It’s the first episode of season 2 — join me as I update you on everything I’ve been up to for the past three months, and give a few hints at what I’ve got in store for this season.

Join me in this season end episode of F*ck Saving Face with a mindfulness practice designed to nurture gratitude for all the ways in which you show up every day, and to look back at all the experiences and the people who have been part of a wonderful season. Take a moment to remind yourself of how truly worthy you are.

Check out this interview with Dr. Sam Ko, Board Certified emergency physician and the founder of Reset Ketamine, where we talk about how he uses advances in ketamine therapy to support mental and emotional health, transforming what was once considered a party drug into a solution for patients. He also shares his personal experience growing up as Asian American male.

In this episode, I share my own personal experience with the use of DMT and how I’ve defied what my Chinese parents thought was acceptable when it came to substance use.

When exploring trauma, a lot of things can come up. Today’s practice helps you handle those feelings with care, and gingerly move towards a deeper kind of healing. Discover what it’s like to breathe and let your guard down.

Licensed psychotherapist and Red Cross first aid responder KJ Nasrul joins us to talk about trauma - both the big T and small t trauma. Tune in and know the difference, and get plenty other insights, including how to embrace your Asian identity when you were adopted into a white family.

I’ll be sharing in this episode, a little bit of the trauma that I have experienced from the most unexpected people - my own family. This episode opens up this week’s topic on Trauma, and the ways you can process every day little moments of it to the big experiences, too.

This week’s mindfulness practice is to remind you how powerful you are, and how to exercise that power to live the kind of life you want, not what the kind of life other people think you should have. Discover your inner strength today.

Vietnamese American triathlete and Google team member Chi Pham, joins us in this episode where we talk about what it was like to pursue competitive sports AND become plant-based with traditional Vietnamese parents... and how we're changing the story of female beauty for Asian Americans everywhere.

Listen in to today's episode about growing up and wanting to express yourself, but not get any support from family and other people close to you. In this episode, we talk about how difficult it is to go on a plant-based diet when you’re coming from an Asian family.

This Mindfulness Practice is to bring awareness about eco-grief and use meditation and breathing to give yourself a kind of relief and healing.

Check out this interview with Daisy Chen Hutton, founder of The Fixx Collective, where we talk about why sustainability in fashion is so essential, and how growing up with traditional Chinese parents both showed her what it was like to not be wasteful, and why rising in socioeconomic status doesn't mean you need to buy-buy-buy!

This week, we’re talking about sustainability — namely the lessons you may have learned in your immigrant household and how that can translate into a greater good for all. I hope this serves as a reminder that it’s never too late, and we can make a beneficial impact even with small shared efforts to help our planet. Listen today!

This week’s episodes were dedicated towards healing — both physically and mentally. Here’s a guided meditation toward self-reflection and becoming whole.

Erin Wilkins shares about her business, an acupuncture and herbalism practice in Northern California, where she is actively bridging of Eastern and Western medicine. We also talk about code switching and learning how to fit in a community. Don’t miss this beautiful, beautiful episode!

In this episode, we talk about the different aspects and practices of acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine handed down through the generations — and what it looks like now.

Play should never end with childhood. I’m inviting you to join me in this Episode as we look at the idea of play and how it can benefit you as adults.

My guest on this Episode is Marie Bigham of Accept or Admissions Community Cultivating Equity and Peace Today. Listen in as we relate to each other’s cultural and professional backgrounds, as well as talk about the real world of college education today.

In the here and now, if you are going through a challenging time, it is one slice of your life that, you know, there might be such beauty that comes out of it, such wisdom, such purpose, and the ability to help somebody else. And if we are all in the shared humanity together, I feel like the thing that makes our lives, the richest and the most fulfilling are those connections that we can really open up our hearts and be vulnerable and authentic with the other people around us.

If you've been following this week, we've been really focusing on joy and how to create more of it on how to parent or show up differently, especially if you were raised in rigid traditional environments that maybe didn't align with how you are as a person and who you want it to be