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What time is it? MAIM TIME! A show about overcoming the Asian diaspora identity struggle and Self-Actualization. We go DEEP & HARD into important topics: dealing with our identity struggles, intergenerational trauma with our families, reconciling different cultures, spirituality and religion after church, building confidence in dating, enterprise, and creative pursuits, and so on... to get closer to realizing our full potential!
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Send us a text Happy Birthday America, and Happy Birthday to ME! What’s good? This is your annual MAIM TIME birthday episode special where I reiterate all my usual sheeeeiiiit about identity, coming to accept and love all of your identity, self-actualization, being the bridge between the East and West, spirituality, and more. One juicy indulgent ho…
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Send us a text YOUR DEAD ANCIENT ANCESTORS HAVE BEEN WAITING THOUSANDS OF YEARS FOR YOU TO REALIZE THERE IS A SLEEPING DRAGON INSIDE OF YOU YOU NEED TO BE THE ONE TO AWAKEN IT TODAY #072: I usually describe this podcast as a show about Asian diaspora overcoming identity struggle to become the best versions of ourselves. The tagline is something I’v…
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Send us a text LISTEN TO THE GREATEST MOST MIND-BLOWING MAIM TIME EPISODE SO FAR THIS YEAR! 🤯🔥 #071. Listen to episodes of MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice, or on YouTube. KILL AND EAT YOU MUST COMPETE Jesus is not enough for you to become the strongest most capable competitive version of yourself. Only you are. HAPPY NEW YEAR! I went to …
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Send us a text Listen to episodes of MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice, or on YouTube. This episode focuses on the importance of understanding competition as the basis of life and essential to nature, and why we must compete in order to become the best versions of ourselves in all aspects. HO HO HO! Merry Christmas, Good Will to All Men! T…
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Send us a text Listen to episodes of MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice, or on YouTube. The name's TIME.... MAIM TIME. It’s me again. They thought I was dead. Some said I escaped to North Korea. They thought I was in jail, or worse: They thought I went back to college to finish my theology degree. But you can't kill me. I'm back, and better…
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Send us a text Listen to episodes of MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice, or on YouTube. Happy birthday America! Thanks to all you MAIM TIMERS, we finally reached over 5000 downloads for MAIM TIME! This is a big milestone. Every download counts. You count. I count, but I didn't always think I did. 10 years ago, I tried to take my own life. I…
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Send us a text CUNSOOM MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice... and YouTube! #067: "Be the hero of your own story." Nobody's going to take charge of your life but you. No one can be the hero of your own journey, but you. You write your own story. You're not the mistakes of your past. You're not all your failures. Anybody can do this. Even if y…
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Send us a text CONSUME MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice... and YouTube! #066: This is Part II of a great chat with Victor, who talks more about his experiences in film in America and China, and PURSUING HIS DREAMS KICKING IT WITH AND WORKING ALONGSIDE ASIAN HOLLYWOOD! Really awesome story and projects. Inspiring. If you want to make somet…
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Send us a text CONSUME MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice... and YouTube! #065: We have a GREAT CHAT here with a super cool dude, Victor. If you're into indie filmmaking, acting, and living a rich multi-faceted life, listen to Victor speak! This is Part I, stay tuned for Part II. Victor Zheng is a Chinese American filmmaker from Fairfax Cou…
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Send us a text CONSUME MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice... and YouTube! #064: This is the most amazing time to be alive in human history, especially for Asian societies, and especially for Asian-Americans and diaspora worldwide. There's never been more opportunity. We're experiencing a new unprecedented era and advances in every single fi…
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Send us a text CONSUME MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice... and YouTube! #063: Six exits and however many millions earned and burned later... what does it all mean? What do you do when you reach "success"? What do you do when you're BURNED OUT? How do you stay young? What's the secret? Chillionaire Mindset Coach for Burnt-out Over-Achiever…
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Send us a text CONSUME MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice... and YouTube! #062: This episode is AWESOME! I interview Chelsie, a filmmaker who posted about her AMAZING upcoming short film "Mandarins" on the Asian Creative Network FB Group. Big shoutout to the ACN fam, we love you! This story is about INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA portrayed throug…
