7 episodes

Welcome to the Damned If You Do podcast, where two cousins share our experiences growing up as children of immigrants and how we navigate the world today as teachers, mothers, and women of color who have something to say.

Damned If You Do Praise & Linda

    • Society & Culture

Welcome to the Damned If You Do podcast, where two cousins share our experiences growing up as children of immigrants and how we navigate the world today as teachers, mothers, and women of color who have something to say.

    The Spaces Part 3

    The Spaces Part 3

    The final part of The Spaces series explores what it looks like when we take up space - both in our real, everyday lives and conceptually in our heads. Join us in our villain era as we practice drawing clear boundaries! 

    • 46 min
    The Spaces Part II

    The Spaces Part II

    In Part 2, we tackle why we didn’t take up more space growing up. We unpack all things Korean-American, the patriarchy, transactional culture, and of course, our moms. Join us!

    • 25 min
    The Spaces Part 1

    The Spaces Part 1

    Have you ever wondered what it means to "take up space?" We, Linda and Praise, have often heard that we have a big presence. Then why do we both feel like we take up so little space? Join us for Part 1 of 2 as we dive into this!

    • 25 min
    The Emotions

    The Emotions

    Our comeback episode is a banger! We discuss all things related to emotions. In the past, we used to say that we only feel two emotions: happiness and anger...that is, before we started a lot of therapy. We explore our big therapy breakthroughs that have fundamentally  changed us, unintentional repression, "Big G" or "little g" grief, and most importantly, how to live our best (mediocre) lives. And of course, we laugh through all of it!

    • 1 hr 9 min
    The Mediocre Life

    The Mediocre Life

    It's been a minute since our last episode - because we were busy living la vida mediocre! This week, we discuss the expectations put on us by our parents and by society, and the futility of running a rat race you can't ever win. We have both committed to mediocrity and invite you to do the same!

    • 1 hr 10 min
    The Non-Review

    The Non-Review

    We give our take on Shang-Chi, not as a review, but more as an experience of what came up for us while watching the film, especially as children of Asian immigrants. We talk about everything from patriarchy and double consciousness, to the lack of vulnerability shown by our parents.

    But damned if we didn’t have a great time!

    • 54 min

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