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Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"thea" Discussed on Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"People like me and others to share about our experiences Asian and married men. It's such an honor to be here with you. The love that I tasted town has erased it. And I'm stuck between nothing. Now what's up is Melbourne the poet say to let it be. But baby I'll remember when Asian America is now directed and produced by Ken phone. Special thanks to big phony and Tim be told for allowing us to use their music. For more information about any of the guests appearing on this show, please visit WWW dot AA podcast dot com. You can subscribe to this podcast by going to our website, iTunes, or any of the other podcast platforms. If you like what you hear, please share your favorite episodes with your family and friends. Word of mouth is our best form of advertising. Don't forget to rate and review us on iTunes or whatever platform you're using. You can now go to WWW dot Patreon dot com and become a patron of this podcast. You can also click on the donate tab on our web page. Check out our Facebook page for additional content, or you can also leave us a message or recommend potential guest. Thanks again for tuning in.
Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"thea" Discussed on Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"I talked to the senior executive at pharma, things like that, and I just basically established myself as somebody who's thought leader in the industry as House junior of an experience as I am, and then just slowly work my way into venture capital. So I'm excited to be, I guess we usually call it the dark side of the ecosystem, but it has been very eye opening to actually see what comes into the funding decision. And especially how does statistic is right now because for Asian American women, especially for Asian American sort of founders, the funding that we received is so minimal and it even slashes and lower for Asian American women because the stigma around us not being leaders and not being a great visionary is still so pervasive and it come across a lot in funding decisions. No matter whether it's verbalized or not. So I'm excited to be on this side of the table and help making the changes that needed to be made. In the little sign that we've had with each other, I'm seeing you as this package, like you juggle lots of balls and you're not afraid of going deep, your curiosity, your care, your compassion, it pervades all these interests that you have. I'm hoping that our time together, you feel understood. Oh, absolutely. I'm so honored to be here and I've learned a lot from, you know, what you said about your experience and about you know what you said about the bonding to the bondage, I think that is something if I have one takeaway that would be like a lesson that is the message that I want to continue to spread and I want to tell that to a lot of my friends who struggle with it as well. I think that's such a good concept to keep in mind. Well, part of my profession was being a communicator. So I was trying to come up with a way to capture and understand a concept. So I'm glad it stuck with you, you know? And if it can find traction in your audiences, I'm thrilled to hear that. Thank you so much for giving me this time and more importantly for opening yourself opening up this Pandora's box that has always been there. We both acknowledge these are complex issues, generational trauma. It's too easy to just point blame fingers and it's sported, but what do we do with this? Even if there's more than one party involved, it's like, well, if I can't get all the parties to equally work on this, what's my work? What do I have to do? And I think you're a great monitor for that. I'm just really, really thrilled that with all the work that you've got on your plate, you're still putting yourself out there because I think you made a name for yourself on this issue because of how you first opened up to it. It could have just been a big complaint, but deep down inside you were sharing pain. And I think that's what got through to a lot of people. So thank you so much. I appreciate you beyond words and I look forward to seeing what good things are going to come from your involvement in this area. Thank you. Thank you so much for continuing to give this platform for
Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"thea" Discussed on Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"There you go. And it's a cycle that will continue to run unless there is intersection. And I honestly, if you cross what you have said between the development stages to happiness, for example, a lot of our happiness and life, of course, this materialistic happiness that comes from doing things you love or owning certain material thing, but a lot of the human happiness comes from not only bonding and being surrounded by people you love, but also having that fulfillment in life, achieving life fulfillment and that comes from job hobbies, whatever that it is having a purpose outside of oneself. And I think in reflection of my own self, I realize because of the trauma that I have gathered growing up and that could be both emotional, financial, and career wise, I like that initial stage, I grew up very fast. I felt like I grew up very fast and I was forced to grow up very fast. I lacked that initial stage of self exploration and self interest exploration that I didn't know who I am now 27 years later of who I am and as a person and what makes me fulfilled in life. I have a great job. I have a really great career track ahead. Is it my passion? I don't know. And that is has an adult beginning to redevelop myself as a kid and going through all of the stages is so essential for me to get to that certain level of self fulfillment that I want to achieve like I said in one of my video I think my parents definition of success is prestige titles and financial success is surviving. Exactly. It is surviving. As an immigrant, you know, surviving in the culture, they know that in order to survive in America, you have to have all of this thing, the accolades the education for people to respect and take you seriously so that you have money to do all of this. But I think for this next generation is no longer about surviving. And I'm excited for that. It's about thriving in finding ones is happiness. Why I really, really embracing this beautiful culture. Where is this unexpected, it's not a career, but it's a huge add on to your life, helping people navigate generational trauma, where does it take you, are you just kind of writing the current, the wave, I don't know if you reached out to the person that contacted me about your thing or there's people that are watching influencers and then they find the influencers and they say, hey, you know, we can help you, what is happening with this part of your life because this need is not going to go away. Yeah. Exactly. It has been a whirlwind. I would say I was a very private person before this. So now all of a sudden basically just light opening myself up to share about my struggle, has been a boundary test every time. I post a video. But I would say I am embraced it and I'm proud of the community that I've had cultivated in the conversation that I have sparked. I always excited whenever people comment and said, you know, I sent your video to my mom and that helped us talk. And I'm excited to be kind of like a vehicle that facilitate conversations across different families. It has put a strain on my time, which was already very limited because I have a very demanding job. But I'm continuing to post. I don't know where this will lead me to be honest. And it also break through that comfort of because I feel like we have such a stigma, not I wouldn't say a stigma, but we have such a everybody have their views on influencer and creator. I think. And for me now, even saying I'm a creator, it feels like such a weird sense. Because that's not, you know, like, what do you mean a creator? You have a PhD now. And that's another thing. Is that somebody I know and respected tremendously professionally, warned me against creating this because I had built up a very solid professional reputation on certain area of expertise and BioTech in this, and you know, his exact word was you don't want to be known as the mental case to the world. Because why would you work so hard for your whole life? Why would you want to be known for this? And I think that is also a generational thing because I think at work, yes, we professional we put in everything, but everybody is human, and we have our struggle. And everybody's multifaceted, and yes, I shared about my depression and everything, but it doesn't mean that I'm incapable of performing well at my draw. And I think by doing that, it encourages more people to share, to seek for avenues to get help. And I think that's the most important things that I want to continue to facilitate. It sounds like this person was older, I don't know about baby boomer, but what I said earlier about how my baby boomer generation is hiring the millennials and if there's this baby boomer mentality, like, oh, well, that's weakness. Oh, that's showing too much vulnerability, then you can't be professional. Well, that's not just having to do with doctor Theo fam. That's like hiring a whole generation of millennials because they're bringing much more of their whole cells into the job. Yeah. I'm assuming he was well intentioned. Of course. But he's actually saying more about his own mindset and how he's projecting on to you. I would never do that. That's professional suicide. Whereas I think as your generation starts taking up more of the C suites and all of that kind of space, that mentality of us baby boomers is really going to disappear. Yeah, absolutely. And I want to get that change. I work as a venture capital, so I actually talked to their startup companies and make decisions to help invest in them. And in that evaluation of startup, I'm sure you know if the U.S. startup culture is all about the crime and so about the numbers and getting that all of that metrics in, but there's one thing that mental health aspects of startup, I think that is the changes that I'm trying to continue to push in my professional life as how many no matter how small of an impact that might be, but I think beginning it's many small ways makes a big one so I think I'm excited about the future as more people are less stigmatized and continue to express their vulnerability. Yeah, that's cool. Okay, you know, in the brief time that we've got left, how did you go from BioTech entrepreneur to venture capitalists? Because I don't see a through line. Well, I would say, so I did my PhD in neuroscience at UCLA. And I started my company in why I'm doing my PhD. So if one theme you know about me is that I take on so many different things all at once a lot a lot. I'm seeing that. I'm learning that about you. But I think the direct answer to your question is just a lot of network because once my company is finished, I ended up taking on a lot of different roles across different pharmas and then I managed to just talk to a lot of people, get a lot of advice, do a lot of what you also currently doing. I was on Clubhouse a lot. I talked to the senior executive at pharma, things like that, and I just basically established myself as somebody who's thought leader in the industry as
Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"thea" Discussed on Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"Why don't get things done? I thought I was lazy. I was dysfunctional. You know, all the things that I heard growing up, but you know, learning the self awareness, to realize that, oh my God, I need help. I think it probably take this generation and potentially the next generation for us to continue to break through the generational trauma and while embracing this beautiful culture that we're so blessed to be born with. Yeah, so that's that third stage of human development, integrating goodness and badness, right? Yeah. And it's not a binary. It's not good or bad, right? I think your generation, my daughter's generation, are much more in touch with your state of mental health. So now, you know, I'm third generation and baby boomer. So as I talk to my peers who are hiring your generation, okay? That kind of scratching their it sometimes. They're saying, is there more incidents of depression and anxiety, let's say, or suicidal ideation among this current generation of young adults or are they just more apt to talk about it? And so some of that, baby boomer conversation is, well, they're just wimps. Babe, we had depression. We didn't have time to be low energy. We still had to get things done, right? Yo, that's a sign of privilege that they could even complain that. And again, I think it's a mixed bag. I think there is probably some of that. But at the same time, I think to your point, Thea, I think your generation is a little bit ahead of the curve in that you're much more free to talk about your struggles. It doesn't feel so shameful. I mean, it still has degrees of that. But the resources, especially for Asian Americans, in the mental health aspect, there's still lacking. We need more mental health workers who can speak the different dialects at different languages, right? It needs to be affordable. It needs to be accessible. All of that being the case, I think the parent generation who are immigrants, they're still going to be way behind the curve. And so you have these children like yourself who are going to therapy, getting help getting healthier, expressing yourself, but your parents aren't going to do the same thing. That generation. And so you're still kind of straddling these two realities. That's just part of what you got to deal with, right? I tried to get my parents to get healthier. As I was getting healthy and understood what healthy looked like and sounded like my parents were always comparing our family to somebody else's family relatives, people in the church in order to feel better about ourselves, okay? One day, I was already grown and married. I had dinner at a Chinese restaurant with my parents. I said, hey, you know, I was looking at family dysfunction. And I don't even know they know that term, okay? I was looking at family dysfunction and on a scale of one to ten, ten being really sad and dysfunctional and one being really not. I now think our family, even though our family on the outside looks like we laugh all the time, we're very talkative. I said, I think our family is like a 7 or 8 on the sad and dysfunctional scale. And I think a lot of our humor is to mask a lot of the unresolved issues and tensions starting with you and that. I mean, you guys fight every day, right? My mom within less than two seconds changed the subject. So I said, so what do you think? What would you rate our family? That is not a conversation, our family. Especially with your parents. So my mama oh, well, you know who's a sad and dysfunctional family is your uncle's own self. It was a jiu-jitsu move. It was so fast. Inside by myself, I took a step back on the thought, well, I'm not here to pity my parents. I feel bad for them, though, because they don't have the wiring that my generation has, and doesn't always use, but when we use it, at least we're willing to have a conversation that's hard. I might be doing a little projecting here onto your situation, but I feel like, yeah, there's advancements and that's great. And the signs are there. The fact that you're doing what you're doing, personally, and then on the Internet, but it doesn't make your parents catch up to you. Exactly. Yeah. And I think that's the part that I'm beginning to have to accept and figure it out away because trust me, I've tried. I've tried, you know, talking to them, candidly, share vulnerability, share emotion like sharing emotion is hard for our family. I'm not sure about yours. Is that my, you know, I'm sure my parents never said, I love you, that weight is always bringing food. Have you eaten? Right. And I was trying to share vulnerability, that didn't really work. Because I share, but they never share back. And I also try to distill a lot of what I've learned from science, from literature, from therapy, just some casual conversations, like, hey, I think like once children grow old, sometimes I want a little bit boundary here, and I think it's healthy, doesn't mean I don't love you. When I don't pick up your call, it doesn't mean I don't love you. Things like that, but also that doesn't seem to work. So I begin to come to term with the sadness that potentially there is no, you can't really make somebody change unless they want to. Right. And I guess I could only look forward to the future of maybe we just go with the system that they have, but then I want to spread the knowledge for the future generations. Because you know like generational trauma and I have deep empathy for them, whatever my dad or my mom received from my grandparents, that passed on. Into their DNA, and that pass on to me. It programmed into your DNA, research has shown, and it has to take a couple of generations for this to change, and I'm fortunate to have this,
Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"thea" Discussed on Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"Parents. I almost imagined it feel like a penis and peanut brittle. Everyone's in these relationship grid, but it's frozen. And even as you get older and you get gray hair, your parents are still older than you. And you're never going to be wiser than them sort of thing. And so then you tend to then pay it backwards or forward into your gender. If you have kids and then the cycle keeps repeating itself. Exactly. And I think you find yourself in this liminal generation where you this, as you said, third culture kid, where you say, well, I have other than just Vietnamese culture lens to look at our family, and I want something more, it takes effort. It takes work and it's very unfamiliar to your parents generation. They're not used to being asked that question. Let alone have an answer. Yep, exactly. And I think you hit the nail on the head. I think that's the reason why I continue to post because that generational trauma is so pervasive. It sometimes like the way I think about it, my dad had a really challenging time growing up, my grandpa was really, really, really strict on him. And I know he carries so much of that drama and, you know, it is a reason for all of the anger issues and all of the things that ended up I received, and now when I look at the way I react to situation, often I found like, oh my God, I'm exactly his split image. You know, the way sometimes I sobering. Exactly. And it just all of that emotional response I just imprinted upon me and it just having this awareness and having also like the privilege to actually come from Vietnam to the U.S. to see a different lens of things to see a different perspective to even be in therapy and receiving all the help I can get to actually get my emotion regulation in check. I saw that as a privilege and I want that I really want to obviously spread what I've learned and what I have pondered for so long on social media and I just shocked me how many people actually went through the same thing and just never spoken about it. So you mentioned earlier theater that you normally had like 20 views on your TikTok. 20 followers. My TikTok 20 5. Yeah, okay. So then you posted this very traumatized vulnerable fee of video about what had just happened, what kind of reaction did you get from the Internet? Oh my God. How many people viewed your video? So right now is sitting at 20 6.8 million. I didn't enable download so you can download my video. But some people screen record it and post it on Facebook and Instagram. So I think collectively, my friend has counted somewhere around a 100 millions. Total of views, and all of a sudden I came from, you know, 20 followers. Now I'm at 400,000 as of today, and it was just shocking. I initially thought this was a uniquely Asian American experience, and I was so wrong. I didn't realize this is Hispanic culture also have similar things. You know, Middle Eastern cultural also have to learn things. And that's even for African American. There's a thing called the black tax. Yes, people educate me so much. It's that, you know, when you grow up and yes, you get to a certain level of financial stability, but then you have your entire family to take care of and that's an unwritten rules, and that actually decrease a lot of the social economics status and burned in on African American as they managed to break through the ceilings to actually success in the world too. So yes. Did you get any comments that were critical of you? Like, you're wrong, your parents are right. Oh, yes. So many. I think. Oh, really? So many. I think with attention comes scrutiny. Yeah, my gut reaction initially was just like, I need to private this whole video, like pretend it didn't happen. But yes, the comment was, you know, you were ungrateful, your parents care for you. You're so Americanized that you forgot your roots. You're the sellout. Wow. Yes, there was a lot of critical comments through the whole journey. I think what made me make the decision to actually keep the video up and continue to post not only about that experience, but also my childhood growing up. Has been, I receive a flawed amount of trust messages, mostly from really, really young children. We're talking about like 12, 14s who felt really trapped. The Asian American kids feel so trapped in their family. You know, I felt such a big failure. I'm not bringing my parents bride. I felt so depressed because I felt like they don't understand me. I can't talk to them. I didn't know who to talk to. I felt like all my cousins are getting stuff together and I don't. To all of that messages made me decided to keep it up. Because from the outside looking in, I look like somebody who's an Asian parent good one, I have a PhD. I'm successful financially to a certain extent. I have a good job. You know, I bought a house. All of that, but honestly, I'm not. I'm just struggling through the relationship. I'm still struggling through life in general. And I think just continue to expressing that vulnerability, I think, would help a lot. And I felt less to able to connect with such a young generation. Who felt trapped in the more I dig into it, the more I realized that even not only generational trauma is not talked about, mental health in our communities are not well talked about. And this statistic is glaring. Suicide is the number one cause of death for Asian American under a 35 and even if you look further, past 35 is still in top 5. And nobody ever talked about it and were the least to ever get help. Or know about that there's help out there. I suffer tremendously with depression, growing up, and I didn't even realize it until recently. The whole time I was wondering why am I procrastinating on things?
Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"thea" Discussed on Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"Absolutely. I mean, I grew up, you know, being compared to and have somebody else compare it to me. And that was so much pressure on both ends. Like, I remember at a family gathering, my cousin was crying so hard because her mom was comparing me to her and tell her that she need to be like me and things like that and to be the person who compare it to her. I didn't feel good at the time. I feel terrible. Yeah. I think at the depth of the story and I think the Internet sometimes can get lost in the nuances are lost. If you read my comment, it's like, you know, cut them off, leave your toxic parents, but at the depth of it is that I know my parents love me so deeply, and I love them so deeply too. Yes, my sister did her wrong, but it doesn't mean that I don't love her and I no doubt know that she loves me. And I think it's just both the generational and the cultural clash that we need to navigate through. And it honestly is just up to me to configure it out where that boundary is and being a third culture kid where do I draw that identities from? Yeah, now you mentioned both in your video and just right now the term boundary. You said I feel like my family has no boundaries, and for people, again, who don't come from our respective cultures, they don't understand that in the mindset of many of these families, especially the parents, like number one, I study human development. The first stage of human development is bonding. Every child, when they're born, should be welcomed into the world as this unconditionally loved, unspeakable package of joy. Now, sometimes what's going on in the world in the village in the family is traumatic. And so maybe mom and dad are distracted. Okay, maybe mom and dad are at a bad place in their relationship. Maybe there's a war going on, okay? Each child is born at a different time in the family's history, but it's really important to experience being this wonderfully loved gift. That's bonding. I think in Asian cultures, that's the only stage. And so there's no boundaries. Boundaries is the second stage. So as a parent, when you aren't looking to form healthy boundaries with your children, then you tend to threaten disownment because that's the opposite of bonding is unbonding. Yes. So I say shame based families end up using bonding as a toxic weapon and they don't know any better because in humanitarian cultures, the sense of individuality, individual freedom, individual responsibility is so diminished because you're always thinking about the collective. I think that's one of the challenges that you're running into that a lot of us, you know, I didn't face it as much 'cause my parents were born here. So they had their own experience of growing up as teenagers in America, you know, so and so, but it's still there for many generations. And you know, when I have a chance to talk to immigrant Asian parents, I'll say, look, you're basically pushing your child away because you don't respect their boundaries. They have a right to say no. Right? And in fact, if you want to put Confucianism into the equation, well, you should respect your parents. You should honor them all the time. I say, actually, Confucius has some other teaching and he says, one of the signs that you've been a good parent is that you've raised adult children who can disagree with you. Because now they have their own mind. They don't want to be able to think about things. That means you're a good parent, right? Versus you raised a robot. You raised this passive robot who has no sense of self, but that's a very much hidden teaching of Confucius. But it's there. Wow. Yeah. Wow. So they're always kind of falling back because that's how they've been taught, but I'm saying, well, just human development across all cultures, bonding should lead to healthy boundaries, like good fences, make good neighbors. Everybody knows where you and I begin and end, but then after that is integrating goodness and badness. So we say, you know, nobody's all good, so like some of the comments on your post, they're actually saying, oh, the and your parents are all bad. And you already said, no, they're not. Right? They still love me. I still love them. So the Thursday is not just putting up these rigid high impenetrable walls, these boundaries is to say, no, but there's lots of complexity. And then, to me, the ultimate stage of human development is to become adult peers. So our daughter's now 20 three, she's back living at home waiting to get into grad school. But we're different people. And so we say, oh, we're now carving out a new kind of relationship. Yes, I'll always be your dad. But let's be Friends. That would be my ultimate goal is here's this wonderful person who grew up in our nurture, but who has their own way of thinking, has their own way of consuming information, and we can agree and disagree, but that doesn't threaten our family. No one's getting disowned. I feel like so many immigrant Asian families, they don't get that guidance about what healthy human development is. So for our listeners, benefit, I'm just kind of going over this model is to say what I hear you running into, not just interaction with your parents via, but even dealing with some of the commenters is a failure to really appreciate what healthy human relationships are supposed to look like. Absolutely. I a 100% agree with that. I resonate a lot with what you said about, you know, your goal in having a relationship with your daughter is that you want to be her friend. And I can definitely empathize with my parents on that end. I don't think that idea ever across their mind because I'm always that little girl. I'm always always in their mind is their little girl. I don't know about Chinese culture but in Vietnam, their specific saying, you can know as much as you can in the world, but you never know more than somebody who is older than basically. It's such a seniority. Sure. I think that that is hard. It's hard to circumvent that. I think one of the regret I have growing up is that I wish I know my parents story more. I have a few stories, they rarely share too much about their stories, to me they are always somebody who's so strict. And so, you know, like, it feels like the get, you know, they always have it all put together. I want to know them more as a person and I wonder and I'm trying really hard to sort of break that barrier of communication of, yes, I'm your try and I love you, but I want to know you. Like what was your dreams? I actually like the other day I was thinking, I don't know my dad's dream. I know the job that he ended up having and both my mom's too. I know the job that they ended up having is not the dream that they envision their lives to be. And I want deeply to know that again, in fairness to the generation that your parents represent, their parents never spoke to them like that.
Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"thea" Discussed on Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"Most Saturday mornings, my two bike buddies and I ride west from where we live in the San Gabriel valley towards the rose bowl in Pasadena. Usually finding a way to climb way above it before turning around and heading back. The past few months, I've noticed that there's been an easy of Canopy set up just outside a local hardware store. The final banner reads, Johnny's knife sharpening. I made a mental note to pay Johnny a visit in the weeks ahead. Several more Saturdays came and went without my following through on my mental post it. Finally, actor finishing one ride, I peeled off my lycra, and put on my Saturday grubby clothes, packed up about 9 of our kitchen knives, and headed off to Johnny to get them sharpened. I learned that Johnny grew up in the area, and is now a retired officer from the merchant marines. He said that everything he knows about knives and sharpening them, he learned from his Filipino crew members, who were truly experts with knives, how to sharpen them, and how to use them most effectively in fights. As he was examining our knives, he recounted how back in the 80s, these Filipino sailors successfully defended their cargo ship as strung out guillen's pirates tried to board her. Let's just say that those Filipino sailors also knew how to sharpen axes. I left my knives there as instructed, but when I returned, he was just starting to work on them. Johnny clearly is passionate about what he does, and I was fascinated as he transformed our dull uneven blades into razor sharp cutting tools. By the way, he said that our two Japanese Mack knives were worth about a $150 apiece today. He could tell that they were over 30 years old because of their wooden handles. Who knew, right? As soon as we started using them in the kitchen, we can immediately tell that they were not just much sharper, but also straighter and truer. And I've been told by serious shoves that having really sharp knives is much safer than using Dole ones. What they didn't say, though, was that really sharp knives must be washed extra carefully. Having washed our dough knives for years, I'd grown rather lax. Often, but that always submerging them beneath the sudsy water. But I never ran into any problems with this bad habit. However, the first time I watched some of the sharpened knives, I made a point of leaving them on the counter and watching them last. But after a few days of taking this precaution I reflexively placed one of the knives in the water, along with some of the other dirty dishes and pans. As soon as I felt the now extremely sharp knife sliced through my silicone glove and cut my right index finger, I knew that I just made a huge mistake. There was nearly a half inch cut just above my second knuckle, and my blood was quickly turning the dishwater pink. I grabbed some paper towels, and while putting pressure on the wound ran out of the kitchen, alerting my family to what had just happened and directing my wife to get me a band aid stat. Fortunately, the bleeding stopped fairly quickly, but I could feel the throbbing in that damaged finger for the next several days. Two weeks later, my finger is back to feeling normal, but now it's sports in extremely thin, straight scar that will hopefully serve to remind me that newly sharpened or not, it simply a bad idea to put knives in the dishwater. What other important and sensible life lessons have you had to learn after making mistakes, or maybe getting hurt? Well, based on my conversation now with doctor Thea Pham, I'd say one enduring lesson is that establishing healthy boundaries is crucial if you want to have healthier relationships. Thanks so much for listening. Oh oh that's so pretty I know you come in one get giving you one of my most. You want to learn. Listeners if you follow any kind of social media, you might be aware of today's guest. I've already introduced her in my introduction. Her name is doctor Thea fam and she is a Vietnamese American who's life has really taken an interesting turn since she posted a TikTok video about the tension and the trauma between herself, her parents, her younger sister, which has exposed an issue that exists between many immigrant parents and their children. And so I'm so excited to talk to you today. And so first, I officially want to welcome you to my show. Thank you. I'm super excited to be here. See ya. Tell our audience, since I'm guessing a lot of them, even though so many people have already seen your original posting. Tell our audience not only what you did. But what motivated you to do this because even in your posting this video in such a vulnerable and honest way, it sort of violated one of the unspoken Asian culture rules. Which I think is why it kind of opened up this conversation because you set out loud what people are murmuring under their breasts. So tell us what happened. Yes. Well, it started out honestly is a very more vulnerable moment of me in my life when I posted the video. I actually posted it almost out of mostly to vent and out of desperation as an outlet. I had 20 TikTok followers at the time and nobody I know is on TikTok like nobody compared to like Instagram, but I have friends and family with me. So when I had a challenging conversation with my parents, I felt alone and I didn't know who to turn to, honestly, because a lot of my Friends are, we never talked about these issues. So I thought I was alone in this struggle. But honestly, let me stop you right there. Can you back up and describe for us, what is your family situation? Where are your parents from? What's their in a round cyst like their financial situation? Where are you in the sibling order? So we understand the context. Yeah, absolutely. So I am originally from Vietnam. I would be the first generation American my parents and siblings were still in Vietnam. I have two younger sister and the oldest and my youngest sister is here in the U.S. on an international Visa for college.
Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"thea" Discussed on Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
"And welcome to Asian America that can find podcasts, where my mission has always been to spotlight Asian American culture makers and shapers by having them share the remarkable journeys and stories with us. As of 2022, I've proudly partnered with UCLA's Asian American study center, which will eventually archive all of my episodes so that future listeners will be able to access them. And of course, as always, I'm your host Ken fong. Welcome to episode 388. My guess this week is doctor Thea fam, who came to the U.S. from Vietnam with their family at age 15. She's a venture capitalist and a BioTech entrepreneur who holds the distinction of being the youngest person in her class at UCLA to earn a PhD in neuroscience. Earlier this year, at the age of 27, during a moment of great vulnerability, Thea posted a TikTok video. She was barely on that hugely popular social media platform. But her video has now been viewed over 100 million times, and her initial meager 20 followers has skyrocketed now to well over 400,000. She then used zoom TikTok and Instagram Live to give some of her new fans a chance to meet virtually with her. She'd originally planned for four or 5 of these online meetups, but after 40,000 showed up for her first three, she decided not to convene the remaining ones. Now at this point, you've got to be wondering what in the world could Thea have talked about in her initial video that would unleash this torrent of responses from all over the world. Care to hazard a guess? Was she passing along can't miss tips for making a fortune by investing in cryptocurrencies? Does she perhaps share a revelation from the ultimate higher power that would end all wars and eliminate all suffering in poverty? Actually, what Thea did was pour out how she was feeling because of the intergenerational trauma in her family tied inexorably to impossible to meet expectations and non existent relational boundaries that are so typical in immigrant Asian families. The fact that there continues to be this unprecedented response to her opening up about this topic tells us at least two things. One, this problem is quite common, even in non AAPI and even non immigrant families. And two, until now, the people being traumatized by it have never felt permission to talk about it. I think you'll find that the conversation that Thea and I had is both unexpected and refreshing at the same time. We were delighted to discover that we both are committed to using a respective social media platforms to promote
The Eric Metaxas Show
Eric Shares His 'Socrates in the City' Conversation With Stephen Meyer
"Hey folks, you're listening to special edition of the airport taxes show. We are airing my recent socks in the city conversation with doctor Stephen Meyer. He then proceeded to explain that he was really moved to a point of thinking deeply about religious faith because whereas the evidence was pointing unequivocally in one direction, he didn't want it to be so. And then he began to explain that he began to think about, well, what is it about me that doesn't want this to be so? I've always prided myself on my objectivity. It was very compelling story in the very next panel. There was a similar intellectual conversion announced by a leading origin of life researcher who worked on this problem abiogenesis, named dean kenyon, and Kenyan announced on the panel. He also surprised people by sitting on the side with atheists and explained he argued that the discovery of the information bearing properties of DNA. Everything that crick had anticipated. Suggests that what he called the natural theological question should now be reopened by the philosophers. In other words, we may as scientists be looking at evidence for the existence of God in the inner workings of the cell. And so I'm 27 years old. I'm kind of blown away at this. It was clear to me that the Thea seemed to have the intellectual initiative in the discussion. That the people defending chemical evolutionary theory had nothing to offer except promissory notes that maybe we'll figure it out down the road. So I got really seized with this. I was working with doing digital signal processing of seismic data, which was an early form of information technology. And the thought that the discovery of information inside cells was the Holy Grail of the origin of life problem, just absolutely seized me. I got really fascinated with that. I met another scientist who was on the panel that day named Charles thaxton, who had written a recent book called the mystery of life's origin. He happened to be living in Dallas. I started having long conversations with him after work. A year later, I was off to grad school and realized I want to work on this origin of life
You Beauty
"thea" Discussed on You Beauty
"Just went to bed. Tell me about the big day. What do you remember? Oh, dairy may. I remember everything actually. It was such a, I mean, I won't bore you with too many details, but I was the first cab off the ranks. In the morning. So my sister dropped me there like 6 37 o'clock. It's just day surgery. You literally in and out. Wow. And they just said to, okay, thanks for dropping her off. Come pick her up at 11. Just enjoy your morning, basically. What? And I was really nervous, but then it was kind of awesome because I was just first in and they were just so efficient. I didn't really even have time to be nervous. And you just go into a room and the surgeon will come and talk to you, they need the system comes and talks to you. It's just like very run of the mill type thing. And you agree again about your results, type thing like consent again to what you're getting done and sign a few things, I guess. And then you just go in and because it was really cold and I have a thing about needles and they often can't find vein. When one of the nurses came to just hook me up, I remember just being like, can you just not, can you just put me on to first? I'm really bad with needles and I just don't want to deal with it. And she was like, oh, no worries at all. So they wield me into Thea. Operating room, and they were basically like, okay, we're just going to give you the gas and then we'll worry about putting in the needles and everything. And I was like, sweet, so they just gave me the happy guess that puts you to sleep and makes you really high. And then the next thing I know, I woke up with a lollipop in my mouth..