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Send us a text CONSUME MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice... and YouTube! #061: I'm quitting my main job that I've been working for 8 years to pursue a full-time freelance copywriting career. From April 2022, I'll basically be totally running my own business, pitching and closing leads, working on projects, building my ever-increasing portf…
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Send us a text CONSUME MAIM TIME on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or your podcast player of choice... and YouTube! #060: I'm going through The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz. This is perfectly in line with the content matter of Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz - check out MAIM TIME #059 to hear me talk about that book that c…
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#059 | If I Learned This Secret 10 Years Ago, I'd Be 100 Times Who I Am Now... NOT CLICKBAIT LOL
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Send us a text NEW UPDATES: MAIM TIME 2nd Anniversary. Hooray! Thanks to all those who've listened to the show up until now. It means so much to me. I'm finally a YouTuber now LOL. The MAIM TIME YouTube Channel is up! All episodes from Episode #1 will be published until it catches up with the latest audio podcast schedule. Please support with a che…
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Send us a text #058: I'm sharing with you my absolute ideal perfect future. I highly encourage you to envision what your perfect future, your perfect self, looks like, and write that shit down. Then, tell yourself that you believe in yourself and put your subconscious to work to make it into reality. That's what I'm doing. I'm making my dreams into…
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Send us a text #057: How many Asian brothers or sisters do you know that grew up in South America speaking Spanish, and then immigrated to the US to live a better life and KILL IT? Here we have a dope convo with my Korean-Bolivian brother from another mother Samy, living a life of freedom in Cali! This episode is just a bunch of self-help platitude…
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Send us a text #056: How many Asian brothers or sisters do you know that grew up in Latin America speaking Spanish, and then immigrated to the US to KILL IT and live a life of freedom? Samy is the mfkin gawd of recycling metals, m8. Here we have a dope convo with a brother from another mother, my Korean-Bolivian brotha Samy living it up in Cali! We…
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Send us a text #055: Last episode, we talked about how HARD 2021 was. This episode is about New Years resolutions (or if that's a loaded term for you, just say goals) for 2022, and let me tell you: I'm going to absolutely fkin kill it HARD! LFG! No matter how HARD last year was, or how much life sucks, just remember... IT CAN ALWAYS GET WORSE LOL T…
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Send us a text #054: Time for a personal reflection! How was 2021 for you? Was it easy or HARD? Did you make a lot of money? Did you lose a lot of money? For me, this has been one of the hardest years of my life. Almost a year ago, I injured myself working out. I stopped working for 4 months. I burned through my savings. Got personal family issues.…
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Send us a text #053: What is the greatest (Christmas) gift you've ever gotten? Maybe it was a new phone, or computer, or even a car. Maybe a guitar. For me, it was some dinosaur toys, an Xbox 360 when I was a kid. But I'm not just talking about material gifts. Warning: I'm going FULL METAPHYSICAL SPIRITUAL PHILOSOPHICAL MAIM TIME HERE. That's right…
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Send us a text #052: I used to hate Christmas when I was a kid because it reminded me of how out of place I was compared to the other American kids. It reminded me of how much I hated being Korean cause it made me feel different, and how I hated America because I didn’t feel accepted in the country. Now, I love Korea, I love America, and I love Chr…
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Send us a text #051: This episode is a stream-of-consciousness experiment where I ramble on for a while, probably nothing new you haven’t heard before if you’ve heard previous episodes. Just emphasizing again, it’s okay if you’re not where you want to be in life, just enjoy the process! That’s why I’m doing, anyways. It’s okay if not everything’s p…
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Send us a text #050: Aaron Tam is the founder and host of the First Generations Podcast. He is also a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and martial artist that loves to devote his time in networking and personal growth. Growing up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he was raised in an immigrant household with a scarcity mindset. Through …
