts with all the things Dennis has worked through in his 6 years of retirement. Dennis has been involved in a variety of wo...

Happy grad school application season! Jenny and Jason sit down with Amy Ngo and Aaron Ildefonso, two new members of The Adult Table Podcast team. Amy is pursuing a PhD in Chemistry at Georgetown University while Aaron is pursuing his Master’s of Science in Engineering Management at Texas A&M University. Aaron talks about how he decided to pursue higher education and follow this field of study...

Jason and Jenny sit down with Manasvi Savani, one of this year's SASE Role Models and current South Region Regional manager to impart her wisdom on her journey, motivations and why the South region is the best region. Manasvi talks about her journey of discovering what she wanted to pursue in life through her journey in college as a first generation college graduate, her SASE journey, and navigati...

Jason and Jenny ARE BACK! After a little break, the duo was inspired by NC 2022, to discuss their personal professional journeys throughout the years, but leads into so much more. First, the two recap the most recent SASE National Convention and all the chaos that ensued. The two then break down their professional and academic journeys to get to where they are now, and what they actually do for wo...

Northeastern Alumni and NEU SASE OG Joe Alim joins Jason and Jenny at the Adult Table! Joe is currently the VP of Product and Operations at Compt, a start-up that works with companies in elevating employee stipends that gives people the freedom to choose the lifestyle perks that they really want. He tells us his journey throughout college, co-founding a startup called Scholarjet, allowing students...

Longtime P&G leader and SASE supporter, Larry Chan (he/him/his), joins Jason and Jenny on The Adult Table this month. Larry brings his almost 30 years of professional experience and leadership to the podcast, and helps Jenny and Jason answer many questions on building a career and his outlook on mentorship. Larry also discusses how his life has evolved through time, his disciplined hobbies, an...

TW: This episodes contains topics around mental health that may include topics involving depression, anxiety, suicide ideation, and self harm. Please listen at your own discretion. May is Mental Health Awareness Month and our friends from the SASE Mental Health Initiative, Meghna Kuppuraju and David Lang join us at The Adult Table to discuss their personal journey on mental health, how they develo...

Time to get up close and personal! Jenny and Jason bring the popular card game, We’re Not Really Strangers, to the Adult Table (via https://werejustfriends.online/ ) and get to know each other a little better. The game progresses through three levels and starts on easy questions like what is our favorite snack, to deeper questions where Jenny and Jason discuss their views on each other's lives. Th...

Kristy Chan, SASE’s premier twitch streamer (and also our Co-Regional Marketing Representative Manager), joins Jason and Jenny on the Adult Table! We talk about how she’s navigating her professional career, transitional adult life things, corporate lingo and the desire to have a creative outlet in a STEM career. In Kristy’s newest venture of Twitch streaming, we learned a lot about her journey and...

It’s Happy Hour! Jenny and Jason sit down with a casual drink (or two) to reflect on the previous year and also on our intentions for the new year. Jenny rambles about random things she learned as a trying adult while Jason patiently listens lol This is the first time we have an episode with just the co-hosts, let us know if you like it! We may do more ;)

Lisa Nguyen, someone you may recognize from NBC’s new hit show FROGGER joins Jason and Jenny on the Adult Table! We did a deep dive on how she got herself on the show, and what her experience was like filming in Australia, and her views on career and life! Lisa is a jack of all trades and really has done so much: in her education, as a transportation planning/engineer, being a costumed mascot, ski...

The Adult Table team is back! The FOUR (that’s right we’re up to four now!) members of the team come on to reminisce about how our paths crossed, and our true first impressions of each other. The rest of the episode is reserved for us all to catch up, talk about what’s been on our mind the past few months, our biggest “sliding doors” moment, and some of our “firsts”. In the end, we turn the tables...

Disclaimer: This episode was recorded a few days before SASE officially announced to cancel the in-person conferences within the National Convention after closely monitoring the rising Covid cases nationally and in Atlanta. We respect SASE’s decision to cancel the in-person conference as the health and well being of all attendees is the most important. See you at SASE virtual convention! We’re bac...

Happy Pride Month! We wanted to do something special for this month’s episode to celebrate pride, open the discussion about LGBTQ+ experiences in more AAPI spaces especially for those with a career in the STEM field. Our two good friends, Parth Patel (he/him) and Tim Zhang (he/him) joined the Adult Table for one of the most open and vulnerable episodes we’ve ever recorded. We discuss how their ide...

Jason and Jenny sit down with Swetha Cherukuri, current National Conference Programming Manager, Southern California Regional Coordinator, SASE Pro Collegiate Relations and future West Region Regional Manager! We ask her how she balances it all, balancing with her current studies as a PHD student. Swetha talks about what made her pursue her current field of study, breaks down the order she watches...

Jason and Jenny sit down with Pia Muyot, SASE’s Board Professional Membership Representative. The episode lined up perfectly with Women’s History Month, as we talked with Pia, the person who started the She Inspires Me Campaign in SASE. On top of her many achievements in SASE, we discuss being a woman of color in STEM, how she’s adjusted to moving to new locations throughout her professional journ...

Jason and Jenny sit down with Matt Diaz, a well known face in SASE as the Collegiate Program Coordinator. We talk about what it’s like to marry your childhood crush and building a life of purpose and intention together! We also dive into his professional journey and how he has found his passion in creating connections and continuous personal development. Find out how many marathons Matt has run, w...