The Vietnamese with Kenneth Nguyen

Charles Phan is the Executive Chef and founder of The Slanted Door in San Francisco, California and The Slanted Door Group of restaurants.Phan is known for combining Western and Vietnamese ingredients in breakthrough ways and was recognized as “Best Chef: California” by the James Beard Foundation in 2004. In the years that followed, Phan expanded his restaurant group with Out the Door, Hard Water, Rice and Bones at UC Berkeley, Slanted Door San Ramon, and Chuck’s Takeaway.His popularity continued to grow with appearances on network television and two cookbooks, Vietnamese Home Cooking (2012) and The Slanted Door (2014).Phan has received numerous nominations and awards. Notably, in 2014 The Slanted Door was recognized by the James Beard Foundation as an Outstanding Restaurant in America. His books won the IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) Cookbook Award for Chefs and Restaurants and for Photography, respectively.Charles Phan lives in San Francisco with his wife and their three children.========================Welcome to The Vietnamese Podcast! I'm your host, Kenneth Nguyen. Join me on an exploration of Vietnamese experiences from all over the world.I served in the U.S. Marines in the 90's and graduated from the University of Southern California in 2000. Today, I work as an LA based producer and entrepreneur and am currently a founding partner at EAST Films.========================Please SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT to support the podcast!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thevietname...Page: https://www.facebook.com/thevietnames...TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thevietnamese...Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nguyenkennethSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

With over 60 million streams across her catalog, and press support from Refinery 29, Teen Vogue, NYLON, Forbes, HypeBeast, The Line of Best Fit and L’Officiel TRACE feels she has only just begun creating a voice she hopes you keep coming back to.In the Spring of 2021, TRACE did a takeover curating Spotify’s DOPE AF playlist, which highlights Asian Female artists. Specifically spotlighting awareness to both the #stopAsiannhate movement as well as her non-profit of choice: Asian Mental Health Collective.Leaving behind her days as a magazine editor to pursue music head on, she’s racked up a total of 60 million streams with only one EP and a handful of standalone singles released to date. Championed by the likes of Highsnobiety, Hilly Dilly, Indie Shuffle, Nasty Gal, Pigeons & Planes, Refinery29, Teen Vogue, The 405, The Line Of Best Fit, and The Fader to name a few, it’s no surprise she’s working with some of the best players in the game.TRACE has been in the studio with producers and co-writers including Mike Derenzo (Tiffany Young, Cautious Clay, EXES), Bram Inscore (Troye Sivan, Allie X, 88 Rising), Haley Gene Penner (Charlotte Lawrence, Lennon Stella), and Phoebe Ryan (literally everyone).========================Welcome to The Vietnamese Podcast! I'm your host, Kenneth Nguyen. Join me on an exploration of Vietnamese experiences from all over the world.I served in the U.S. Marines in the 90's and graduated from the University of Southern California in 2000. Today, I work as an LA based producer and entrepreneur and am currently a founding partner at EAST Films.========================Please SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT to support the podcast!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thevietnamesepodcastPage: https://www.facebook.com/thevietnamesepodcastTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thevietnamesepodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nguyenkennethSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

With over 60 million streams across her catalog, and press support from Refinery 29, Teen Vogue, NYLON, Forbes, HypeBeast, The Line of Best Fit and L’Officiel TRACE feels she has only just begun creating a voice she hopes you keep coming back to.In the Spring of 2021, TRACE did a takeover curating Spotify’s DOPE AF playlist, which highlights Asian Female artists. Specifically spotlighting awareness to both the #stopAsiannhate movement as well as her non-profit of choice: Asian Mental Health Collective. Leaving behind her days as a magazine editor to pursue music head on, she’s racked up a total of 60 million streams with only one EP and a handful of standalone singles released to date. Championed by the likes of Highsnobiety, Hilly Dilly, Indie Shuffle, Nasty Gal, Pigeons & Planes, Refinery29, Teen Vogue, The 405, The Line Of Best Fit, and The Fader to name a few, it’s no surprise she’s working with some of the best players in the game.TRACE has been in the studio with producers and co-writers including Mike Derenzo (Tiffany Young, Cautious Clay, EXES), Bram Inscore (Troye Sivan, Allie X, 88 Rising), Haley Gene Penner (Charlotte Lawrence, Lennon Stella), and Phoebe Ryan (literally everyone).========================Welcome to The Vietnamese Podcast! I'm your host, Kenneth Nguyen. Join me on an exploration of Vietnamese experiences from all over the world.I served in the U.S. Marines in the 90's and graduated from the University of Southern California in 2000. Today, I work as an LA based producer and entrepreneur and am currently a founding partner at EAST Films.========================Please SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT to support the podcast!