Asian Hustle Network

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 166 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Jingzhou Zhang and Michelle Chen on this week's show. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned! Jing and Michelle serve as co-CEOs of Simply Co. and are only juniors at Clements High School. They were core officers of our #4 ranked startup at Nationals in 2021, before taking over reigns as co-CEOs. Under their leadership, Simply Co. has grown exponentially, placing highly in multiple local and regional competitions. Jing is also involved in the Model UN and Dear Asian Youth. She loved photography. Michelle is also involved in DECA and loves reading books. To stay connected within the AHN community, please join our AHN directory: bit.ly/AHNDirectory

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 164 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Kayla Awadin on this week's show. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned! Currently a senior at Elkins High School, Kayla was the former CMO of our #1 ranked startup at Nationals, Elkins Very Own or EVO. She also represented the USA in our global competition presented by Ralph de La Vega and JA Worldwide. Currently, she serves as CEO of EVO and has EVO to many top-ranking in regional competitions. She is also a competitive swimmer, having been recognized as an Academic All-District Swimming and Diving athlete. She is hoping to major in engineering. To stay connected within the AHN community, please join our AHN directory: bit.ly/AHNDirectory

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 163 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have SuChin Pak on this week's show. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned! SuChin Pak is a veteran journalist who has been hosting and reporting the news for over 25 years. She has reported on ABC, NBC, Discovery Networks, Oxygen and E!. She is most known for her long career as the first Asian American reporter for MTV News. From hosting red carpet shows, to reporting on presidential elections, international relief efforts and covering some of the biggest headlines in news, Pak has been a dedicated journalist since reporting on her first show at the age of 16. She has focused much of her work on issues involving social change. She currently co-hosts Add To Cart--a podcast about consumerism and the impact on our culture, for Lemonada Media. To stay connected within the AHN community, please join our AHN directory: bit.ly/AHNDirectory

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 162 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Sajani Amarasiri on this week's show. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, etc. Please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review if you enjoyed this episode. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned! Sajani Amarasiri is an immigrant entrepreneur who transitioned from building world-class tech supply chains at giants like Microsoft and Amazon to building a brand with more equitable supply chains for better for you. These ayurvedic-inspired modern goodies originate from her heritage in South Asia. Her passion for marrying her two cultures and giving back to where she came from got her to travel across the world to start the first community-focused coworking space in Sri Lanka and then on to build Kola Goodies to bring more equity and cultural representation to wellness around the world by directly sourcing and supporting communities that have used these ingredients and rituals for thousands of years but weren’t being represented in shelves. To stay connected within the AHN community, please join our AHN directory: bit.ly/AHNDirectory

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 161 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Eric Feng on this week's show. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned! Eric went from being an unknown local trainer in Singapore to a celebrated global speaker all thanks to social media. Prior to COVID19, Eric traveled around the world (his record was 37 countries in a year) to teach salespeople and entrepreneurs how to use social media to attract paying customers without running ads. He has a presence across 8 social media platforms and recently got his verified blue tick on Facebook and TikTok. To stay connected within the AHN community, please join our AHN directory: bit.ly/AHNDirectory

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 160 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Vivian Wang on this week's show. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned! Vivian is the Founder & CEO of LANDED (gotlanded.com). She and the LANDED team are building the fastest way for the 90M hourly workers in the US to land jobs at essential restaurants and hospitality like Panera, Cava, Chick-fil-A & more. After graduating from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, Vivian worked in roles ranging from advising European central banks on financial markets strategy at BlackRock and launching the Asia & EMEA markets at real estate tech company, Matterport (NASDAQ: MTTR), to leading special projects for the C-suite at Gap, Inc., owner of Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Athleta, and Intermix.  To stay connected within the AHN community, please join our AHN directory: bit.ly/AHNDirectory

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 159 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Dan Matthews on this week's show. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RadioPublic, Stitcher, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to amplify Asian voices and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned! Dan Matthews is a Senior Creative Producer living in Los Angeles, CA. He's the Managing Partner at International Secret Agents, a creative consulting company focusing on helping brands & companies resonate with Asian American Pacific Islander audiences more authentically through content, activations, and talent. He has over 12 years of experience producing for companies like Moet Hennessy, CJ Foods, AT&T, and more. He is also behind producing some of the first-ever AAPI large-scale concerts with tens of thousands of audience members coming to see acts like Jay Park, Mike Shinoda, Awkwafina, and more. Dan is also an indie rap artist that is based in Los Angeles. he's overwhelmed most of the time and writes mostly about that. His new album "ME ALSO ME" is currently out on all streaming platforms. Please stream him - it'll make his mom happy. This episode is sponsored by SaneBox. We all get so much email. SaneBox makes sure that only important email stays in your inbox and directs all the other distracting stuff into your SaneLater folder. It also has nifty features like the SaneBlackHole, where you can drag messages from senders you never want to hear from again, and SaneReminders to ping you if someone hasn’t replied to your email by a certain date. You can use SaneBox with any email client or phone, anywhere you check your email. Visit sanebox.com/ahn today to start your free two-week trial and get a $25 credit. To stay connected with the AHN community, please join our AHN directory: bit.ly/AHNDirectory

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 158 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Danny Taing on this week's show. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RadioPublic, Stitcher, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to amplify Asian voices and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned! Danny Taing is the Founder & CEO of Bokksu, a New York and Tokyo-based D2C snack subscription and e-grocer that delivers authentic Japanese food and lifestyle products to over 100 countries. Providing Japan’s traditional makers with a platform to share their goods with a global audience, Bokksu is helping to support, preserve, and promote their craft, while making it easier for the rest of the world to discover, buy, and love authentic Japanese goods. The son of Cambodian-Chinese refugees, Danny was born in NYC and raised in NJ. He received a dual Bachelor's in Psychology and Communication, and a Master’s in Sociology, all from Stanford University. He then worked as a marketing strategist at Google HQ. After that, he relocated to Japan for a position at Rakuten. It was there, during the four years he spent living and working in Tokyo, that he developed his deep love of Japanese food and culture (as well as met his wonderful husband). Following Rakuten, Taing returned to New York to study Computer Science at Columbia University. Inspired by his passion for Japanese culture, Asian-American representation, and entrepreneurship, Taing founded Bokksu in 2015 with $5,000 of his own savings. Utilizing every skill and contact he had, Taing was able to go from concept to launch in just three months, without an additional penny of outside funding. And he sold through his first run of boxes in less than a week. Today, the company is valued at $100M and employs a staff of 50, 80% of whom are BIPOC, female, and/or LGBTQ+; a metric Taing is particularly proud of. In his spare time, Danny is an avid rock climber, fierce board game competitor, and anime binge-watcher. This episode is sponsored by SaneBox. We all get so much email. SaneBox makes sure that only important email stays in your inbox and directs all the other distracting stuff into your SaneLater folder. It also has nifty features like the SaneBlackHole, where you can drag messages from senders you never want to hear from again, and SaneReminders to ping you if someone hasn’t replied to your email by a certain date. You can use SaneBox with any email client or phone, anywhere you check your email. Visit sanebox.com/ahn today to start your free two-week trial and get a $25 credit. To stay connected with the AHN community, please join our AHN directory: bit.ly/AHNDirectory

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 157 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have David Zhao on this week's show. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RadioPublic, Stitcher, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to amplify Asian voices and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned! David Zhao is an entrepreneur, investor, and activist originally from Shanghai, China. He is currently the Managing Partner of NXT Group. Its diversified businesses include Food & Beverage Ventures such as The X Pot, Chubby Cattle, and NXT Factor (a full-service digital agency). David is here to share insight about entrepreneurship, the startup lifestyle, and tools/tips to help you with your daily life. This episode is sponsored by SaneBox. We all get so much email. SaneBox makes sure that only important email stays in your inbox and directs all the other distracting stuff into your SaneLater folder. It also has nifty features like the SaneBlackHole, where you can drag messages from senders you never want to hear from again, and SaneReminders to ping you if someone hasn’t replied to your email by a certain date. You can use SaneBox with any email client or phone, anywhere you check your email. Visit sanebox.com/ahn today to start your free two-week trial and get a $25 credit. To stay connected with the AHN community, please join our AHN directory: bit.ly/AHNDirectory

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 156 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Dr. Joyce Park on this week's show.  Honor AANHPI heritage, communities, and families today by getting vaccinated for a safer tomorrow. Vaccination greatly reduces your chance of having COVID symptoms like fatigue, pain, and memory problems that last for months. Protect your tomorrow with a vaccine today. Talk to a doctor if you have questions. Find vaccines and boosters near you at vaccines.gov. We can do this. Paid for by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  Dr. Joyce Park is a board-certified dermatologist based in Washington and creator of Tea With MD, a social-media based resource for a dermatologist’s science-backed perspective on all things skincare. She attended college and medical school at Stanford University, and completed her dermatology residency at NYU. Dr. Park is a skincare media expert and has been featured in has been featured in Forbes, Good Morning America, Allure, Vogue, Huffington Post, the Gloss Angeles Podcast, and more. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking and exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest with her husband and toddler son, taking hip-hop dance classes (which have surprisingly come in handy doing TikTok trends), trying new skincare trends and products, and mentoring the next generation of students interested in medicine and dermatology.  To stay connected within the AHN community, please join our AHN directory: bit.ly/AHNDirectory