Category: vietnamese-american
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S3 E14: Charles Levan on his career working at EMI/Capitol Records, and becoming a licensing agent for independent artists.
Charles Levan started his career at EMI/Capitol records, worked on Al Green’s Greatest Hits album campaign, and started his own company, Blue Buddha Entertainment. He talks about finding great mentors early on in his career, and shares his views on the current sync landscape.
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S3 E12: Ivy Le on being a comic, a mom, and a flaming bisexual whose nature show, FOGO, explores the outdoors so you don’t have to!
Have a good laugh with Vietnamese American comedian Ivy Le with one E. We talk about diversity in Texas, becoming a comedian, motherhood, and finding out that not everyone is bisexual. She is the hilarious host of the acclaimed podcast FOGO: Fear of Going Outside.
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S3 E06: Travis Nguyen, interpreter & translator, on working with the deaf & deaf/blind communities, how intergenerational trauma manifests in day-to-day life, and more.
Travis Giuse Nguyen (he/él) is an interpreter and translator born and raised in Southeast Texas. We talk about how trauma responses manifest in refugee communities, how the deaf do not benefit from incidental learning like hearing folks, and the struggle of being LGBTQ in an Asian American family.