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Send us a text #049: Happy Thanksgiving y’all! I’m thankful for my life today, all the good people in my life, and for my heritage and culture. I’m thankful and grateful and proud to be Korean, American, Korean-American, and thankful to be who I am today. What does a Happy Thanksgiving mean to a Korean-American like me? Or to an Asian-American? I c…
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Send us a text #048: Kaiyan is a Cantonese mommy living in America! She has her own podcast, called Us Mommios, all in Cantonese, for Cantonese mommies. We cover a lot of topics, from Asian diaspora identity, to motherhood, child education/psychology, to family, to building future leaders. I harp again about my childhood identity struggle, how diff…
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Send us a text #047: Do you know what time it is? STORY TIME! A few days ago, I embarked on a cheeky adventure to Busan for Busan NFT 2021. Busan is a beautiful place, highly recommend it to anyone who hasn’t gone already. It was an awesome trip! Here are just some reflections on the trip and my experiences. I also talk about imposter syndrome, ove…
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Send us a text #046: Sang Don Park is a talented beatboxer comedian who I met years ago while doing standup comedy. He spent a big chunk of his childhood in America before moving back to Korea. Here’s Part 1 if you missed it! In this part 2, we talk about... How Sang found out his mother wasn't his biological mother His father having the talk with …
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Send us a text #045: Sang Don Park is a talented beatboxer comedian who I met years ago while doing standup comedy. He spent a big chunk of his childhood in America before moving back to Korea. We talk about… Self-dev message of the day: Sang brought up that he recently quit coffee: If you’re addicted to caffeine like I am, I’d encourage anybody to…
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#044 | The Struggle for Modern Women, Defining Luxury, and Finding Who You Are with Cheska - Part 2
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Send us a text #044: This is Part 2 of a great conversation we had with Cheska! If you haven’t checked out Part 1, here it is: #041 | Embracing Your Identity with Cheeky Cheska. In this part 2, we talk about... writing empowering-ass women’s stories, real stories of successful women overcoming their own insecurities and struggles the challenges for…
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Send us a text #043: Happy Hangeul Proclamation Day everyone! This is yet another episode where I talk about a holiday and then segue into ranting and raving about whatever I want. It’s also perhaps one of the most important episodes dealing with the central theme of this podcast about overcoming my Asian diaspora identity crisis. This time, I talk…
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Send us a text #042: October 3 is Korea’s National Foundation Day, Gaecheonjeol (개천절; 開天節). It celebrates the founding of the Korean people! Gaecheon means “Opening of Heaven.” It actually commemorates 2 dates: October 3 2457 BCE and October 3 2333 BCE. On October 3 2457 BCE, Hwanung 환웅, a son of a god of heaven came HARD upon the Earth like a GAWD…
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Send us a text #041: Cheska is a young global professional killing it everywhere she goes! Born in Seoul, Korea, raised in New Zealand (climbing trees, chasing sheep), to later settling, working in New York, she is a living embodiment of multi-culture. At first glance, her journey is awe-inspiring. From Duke University to global finance firm Morgan…
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Send us a text #040: A Happy Chuseok You-Suck to all y’all, Koreans and expats! I’ll give some brief background on this Korean autumn harvest holiday for the ignorant infidels so that we can all reflect upon its meaning (and how much you suck, ohohoho)! Holidays including this one can be a wonderful time spent with loved ones for some or a depressi…
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Send us a text #039: The idea of “heritage” deserves its own podcast! Heritage can be defined as cultural traditions, architecture, buildings, language that a people collectively share. Specifically, what is your individual racial/cultural/family history? Where do you come from? Let’s contextualize these things in a way that positively impacts the …
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Send us a text #038: This is part 2 continuing our conversation with Danny Cho, LA born-and-raised Korean American who quit his six-figure consultancy job to pursue comedy. He hosts the Noonchi Podcast with Bobby Choy. He does standup comedy IN KOREAN and has been fostering the Korean standup comedy scene for years now. He’s the ONLY Korean-America…
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Send us a text #037: Danny Cho is an LA born-and-raised Korean American who quit his six-figure consultancy job to pursue comedy. He’s toured for many years in the States and throughout Asia. Several years ago, he started doing standup comedy IN KOREAN and has been fostering the Korean standup comedy scene for years now. He’s the ONLY Korean-Americ…
