Becoming Justine Kim

Becoming is a show that’s all about womxn, work, and how they’re finding their “why’s”. And we’re wrapping up Season 1 on founders! I’ve taken some time to reflect on what I’ve learned from one year of podcasting and to revisit some highlights from this season. Excited for you to take a listen!

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Carrie Zhang is the founder of Asian Mental Health Project or AMHP, an initiative that aims to educate and empower Pan-Asian communities in making mental healthcare more accessible. Founded in 2019, the project currently uses social media, multimedia content creation and community events to de-stigmatize topics of mental health, critical social issues and provide tangible resources. A daughter of Chinese and Taiwanese immigrants, she graduated from the University of Southern California and currently works as a communications and marketing professional in the tech, entertainment and music space. In our conversation we talk about AMHP - what inspired her to start it, what she’s learned, and what’s next for AMHP in the next year. We’ll go into her personal mental health journey, why she chose to cater her project to the Pan Asian experience, cultural stigma, and of course, how she’s becoming. I’m excited for you to take a listen!

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Tagan Horton, known as TheTagan, is a storyteller translating knowledge through data, marketing and technology. Currently, she is a podcaster and tech innovation strategist. She founded Founders Get Funds, a podcast and newsletter, to reduce misinformation targeted to founders building businesses from the ground up. She is also the co-host of "The Lay of The Land", a weekly podcast mapping tech innovation in Cleveland. In our conversation we talk about Founders Get Funds - what inspired her to start it, lessons she’s learned, and what’s next for FGF in the next year. I’m glad I caught her at this point of developing her business, because she’s tried a few different things with it, and is taking time to learn, question, and decide how to best tackle the problem that she sees: misinformation around funding. We go back to how she’s developed as a fintech leader. From studying abroad in Senegal getting hands-on experience in economic development through L’Entente Feminine to her time in Cleveland working at a startup, and of course, how she’s becoming. 

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Ayah Rashid is an African American Muslim womxn, entrepreneur, and aspiring home chef. A recent graduate of New York University Abu Dhabi where she majored in Literature and Creative Writing, she became a Venture for America fellow in May 2019 and at the time of recording this episode was working as a Director of Content at Citizen Yoga, a Michigan based yoga studio with four locations, including one in Cleveland. Ayah started her own fashion line officially as a junior in college, called Sinjab. The company has foundational values of sustainability, ethical manufacturing and making clothing to accommodate a modest wardrobe. She also started a side business doing marketing and creative consulting work for small businesses, managing social media accounts and building websites. Her favorite ways to spend her free time include watching anime, cooking, and taking care of the plants she can’t stop buying. I know Ayah from VFA as a fellow in the same year as me and have always wanted to dig deeper into her background and her story starting Sinjab. In our conversation, we cover everything from what it was like growing up in Dubai as a child and being home schooled to how her love for fashion started, what inspired her to start Sinjab, the lessons she’s learned since starting her business, and of course, how she’s becoming. Excited for you to take a listen.
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Marlin has over 20 years’ experience as a Global Diversity and Inclusion Officer for two Fortune 500 organizations. Currently she is serving as the Vice President of Global Diversity and Inclusion for StockX. She began her tech career as a coder at Compuware Corporation, where her passion for inspiring women and people of color to join her field gained notice. She is the founder of Sisters Code, which educates, empowers and entices women ages 25–85 to explore the world of coding and technology. In our conversation, we talk about how she began her career as an aspiring mortician and eventually found her way into the tech world, how she incorporates her passion for speaking and uplifting others into her DEI work, why supporting other womxn is so important to her, and of course how she’s becoming her fullest self. I’m excited for you to take a listen. 

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Millie is the founder of the Institute of Global Entrepreneurship and Talent and is currently the Vice President of Global Entrepreneurship and STEM Talent, where she supports international founders by providing a pathway to establish their business in Michigan, create new jobs, attract investment, and improve economic prosperity for Michigan. In addition to her full time job and company, she does probably five or six other things but it all connects to what she calls her North Star: building vibrant communities by helping entrepreneurs, professionals, and families create the life they have envisioned. In our conversation, we talk about how her immigrant experience influences her passion for her work, why supporting immigrant entrepreneurship is so important to her, and of course how she’s becoming her fullest self. Excited for you to take a listen!

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