It's easy to compare yourself with people who look absolutely perfect on their LinkedIns. You always hear of the success stories on social media, but not the trial and tribulations. In this episode, I sit down with Kristin Chen, Director of Product at Soundcloud, to talk about the behind-the-scenes of her career path from working in consulting and then in tech (at LinkedIn, Twitch, and Pinterest). She's one of the very executives in tech who leads with confident vulnerability. On top of that,...

Dating nowadays is like playing 5D chess. There's a million dating apps and the social norms just keep changing. So how do you even know how to navigate it? In this episode, I chat with 4 friends - Josh (Apple, Software Engineer), Alanna (Facebook, Product Specialist), Alister (Electronic Arts, UX Designer), and Susan (anonymous). They'll share what their pre-date process is like, whether they kiss on the first date or not, and whether love comes to you when you're not actually looking. Video...

Couples therapy can oftentimes have negative implications, but it's actually a very healing experience. In this episode, I'm chatting with my friend Christina Nguyen, who is a Product Analyst at Uber, about fears, learnings, coping mechanisms, and more when it comes to navigating relationships in this day and age. What did you expect going into couples therapy? How do you know when you're triggered? What conversations are you afraid of? What do you do when your values clash?

In the previous episode, we walked through the career path of Matthew Ray Chiang, a Creative Technologist working for Google. In part 2 today, we'll be diving deeper into the complex challenges that we've seen when working with difficult managers and how we've managed to grow from those experiences after.

Figuring out how to work with managers is one of the first key skills to learn when starting your career. However, not everyone gets a great manager from the get-go. In this episode, we're chatting with Matthew Ray Chiang, a Creative Technology working for Google, and hearing about his career journey from investment banking to front end engineering and finally to creative technologies and the things he learns as he encounters various managers each step of the way. 

When school initially shut down for two weeks, high schoolers were ecstatic about the temporary "spring break". That excitement didn't last long when online education became the new normal and everything that made school fun were canceled. How did teachers transition their curriculum to Zoom classes? How did administrations handle the shutdown? What goes behind the scenes when families are not ready to take care of everything at home? We get to hear the first-hand experience of a high school...

Welcome to Happy Hour at Home, a podcast about friends navigating adult life in the modern world. In this episode, we dive into mental health, work life balance, and resetting life goals in the time of COVID-19.  We're featuring Charlene Zhen, who is a first-time manager at a bay area tech startup, a USC alum, and a mental health advocate.