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Send us a text #036: Part 1 was about the material possessions and the hobbies associated with them that I’m turning away from. In this episode, I talk about my former dreams of being a club promoter, a theologian/pastor, a hip hop artist, as well as potential career paths in industries that I’m interested in. I talk about how I am making a mental …
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Send us a text #035: August 15 is Korea’s National Liberation Day. This here’s a cheeky Gwangbokjeol special for y’all! Basically, we go over some basic background on this holiday, and I give my deep and HARD reflections on it as a Korean-American. It makes me proud to be Korean and I hope this would encourage other diaspora like myself who have ha…
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Send us a text #034: “If you don’t sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice.” - Sam Ovens In this episode I talk about getting rid of material possessions and hobbies associated with them. I’m giving more and more stuff up in the pursuit of the actualization of my dreams. I talk about them in my own stream-of-consciousness w…
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Send us a text #033: This is part 2 of a conversation with Michael Wu! He's a co-host of the Badass Asian Dudes Podcast / Community and software engineer at Stripe. Taiwanese-American brother from Silicon Valley who went to fulfill his dreams of living and working in Japan, learning the language and eating all the sushi he can find. Cooking dope fo…
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Send us a text #032: Michael Wu is a co-host of the Badass Asian Dudes Podcast / Community and software engineer at Stripe. Taiwanese-American brother from Silicon Valley who went to fulfill his dreams of living and working in Japan, learning the language and eating all the sushi he can find. Cooking dope food, throwing dope parties, and living the…
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Send us a text #031: What if you had one thing about your identity or self-image that you wish you could change? For me, growing up with mad insecurities, I’ve had more than a few! One of the biggest things: My eyesight. I’ve worn glasses my whole life. Finally, after all these years, I just had a successful eye surgery operation. Words can’t reall…
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Send us a text #030: I’m SO PUMPED about this episode! It’s one of the best yet. Kyle Leung is the host of the What Kind of Asian Are You? Podcast. He’s Hong Kong-born Canadian, and talks with Asian diaspora from all over the world about their experiences. We talk about Asian diaspora stuff as you might imagine. What it’s like growing up as Asian i…
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Send us a text #029: Happy Fourth of July everyone! Happy Birthday America, and Happy Birthday to Me! This is the 29th episode. And it's my 29th birthday. That’s some cheeky Maim Timing right there. Don’t worry about getting me any presents, fam! Just give this a listen and if you like it, please share it with a friend! ;) Every birthday, I share a…
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Send us a text #028: JT Tsui is the man! A family man, life coach, and now AUTHOR as of this post. We talk about what it was like for him to grow up Canadian-born Chinese, the struggles he went through, and how he became a happy healthy successful husband and dad. This conversation was recorded back in February and is long overdue… But the timing i…
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Send us a text #027: I had a semi-serious back injury at the beginning of this year. That, combined with other problems in my life, have made this year quite challenging. Arguably the most challenging year of my life. But even with a BACK injury, I have no choice but to GET BACK into what I’m passionate about. YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE? This episode…
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Send us a text #026: Aaron H. Kim is the founder of Kairos Capital Pte. Ltd., a Christian family office consultancy incorporated in Singapore. He’s the author of Pursued By The Maker: A Global Citizen’s Journey into the Heart of God. It’s an autobiography filled with gems, interesting stories and life lessons for anyone trying to figure themselves …
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Send us a text #025: OH BABY! Excuse me for the 3-month hiatus. Thank you for being so patient. I hope you all had a Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year to you! For this 25th episode New Years Eve special, I’mma do a cheeky personal recap of this incredible year. I’ll talk about what went right, what went left, and go straight ahead into the new ye…
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Send us a text #024: I grew up in the church all my life up trying to be a good holy Christian boy... until I had a dramatic crisis of faith, an existential meltdown and I didn’t know what to believe anymore! Long story short, I turned from an innocent pure boy with dreams of becoming a pastor to becoming a nihilistic raging alcoho— I mean honorabl…
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