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thevietnamesepodcastPage: https://www.facebook.com/thevietnamesepodcastTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thevietnamesepodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nguyenkennethSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this wide-ranging talk, we discuss how Tony Ngo went from overcoming failure and fear at Stanford to becoming an uber-networked professional, how the topic of du học sinh became the catalyst for Tony to develop a career bridging Vietnamese communities to international ones, and how he explained to his parents who left Vietnam as refugees his career pivot from the US to the country many of us left.Tony grew up in Orange, CA as the oldest son of refugees, and has lived the idealized American immigrant story: parents working insane hours, focusing on education, and giving back to your community. In high school, he became involved in Vietnamese community engagements and co-founded his first organization trying to connect Vietnamese students across Orange County, which utterly failed.However, that failure planted the seeds of his serial community-building activities: being president and pledge sensei of his fraternity at Stanford (Lambda Phi Epsilon) where he also ran into numerous leadership challenges, co-founding another non-profit the Union of North American Vietnamese Student Associations (UNAVSA) where he laid the foundation for a scalable community-driven organization, creating Sponsors for Educational Opportunity - Vietnam (SEO-Vietnam) that is building a community of responsible leaders for Vietnam, and then of course, co-founding Everest Education which provides students in Vietnam access to international quality learning.https://linktr.ee/thaytonyoi========================Welcome to The Vietnamese Podcast! I'm your host, Kenneth Nguyen. Join me on an exploration of Vietnamese experiences from all over the world.I served in the U.S. Marines in the 90's and graduated from the University of Southern California in 2000. Today, I work as an LA based producer and entrepreneur and am currently a founding partner at EAST Films.========================Please SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT to support the podcast!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thevietnamesepodcastPage: https://www.facebook.com/thevietnamesepodcastTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thevietnamesepodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nguyenkennethSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this wide-ranging talk, we discuss how Tony Ngo went from overcoming failure and fear at Stanford to becoming an uber-networked professional, how the topic of du học sinh became the catalyst for Tony to develop a career bridging Vietnamese communities to international ones, and how he explained to his parents who left Vietnam as refugees his career pivot from the US to the country many of us left.Tony grew up in Orange, CA as the oldest son of refugees, and has lived the idealized American immigrant story: parents working insane hours, focusing on education, and giving back to your community. In high school, he became involved in Vietnamese community engagements and co-founded his first organization trying to connect Vietnamese students across Orange County, which utterly failed.However, that failure planted the seeds of his serial community-building activities: being president and pledge sensei of his fraternity at Stanford (Lambda Phi Epsilon) where he also ran into numerous leadership challenges, co-founding another non-profit the Union of North American Vietnamese Student Associations (UNAVSA) where he laid the foundation for a scalable community-driven organization, creating Sponsors for Educational Opportunity - Vietnam (SEO-Vietnam) that is building a community of responsible leaders for Vietnam, and then of course, co-founding Everest Education which provides students in Vietnam access to international quality learning.https://linktr.ee/thaytonyoi========================Welcome to The Vietnamese Podcast! I'm your host, Kenneth Nguyen. Join me on an exploration of Vietnamese experiences from all over the world.I served in the U.S. Marines in the 90's and graduated from the University of Southern California in 2000. Today, I work as an LA based producer and entrepreneur and am currently a founding partner at EAST Films.========================Please SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT to support the podcast!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thevietnamesepodcastPage: https://www.facebook.com/thevietnamesepodcastTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thevietnamesepodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nguyenkennethSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mike Van is the President of Billboard. He is responsible for all revenue operations and the financial performance for the Billboard brand. In his previous role as Executive Vice President and Head of Global Brand Partnerships Mike oversaw global monetization across all brand revenue channels including direct digital, social, live events, branded content, licensing, and distribution.In partnership with Billboard’s executive team, Mike also contributes to fiscal and strategic business planning, management, and operations. In 2018, Mike joined MRC Entertainment as Vice President of Sales where he was responsible for enterprise sales/partnerships across Dick Clark Productions, The Hollywood Reporter and MRC Films.During that time, Mike and the team closed record breaking revenue partnerships with Youtube, Google, Honda, Apple, Tik Tok, Pepsi, 23 and Me, and Wells Fargo. In 2021, Van and his team notably generated a new era of partnerships with Samsung, Verizon, Honda, AMEX, META, Twitter and a host of other brand partners driving historic records for top and bottom-line growth for Billboard.A seasoned media executive with experience at Pandora, Electronic Arts, Myspace, Complex, and ESPN, Mike brings his personal passions and longstanding relationships to his work.Mike currently resides in Los Angeles.______________________Billboard: Billboard is the world's most influential music brand reaching a massive influential audience across multiple platforms. The Billboard brand is built on its exclusive charts and proprietary algorithm powering on latest news, issues and trends across all genres of music.Billboard scales its reach through strategic relationships with artists/creators, the ecosystems of people/businesses around them, and with Fortune 500 brands across various verticals. These relationships leverage Billboard's longtime brand equity, proprietary chart data and information resources to develop digital products, live events, and award-winning content. In addition to North America, Billboard operates businesses globally and will expand further into Latin America, Asian and Europe in 2022.========================Welcome to The Vietnamese Podcast! I'm your host, Kenneth Nguyen. Join me on an exploration of Vietnamese experiences from all over the world.I served in the U.S. Marines in the 90's and graduated from the University of Southern California in 2000. Today, I work as an LA based producer and entrepreneur and am currently a founding partner at EAST Films.