DIASPORA ASIAN PRODUCTIONS

What Kind of Asian Are You?

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Tired of not seeing and hearing about Asian stories that reflect your lived experiences in mainstream western media? OR do you want more inspiration and motivation from Asians like yourself? Then, tune in each week to hear conversations with host, Kyle and his awesome Asian guests about being Asian (in the diaspora). Connect with the Podcast on Instagram: @whatkindofasianpod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/whatkindofasian

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38 － Asian-Canadian Content Creator on Content Creating and Being Asian-Canadian w/ Kristy Lin 17.05.2021 56:47

Send us Fan Mail Host: Kyle Leung Podcast Linktree What Kind of Asian Are You? Podcast Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whatkindofasianpod/ @whatkindofasianpod Guest: Kristy Lin Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kristyklin/ @kristyklin Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV2pcob8WBGAsm6azEr_e5g TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@kristyklin?lang=en A cause that Kristy supports and one yo...

37 - Self Hate, Representation and Inter-Community Racism as Asian Diaspora w/ Therese Neri 13.05.2021 57:56

Send us Fan Mail Host: Kyle Leung Podcast Linktree What Kind of Asian Are You? Podcast Instagram Guest: Therese Neri Blog Twitter Therese Neri is a first generation Asian American (Filipino) nurse living in Houston, Texas. She is also an artist and weeb on the side when she's not busy keeping patients alive at the hospital. The art that she does focus on the ethnic minority groups of Asia (...

36 - The Rise of Asian Hate Crimes Shook Me to My Core w/ Vietnamese-American Adoptee Mei-Lee Perkins 10.05.2021 54:28

Send us Fan Mail Host: Kyle Leung Podcast Linktree What Kind of Asian Are You? Podcast Instagram Guest: Mei-Lee Perkins Today, we have Mei-Lee Perkins, Asian-American chef living in America (in Maine, the whitest state in America). She shared with us her thoughts, feelings and experiences being a Vietnamese-American adoptee raised by a white family during a time when all this Anti-Asian Hate is g...

35 - The Monkey King: A Chinatown Odyssey - Graphic Novel Kickstarter w/ Jerry Ma 04.05.2021 58:14

Send us Fan Mail Host: Kyle Leung Podcast Linktree What Kind of Asian Are You? Podcast Instagram Guest: Jerry Ma Website Support The Monkey King: A Chinatown Odyssey Kickstarter Trailer for The Monkey King: A Chinatown Odyssey Kickstarter Jerry Ma is a New York based illustrator and graphic designer. Best known for his work as Art Director and contributing artist on the ground breaking comic grap...

【BONUS】Hong Kong Food Talks (Foodie Corner) w/Benjamin Cheung 02.05.2021 23:27

Send us Fan Mail Host: Kyle Leung Podcast Linktree What Kind of Asian Are You? Podcast Instagram Guest: Benjamin Cheung Benjamin's Website This is the episode not meant to be listened during late nights or when food isn't accessible to you as this bonus episode talks about food the whole time, specifically Hong Kong/Cantonese food! Benjamin guest for S2E15 and I are both diaspora orig...

34 - Diaspora Asian Identity 101 Class w/Benjamin Cheung (Ph.D) 29.04.2021 1:07:54

Send us Fan Mail Host: Kyle Leung Podcast Linktree What Kind of Asian Are You? Podcast Instagram Guest: Benjamin Cheung Benjamin's Website Benjamin Cheung is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, teaching courses primarily on research methodology, social psychology, and cultural psychology. He came as a settler on unceded Musqueam territory fr...

33 - The Life of a British-South Asian Content Creator － Nabeela Zaman (Good Luck Nabs) 22.04.2021 1:06:17

Send us Fan Mail Host: Kyle Leung Podcast Linktree What Kind of Asian Are You? Podcast Instagram Guest: Nabeela Zaman Nabeela's Blog Nabeela's Youtube Nabeela's Podcast Nabeela's Linktree Nabeela Zaman is a content creator with many different creative projects. She runs a blog, a Youtube channel, a Podcast, and a charity shop with her dad. She focuses on her life, stories,...

【BONUS】LET'S TALK BTS, BLACKPINK, KPOP AND THE KOREAN WAVE w/ Roa Cho (Roa's Podcast) 18.04.2021 29:37

Send us Fan Mail Host: Kyle Leung Podcast Linktree What Kind of Asian Are You? Podcast Instagram Guest: Roa Cho Roa's Instagram Roa's Facebook Roa's Podcast: The Life of An Asian Spotify Roa's Youtube Background: Roa of Roa's Podcast and I both got into KPOP during the second generation of KPOP (2008-2010 time period). She is still a fan of KPOP and follows it especial...

