

Model Minority Moms
Kate Wang, Susan Lieu, Jeanette Park
Welcome to Model Minority Moms where we reckon with the myth of success in career, family and life. We’re Jeanette, Kate, and Susan - Harvard classmates and Asian American working moms who get real about the pressures of fitting in while standing out.
https://modelminoritymoms.com
Model Minority Moms is a project of Real Life Media LLC.
https://modelminoritymoms.com
Model Minority Moms is a project of Real Life Media LLC.
Episodes
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May 21, 2021 • 1h 6min
EP6 Intercultural and Interracial Relationships
Deconstructing our white guy tendencies, hating our hyphenated selves, and taking on the extra labor of raising our kids with complicated identities. Not to mention in-laws. We love our multicultural family, but this shit is hard.

May 14, 2021 • 1h 13min
EP5 The Anxiety and Pleasures of Money
As immigrant kids, we're really triggered by money. TBH, it controls us sometimes. We rethink our relationship with money to add real value, mental sanity, and metaphorical bagel chips to our lives.

May 6, 2021 • 1h 9min
EP4 I Like Like You
Cult leaders and Chinese literary fantasies are no match for the real work (and endearing moments) of long-term partnership.

Apr 30, 2021 • 1h 4min
EP3 Now We're the Adults
Kiddo, follow your passion, but don't live in my basement. Figuring out how to teach grit with privilege when our parenting philosophy is light years from where we came from.

Apr 30, 2021 • 1h 7min
EP2 Get me a Diaper, My Identity Just Imploded
The insurmountable envy, loneliness and exhaustion as a newborn parent.

Apr 28, 2021 • 51min
EP1: What Really Happened During Birth
Our deliveries were as different as our personalities: Kate prepared for it like a PSAT National Merit Scholar, Jeanette was on laughing gas, and Susan took selfies with her placenta.