Woman's Hour
"thea" Discussed on Woman's Hour
"And my now ex husband told the police that i was having an affair the officer attending turned to me and said he could see why he was angry and upset. It was as if he felt. The violence was justified. There needs to be zero tolerance to domestic violence. There's no justification for this sort of behavior and emails into say. How many times do women have to discuss this topic amongst ourselves. We need to involve men in the discussion. We need to help. Men challenge each other. Make this an issue for them and not just for women another anonymous email. My experience was fantastic. My ex partner was picked up. Straightaway kept in custody over the weekend straight into court on monday and then he pleaded guilty and was remanded. They installed a button in my home and kept in totally informed A little bit later in the program we will be talking about privilege of being pretty and some of you've already started getting in touch about that saying and arabella says i've been told i'm pretty attractive over the years and sometimes i felt that people particularly men. Don't take me seriously. I have hangups about not being intelligence or interesting enough that people just interested in the surface. There have been times when people women have felt threatened by me when talking to their partner i feel. I can't just be normal and talks. People how i would like to Keep your thoughts coming in. We will be talking about pretty privilege in just moment but first twenty five years ago. Thea gilmore was just sixteen when she began a career in music to have fans. She was known as a fearless singer-songwriter she made nineteen albums. Three of which made it into the top forty. She's now rebranded herself as after lights with a new album of the same name speaking out again about moving on from difficult relationships hair as a track from the album. Never can you the real fast. What the point to a Loosed party that was power lacks from the album of all the violence. I have known and joins us now after lights. Should i be calling you now not there. Well i mean i. I'm happy to be referred to by either but at the moment my my work is coming under the name. Often you'll be. Your voice is absolutely stunning. Beautiful really beautiful but you know. It's a beautifully uplifting song with really hard hitting lyrics as is the album of all the violence. I have known and that the clues in the title well so that's the first track of stay open albums actually called off tonight. It's an opponent For the first time my life but Yeah of all the violence. I've nine is how immensely And yeah it's it's an account really of the an control commission gas lighting. I experienced in my marriage and kind of held against other experiences. I've had in my life outside that relationship and it's kind of an exploration really. A kind of discussion is plays with myself about. I'm feeling the same many of us have where if there's neighbors is as dommage on. I really wanted to explore that. Not lots of this record is exploring is the idea that the coalition control does does an equivalent of damage And you're not in the marriage anymore. On anti he's had the album he's had parts of it. You know we have children together. So so there's an ongoing discussion between between the tubas and he has issued a very firm miracle but to me Which i i appreciate that. These conversations are so delicate and so important to happen to keep those those lines of communication. I've been and i feel in some respects white privilege to be able to have that conversation with him to have that discussion with. I mean you were in..
Books and Boba
"thea" Discussed on Books and Boba
"All right so let's get started re-re. Can you read into in minutes in this novel. America is in the grip of deadly flu. Pandemic when frank catches the virus. His girlfriend polly will do whatever it takes to save him. Even if it means risking everything when she finds out there's a company that has invent a time travel she agrees to a radical contract if she signs up for a one way trip into the future to work as a bonded laborer. The company will pay for the life saving treatment. Frank needs polly promises to meet frank again in galveston texas where she will arrive in twelve years but when polly is rerouted an extra five years into the future. Frank is nowhere to be found alone transformed and divided america with no status. No money paulie must navigate a new life and find a way to locate frank determine if he is alive and if they're love has endured so i was pretty surprised for a time travel novel. It was said in the past because a when you travel into the future. It's like a time period that we haven't Experience in in real life but the future in this book is two thousand two. Yeah it was actually took me a while to wrap my head around the fact that this takes place in an alternate timeline. It's a u Of our timeline were a mutated flu. Pandemic sweeps nation slashed the world and Nothing like her times. Nothing nothing like what's happening right now. The united states. That was the thing i was like. This book came out in twenty eighteen. And you know when people were reading it it was like oh this is what life would be like if a pandemic hit. You know. it's like an all but but now that we are living through a pandemic and we have been living through on for the past like year and like whatever buns almost two years at this point. we're just like yeah like a lot of similarities and a lot of
Books and Boba
An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim
"All right so let's get started re-re. Can you read into in minutes in this novel. America is in the grip of deadly flu. Pandemic when frank catches the virus. His girlfriend polly will do whatever it takes to save him. Even if it means risking everything when she finds out there's a company that has invent a time travel she agrees to a radical contract if she signs up for a one way trip into the future to work as a bonded laborer. The company will pay for the life saving treatment. Frank needs polly promises to meet frank again in galveston texas where she will arrive in twelve years but when polly is rerouted an extra five years into the future. Frank is nowhere to be found alone transformed and divided america with no status. No money paulie must navigate a new life and find a way to locate frank determine if he is alive and if they're love has endured so i was pretty surprised for a time travel novel. It was said in the past because a when you travel into the future. It's like a time period that we haven't Experience in in real life but the future in this book is two thousand two. Yeah it was actually took me a while to wrap my head around the fact that this takes place in an alternate timeline. It's a u Of our timeline were a mutated flu. Pandemic sweeps nation slashed the world and Nothing like her times. Nothing nothing like what's happening right now. The united states. That was the thing i was like. This book came out in twenty eighteen. And you know when people were reading it it was like oh this is what life would be like if a pandemic hit. You know. it's like an all but but now that we are living through a pandemic and we have been living through on for the past like year and like whatever buns almost two years at this point. we're just like yeah like a lot of similarities and a lot of
WBZ Midday News
Biden Appoints Erika Moritsugu to Asian American Liaison Role
"By the way, the bonding administration is appointing a member of the Asian American community to a new role to help address a growing surge in hate crimes and biting today will announce the appointment of Erica more to go as deputy assistant to the president. An Asian American and Pacific Islanders senior liaison Thea Point Mint keeps a promise the president made on March 30th. Along the rise of anti Asian hate crimes. The move comes after Senator Tammy Duckworth's threatened to vote no on any non diverse administration nominees. Buying along with Vice President Harris will meet with members of the Congressional AP I caucus just as the anti AP I hate bill cleared the
Jay Anxious Podcast
"thea" Discussed on Jay Anxious Podcast
"I women don't get me wrong. But it's very fulfilling role for women. How do you feel about that. Yeah i completely agree with you. On that and i can relate to that too Taking care of family in taking care of a home. That's a fulltime station Right and i think that that's a really important part of success You know you're this all the time. He can't really find a lot of success. You your house is a mess or you're not able to Eat properly or you're not able to exercise. And i think a lot of women find that role for fulfilling and at least for me is my perspective on it I'm sure i could have a you know a great career But i think if if you're a woman and you you have that definitely have to sacrifice Your you know full capabilities as a wife and a mother And for me personally. I'd rather be an excellent wife. Excellent mother and support my future husband in in his journey like career journey right. That just seems those daft division of roles. Just that makes so much sense to me. And i think a lot of women and men want that and you know they can find each other and make that happen okay. What would you say to somebody who says to you. I don't understand your side because it sounds like all she wanted somebody to take care of you financially. Because you can't do it yourself. yeah no. that's great. I think that's part of it What i would say to them is that you know we're not. We're not here to work in by here. I mean like planet right like working has its purpose and i'm not opposed to working. I work really hard I've accomplished a lot right. And you know. I've been under tremendous amounts of stress and high pressure situations. And i think that you have to examine. What is your role and What is the most noble course of action that you can take. And as i think about it more i think that Like focusing on my family would be Is definitely my purpose at least for the next on the years to come and i really don't think that you know the the house. Housewives are lazy or something silly. like that I don't think that that's the case at all. And i think that you know if you go online and you look at a lot of these women. I'm you realize that it's actually quite the opposite. And they really do their best to support their man and support their family and basically working is not the only way that you can do that. That's one part. That's one really important part. Big nurturing is also Another part that's equally as important. I agree with you. One hundred percent and i think that's a great place to stop. So where can everybody finds you and what you just tell us everybody where they could find you if they want to hear more of what you have to say to follow you. Yes sir can find me on twitter. Just go with that I'm i don't know if he can tag it. But i'm at takeover for.
Jay Anxious Podcast
"thea" Discussed on Jay Anxious Podcast
"What do you think. I don't pay enough attention to canadian politics as i do american politics. You pay attention to american politics or no. I like many people. i really stopped after. This election I i don't really I know i know some because you know. I spent a lot of time listening to it. But i've i've kinda cut myself out. I try to avoid as possible. You happier that you cut yourself out of politics. Because i'm much happier than i don't know politics already know that definitely i. Yeah i'm i'm a big fan on focusing on you know personal things over you know political things. I know i'm speaking out against feminism. But a lot of that. I believe this is personal over political. So you have. You are a teacher. You teach music and stuff like that. Let me ask you this if you had a group of twenty young women. Let's say fifteen between the ages of seventeen fourteen fifteen more to say. Don't really a question appears your repairs twenty two eighteen or younger really indoctrinated into this lifestyle into this ideology. That you know is false. What would you say. How would you teach them where. You're not confrontational. Because you cannot confront any of these people writing as they will. They will shut down cry and magazine of epic proportions. If you try to so how would you. How do you think they could be talked to and maybe even become a little bit open minded rate. That's a really good question I think it's tough. Because i want to approach this logically. I do approach it logically in my head but Yeah i don't always think that that's the best option for maybe people. Who are more you don't fixated on kind of their emotions or how they feel about things. Probably the first thing. I would recommend i would tell women to do. Is i would happen. Think of the ways that it that men or the things that men in their life have done. That are honorable and that men have done in the past that honorable I think that's a huge one. Because i just think that there's this Disrespect for masculinity. Because we and i say this in air quotes like we technically don't need it anymore because like a woman can support herself right I would say dykes were explored the sacrifices that the men in your life have made men in the past have made it's fair now. The same point is easy to point out how much destruction men have caught and will definitely not fair..
Jay Anxious Podcast
"thea" Discussed on Jay Anxious Podcast
"I think great question. I don't know like just wandering around with animals. like no men. i. I don't know Maybe i'm not sure i'm not. I'm not part of that crew anymore. You'd have to ask one of them will. In your opinion they'll look like when you were in favor of such a thing. Yeah i think it's yeah it would be like women a women in power. I guess like women making decisions make women like you know controlling things I guess you could put dollars for. What do you think about women in power reading about now. I think that women shouldn't be pushed to be in powerful positions like they are now I think that there's this huge push to have. Oh we need more women representation or more women making important decisions. I i mean i think it's i don't know how problem with the woman like wanting to do that or doing that But i do think that is better suited for men. And i think that a healthy society is not necessarily. Let's say government for example fifty fifty men and women. I think it's a lot more. It should be a lot more lopsided than that naturally. Wow all right. So father to girls. I sit on one side of the fence and i say because i think that everybody should be able to do whatever they want. As long as you don't hurt anybody else right so if any woman wants to run for political office that's fantastic. If anybody would ever any woman wants to sit home get knocked up nine times out of nine kids and take care of all of them. I'm happy with that too. Okay so i think that whoever's in political office should be fit for political office not just because they're a man or woman and i don't think that anybody should ever vote on. Oh i'm only. I don't know the positions but i'm voting for that person since women. I'm a woman. I'm a man and i think whatever that one about for women i want to see the first woman president or a prime minister there has been female prime ministers right in kennedy. So that's that's just a totally. I don't even know. What kind of mindset. That is that you just want to vote for somebody because the gender that they are and i don't understand why we have to put ourselves into the all these boxes you know white black women men. Why can't we use be people a little bit..
Jay Anxious Podcast
"thea" Discussed on Jay Anxious Podcast
"So i'm that's been find to kind of discover new new things that i can make But it it's had such a positive effect now has it had any effects on your acne situation or anything like that is a better worse. Same like how of that. Work out and yeah. It's it's hard to say. Because at the same time as i got i got the test done ahead of food sensitivity tests as well And to no surprise. I'm sensitive to the inflammatory foods that being soy corn things like that Barley has gluten in it Dairy as well So i i'm kind of i. Guess sonnen with nation diet right now. not really. But there's a lot of foods. I can't eat right now so i can't take for sure if it's necessarily or more that it's the absence of those other foods But it definitely has has had positive impact. I'm just glad. I'm just glad to hear you're doing well in your healthy. What matters so were you also when you were where you supplementing b twelve Yeah i was. I typically didn't have problems with be twelve which is which is good to know it was. It was always the iron. That could be a problem for me. but yet the business smart supplement to take if you are again so you weren't able to eat your fourteen pounds of spinach that you need to get your iron intake. Yeah pretty much. I researched a lawn into I think it's hemi mature it's h. e. iron on which is basically ironed from animals. And when you research into it. We absorb ir from beef from animals a lot more effectively than iron from spinach so it doesn't really matter. That spinach has a lot of iron and i love spinach but doesn't work really the i i. It doesn't it doesn't work from the research that i've been doing wonderful all right so let's get back to. Let's get back to young. Tao's journey here on on the path from liberal feminists to what would you consider yourself. Now.
Jay Anxious Podcast
"thea" Discussed on Jay Anxious Podcast
"Sir. So what are you. I can see your face really dealing with that. Now right i mean i i still a bit. I'm yeah you can't really tell by saying me right now. But i mean i've i've done huge thanks to you know. Help my health So it isn't like a decade You know that mostly it's your diet right. Yeah i have lots of experience in diet. I could be doing clock out not as well. Well we're going to do it all right now. What what because. This was very helpful. My two young girls. Don't don't listen to their dad. And i'm saying oh you you have like i don't want to forget problem with acne problem with Metro issue issues. I said it's because you eat the way you eat. That can't be. I'm telling you it's the way it's the way eat what you eat is going to affect that hundred percent. So when did you realize. I'm sure you two thousand doctors and everybody gave you a different thing. And they were trying to pump as many pills into his. They could write yet pretty mom. So when did you realize actually. It's only about what. I'm eating yet so that started around. I guess that's around seventeen. I went beacon and the first step before before fully went being was cut dairy and a cut out eggs and that seemed to work. Really well for me And then i went vegan and the whole vegan thing was beyond It was beyond just health There wasn't a long period of time. Where thought neat was necessarily bad for me But i did get wrapped up the ideology of it. And i'm speaking for five years actually or than five years When i say vegan. Like i really i really was like i really believed it. I thought it was the best option for me. And i actually only stopped that a couple of months or even just a month ago now And i kind of completely flipped. The switch am now on more like a meat based diet low carb. And it's been great so far. Veganism ism released. Served me well to be honest. I know it gets a bad rap on twitter But there were a lot of benefits to it for me But you know we're always evolving into something else now. I do not have a problem with veganism as an elimination diet. I do have a problem with it as a long term solution to overall of optimal health that sounds to me based for optimal health. So let's talk about that really quick. You're you're you're eating your vegan diet. most most. Your stuff goes away. Because i to know what it's like with the eggs part of it okay. I'm extremely large eight whites and Not allergic but they inflame me really really bad Everything does for the most part. So i'm basically stick to like ninety percent based diet and it has worked for me quite a bit but i would never consider veganism. Just need but So you flip the script on c. You're bouncing along that old liberal and worked for you which is great and it does work for people. I know a lot of people who went to begin but didn't they right around that five year mark. they're like. I don't feel so good anymore. You know so. So what was it..
Sports X Radio
General Jack Keane on Iran Nuclear Negotiations
"General Jack Keane. General. I wish I wasn't saying this, but tomorrow they'll begin talks in Iran in Vienna, Thea other people taking part in this Russia. The European Union will be trying to convince Iran toe let us back in the deal. This is pathetic. Yeah, I agree with second place here, Brian. I mean, the administration seems to have such low expectations. Going back into these negotiations adorn or the discussions that were taking place a number of weeks ago when the administration was saying Well, our intent is to lengthen the deal and strengthen the deal, And they explained what that meant. What That meant Woz. Certainly they were going to expend the sunset clauses. I think they should be a complete prohibition nuclear weapons permanently, as opposed to setting the time that's what they meant by that, and number two. They were gonna hold Iran accountable in these negotiations and increase the prohibition on ballistic missile development, which is not a part of the nuclear deal and also Deal with them online behavior in the region. Gone from the public discourse now, or any mention about what the administration appears to be saying is we're going back into negotiations with the Iranians and the other signatories to the deal. But the single of purpose in mind having the Iranians come back in the full compliance with the original deal. Which they are out of compliance right now and then, in return for that we would lift the sanctions. That seems to be the implication. That's an absolute disaster. As far as I'm concerned, because It doesn't do anything to solve the problems that we have with this which the original deal I
WBZ Midday News
Is there a crisis at the border?