32 - The Life of an Asian American Educator/Podcast Host w/ Roa Cho (Roa's Podcast) 15.04.2021 1:16:26

Send us Fan Mail Host: Kyle Leung Podcast Linktree What Kind of Asian Are You? Podcast Instagram Guest: Roa Cho Roa's Instagram Roa's Facebook Roa's Podcast: The Life of An Asian Spotify Roa's Youtube Roa is one that wears a lot of hats. She is an educator, podcast host, content creator, avid language learner (Kanji writing), and self-love advocate. I feel very honored to be...

31 - Human Up Through Emotional Intelligence w/ Victor Ung (Life Coach) 08.04.2021 59:03

Send us Fan Mail Host: Kyle Leung Podcast Linktree What Kind of Asian Are You? Podcast Instagram Guest: Victor Ung Victor's Website Victor's Linkedin Victor did the whole model minority path until it didn't work for him leading him to give it all up to find his own fulfillment and happiness. Through that journey, he became a speaker, certified life coach, entrepreneur, podcast hos...

30 - Preserving Your Heritage Language Being Diaspora w/Ewen Lee @ewen201 01.04.2021 59:14

Send us Fan Mail Host: Kyle Leung Podcast Linktree What Kind of Asian Are You? Podcast Instagram Guest: Ewen Lee Ewen's Twitter Preserving Your Heritage Language Being Diaspora Ewen is an Internet friend of mine that I hope to be able to meet one day (once Covid is over *fingers crossed*). The reason being, is that he is someone that I share a lot of similar experiences with and someone I r...

29 - Podcasting and Promoting South Asian Representation is the Main Hustle with Suraj Kandukuri (BPWK Podcast) 25.03.2021 57:52

Send us Fan Mail Host: Kyle Leung (Instagram) WHAT KIND OF ASIAN ARE YOU? PODCAST (Podcast Instagram) Linktree (All the podcast links) Guest: Suraj Kandukuri (Instagram) Brown People We Know Podcast (BPWK) (Instagram) Brown People We Know Podcast (Website) Brown People We Know Podcast (Spotify) Brown People We Know Podcast (Apple Podcast) Suraj Kandukuri is a MBA student that will head into a cor...

28 - The UK Boarding School Experience and the Effect on Relationship with Family with Emery Fung (awkwardturtle_pod) 11.03.2021 58:02

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Emery Fung, a Hong Kong-born, native English and Cantonese speaker who has lived in the UK for over 10 years. His joy so far has been in working with people. His skills are in building a community, foresting relationships, business development, research and pitching. Outside of his professional life, he is a LGBT advocate, Social Media Junkie and Sports fanatic....

27 - Pursuing Creative Career in America as a Foreigner With Claire (Chia-Yi) Wu 04.03.2021 48:29

Send us Fan Mail Host: Kyle Leung https://linktr.ee/whatkindofasianareyoupod Guest: Claire (Chia-Yi) Wu Her Website: https://www.clairewu.space/ Her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/instagracw/ Her Food Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eatadakimasuw/ Her Photography Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clairewu.space/ Her Foodie Collective Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/4petitefoodie...

26 - The Power of Asian Media: Solidifying Asian American Identity w/Joanne Van 26.02.2021 59:38

Send us Fan Mail Host: Kyle Leung (@kyle.lhkhk) https://linktr.ee/whatkindofasianareyoupod Guest: Joanne Van (@jovananne) https://www.instagram.com/jovananne/ https://joannevan.com/ https://www.theqoos.com/ Today I talked to Joanne Van, a digital marketer with an ethnic Chinese Vietnamese-American background that was born and raised in America. Her parents were born and raised in Vietnam (Di...

25 - From Doing What "Made Sense" to Living a Financial Independence Lifestyle (FIRE) at 33 w/Maxwell Lee 22.02.2021 56:27

Send us Fan Mail Host: Kyle Leung (@kyle.lhkhk) https://linktr.ee/whatkindofasianareyoupod Guest: Maxwell Lee At various stages in life he has been a professional musician, the general manager of a non-profit performing arts organization, a college professor, a full-time real estate investor and a city planning consultant. He is now focusing on sharing all of these passions through content creat...

