The Vietnamese with Kenneth Nguyen

Alice Duong Trinh is a second-generation Vietnamese American living in California. Her parents immigrated to the United States after the Vietnam war and she is the oldest of three daughters. She is a pharmacist, a wife, a mom, and an inspired traveler and storyteller during her free time. It was an important challenge to her parents that their family assimilated to American life, while still preserving their Vietnamese heritage. It is the same wish she has for her daughter, and she wants children to celebrate their cultural roots and uniqueness with the help of her stories. Tết, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, is a time of celebration and it involves much preparation. This festive story is a great introduction to the most important Vietnamese cultural holiday. Young readers will learn the significance of each tradition during this special time. As families prepare to celebrate Tết, it is also a time of reflection and togetherness. Families come together to help sweep out the old year, hang dazzling decorations, and prepare lavish meals to share. Discover how the anticipation of Tết and the days of festivities that follow, all culminate in the celebration of families and the Vietnamese cultural heritage. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Tuan Lee currently guides the mission of VERVET: sharing the cultural wealth of Los Angeles and California one can (cheers) at a time with four ready-to-drink sparkling cocktails. Farm-to-can, clean and sustainable cocktails made by co-founder, veteran bartender and author, Hope Ewing. Prior to founding VERVET, Tuan made a career as a photographer, producer, and general organizer of things. He has created and produced visual content for art exhibitions, fine art books, launch events and advertising of all types and scale. Since working successfully, and at times failing forward (mostly), on over a decade of projects with many different teams, Tuan has become skilled in finding the story to tell, strategic solutions, identifying larger trends and comprehensive communication. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mimi Vu is a partner at Raise Partners, a consulting practice that helps nonprofits, philanthropists, private sector, and governments work together to achieve their highest social and environmental good. She has over 20 years of nonprofit experience in organizations such as Pacific Links Foundation, VinaCapital Foundation, East Meets West Foundation, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, and the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Mimi is considered one of the leading experts on Vietnamese trafficking and modern slavery and regularly provides commentary for outlets such as The Washington Post, The Guardian, BBC, CNN, Le Monde, Reuters, Associated Press, VICE News, Forced Migration Review, South China Morning Post, ITV News, and Sky News. She has undergraduate degrees in English Literature and French from the University of Michigan and an MPA in International Nonprofit Policy and Management from New York University. Mimi is a native of Flint, Michigan and has been based in Vietnam since 2006. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Happy New Years to you all! Join me as I explore why Abba's song Happy New Year has become the theme song for New Year in Vietnam! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Nam began training martial arts at 8yrs old under Grandmaster Ha Quoc Huy. He trained Quyen Dao (a Vietnamese martial art) for 9 years and earned his black belt at age 17. In 2000, Nam started Brazilian jiu jitsu under Carlson Gracie Black Belt – Franco De Camargo. He studied for 5 years with Sensei Franco before moving on to train with Marciol Feitosa at Gracie Barra. Over time, Nam began to slowly move away from Gi jiu jitsu and in 2005, solely devoted his training to No Gi JJ. At this time Nam met friend, mentor, and coach Jeremy Williams, where he trained full time at Apex Jiu Jitsu; until his tragic death in May 2007. Nam continues to train No Gi JJ at Nam Phan MMA, as well as Subfighter Gym with Rick Estrada, Russ Muira, and Adam Lynn at Laguna Hills, CA. To become more versatile, Nam began boxing as well. He started in 2004, and his amateur record is 5-3. He became a professional boxer in 2006 and currently holds a pro record of 3-0. He trains under Art James of Team PunchOut of Anaheim, CA. Nam’s well rounded MMA skills also include a wrestling component. He began in his early high school days when he was on the Rancho Alamito wrestling team in Garden Grove, CA. He was a league champion and CIF finalist. Nam also wrestled for Golden West College in 2002. In addition to BJJ, boxing, and wrestling, Nam also trains Muay Thai kickboxing under Master Fumi Fujimoto. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Website: https://www.vietsforafghans.org/ About us: https://www.vietsforafghans.org/about_us Donation link: https://www.vietsforafghans.org/donate Our primary focus areas right now: - Advocacy and allyship with the Afghan community - we want to center on and amplify Afghan voices, share our shared lived history when needed to advocate for change - Humanitarian parole - assisting 75 Afghans left behind seek HP and refuge in the U.S. - Sponsor Circle - forming circles of 5 private sponsors to help Afghan refugee families currently stuck on military bases.  