49 episodes
Oakland x Asian x Mom Podcast OAM
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- Kids & Family
We're Cheryl and Sarah. We are Asian American working mothers raising multiethnic and multiracial kids in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland, California. Our podcast explores community, identity, and how these things help build a meaningful life.
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Episode 43 (S2): Home Sweet Homeland
Sarah interviews Cheryl's two sons, Zaccai and Santiago, about their first trip ever to Philippines - the homeland of their ancestors.
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Episode 42 (S2) Grace & Public Service
Aimee Eng, former Board Member of the Oakland Unified School Board, joins us to speak about her family's roots of living and serving in Oakland over multiple generations. Aimee's rich familial and personal history includes anecdotes about public service, allies who supported her family, and treasured Oakland favorites. She also shares about the joys and challenges of her decade long tenure on the school board. We appreciate Aimee's expressiveness and energy as well as her resilience and grace.
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Episode 41.5 (S2) Send us your questions and feedback!
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Episode 41 (S2): Creativity (and Parenting) Takes Courage
Meet Lauren, a fellow friend from Sama Sama Cooperative and an early childhood arts educator by day and illustrator/mark-maker in life. Lauren, who has deep roots in the Bay Area (and a geographic affinity for San Pablo Ave in particular) shares her wisdom on how to nurture creativity in both little ones and the "little me's" inside of us grown ups. Along the way, she has made intentional time and space to reclaim her Filipino cultural heritage and continues to find delight in the everyday life of parenting her own child. We think you will get inspired to take your own child’s at all ages and stages) invitations to put down the screen and play more. And by the end of the episode, I bet you will feel very soothed by her stories and calming voice.
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Episode 40 (S2) Sweet Little Lies & Overalls
Sarah and I catch up as we are in summer mode, swapping observations and random thoughts that go from stunningly comfortable overalls to Korean - Filipino couplings (or the lack thereof) to childhood "benevolent lies" to Expose (yup, the 80-90s Top 40 girl band). We're all over the place which is exactly what summer sometimes feels like. Thanks for hanging with us.
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Episode 39 (S2): The Kindness of Strangers
On this mini episode, Sarah finds a way to talk about BTS (yet again), then we segue into the kindness of strangers, the ethics of keeping a library book after the due date, old bikes and candy, beans as dessert, different ways to prepare rice + coconut, and the basics of kimchi. Thanks for listening!
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