Why You No Doctor: An Asian-American Podcast

Episode 50: Kulap Vilaysack (@iamkulap) was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Eagan, Minnesota. She is the child of Lao refugees. Her debut documentary, Origin Story, chronicles a road trip into her complicated past to meet her biological father and understand her mother. Vilaysack was also the creator, showrunner and sometimes director of the 4-season semi-scripted comedy series Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ (Seeso). She ser...

Episode 49: Dr. Jenny Wang, also known for @asiansformentalhealth, is a 1.5 generation Taiwanese American and licensed psychologist in Texas and North Carolina. Dr. Wang works exclusively with women’s mental health issues across the lifespan with a specific focus on racial identity and trauma, social justice, and cultural reverence.

In this episode, Dr. Jenny Wang talks about the stigmatized relationship between mental health an...

Episode 47: Kylie Ying (@kylieyying) is a computer engineer currently earning her Master's at MIT and creating content about coding & programming on Youtube. Kylie has always loved math, science, and engineering; her focus is working on applying machine learning to particle physics and improving the dynamical model of a self-driving car! Kylie also started her Youtube channel out of pure love and the intention of sharin...

Episode 46: Esther Moon (@esthermoonstagram), plays Mrs. Oh in Minari, the Oscar-nominated film. Born in South Korea, she immigrated to the United States with her parents at the age of two. Esther decided to pursue acting later in her life and is relatively new to Hollywood. She spent the last two decades as a licensed mental health clinician; it was not until a battle with breast cancer in 2015 that she finally decided to purs...

Episode 45: Vanessa Pham (@vanessatpham) cofounded Omsom, an emerging Asian pantry staple brand that makes cooking favorite dishes with uncompromised flavors and hard-to-find ingredients possible in any home kitchen. A former consumer packaged goods management consultant at Bain & Company, Vanessa and her sister Kim, first-generation Vietnamese-Americans, created Omsom to reclaim the cultural integrity of Asian cuisines tha...

Episode 44: Jason Y. Lee (@jasonylee_) is the Founder & CEO of Jubilee Media, a platform that thrives to provoke a new culture of empathy. With a mission to push people to feel more, think more, and see more in others, Jubilee has garnered over 1B views and 6M+subscribers on Youtube. In this episode, Jason shared more about the core of his mission on empathy, the challenges that come along with it, and what it means to ...

Episode 43: Jurassiq (@jurassiqlol), also known as Clarence Mabansag, is a Professional League of Legends Player and Content Creator. Born in Manila but raised in Chicago, he is breaking stereotypes within the gaming world. During this competitive gaming career, he was a part of Team Gates and Golden Guardians Academy, making his way to the NACS 2017 Summer Qualifiers and NA Academy League. Jurassiq made the transition to conte...

Episode 42:  Maggie Lee is a playwright based in Seattle who aims to create diverse, imaginative new worlds in genres like science fiction, horror, and action-adventure. Her works have won numerous awards and prizes, produced in Seattle, New York, Seoul, Chicago, and San Francisco. Maggie is currently a board member of Rain City Projects, an organization that supports playwrights in the Pacific Northwest, an Artist Associate with M...

Episode 41:  Dan Tran (@dandantran) is a professional ballroom dancer and dance instructor. Growing up, Dan never identified himself as a confident individual until he stumbled upon a dance class in college. Discovering dance meant he was able to find his own voice and an outlet of expression. Dan's interest in dance eventually led him to a competitive career, and ultimately won him two National Titles. Aside from being a p...

Episode 40:  Zach Benson (@zachvacay) is living the dream many of us fantasize about: traveling the world and making money while doing it. But it wasn’t always that easy.  He grew up in Iowa as a Korean adoptee, had a speech impediment, and suffered a back injury that cut his dancing career short. Yet Zach’s fighting spirit kept him going, and now he has reconnected with his birth mother in Korea, he has overcome his speech imp...

Episode 39:  Alex Lee (@alex_lee) just made history by becoming California’s first Gen Z, first openly bisexual and youngest Asian American lawmaker -- all at the age of 25.  While Alex claims he had just been an average student, he definitely isn’t your average politician. He’s about half the typical age of his colleagues, he lives at home with his parents, and in order to make it through his campaign, he had been a part-time ...

Episode 38: Julia Saubier (@Julia Saubier), is a French-Filipina actor, model, martial artist, activist and co-founder of J+J Ventures.  In this episode, she tells us how to trust in the process and to take risks.  Growing up in the Philippines, she always wanted to achieve the best for herself -- the best grades and the best schools so she could achieve the best career. But after all of her hard work, she found herself wit...

Episode 37: Jaeson Ma (@jaesonma),  the co-owner of Triller, is no stranger to adversity. From running the streets to his close brush with the law, it was hard to imagine where he’d be today. Now, he’s a serial entrepreneur with a string of success stories behind him: He’s the co-owner of Triller, the founder of East West Ventures,  and co-founder of 88rising and Stampede Ventures. 

His journey began with a thirst to prove himse...

Episode 36: Shang Saavedra (@savemycents) is the voice behind the popular financial-literacy blog, Save My Cents. Having achieved financial independence at the age of 31, she aims to share her money expertise with those who need it most, empowering others to change their lives, on their own terms, for the better.

In this episode of the Why You No Doctor Podcast, Shang and Dominic take a deep dive into some of Shang's most tr...

Episode 35: Benny Luo (@bennyluo) is the founder and CEO of NextShark, a media company that speaks primarily to the global Asian youth. A venture that was started with just $3,000, NextShark has since grown to serve millions of monthly readers, with hundreds of thousands of followers spanning across their social media.

Learn the insights of Benny's entrepreneurial and personal journey in this week's episode of the Why Yo...

Episode 34: In this bonus episode, Dominic and John Victoria from Polianna LLC (https://www.linkedin.com/company/polianna-seo/) have a conversation about entrepreneurship, future goals, books, and more.

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Episode 33: Eugene Kang (@countryarcher) is the CEO and co-founder of Country Archer Provisions, the number one jerky brand in the natural and specialty channels.

Eugene dropped out of college to found Country Archer Jerky Co after tasting the product by chance at Grand Canyon while on a road trip. In 2019, just 8 years after its founding, the company earned an estimate of $35 million in revenue, with its products spread across ...

Episode 32: Jessica Chen (@jessicachenpage) is the founder and CEO of Soulcast Media, a communications and media agency. Prior to founding her start-up, Jessica was a TV news reporter for ten years, working for various stations like Time Warner Cable and ABC 10News. In 2017, she won an Emmy Award for her reporting work at ABC.

Now, she works full-time with her clients at Soulcast Media, where she coaches professionals on develop...