In this episode of 5to9, I had a chat with Jezz Chung, an author, public speaker, multi-model artist, a karaoke connoisseur, and host of Deem Journals’s podcast Dreaming Different.

Jezz, who uses they/them pronouns, is on a mission to build a liberated future. Their neurodivergent, queer, Korean American experiences shape their work and beliefs in personal transformation as a practice of collective change.

We talked about growing up in a religious household, their advertising career where they made headlines designing a role and why they left it to become an artist, the relationship between self-care and community care, taking risks as a practice, being your own biggest source of permission, and so much more.

This is Jezz Chung for 5to9.