========================Please SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT to support the podcast!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thevietnamesepodcastPage: https://www.facebook.com/thevietnamesepodcastTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thevietnamesepodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nguyenkennethSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mike Van is the President of Billboard. He is responsible for all revenue operations and the financial performance for the Billboard brand. In his previous role as Executive Vice President and Head of Global Brand Partnerships Mike oversaw global monetization across all brand revenue channels including direct digital, social, live events, branded content, licensing, and distribution.In partnership with Billboard’s executive team, Mike also contributes to fiscal and strategic business planning, management, and operations. In 2018, Mike joined MRC Entertainment as Vice President of Sales where he was responsible for enterprise sales/partnerships across Dick Clark Productions, The Hollywood Reporter and MRC Films.During that time, Mike and the team closed record breaking revenue partnerships with Youtube, Google, Honda, Apple, Tik Tok, Pepsi, 23 and Me, and Wells Fargo. In 2021, Van and his team notably generated a new era of partnerships with Samsung, Verizon, Honda, AMEX, META, Twitter and a host of other brand partners driving historic records for top and bottom-line growth for Billboard.A seasoned media executive with experience at Pandora, Electronic Arts, Myspace, Complex, and ESPN, Mike brings his personal passions and longstanding relationships to his work.Mike currently resides in Los Angeles.========================Welcome to The Vietnamese Podcast! I'm your host, Kenneth Nguyen. Join me on an exploration of Vietnamese experiences from all over the world.I served in the U.S. Marines in the 90's and graduated from the University of Southern California in 2000. Today, I work as an LA based producer and entrepreneur and am currently a founding partner at EAST Films.========================Please SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT to support the podcast!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thevietnamesepodcastPage: https://www.facebook.com/thevietnamesepodcastTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thevietnamesepodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nguyenkennethSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Cung Le is an actor, retired mixed martial artist, Sanshou fighter and kickboxer. He competed as a middleweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), holding a record of 2–2 with the organization.In kickboxing and sanshou, he is a former International Kickboxing Federation Light Heavyweight World Champion, having a professional kickboxing record of 17–0 before moving to mixed martial arts. He defeated Frank Shamrock to become the second Strikeforce Middleweight Champion before vacating the title to further pursue his acting career.Le is perhaps best known in mixed martial arts for competing in Strikeforce, holding a record of 7–1 with the organization before its demise.========================Welcome to The Vietnamese Podcast! I'm your host, Kenneth Nguyen. Join me on an exploration of Vietnamese experiences from all over the world.I served in the U.S. Marines in the 90's and graduated from the University of Southern California in 2000. Today, I work as an LA based producer and entrepreneur and am currently a founding partner at EAST Films.========================Please SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT to support the podcast!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thevietname...Page: https://www.facebook.com/thevietnames...TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thevietnamese...Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nguyenkennethSHOW LESSSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Thi Bui was born in Vietnam and came to the United States in 1978 as part of the “boat people” wave of refugees fleeing Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam War. Her debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do (Abrams ComicArts, 2017) has been selected for an American Book Award, a Common Book for UCLA and other colleges and universities, an all-city read by Seattle and San Francisco public libraries, a National Book Critics Circle finalist in autobiography, and an Eisner Award finalist in reality-based comics.It made over thirty best of 2017 book lists, including Bill Gates’ top five picks. She illustrated the picture book, A Different Pond, written by the poet Bao Phi (Capstone, 2017), for which she won a Caldecott Honor.With her son, Hien, she co-illustrated the children’s book, Chicken of the Sea (McSweeney’s, 2019), written by Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen and his son, Ellison. Her short comics can be found online at The Nib, PEN America, and BOOM California.She is currently researching and drawing a work of graphic nonfiction about immigrant detention and deportation, to be published by One World, Random House.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Thi Bui was born in Vietnam and came to the United States in 1978 as part of the “boat people” wave of refugees fleeing Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam War. Her debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do (Abrams ComicArts, 2017) has been selected for an American Book Award, a Common Book for UCLA and other colleges and universities, an all-city read by Seattle and San Francisco public libraries, a National Book Critics Circle finalist in autobiography, and an Eisner Award finalist in reality-based comics.It made over thirty best of 2017 book lists, including Bill Gates’ top five picks. She illustrated the picture book, A Different Pond, written by the poet Bao Phi (Capstone, 2017), for which she won a Caldecott Honor.With her son, Hien, she co-illustrated the children’s book, Chicken of the Sea (McSweeney’s, 2019), written by Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen and his son, Ellison. Her short comics can be found online at The Nib, PEN America, and BOOM California.She is currently researching and drawing a work of graphic nonfiction about immigrant detention and deportation, to be published by One World, Random House.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy