Tradition Breakers
Join host, Mary Vallarta, as she interviews AAPI individuals who bravely broke free of cultural expectations to follow their creative, artistic, or entrepreneurial passions.
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Eldest Daughter Syndrome: How to Stop Carrying Your Whole Family (opens the original)
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"My dad was able to come to my UCLA graduation, but my mom had to stay behind and help the church. That's when I learned I wasn't a priority." If you grew up as the eldest daughter — the peacemaker, the second parent, the one who keeps everyone in line while nobody asks how you're doing — this episode is going to put words to things you've felt your whole life. Therapist, Grace Huang, grew up a second-generation eldest daughter in her immigrant parents' church in downtown LA, where serving every
An MIT Engineer Hacked Her Broken Body Back to Health (opens the original)
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Sixteen years ago, a spinal injury during childbirth left MIT-trained engineer and Goldman Sachs alum Winnie Wang unable to sit for ten minutes. After six years of chronic pain and depression, she made an engineer's decision: go to medical school and rebuild her body from the ground up. It worked. Now an integrative medicine doctor, Winnie breaks down: healing at five levels — body, energy, mind, heart, and soul why the first sign of burnout is resentment, not exhaustion. the 80% rule (why overd
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