Frank and laid-back conversations about all aspects of life from a Christian perspective over cosy Swedish Fika. We will air podcasts twice a month and bonus material more sporadically.
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Linh Nguyen Podcasts
The different methods of catching fish on the industrial level Cover art photo provided by Nguyen Linh on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@nklphoto
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Interviews with Scholars of Asian America about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/asian-american-studies
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Vietnam Rising là podcast về kinh doanh chia sẻ kiến thức và những câu chuyện truyền cảm hứng từ những cá nhân nổi bật trong lĩnh vực của họ. Mùa 3 đã quay trở lại với nội dung Tiếng Việt về Web3/ Blockchain và tại sao bạn nên chú ý đến nó. Vietnam Rising is a business podcast focus on inspirational stories and lessons from excellent individuals who are thriving in their industries. Season 3 is back with Vietnamese content about Web3/ Blockchain and why you should pay attention to it.
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Welcome to Space to Lead—the podcast where leaders and teams come together to learn, grow, and thrive. Every episode, your host David LeBlanc will have engaging conversation with leaders, exploring fresh insights and strategies that inspire leaders to create dynamic, engaging cultures. We'll dive into conversations with visionary leaders and industry experts who are transforming teams and shaping the future of leadership. Whether you’re leading from the front or working within a team, Space ...
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POC Podcast - Progressive Opinions of Color
Nancy Wu (Asian American, Economist, Progressive, Woman, Storyteller)
Welcome to Progressive Opinions of Color (POC), a podcast that creates space for people of color in conversations about economics, politics, and culture. Your host is Nancy Wu. Nancy is an Asian American woman, an economist, and a huge politics and policy nerd. Nancy triple majored in Economics, Government (Political Science) and Gender Studies at Dartmouth and has a Master’s in Development Economics from Oxford. She works as an Economist full time and has previously worked in economic polic ...
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Film & TV, The Creative Process: Acting, Directing, Writing, Cinematography, Producers, Composers, Costume Design, Talk Art & Creativity
Acting, Directing, Writing, Cinematography Producing Conversations: Creative Process Original Series
Film & TV episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. We speak to actors, directors, writers, cinematographers & variety of behind the scenes creatives about their work and how they forged their creative careers. To listen to ALL arts & creativity episodes of “The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society”, you’ll find our main podcast on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Exploring the fascinating minds o ...
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Kelly Writers House impresario Al Filreis leads a lively roundtable discussion of a single poem with a series of rotating guests including Tracie Morris, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, erica kaufman, Charles Bernstein, Sawako Nakayasu, Simone White, and others.
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Exploring The Sympathizer, America's Forever Wars & Challenging Power w/ Author VIET THANH NGUYEN
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1:02:34“What I've discovered as a writer is that fear is a good indicator that there is a truth. To speak the truth in a society is oftentimes an act that requires some courage. Those processes of being an other for me in the United States were obviously very fundamental to shaping who I am as a person and as a writer. It was very difficult to undergo, bu…
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Alexus McLeod, "Myth and Identity in the Martial Arts: Creating the Dragon" (Lexington Books, 2025)
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1:40:00Myth and Identity in the Martial Arts: Creating the Dragon (Lexington Books, 2025) is a study of the role of myth and ideology in the formation of social identity, focusing on a variety of communities of practice involving the martial arts in East Asian and Western history. Alexus McLeod argues that myths of the martial arts should not be understoo…
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Writing, Imagination & Memory w/ Author & Filmmaker JAY PARINI
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30:47“Poetry is the prince of the literary arts to me. It's at the very top because it's language refined to its apex of memorability. I am interested in poetry as memorability and poetry as something you live by. These are the words you live by. These words stay in your brain and guide your life. That's what I am interested in. My memoir slash autofict…
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Rebecca Jo Kinney, "Mapping AsiaTown Cleveland: Race and Redevelopment in the Rust Belt" (Temple UP, 2025)
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1:13:37In this episode we challenge the ideas about invisibility of Asian Americans in the urban Midwest by discussing Rebecca Jo Kinney’s Mapping AsiaTown Cleveland: Race and Redevelopment in the Rust Belt (Temple University Press, 2025). Mapping AsiaTown Cleveland links the contemporary development of Cleveland’s “AsiaTown” to the multiple and fragmente…
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An Actor Prepares - SHARON LAWRENCE on Crafting Complex Characters - Highlights
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20:42“I would encourage you, as I do if you're an actor, to know your own equipment, know your own psychology, and use the great teachers that are synthesized in my favorite teacher's book, Moss, who I studied with later. There is a book called Intent to Live that distills down Uta Hagen, Stella Adler, Bobby Lewis, and Stanislavski. The great teachers a…
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SHARON LAWRENCE on Acting, Activism & The Art of Transformation
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1:02:31“That transformation was key to my next step as an artist, to knowing that's what acting is. It isn't just posing; it isn't just being a version of yourself in a way that was free. Performing wasn't just performing; it was transforming. I think that artists find that in many different ways, and as actors, there are many ways into that. I would enco…
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Childhood, Creativity & the Stories that Define Who We Are with MEGAN ABBOTT - Highlights
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16:23“I think that it all goes back to childhood. I’ve always really been writing about family. I suppose we always are. I do think that it is the original wound, and it's where we are kind of wired and built from those early years. So I think every other relationship just replicates that. It's very natural for me to go there, I suppose because the feel…
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Exploring Family Dynamics & Fierce Female Friendships with Novelist MEGAN ABBOTT
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49:59“I always say to young writers, you need to put your heart on the page. Don't worry about being like anyone else. I would say that foremost, in any of the arts, it is self-expression at its core. I don't buy rules or a set criteria or a static criteria. I don't believe in any of that. I think the most exciting talents are kind of inexplicable. You …
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What would you do if you never had children?
