Cassandra Faire has over 20 years of experience in the industry working as a client sponsor of contingent labor, a staffing supplier, and within an MSP.  She has vast experience in risk assessment, program management, business process redesign, performance metrics, and business process analysis has laid the foundation for the development of some of Talent Solutions TAPFIN’s operational best practices and organizational standards. Cassandra shares the moment she decided to show up as her...

Ishy Shah is a Strategic Procurement leader in Hi Tech Fortune 500 Company with 15+ years’ experience including Finance. She has a proven track record in driving enterprise-wide Initiatives including digital transformation of procurement. Her key strengths are Strategic Thinker, Relationship Builder, Influencer, Connector, Maximizer.  Ishy is also a strong advocate of diversity and inclusion and big supporter of empowering minority women. Ishy shares how taking a leap of faith on herself has...

Sabrina Alexis Sayoc is a Senior Corporate Recruiter responsible for building the Kelly Science, Engineering, Technology & Telecom team with goals of equity and accessibility, recently recognized as a 2023 American Staffing Association Women in Leadership Scholarship recipient. Sabrina is a life-long learner and go-getter, receiving her BS in Biology from Penn State and both her MBA and MS Business Analytics from Indiana University. Sabrina is very proud to be first-generation...

Carolyn Joshua is the President and CEO of Trilyon, Inc., a leading content management, documentation, and technology services provider for Fortune 500 companies. Under Carolyn's exceptional leadership, Trilyon has earned notable recognition, including the esteemed 2023 Fast 100 Asian American Business Award from USPAACC.  Carolyn holds a board position at the US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce (USPAACC West), a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering economic growth and...

Today's episode is a little bit different as I am the one being interviewed about what is means to show up as an Asian woman.  I was interviewed by Kyle who hosts a podcast called What Kind Of Asian Are You?  I met Kyle earlier this year as he attended one of my talks.  It was great to meet in him in person.   Here's more info on today's episode. Today's conversation is with Sheena Yap Chan. It was an honour to have a conversation with such an amazing and inspiring individual that does so...

Jenny Jing Zhu is the author of an upcoming memoir “OVERCOMING” about her journey as an immigrant who created her own American dream. She founded Lush Décor in 2008, and has turned it into a hundred million dollar home decor company. Jenny traces her success to the many obstacles she faced growing up in a small rural village in China without electricity and emigrating to the U.S. in her twenties only able to speak a few sentences in English. Jenny shares her story of how she created her 9...

Doris Li Yeh is the CEO and Co-founder at Mirapath, a trusted provider of data center, engineering lab, and IT supporting infrastructure solutions. Founded in 2003, her tech company provides an efficient, scalable framework to build and manage data centers, labs, and IT supporting infrastructure.  Doris has one of the largest minority owned business in Silicon Valley.  She has also been awarded 2018 Silicon Valley Women of Influence, 2018 Enterprising Women Award and 2020 Infrastructure Mason...

Julia S. Gouw is the Chairwoman of Piermont Bank, a commercial bank in New York. She was the former President and Chief Operating Officer of East West Bank.  She was ranked one of the “25 Most Powerful Women in Banking” five times by American Banker magazine and has received the Los Angeles Business Journal’s “Women Making a Difference” award two times in recognition of her achievements and philanthropic contributions.  Julia was a board member of the Trusteeship, an International Women’s...

Faizun Kamal is an award-winning franchise coach, nationally renowned public speaker and bestselling author.  She is also the CEO of The Franchise Pros, she leads a full-service franchise growth company.  Faizun and her team work with entrepreneurs to turn their business into the next iconic American franchise and grow their footprint nationwide. She guides CEOs to establish their franchise, grow it by recruiting high-performing franchisees, and guide them to a successful exit with private...

Raechel Wong is an actor and voice over artist.  Coveted for her curiosity, resilience, and resourcefulness, Raechel has worked with Craig Gillespie (Cruella; I, Tonya), indie megastars Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine), Paul Hunter, and comedy director Patrick Perez Vidauri (Casa de Mi Padre), among other notable creators and producers. More recently, you can catch her in the limited Hulu series Pam & Tommy, and on ABC’s Promised Land. Raechel is at once the...

Asha Dahya is a Producer, writer, TEDx speaker and storyteller. Asha was born in the UK, raised in Australia, and now resides in Los Angeles, California. She has spent the last 18 years creating, producing and hosting content for networks and organizations such as MTV, MSN.com, Disney, ABC, Nickelodeon, Fox, the ACLU, Supermajority, Snapchat, Nine Network Australia and more.  Asha is the founder of a daily feminist blog site called GirlTalkHQ, which spawned a book deal in 2018. Asha is the...

May is AAPI Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month and I wanted to start this month with something different.  A couple months back, I was fortunate to be interviewed on Discover More Podcast with Benoit Kim.  Here's a summary of the episode! "Sheena Yap Chan is a Canadian keynote speaker, published author, and top 0.5% globally ranked podcaster. Sheena’s show: The Tao Of Self-Confidence is a top 0.5% globally ranked podcast with over 800 prolific Asian women leaders interviewed in...

