Sai Thao and Jim Vue

Giving Narration

Society EN ↓ 7 episodes

Giving Narration is a reflective podcast with personal narrations to lived experiences. Jim Vue and Sai Thao are husband and wife. They both are first born Hmong Americans. Jim was raised in Tulsa, OK in a smaller family with 4 children while Sai was raised in St. Paul, MN in a large family with 11 children. Jim and Sai have been married for 21 years and they are parents to five children, three girls and two boys ranging from the ages of six to eighteen years old, and all with special needs.

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Sai Thao and Jim Vue

Episodes

How We Belong: Roles and Responsibility 11.04.2026 44:24

Jim and Sai talk about how they begin life rooted in family, as sons and a daughters, brothers and sisters. In those early years, belonging feels certain, defined by the people around them and the roles they naturally step into. But over time, those roles shift, and the people who once defined that sense of belonging are no longer around. What remains is the question of what it means to belong whe...

Where Our Heart Is: A Conversation On Grief 17.03.2026 32:13

Sai and Jim sits down to discuss what grief means to each of them. They share their personal perspectives and experiences, exploring how grief is carried and how it can be seen and understood in different ways.

Why Love (Final and Complete Version) 09.01.2025 39:11

Sai and Jim shares Why Love is important to the both of them. Through the making of Why Love, they find that their love is more complex than simple.

Hmongcoming 05.06.2024 13:42

Hmongcoming is a podcast about the Hmong community’s ability to envision a future. Jim provides a thoughtful rumination about where the Hmong community is in the present and a courageous outlook on where they can be in the future.

Autism 04.05.2023 19:01

A podcast on living with Autism from parent perspectives.

Patriarchy 21.04.2023 23:34

A podcast on our experiences living under a social system that no longer serves us as Hmong Americans.

Unpacked 11.04.2023 1:22:17

A podcast on marriage through a cultural and racial lens where Sai and Jim unpacks cultural expectations, choices, parenting, grief and trauma experiences, and marriage. Podcast Timeline: Cultural expectations 1:44 Choices 17:12 Parenting 32:48 Grief and Trauma 40:30 Mariage 1:14:03