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32:10Today's episode began with Linh, Edward, and their guest Alice, who attempted to answer this existential question about an alternative to the life that they now have. It all started one day after church as they sat and had fika. Have a box of tissues on hand since you will probably laugh until you cry.…
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Episode 13 - Leading with Integrity and Resilience: Creating Space in Complex Systems
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25:58In this episode of Space to Lead, David speaks with Suzanne about the increasing challenges faced by leaders in the public sector, navigating complexity, and the importance of staying true to oneself. They explore practical strategies for maintaining integrity, building resilience, and creating essential space in demanding environments. In the conv…
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Building Bridges, Breaking Cycles: Personal Stories of Healing, Social Justice & Activism
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12:59How do our personal relationships affect political movements and activism? What can we learn from Native American tradition to restore ecological balance? How can transforming capitalism help address global inequality and the environmental crisis? DEAN SPADE (Author of Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell T…
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Mayukh Sen, "Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star" (Norton, 2025)
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57:15In 2022, Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian actress to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. But she wasn’t the first actress of Asian origin to be nominated. In 1935, Merle Oberon was nominated for Best Actress for the role of Kitty Vane in The Dark Angel, only her second film in the U.S. film industry. But no one knew Oberon was Asian. Her pu…
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Along with their guest, Alice, Edward, and Linh sit around the fika table and discuss whether there really is such a thing as working too much. With their usual banter and unique perspective, they try to give insight into something that is relevant to our time.By Linh Nguyen & Edward Thomas
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Seulghee Lee, "Other Lovings: An Afroasian American Theory of Life" (Ohio State UP, 2025)
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42:33Join me for a conversation with Dr. Seulghee Lee (Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English, University of South Carolina) about his recently published book, Other Lovings: An AfroAsian American Theory of Life (Ohio State UP, 2025). Some topics of our discussion include Adrian Tomine's graphic novel Shortcomings (2007), Gayl Jones…
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Exploring Trauma, Healing & the Creative Process with Author LIZ MOORE - Highlights
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12:13“I think income inequality really greatly contributes to the rage that people might feel, even as some Americans won't. What don't recognize that a more communal society might benefit them. What they see instead is, why don't I have what that person has? Something's getting in my way. And it's not a lack of, of community, it's: somebody else is kee…
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Family, Addiction & Overcoming Trauma - LIZ MOORE on Long Bright River starring AMANDA SEYFRIED
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49:08“ I've lived in Philadelphia for about 16 years. The book itself was inspired by my time spent in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia interviewing a lot of the people that I met there, both longtime residents of the neighborhood and also people who were transient, a lot of people struggling with addiction and a lot of women doing sex work…
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Linda Trinh, "Seeking Spirit: A Vietnamese (Non) Buddhist Memoir" (Miroland, 2025)
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37:54Join NBN host Hollay Ghadery for a thought-provoking conversation with Linda Trihn about her memoir, Seeking Spirit: A Vietnamese (Non)Buddhist Memoir (Miroland, 2025). Linda Trinh had everything she thought an immigrant woman should want: motherhood, career, and security. Yet, she felt empty. Growing up in Winnipeg, Linda helped her mom make offer…
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PAUL LYNCH discusses Prophet Song, Beyond the Sea & his Creative Process - Highlights
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18:19"The country spoke Irish largely before it spoke English. Grammatically, the structure of Irish is different from English. As Ireland adopted the English language, this sort of hybridization started to occur, where the English language was placed on top of Irish grammatical constructions. You get this slipperiness, this ability to move sentences, t…
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On Storytelling, Film & The Human Condition w/ Booker Prize Winner, Fmr. Film Journalist PAUL LYNCH
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48:39 “We narrate the story of our lives to ourselves. We narrate it in linear fashion. And I know many writers have played with time in all sorts of amazing ways, but we're storytellers. This is what we do. And if you give the brain a story, a prepackaged story, you're giving a cheesecake. That's what it wants. That's why it loves stories. That's why o…
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Brian Masaru Hayashi, "Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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1:11:58Spies deep behind enemy lines; double agents; a Chinese American James Bond; black propaganda radio broadcasters; guerrilla fighters; pirates; smugglers; prostitutes and dancers as spies; and Asian Americans collaborating with Axis Powers. All these colorful individuals form the story of Asian Americans in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), th…
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The stories about Germany still go strong. Linh shares about some things that she misses from Germany. This gives an insider view from a true Cross Culture person as these friends compare Swedish friends to German friends. Hope you learn something new! This episode is from autumn 2024.By Linh Nguyen & Edward Thomas
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ADAM MOSS - Fmr. Editor of New York Magazine, Author, Artist on Creativity as a Process - Highlights
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14:23“When I was working at the Times and the Times Magazine, on one Tuesday morning, the towers fell. September 11, 2001. The magazine had a 10-day lead time, so it was a weekly that was essentially 10 days old by the time it came out. We came to work and realized the world had changed, and the entire process, the magazine had been made for over a hund…
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Edward and Linh started talking about many of the various people that Linh made friends with while in Germany. Of course the names are not revealed, as Linh shares about her experiences with her BFF. It seems that many people who have opened up to Linh have had a lot of tough things happening to them. This episode is from Autumn 2024.…
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This episode was recorded in Autumn 2024. It has been a while since Edward and Linh have been in the same city to so a new podcast episode. Now the two friends are back at the fika table after church where they talk about the things happening in their lives. Let us know if you feel that their comedic wisdom still has fire. Let us know about topics …
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In this episode of Space to Lead, we explore self-leadership with Linh Nguyen, a self worth and leadership coach, and author of SELF-RECKONING: Embracing the Journey Beyond Forty and Divorce. You can learn more about Linh and her work at https://thewiseheart.ca/ and on Instagram @the.wiseheartBy David LeBlanc
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How has feminism changed in light of the way we live now? DEAN SPADE (Author of Love in a F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up & Raise Hell Together) on recognizing political conditions in personal relationships. MARILYN MINTER (Artist, Feminist) on sexual agency, beauty & her creative process. TEY MEADOW (Author of Trans Kids: Bein…
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Inside the Mind of PETER WELLER, Actor, Art Historian, Director, Musician, Author - Highlights
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13:57Peter Weller is a renowned theater and Hollywood actor. His performances in films such as RoboCop and Naked Lunch garnered him much critical and commercial success over the years. His television acting and directing credits include Sons of Anarchy, Dexter, and 24. Unbeknownst to most, Weller has spent decades honing his appreciation for the visual …
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From RoboCop to the Renaissance w/ Actor, Art Historian, Director, Musician, Author PETER WELLER
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1:11:27“I met Miles backstage at the Hollywood Bowl—the last gig he ever played. Miles asked, “Who’s that white boy?” I introduced him to Bob Thiele Jr., whose father produced Coltrane. When Miles discovered this, he said, “Well, you can hang,” following this friendly gesture with me walking Miles to his car. I did not know he was dying. I kissed him on b…
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Laureen D. Hom, "The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles" (U California Press, 2024)
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1:26:07Chinatown neighborhoods in the United States are about more than restaurants, shops, and architecture, argues San Jose State urban studies associate professor Laureen Hom in The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles (California UP, 2024). They're also communities where people live, organize, and argue over politics. China…
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Linh Thuy Nguyen, "Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production" (Temple UP, 2024)
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1:32:23Nearly fifty years after the end of the war in Vietnam, American children of Vietnamese refugees continue to process the meanings of the war and its consequences through creative work. Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production (Temple UP, 2024) examines how Vietnamese American cultural…
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Susan Tate Ankeny, "American Flygirl" (Citadel Press, 2024)
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29:40In 1931, Hazel Ying Lee, a nineteen-year-old American daughter of Chinese immigrants, sat in on a friend’s flight lesson. It changed her life. In less than a year, a girl with a wicked sense of humor, a newfound love of flying, and a tough can-do attitude earned her pilot’s license and headed for China to help against invading Japanese forces. In t…
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The Creative Process w/ JULIE ANDREWS, PAUL SCHRADER, JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY, ETGAR KERET, JOY GORMAN WETTELS, CHAYSE IRVIN, MANUEL BILLETER
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14:03JULIE ANDREWS (Oscar, Tony & Pulitzer Prize-winning Actress & Singer · The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins) Andrews shares her experience working on Mary Poppins, revealing behind-the-scenes secrets about the character. She reminisces about her collaboration with Walt Disney and Tony Walton. ETGAR KERET (Cannes Film Festival Award-winning Director & A…
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Tao Leigh Goffe, "Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis" (Doubleday Books, 2025)
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1:04:02In 1492, Christopher Columbus arrived on the Caribbean Island of Guanahaní to find an Edenic scene that was soon mythologized. But behind the myth of paradise, the Caribbean and its people would come to pay the price of relentless Western exploitation and abuse. In Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis (…
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In this episode of Space to Lead, David walks us through the elements of the SPACE to LEAD model, and explores how creating space for ourselves as leaders - regardless of whether it seems indulgent - is critical for our effectiveness. You can also learn more about this model by visiting www.teamshiftmagazine.ca and reading a recent article about th…
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