"Those summon administrations say it is not a crisis when people are fleeing from violence. More and more people are seeking asylum in the United States, and hundreds of Children are making the journey by themselves. They're being held in facilities that camp properly house them all. ABC. Cecilia Vega is at the Southern border in Texas. She spoke with some unaccompanied Children who have been making the weeks long journeys up the road and even larger group innit two boys, nine and 10 years old, both traveling alone walking for more than a month. Group has taken them in promising to keep them safe. The boys show me phone numbers of family members in the U. S. They soon hope to find one written on a hat with grandfather's phone number. Thea, other written inside his pocket, But right here in this camp, given, you know, I I ask. Are you scared? Yes, they tell me very The president has said he does plan on visiting the border to assess the situation at some point at what point that is, we don't know yet he has
Not Free America
Oregon-VCU declared no-contest; Ducks advance
"There's a possibility that the NC double a tournament maybe cut short because of coded VCU was kicked out hours before its first round game because multiple players tested positive for co bit. Thea NC double a rule The BC Use first round game yesterday against Oregon was no contest. That means the seventh seeded Ducks will advance to face Iowa in the second round of the West region.
All Things Considered
With the COVID Relief Bill Signed Yellen Turns Focus on Unemployment
"The big relief bill is signed now begins the sales pitch. The president and vice president and various and sundry Cabinet members are traveling or otherwise making the rounds, making their case among them. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, which is where we come in. Yellen said on ABC over the weekend that she is hopeful will be back near full employment next year. Back near is the operative phrase there because it had been widely assumed we were at full employment. Before everything fell apart. 3.5%, if you remember was the unemployment rate in February of 2020. So with everything in the past year in this economy What you suppose full employment's gonna look like now and more to the point water policy makers at the Fed and Treasury going to do about it if and when we get there, Marketplaces Mitchell Hartman starts us off. Full employment is a perfect sweet spot for the economy. Thea unemployment rate is as low as it can get, without employers having to bid up wages through the roof to get the workers they need. Everyone who wants a job can get one and inflation doesn't soar out of control, Dean Baker at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, says. In the past, policymakers have often put the brakes on before we got to full employment. But, he says in this recovery from massive pandemic job loss, they seem to be following a more ambitious unemployment script. They really do want to press the economy to see how low we could go. That likely means getting headline unemployment down to 3.5% again. But economist Mark Paul at New College of Florida says policymakers will also try to get other measures of worker to stress and financial hardship. Down. This means looking at unemployment rates for certain groups that have traditionally been stigmatized in the labor market. Such a black workers who tend to experience unemployment rates twice that of white workers. Black unemployment is up 4% in the pandemic. For White Americans. It's up just 2.5% and many more women with kids at home have dropped out of the labor force than men. Now, job creation is accelerating, and it's likely to continue with new government stimulus. Covad cases down and vaccination up Economist Damn north at credit insurer Euler Hermes North America says the economy has a lot of ground to make up. He estimates at least 30% of small businesses have folded. New businesses are going to start up, but it will take a wild probably T O late, 2022 early 2023 to get all the jobs back. And to get back to a full employment economy. I'm Mitchell Hartman for
Morning Edition
Report Finds Los Angeles Police Mishandled George Floyd Protests
"Thea L. A Police department mishandled the protests and unrest that followed the killing of George Floyd last spring. That's the finding of a detailed and very critical report commissioned by the L. A City Council among the LAPD shortcomings, a lack of training, poor communication and minimal coordination that led to a fragmented response to the protests with more Here's KCRW's Matt Gillam. This review was spearheaded by a group of former Police Department commanders led by attorney Gerald Chaleff, who's looked at the LAPD's mishandling of past unrest. They found problems in the response at all levels from on the ground officers to top brass. According to the report. Many police only received a couple hours of training on using less lethal munitions, which seriously injured several demonstrators planning for mass arrests was minimal and led to people being detained for hours on end and police higher ups issued contradictory orders. Report also said so called Shadow teams of undercover officers were sent into the crowds together information but had insufficient means of relating their Intel back to authorities. Any of these problems have been called out in the past. Nearly two dozen recommendations for improvements are in the report, including regular audits to ensure the department is complying with settlements. LAPD is working on its own analysis of the response at a third review from the L. A Police commission is also in
WBZ Midday News
Man Killed in East Boston Crash
"Will be offered. And the South bound side of Route one and east Boston reopens nearly 14 hours after a car slammed into a utility pole. WBZ TV is on a modeler says one man was killed. And a 16 year old girl was rushed to the hospital a horrific crash in East Boston after two cars collide, sending one into a utility pole. Thea other into a guardrail chaos. Right. You see that card? The power line is absolutely Ben crash happened just after eight o'clock last night, shutting down both in North bound and the south outside of this busy road for hours while Boston homicide and fatal reconstruction teams investigated. One car hit the utility pole with such force vehicle was split in half on power was knocked
WTOP 24 Hour News
Myanmar faces more protests after United Nations envoy urges Security Council action
"9 35 security forces in Myanmar have again used force to disperse anti coup protesters comes a day off to the U. N special envoy urge the Security Council to take action to quell gentle violence that has left around 50 peaceful protest is dead and scores injured this week. Large protests have occurred daily across many cities and towns. Security forces are responding with a great use of lethal force and mass arrests. Thea Escalation of violence has put pressure on the world Community Toe Act to restrain the gentle which seized power on February 1st by ousting the elected government of unsung sue team.
