At Her Best Minji Wong

Episode 4. Conversion with Rachel Chen - Chief of Mental Health at San Quentin State Prison

Rachel shares her experiences as a woman of color at a maximum security state prison in the mental health field and suggestions on how we can find balance through the pandemic. Rachel has spent her entire career in psychology, and mental health, having spent about 12 years at San Quentin, and a decade or so as adjunct faculty at UCSF.

ABOUT AT HER BEST
Minji Wong is the founder of At Her Best and the host of the At Her Best Podcast. Our podcast features conversations with modern courageous women who pursue their passion amongst adversity and hustles with heart. At Her Best partners with Fortune 500 companies and individuals to help achieve goals to help YOU be at YOUR best.

For more episodes, visit: atherbest.co/podcast

Episode 3: Conversation with Dion Lim - Emmy Award-Winning News Anchor at KGO-TV, ABC7 News in San Francisco, California.

Dion Lim channels her inner strengths as reporter, journalist and news anchor to spotlight the dramatic increase of violence, racism and xenophobia towards Asian Americans during the pandemic. In our conversation, we speak about Dion's firsthand experiences documenting this disturbing trend, the emotional tax and practical ways Dion focuses on mental health and self care during the pandemic.

ABOUT DION LIM
Dion is an Asian American news anchor and reporter at ABC7/KGO-TV in San Francisco and recipient of multiple Emmy Awards. Dion is the author of Make Your Moment: The Savvy Woman's Communication Playbook To Getting The Success You Want and a sought-after speaker and emcee, hosting events with news legend Dan Rather to Hollywood celebrities, community groups and leadership conferences. She was named one of Broadcasting and Cable Magazine's top 24 leaders in media and places a spotlight on social justice issues.

ABOUT AT HER BEST
Minji Wong is the founder of At Her Best and the host of the At Her Best Podcast. Our podcast features conversations with modern courageous women who pursue their passion amongst adversity and hustles with heart. At Her Best partners with Fortune 500 companies and individuals to help achieve goals to help YOU be at YOUR best.

For more episodes, visit: atherbest.co/podcast

Executive Producer: Pauline Ang

Episode 2: Conversation with Marcy Willis - Theatre actress and improvisor integrating both joys into facilitating transformational leadership experiences.

In this episode, Marcy shares her theatre training background and how we can find our voices through applying improv and exercises to practice before conversations & public speaking, especially for introverts! In this challenging time amidst the pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement, Marcy shares more about the emotional roller coaster experiences we may feel through the behavioral change curve.

ABOUT MARCY
A trained theatre actress, improviser and member of the Screen Actors’ Guild, Marcy’s appeared in plays, independent films, national commercials and training videos. Marcy integrates modalities of theatre training and improv into transformational leadership experiences.

ABOUT AT HER BEST
Minji Wong is the founder of At Her Best and the host of the At Her Best Podcast. Our podcast features conversations with modern courageous women who pursue their passion amongst adversity and hustles with heart. At Her Best partners with Fortune 500 companies and individuals to help achieve goals to help YOU be at YOUR best.

For more episodes, visit: atherbest.co/podcast

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES


Fear of change? Improv can help: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/277707
Presence, voice and being in “second circle” https://youtu.be/Ub27yeXKUTY
Tips for applying improv to business: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/277707
Take an online improv class with Viola Spolin’s granddaughter: https://www.violaspolin.org/bio
Marcy’s note:  Viola Spolin is the mother of improv in America, as we know it, because she worked at the Hull House in Chicago under a social worker named Neva Boyd and with Neva’s mentorship and her theatre background, got really good at devising games to support non-actors in what we would today call social-emotional learning (emotional intelligence, communications skills, etc.)  Viola Spolin was the mother of Paul Sills, one of the founders of Second City. Her granddaughter and Paul Sills daughter, Aretha, teaches pure Spolin work, here in Los Angeles and is now moving to do this online.  It’s a great time to explore improv games, as you don’t need to drive anywhere!

Executive Producer: Pauline Ang

Episode 1: Conversation with Angie Chang, Founder, Connector and Innovator of Girl Geek X

Welcome to the inaugural episode of the At Her Best Podcast, with Minji Wong, founder of At Her Best. Our podcast features conversations with modern courageous women who pursue their passion amongst adversity and hustles with heart. At Her Best partners with Fortune 500 companies and individuals to help achieve goals to help YOU be at YOUR best.

In our first episode, Angie gets candid about the realities of entrepreneurship and hustling with heart. Fresh off hosting her annual Girl Geek X Elevate conference which draws thousands of women in tech, Angie shares perspective around branding, content marketing hacks and insight into her career evolution jungle gym.

Angie started Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners in 2008 to network women across the Silicon Valley. Prior to that, Angie co-founded Women 2.0 in 2006, a media company promoting female entrepreneurship, where she was editor-in-chief. Angie led partnerships with employers at Hackbright Academy (a women’s engineering school), building valuable hiring partnerships with Slack, Redfin, Indiegogo and more. She created the mentorship program which enlisted 700+ industry engineers as volunteers for over four years, and connected countless women to new jobs in tech. Angie was named in Fast Company’s “Most Influential Women in Technology”. She holds B.A. degrees in English & Social Welfare from UC Berkeley.

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For more episodes, visit: atherbest.co/podcast

Executive Producer: Pauline Ang