24 - Where is HOME? (One Filipino-Chinese Hongkonger's Diaspora Perspective) w/Lyra Tan (@leerahcosplays) 18.02.2021 59:38

Send us Fan Mail Host: Kyle Leung (@kyle.lhkhk) https://linktr.ee/whatkindofasianareyoupod Guest: Lyra Tan (@leerahcosplays) https://www.instagram.com/leerahcosplays/ Where does a Diaspora Asian consider home? Is it where they were born and raised? Is it where they had most of their family in? Is it where you/your family have property? Is it where they are most connected to? Do they actually have...

23 - Being Passionate About Chinese Culture ≠ Pro-CCP w/Stephen Ah Sen 15.02.2021 54:57

Send us Fan Mail 【S2E4】Being Passionate About Chinese Culture ≠ Pro-CCP w/Stephen Ah Sen Host: Kyle Leung (@kyle.lhkhk) https://linktr.ee/whatkindofasianareyoupod Guest: Stephen Ah Sen (@stephenahsen) https://www.instagram.com/stephenahsen/ Shadow Danceland’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shadowdanceland/ Stephen’s Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/stephenahsen/videos “I didn’...

22 - A SEAT AT THE TABLE: THE CHINESE-CANADIAN HISTORY LESSON YOU DIDN'T GET IN SCHOOL w/Denise Fong (@cantoneseheritage) 12.02.2021 1:03:56

Send us Fan Mail Host: Kyle Leung (@kyle.lhkhk) https://linktr.ee/whatkindofasianareyoupod Guest: Denise Fong - Hong Kong-Chinese Canadian (PhD Candidate, UBC Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program) Chinese-Canadian migration history and stories about Chinese Canadians in the early days of Canada are often overlooked and ignored in Canadian history lessons and mainstream media. In today’s epis...

21.2 - Navigating the 3C IDENTITY: CHINESE, CANADIAN, AND CATHOLIC - w/RACHEL WONG [PART 2] 10.02.2021 41:45

Send us Fan Mail Host: Kyle Leung (@kyle.lhkhk) https://linktr.ee/whatkindofasianareyoupod Guest: Rachel Wong - Chinese, Canadian, and Catholic @rchlcwng @femgeniuspod https://www.rchlcwng.com/ Content Warning: This podcast episode will talk about mental health, depression, suicidal ideation, therapy, and body image. Three distinct identities all wrapped into my guest on today’s episode of What Ki...

21－Navigating the 3C IDENTITY: CHINESE, CANADIAN, AND CATHOLIC - w/RACHEL WONG [PART 1] 10.02.2021 44:53

20－THE LIFE OF A CHINESE CANADIAN ADOPTEE FT. CORRINE PASCUAL 【SEASON 1 FINALE】 28.01.2021 36:44

Send us Fan Mail EP 20 THE LIFE OF A CHINESE CANADIAN ADOPTEE FT. CORRINE PASCUAL 【SEASON 1 FINALE】 GUEST - Corrine Pascual ( 吴圆圆 ) (@wu_krina) For the season 1 finale of WHAT KIND OF ASIAN ARE YOU? PODCAST, I interviewed Corrine Pascual, a Chinese Canadian with an interesting life. She is a Chinese Canadian that got adopted by white parents to Canada from Wuhan, China when she was two years...

19－ADULTING IN 2021 FT. GAVIN AND JESS (SIBT.CA) 11.01.2021 1:05:28

Send us Fan Mail EP 19 ADULTING IN 2021 FT. GAVIN AND JESS (SIBT.CA) Guests: Gavin and Jess ( @auyeunggavin ) ( @hijessing ) Chinese Born Canadians --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On this episode, I brought my good friend Gavin back on the podcast along with his girlfriend Jess. I have them on the podcast to talk about the process of growing up or &quot...

18－THE ASIAN MULSIM EXPERIENCE FT. DOCTOR AIMAN (@ITSDOCTORAIMAN) OF YK ASIA 08.01.2021 1:04:11

Send us Fan Mail EP 18 THE ASIAN MULSIM EXPERIENCE FT. DOCTOR AIMAN (@ITSDOCTORAIMAN) OF YK ASIA GUEST: DOCTOR AIMAN -Asian Muslim Culture and heritage journalist AND host of YK Asia Podcast @itsdoctoraiman https://www.instagram.com/itsdoctoraiman/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On this episode,...

17－2020 REFLECTION AND THANK YOU NOTES 01.01.2021 9:35

Send us Fan Mail Thank you for listening and supporting this podcast. I wanted to use this episode to share some of my reflections for the year and also to give thanks to those that really made a difference in my podcasting journey so far. Hope everyone listening will have a great 2021 and can be able to accomplish whatever they want to accomplish. For me, I'm just going to keep doing this an...