Sandy Kusano is the founder of The Joyful Optimist.  She is also an entrepreneur, speaker, author, and certified coach who has helped Asian women across the globe create lives they love. Her mission is to increase the mental fitness of women and girls worldwide so that they feel empowered, worthy, and deeply connected with what gives them meaning and joy. Having lived in four countries (Japan, Korea, America, England) as well as being a first generation Japanese-Korean-American, she brings a...

Aiko Bethea is the founder of RARE Coaching & Consulting and an innovative leader. Through her work, she coaches leaders and organizations to remove the internal and external barriers to inclusion, allowing them to understand each other as people, colleagues, and teams in more connective ways.  During her childhood and throughout her career, Aiko has been in places where people who looked like her were underrepresented. She believes that when you anchor into your values and discover your...

Irene Nakamura is the founder and CEO of iDepo Reporters and iDepo Hawaii, a full-service, nationally certified court reporting and litigation support company with offices in three states. She has built a nationwide team of more than 1,000 court reporters by offering a personal and professional work environment that values the individual first.  Irene also uses her experiences to empower and provide minority women with resources to launch and grow their businesses. Mentoring women like...

Faith Bautista is the founder and CEO of the first Asian owned television network, ChimeTV. She currently serves as the President & CEO of the National Diversity Coalition (NDC), an organization of community organizers, faith-based leaders, nonprofit directors and business owners advocating for the voiceless and working collectively for greater financial equality and empowerment for underserved groups. Faith Bautista advocates in the halls of Congress, in the California legislature, and...

Panney Wei is an award-winning Motivational Speaker and Certified Hypnotherapist, specializing in the power of the mind to reach their potential and empowering people to achieve their personal and professional dreams. She is also the founder of See The Way Consulting.  Her ancestry includes the one of China’s greatest heroes and world leaders who was a member of the Qing dynasty imperial court, General Tso Tsung-tang, immortalized in pop culture by the popular dish, General Tso’s chicken, and...

Amy Wang is the founder of Wayo Ventures, a company that specializes in buying, managing, and selling medical and retail properties, and other essential businesses.  Her background is a rare combination of product leadership at major tech firms, startup advisory and consulting, and also real estate development. She has over 20 years of proven success launching innovative products and leading product and cross-functional teams for Cisco, Adobe, Ingram Micro, Oracle, IBM, HP and Yahoo. Over the...

Julie Tran is a Naturopathic Doctor and Acupuncturist.  She is also the founder of Silicon Valley Natural Health located in San Jose, CA.   Julie was born and raised in San Jose, CA, one week after her parents immigrated from Vietnam.  She is earned her BA in Psychology from University of Redlands, then went on to study Naturopathic medicine and traditional Chinese medicine at the University of Bridgeport, in Bridgeport CT. During her studies and training, she worked with Dr. Peter D’Adamo,...

Janan Sarwar is a dynamic entrepreneur, pharmacist, publishing professional, and mother of three lovely girls in Louisville, KY. She is the founder of the company Global Bookshelves International, an independent publishing house focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion in content and voices from around the world. Global Bookshelves International was inspired by her eldest daughter, Leena, and her children’s storytelling podcast Salaam Storytime.  Janan actively serves as a publisher...

Katy Chen Mazzara is a certified trauma-informed financial wellness coach and graduate of UC Berkeley’s Personal Financial Planning program. As a former TV producer and award-winning documentary filmmaker, Katy understands the balance between dreaming and doing. Through her six step Financial Freedom Formula, Katy helps creative freedom-seekers make more, worry less, and achieve true financial freedom, so they can create the life of their dreams. Katy shares what she did to get unshakeable...

Ashley Cheung is the founder of Virtual Patent Gateway, LLC.  Ashley is a professional in every sense of the word. She runs her business and personal life by a single motto - nothing ventured, nothing gained. As a first-generation immigrant from Hong Kong and proud business owner, Ashley is determined to pass on lessons of determination, confidence, and perseverance to her team, especially women and young creatives in the field. She founded Virtual Patent Gateway in January 2020 in an effort...

Wen Hsu is a certified career and leadership coach focusing on immigrant women leaders.  She has 15+ years of experience in the tech industry. She experienced first-hand the struggle of balancing authenticity, happiness, and career growth on top of culture differences. Luckily, in the journey of learning and falling in love with coaching, Wen got clarity on her life purpose, learned to honor her values, and grow every day. She thrives to create her life by design, not by default.  Wen...

Neva Talladen is the founder of Otherwordy Editing and Publishing which was inspired by the African proverb, “The story of the lion will never be known if the hunter is the one to tell it.” The company's goal is to work with more mission-based projects with multicultural, Black and Brown, and underrepresented authors and business owners.  Otherwordy is about shaping stories through insightful story development, editing, and all things print such as journals, stationery, letterpress, zines,...

Jessalin Lam is the co-founder of Asians in Advertising, a non-profit focused on developing a community for Asians, providing opportunities and resources to elevate them to higher leadership positions, and creating recognition for AAPI representation. She is on the 3AF NextGen committee where she helped launch their 1st annual AAPI mentorship program in 2021. She is the co-author of The Visibility Mindset: How Asian American Leaders Create Opportunities and Push Past Barriers, an essential...