Asian Soup Podcast

As 30-something-year-old Asian-Aussies, karaoke was a huge part of growing up in Sydney – both as young children and young teenagers. Karaoke brought us joy, it taught us about our culture, and most importantly, it bonded us. From karaoke room must-haves, to karaoke drinking games, to all the songs we used to listen to on our MP3 players, Rox and Jules share their karaoke experiences and their go-...

Jules and Rox have a chat about something that's been on their minds lately – speaking up more in their day to day. Sharing some real experiences from everyday life, they discuss (and practise) how they might react in certain situations.   Sometimes it requires a bit of assertiveness, and sometimes it requires some confidence to be heard. Also, is it a safe situation to speak up? It really de...

In this episode, we discuss about what we've been wearing lately. We get into style, what we like when we're getting dressed day to day, and any wardrobe essentials we're loving recently. It's been a bit cold recently in Sydney so Jules and Rox chat about how they stay warm from turtle necks to warm socks and more. We also share some personal tips from our winter uniform from our individual sense...

Proposals, marriage, children. Typical topics of two 30-something-year-olds – at least for us..! Rox shares her proposal story for the first time with Jules. We reflect on whether proposals or marriage was something we wanted all along or something that was necessarily on our horizons. Although Rox and Jules have different views on marriage, one thing they know for sure is this: that it’s okay to...

Hello Sydney, this episode is dedicated to you. And living in Sydney for most of our lives, we feel it’s both time and we’re qualified to speak about you! In this episode, we chat about what Sydney is like, what working in Sydney is like compared to Hong Kong, what it’s like living in the ‘burbs, coffee culture and Jules’ share her expert coffee knowledge. And we also share some of the bad – some...

Is there such thing as healthy attachment? What’s so bad about being attached? To be honest, we don’t really know, but in this episode, we try to figure it out. Speaking from an “anxious-preoccupied” attachment-style POV, Rox and Jules chat about some childhood fears, getting validation from others, trying to make people happy and more. If you get validated by nothing, are you nothing? Do you have...

If you’ve been following the podcast for a while now, you know that Rox and Jules are new friends – yet have SO much in common. One thing they have in common outside of the podcast is that they’re both enjoy working on side hustles. Rox co-owns a sustainable fashion label called KIN [www.kinmade.co]. Jules used to operate ramen parties out of her rental home. In this episode, Rox and Jules share t...

Don't bring shame to the family, and you're sweet 🥲   Being the obedient daughter, son or child, or being the good girl or boy – is damn hard! And whilst being 'obedient' can look different to each person, how it feels to carry this load can be universal.  Striving to be 'perfect' and having that voice and pressure to be 'good' can manifest in other ways. We're talking about being rebel...

We walk down memory lane and revisit some memories of our youth – specifically our time living our abroad in a completely different country. Living in Japan and living in France – a country where we both don’t speak the language – may sound adventurous and fun, but it could also mean other things such as long distance relationships or navigating to places using a physical lonely planet guide (yes,...

In this episode, we dive into a discussion about LANGUAGE. Language is something so embedded in our everyday lives that we don’t even notice day to day how important it is for communicating with different people in our lives. Through conversation and sharing, we can learn more more about the similarities we have as first generation Asian Australians and explore how important language is to our cul...

Pachinko is a story of Sunja that spans 4 generations – with the fourth generation (Solomon's story) touching on the Asian-American experience – something Rox and Jules can relate to as Asians growing up in Australia. In this episode, super excited about the show and the book, Rox and Jules unpack what they think about Episode 1-3 so far - weaving in their personal experiences as Korean-Australian...

Beauty standards 💅🏽 What are they and who gets to have a say on what they are? Everyone’s idea of beauty might be different for themselves or what they find beautiful. It’s both very personal and subjective. In this episode, we get chatty and real about what our idea of beauty was growing up in Sydney, Australia as Asian Australians. We try to unpack what our ideas of beauty are, why they are th...

Anxiety is tricky. And it sucks. It also doesn't help that our experiences around it is not often talked about openly as there's still a stigma around it. Some have never experienced it, some have sort of experienced it, and then some experience it every day. Whatever your relationship with anxiety is, we share our experiences dealing with anxiety and hope it can remind you are not alone in feelin...

For the first time on the podcast, we discuss more about our Asian Australian experiences and what it was like to grow up in Sydney with different Asian backgrounds. We delve into our Chinese Australian and Korean Australian identities across different milestones and life experiences. We dive into discussing what is was like realising we were a minority, experiencing racism, what we're proud of an...

Inspired by a video about the rich and poor person mindset by Steve Antonioni , we answer some questions about... money! As two 30 something year olds, we explore what our relationship with money is like. We chat about our general thoughts on what "money" is, whether money is complicated or simple to us, whether we focus our efforts on saving or investing, and more!

In this episode, we talk about all things relationships! We look specifically into what the word "relationships" mean to us, what makes a relationship "healthy" and what makes them so painful. We discuss our own personal experiences around the topic, as well as things we’ve learned from friends, lovers, family and self.  What does the word "relationships" mean to you? And what makes a relatio...

Our 4th episode is an exciting one because we have our first ever Asian Soup Podcast guest on the show! We get to chat to our friend Andrew Yee aka Andy! He's a professional storyteller, content creator, journalist, editor, K-POP enthusiast, curator, artist, creative and all-round great guy. He shares his favourite soup with us, some of the challenges of finding his own path, what he's doing now,...

In this episode, we reflect on our past career experiences in our 20s, take a moment to be thankful and also proud of what we’ve accomplished in a short amount of time, and explore what we do to stay confident. Confidence takes work and areas such as our careers or things we do in our personal lives contribute to it. It’s easy to forget that actually, we’ve come a long way from 10 years ago! &nbsp...

Changing careers isn't easy. Each career change experience is different with its unique learnings and challenges, and so are the memories we have of them. In this episode, Rox shares her story on how and why she chose to pivot and pursue a job in digital marketing from being a fashion designer — her childhood dream job. Jules shares her journey from being a cafe manager to becoming a digital marke...

Welcome to Asian Soup Podcast, where every ingredient is welcome! For our first ever podcast episode, we chat about our asian backgrounds, how we met, how we ended up doing this podcast together, what our favourite Asian soups are, why we wanted to start this podcast and how we came up with the name — "Asian Soup Podcast".  Thanks for listening to us and sitting with us. We hope you enjoyed o...