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Hello everyone, welcome to The Intersection, a podcast program
about intersectionality, intersectional identities, and
intersectional journeys, both personally and professionally.
I am your host, Joe Fang, and today I am having a solo
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recording that's about our program hitting a summer break.
So, yeah, so the last few monthshave been busy at The
Intersection, and I think we've had almost 30 episodes in the
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first half of 2025, which is awesome.
We're pretty proud of it. And we want to take summer in
the Pacific Northwest as an opportunity for us to slow down,
to relax, to reset, to reflect, to restore and maybe to refresh
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our minds and our body a little bit.
So we are taking a break from recording in July and August,
but we will be back in Septemberwhen fall hits.
So that is a quick announcement.And I would also like to really
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thank our guests in the past fewmonths, and of course, since the
launch of the program, we've hadnumerous wonderful speakers and
guests coming to the podcast program.
And everyone was very willing and excited and just generous
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about coming to the program and sharing their journeys, stories,
and wisdom with us all. If you are a regular listener,
you know our uniqueness of this program is talking about
intersectionality and how that impacts us and shapes us as
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individuals and also as a community.
And storytelling is really important in our work of
teaching and spreading awarenessand hopefully encourage the
practice of intersectionality aswell.
And a really important componentand one of the core values of
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intersectionality is the abundance mindset.
As we've shared and discussed inthe program many Times Now, the
abundance mindset is not about having more and more and more.
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It is about everyone has access to what they need and we all
have enough to sustain, to live and to thrive.
I think that's really important to clarify because in
capitalistic societies we tend to link abundance to more or to
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wealth or to being rich. I mean, yes, the abundance
sometimes is about having, you know, access to resource
whenever we need. And I will say that actually
signals more of privilege to me.And I think the abundance is
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kind of a practice really. It can counter the scarcity
mindset because we, especially now, a lot of us are operating
on the scarcity mindset, and rightfully so.
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I'm not saying that's wrong. The system is designed to
condition us in the mindset of scarcity.
Scarcity means that isn't enoughfor everyone.
There is finite resources. There is a limit and there is
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gatekeeping. There is being protective of
what we have and I think in somecircumstances, yes, being
protective is good, especially for communities that already
don't have much. Sometimes it is about survival,
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and I think if we step back and put things into perspective
simply by being protective and keeping what we have and not
letting other people get near, that's not growing.
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That is surviving. And again, sometimes that is
necessary and which just makes it so much more special and
important to have the opportunity and capacity to
practice the abundance mindset. And I think for folks who are at
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the place to do so, like perhapsmyself, perhaps my guests on the
program, perhaps our community members, our family members, our
friends, our colleagues, our allies, our peers, our leaders.
If you are at a place to let abandoned the abundance mindset
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lead and let it guide you towards prosperity and community
and togetherness and connections, and of course,
under the guidance of the intersectionality framework as
well, then I really encourage you to do so because it's such a
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rewarding, freeing, healing, restorative and liberating
practice in our lives that we wesometimes don't get to enjoy.
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And for me, that's very preciousand special.
And in that sense, I think even having the opportunity and
capacity to practice the abundance mindset is a
privilege. So I want to acknowledge that
again, it's not something like Iam better than you.
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So I am practicing the abundancemindset.
No, it is because we want everyone to do well.
We want everyone to be able to heal, to restore, to have enough
to thrive, to be able to live inas few fear as possible.
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Yeah. So that's that's what I want to
share about the abundance mindset.
And another recurring theme or topic on the Intersection
podcast is about hope. It's a tricky word right now.
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Hope does not mean being just blissfully optimistic without
any reservation, or without any holding back, or without any
observation. Just say I am hopeful and I am
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optimistic. That's not what hope is.
Hope is believing in. It is possible for all of us to
have a future that is good and good means peace and fairness
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and joy and stability and health, community, love for each
other, care for each other, being kind and compassionate for
each other. That's good.
Good is when, even when times are hard, we can still hold on
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to that light that we will we will get to end of it.
We will get to end of the tunnel.
And that's good. That's that's a sense of, you
know, I can be good. I can live a good life.
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And that life is hopeful. It's abundant, it's equal, it's
equitable, it's joyful, it's peaceful, it's calm.
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It is having the courage and bravery to embrace the currents
and the tides, even when things are turbulent and from inside
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out. It is to have their courage to
try it. And hope is believing that even
even in the most challenging times, we still see the
possibility, the possible, the possible goodness in humanity in
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in every one of us. And that's hope.
And I know again, it sounds like, oh, it's so easy for you
to say that it's true. It's so easy to say than done.
And sometimes I don't feel so hopeful, like I've been kind of
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struggling with this health thing with myself for weeks now.
And I, I still yet to figure outhow to, you know, tackle it.
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And sometimes I'm just so like, what do you want from me?
You know, when you don't feel sowell physically and health wise.
But The thing is, these two shall pass after weeks and
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sometimes months or years of struggle.
We can still get through it. It's still possible.
And of course, that is not so easy for for the wandering
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spirits who are lost in conflicts, who are unwillingly
taken from us too soon, too cruelly and cold bloodedly and
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and just inhumanely. That is.
That is something for every one of us to sit with.
We need to sit with that for those folks, for those souls and
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spirits. I my interpretation is they left
their hope behind them and it isour job to continue to carry
their hope with us. It does not make their hope a
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burden or heavier. It makes their hope that much
more precious and important and significant.
And I would like to thank somewhere they know that we
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carry their hope and we move on.Sorry, I shouldn't say move on
and we move forward. We March on, we live on, we
carry on and hopefully when we see each other again, we can
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tell them that we tried and, andhopefully we can say we, we, we
did well and we don't need to besorry or regret.
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And I hope the next generations will continue and they are
continuing to carry their hope with them and live on.
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So yeah. So we're on a break from
recording and but it does not mean our work stops here.
When we come back in the fall inSeptember, we might have some
changes to the program. So we invite you to perhaps sign
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up, subscribe and come back in the fall, and we'll be together
again. Yeah.
And I hope you enjoy the summer.Be healthy, be joyful, be
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hopeful, have abundance in your life and love yourself and love
each other and be well, be well,and until then, take good care.
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Bye.