Here & Now
White House narrows income limits for stimulus checks
"Of a threat from far right groups, including followers of the Cuban on conspiracy. Those extremists claim Donald Trump will retake the presidency today. This is not stopping the Senate from carrying on the House adjourned, but not before Democrats passed two major bills last night. One on voting rights, the other on police reform for more. We're joined by NPR congressional correspondent Susan Davis. And so Democrats have railed against bills passed in state houses across the country that would make it harder to vote curbing things like mail in voting and early voting that work expanded last year during the pandemic. So what would this federal voting rights bill do about that? Well, this legislation has been a top priority for the party. It's not new. It was introduced in passed in the house in the last Congress. So this vote this week was a bit of a do over. They've called it the most sweeping government reform bill since the post Watergate era. And what wouldn't do it would do things like allow for automatic voter registration, it would make Election day of federal holiday. It would restore voting rights to people with past felony convictions. It would also expand early voting that we saw you so much in the 2020 elections. It would also do things like create more independent redistricting commissions to sort of end party controlled drawing of congressional district. On campaign finance. It would require more disclosure of big donors. It would require transparency about those ads you see in your social media feeds, and it would create a new public financing system for congressional candidates. Would also do things like expand conflict of interest laws that would ban members of Congress from serving on corporate boards and require presidents by law to disclose their taxes. Okay, sweeping to say the least. Thea other bill passed last night is the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. Police reform has been a democratic priority for a long time. What's in this one? This is another bill that passed in the previous congress. So they're doing it again. This'll legislation would do things that would ban choke holds, it would change so called qualified immunity protection so it would make it easier to pursue claims of misconduct against police officers. It would put restrictions on no knock warrants, and it would require new data collection on a police encounters. It would also direct more money to community based policing programs. This one is not. I mean, it's not as controversial as the voting reforms Bill, which has very strong Republican opposition. No Republicans supported it. There is a bit more support among Republicans for police reform, especially in the Senate. There's competing measure by Tim Scott, who's a Republican of South Carolina. So there's maybe a chance there could be more bipartisan effort to move that bill forward, But the other measure is purely a symbolic one of the stage. It's still a tall order in the House Democrats know based on previous failures that these bills don't have much hope of getting to 60 votes in the Senate, which, of course, is the magic number to break a filibuster, they would need 10 Republicans to vote with Democrats. So why are they so determined to pass them if the prospects looked in Part of this is just elections are making good on their promises. These issues are very important to the Democratic base, and I think it's about keeping that promise. But you're right. I mean, I think that's going to be one of the cork tensions, if not the court tension of this Congress. I think Democrats really sensitive this fact that they control Washington. Now they have Congress and the White House and they want to be able to run in 20 to 2022 on accomplishments. But they have these really narrow majorities in the House and Senate, which really limits what they're going to be able to do. You know, it's not just the filibuster to the parties are really divided right now. There's not much that they agree on. The bigger picture, though, is Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer just doesn't have the votes to change the filibuster, and it's not clear that he ever will in this Congress. One of the biggest opponents, a centrist Democrat, Joe Manchin, of West Virginia. He was asked last week if he could ever see changing his mind. And he literally yelled never at the reporters who asked him the question, Okay, digging in on the filibuster, So just in the moment we have left we have the Senate is still in session. They're debating that Cove in 19 relief package. What's the latest? You know they're making some tweaks to the bill. They've done things like reduced the income limits for people to get those $1400 stimulus checks. There was concerns among Senate Senate Democrats that too much money was going to people who didn't need it. Otherwise, The bill seems to be on a glide path. They don't expect to get any Republican support. But Democrats seem pretty unified behind it. If it passes this week, they gotta send it back over to the house to pass it back over there, but Right now. They're on track to meet a march 14th deadline that they've set, which is when current extended unemployment benefits run out, and they don't want to see those benefits lapsed. So there's a real pressure campaign to get it done by then. OK, that's NPR congressional correspondent Susan Davis with the latest thanks to your right welcome. Well, every
BBC World Service
Massacre by Eritrean troops in Ethiopia's Tigray region may constitute crime against humanity, Amnesty says
"Amnesty International has called on the United Nations to conduct an urgent investigation into reports of possible war crimes by Eritrean forces in Ethiopia. Thea Organization says hundreds of civilians were massacred last November. During a battle for control of the city of Aksum in the region of Tigre. The Eritrean soldiers were supporting an offensive by Ethiopian federal troops. John Baptiste Scallop is the report's author. We've also documented, indiscriminate chilling and extrajudicial executions, especially in the context of the initial offensive on exhumed by joint between and its European force in the 19th of November, and we've also documented very large scale and widespread lutein by Eritrean forces of civilian goods in the city of excellent further period.
Bloomberg Businessweek
'Operational error' causes Fed payment system to crash
"Went down this afternoon, according to a website for payment services operated by the central bank. Spokesman says quote a Federal Reserve operational error resulted in disruption of service in several business lines, THEA outages widespread across the payment systems maintained by the central bank. Including the vital automated clearing house system, known as Fed a CH and the Fed wire funds. Interbank transfer service. Goldman Sachs shares up now by
WBZ Midday News
Prince Harry, Meghan officially split from royal duties
"Are not returning to their previous life with the British royal family. Buckingham Palace confirming to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not be resuming the royal duties. But a statement also notes that the couple is still very much considered much loved members of the royal family. The decision by Queen Elizabeth isn't a surprise, since Harry and Meghan are now fully involved with her a lot. I've seen careers in media in southern California, Thea now it's mint comes about a year after the couple announced they were pulling back from their British royal duties. Ah, woman
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Donald Glover jumps to Amazon from FX in eight-figure deal
"Time for the propel insurance business Update. Actor writer and rapper Donald Glover has agreed to a multiyear, eight figure production deal with Amazon exiting a deal with Disney owned FX. Deal reportedly includes a content channel on the Amazon prime video hub that will highlight Glover's work as well as curated selections. Thea Amazon deal reportedly won't affect his work on the FX series Atlanta, which is set for two more seasons. Last week Clever announced he was making a Mr and Mrs Smith serious with
Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
Amazon Developing New Wall-Mounted Echo Device as Smart Home Command Centre
"From Amazon, But the tech giant is said to be developing a thin echo device for user's to mount on their walls and used as a smart home command center. Bloomberg reported last week that the device could come with a 10 or 13, inch touchscreen display and be capable of controlling smart home devices, playing music and videos and video chatting. Thanks to a built in camera. Thea's yet unannounced device could be out at year's end, or sometime next year, with a price tag likely in the 200 to $250 range.
HouseSmarts Radio with Lou Manfredini
4 shot, 1 fatally, in Chicago so far this weekend
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Bloomberg Wall Street Week
Understanding the GameStop Stock Market Drama
"Markets have been shaken again over the past two weeks as Reddit Day traders boosted shares of companies like game Stop. And sent short selling hedge funds running with long short funds losing 6% overall last month, and Melvin Capital alone, plummeting 53%. But most hedge funds emerged unscathed. And Steve Cohen's 0.72 even attracted $1.5 billion in new money. Here's sweet that Ramachandran, GAM investment manager, I assume hedge funds are probably reluctant to short small cap stocks right now, if the fear that the Reddit brigade might be behind those, But by early this week, game stops to the moon rally started to come back toward Earth, and not even the reddit flash mob or changes the top of the company. Could get the irrational exuberance going again reminding us why hedge funds and short sellers target companies like Gamestop investor that gets caught in the up dressed on that and doesn't understand that investing well, it looks like it's all going up to the person to click the last by understand that that could happen to them that quickly. That's former e trade financial CEO Carl Rossner. I ask Council on foreign relations senior fellow Sebastian Mallaby, if anything will fundamentally change. In the hedge fund world. I don't really, I mean, I think that hedge funds which of course, go back to the sixties, at least have proven to be an amazingly robust platform from which to think creatively about risk. Ondo. They adapt. You know they get new stuff yesterday in their ways when they began, there was no such thing as trading currencies because turned his world fixed it together one mark, it's hardly existed. You have to trade stocks by appointment on. They adapted all the way through that, As everything changed the authentic thea advent of reddit the advent of Robin Hood. This is just the latest iteration of the long, long history of financial innovation, and every time hedge funds figure it out. You also have regulators trying to figure it out as it were, after the fact we have the Treasure Secretary Janet Yellen now saying She's meeting with regulators, saying, We need to take a hard look at this about the volatility and whether this might actually put in jeopardy. Some investors. We also have hearings in Congress coming up. Do you expect there might be some tweaking, at least to the regulations? I think with respect to Robin Hood on the fact that it had to close down Access to trading on second stocks. That's the kind of market interruption which regulators order take action on. You need the infrastructure of trading to be reversed you, you know you need to look at the plumbing, and some regulators put it. And so the back part of the system will definitely because they're fresh. Look, What about on the short selling side? There have been proposals as you know, well for short, so staff to disclose their positions, individual positions, which is done is I understand in Europe. Do you think there might be a renewal of that call? And by the way, why do we have to disclose on the long side and not the short? I'm not sure, Actually, that hedge funds do disclose on the long side unless they buy more than Disposable fresh over believe it's 5% or something off the company so you could get away with a lot without disclosing. I think you know when you Taking a really big position. Probably there's it becomes a systemic threat to you. You know, you might blow up if that position where to go very badly wrong on so regulators to care about the soundness of the system ever all Have a legitimate interests, but I think it's more positions shouldn't have to be disclosed. But we certainly had some large hedge funds who took a big hit on. I wonder whether that did suggest it could be systemic risk here. Well, the beauty of hedge funds is that through their long history They've proven to be smart enough to fail. Not too big to fail, they actually can blow up and people often cite long term capital management in 1998 Aziz. The big exception actually, if you go back and look at that incident The New York Fed convened the banks to recapitalize them, but no taxpayer money. Zero went him. So freestanding hedge funds. I'm not counting here, the subsidiary of best stones that went wrong in a rage. Freestanding hedge funds have never had a taxpayer bailout mills in capital has not needed to taxpayer bailout. That's the good thing about hedge funds.
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