Call to action: - Donate to our cause so we can help more families and scale our efforts - Become a sponsor through the Sponsor Circles Program - https://www.sponsorcircles.org (People can join us in the Seattle area or form their own circle and come to us for guidance and best practices based on our early learnings.)    Uyen Nguyen is a refugee that came to the United States at 11 years old as an unaccompanied minor. She is currently an entrepreneur, but spent a big part of her career as a scientist and an asset manager. She currently owns Nue, a restaurant located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle that specializes in global street food. Uyen is also a social entrepreneur. She co-founded Emerge Washington, PIVOT - the progressive Vietnamese American Organization, Nue Planet, and Viets for Afghans. She has been advocating for refugees and immigrants for years.   Thanh Tan is an Emmy Award-winning multimedia storyteller based in Seattle. She is creator/host of Second Wave, a groundbreaking podcast from PRX and KUOW tracing the experiences of Vietnamese refugees after the war ended in 1975. Her reporting and writing has been featured across all platforms, including This American Life, The Seattle Times and The New York Times. For the first 12 years of her career, she served as a journalist and on-air reporter for the CBS affiliate in Boise, Idaho, the ABC station in Portland, Oregon, The Texas Tribune in Austin, Texas, and The Seattle Times editorial board in Seattle, Washington. She has received two national Sigma Delta Chi awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and produced two regional Emmy-winning documentaries for Idaho Public Television (PBS), including a half-hour show on Idaho’s local food movement. As a storyteller for Microsoft Public Affairs and Microsoft President Brad Smith from 2016 through 2020, she traveled to six continents - producing, reporting and explaining the broad impact of technology on global societies through more than 50 original video stories. In 2020, she co-founded Viet Fact Check, a bilingual website that provides fact-checked articles in Vietnamese and English. This past August, she helped to start Viets for Afghans, a volunteer coalition that's mobilizing Vietnamese Americans to help Afghan refugees. She is now balancing dual careers as a senior writer/storyteller for Starbucks Stories and independent filmmaker.  Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Vina Vo (she/her) is the co-founder of the Novalia Collective, an organization dedicated to storytelling, community building, and belonging. She works with teams, organizations, and communities to transform their communities and work environments into inclusive and equitable spaces.   As the daughter and granddaughter of Vietnamese refugees she has always been inspired to communicate and navigate across differences. She is currently on the board of PIVOT (The Progressive Vietnamese American Organization) and DVAN (Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network).   In her free time, Vina can be found trying to publish her first fiction novel, blending herbal teas, hiking, cooking, evangelizing about Hmart and Costco, and delivering two-hour presentations on BTS.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Roy Vũ is a history professor at Dallas College, North Lake Campus, in Irving, Texas. He earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Houston. His publications include co-editing Our Finite Bounty: An Anthology of Sustainability Topics (Kendall Hunt, 2017) and Feasted Landscapes: Sustainability in American Topics, Vols. 1 and 2 (Kendall Hunt, 1st edition, 2015; 2nd edition, 2018); “Turbulent Seas” in Sugar and Rice Magazine, Issue 2 (2014); and “Natives of a Ghost Country: The Vietnamese in Houston and Their Construction of a Postwar Community” in Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South, edited by Khyati Y. Joshi and Jigna Desai (University of Illinois Press, 2013). He and his wife, Ngọc, reside in Irving. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Alain Van Dinh is head of Partnership & Business-to-Business at SIPHER. Sipher is a 3D live action RPG, PvE, & PvP Blockchain Game. Alain discusses his evolution in Vietnam and involvement in the crypto and digital space.  Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Christine Huyen Tran Ha is an American chef, writer, restauranteur and TV host. She is the first blind contestant of Master Chef and the winner of its third season in 2012. While she has never studied cooking, she has a large following on her food blog. In the nineteen episodes where she competed on the third season of MasterChef, Ha won seven times in both individual and team challenges; additionally, she placed three times in the top three group. However, she was also in the bottom group twice.On September 10, 2012, Hà was announced the winner of the competition and was awarded $250,000, the MasterChef title, the MasterChef trophy, and a cookbook deal. She has traveled around the world to give TED talks about her life experiences as a blind cook and the lessons she has learned along the way.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy