The Vietnamese with Kenneth Nguyen

Ky is the founder of Pho Da Culture, who's mission is to curate, showcase, and provide awareness to all the Vietnamese creators around the world one person at a time. Pho Da Culture spotlights new creators each week along with recaps of our top videos from their social media accounts. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Tom Nguyen is a veteran commercial real estate broker, real estate attorney, and developer/investor with over 24 years of experience and over 1 billion in closings.Recently Tom teamed up with Keystone DCS, to start Key Partners LLC a commercial real estate investment and ground up residential development firm.Tom heads up acquisitions and dispositions for the company and also serves as its general counsel.Tom was given the top award at the Vietnamese National Association of Real Estate Professional’s (VNARP) Top Commercial Broker for 2022.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Ava Do is a magician, mentalist, and deception consultant. As an immigrant trying to manage impressions from two different environments, she became fascinated with the subjects of perception and social psychology.After studying Psychobiology from UCLA and working as a crisis counselor, Ava has spent the last decade turning her academic background and real-world experience with human behavior into a unique style of entertainment.Ava's performances are a combination of sleight-of-hand demonstrations and mind games to create psychological illusions also known as mentalism. While initially guests are drawn to the novelty of a female magician, they soon realize she has the expertise of a behaviorist and the charisma of a con-artist.With a thorough knowledge of the subculture of deception practitioners - con-men, hackers, art forgers, etc.. Ava has been sought after as a consultant for popular films and television programs such as WB's Focus starring Will Smith & Margot Robbie, as well as Amazon's Sneaky Pete.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Marcelino Truong is an illustrator and painter, and the author of the graphic memoir Such a Lovely Little War and its sequel Saigon Calling. Born the son of a Vietnamese diplomat in 1957 in the Philippines, he and his family moved to America (where his father worked for the embassy) and then to Vietnam at the outset of the war.Marcelino's new graphic novel, 40 Men and 12 Rifles is an expansive, gripping graphic novel set in Indochina in the year leading up to 1954, when the French-held garrison at Dien Bien Phu fell after a fifty-five-day battle, leading to the end of the first Indochina war opposing both French and Nationalist Vietnamese forces to Ho Chi Minh's National-Communist underground state. He attended the French Lycee in London, then moved to Paris where he earned degrees in law at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, and English literature at the Sorbonne. He lives in St-Malo, France.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

As an openly gay immigrant from Việt Nam, Hoàng is proud to be appointed by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to serve on the Los Angeles City Civil and Human Rights Commission.He was also named one of the National Association of Asian Pacific in Politics and Public Affairs' 40 Under 40.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jamie Jo Hoang is the author of MY FATHER, THE PANDA KILLER (YA) and BLUE SUN, YELLOW SKY (ADULT). Her work has been featured in TIME, NPR, SALON, POPSUGAR, TINY BUDDHA, and WRITER'S DIGEST.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Vietnam Society was founded by Phuong “Erin” Steinhauer and Peter Steinhauer who have lived and traveled to work in Vietnam for nearly 30 years. Mrs. Steinhauer is a Vietnamese American corporate executive, born and raised in Saigon. She is the great grand daughter of Pham Phu Thu, a great minister and reformer of Vietnam during the Nguyen Dynasty. Peter Steinhauer is a world-renowned fine art photographer who has dedicated his career to documenting Vietnam since first moving to Vietnam in 1993. They believe in the transcendent power of art as a uniting medium which helps people to connect and bond and that art allows for the expression of interpretation of the country’s history and society, providing knowledge and inspiration for this generation and those to come.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Tom Cross is a Vietnamese American television and film editor. He is known for his collaborations with Damien Chazelle including Whiplash for which he won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing as well as La La Land, and First Man.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Viet Nguyen is the founder and executive chef of Kei Concepts, a restaurant concept creation and management group that develops and manages proprietary brands and incubates emerging concepts.Kei Concepts is a startup incubator at the crossroads of food, tech, and culture; AAPI-run, with women in key leadership roles. A thriving nest of fresh, electrifying ideas, devoted to pioneering and nurturing innovative culinary concepts, Kei Concepts began for a simple reason: to build something that our community can be proud of and forge a path ahead for the next generation.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Kim Thúy Ly Thanh, CQ is a Vietnamese-born Canadian writer, whose debut novel Ru won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2010 Governor General's Awards and has now been made into a movie. A graduate in translation and law, Kim Thuy has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer, restaurant owner, media personality and television host. She lives in Montreal and devotes herself to writing.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy