Model Minority Moms

By Kate Wang, Susan Lieu, Jeanette Park

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Welcome to Model Minority Moms where we reckon with the myth of success in career, family and life. We’re Jeanette, Kate, and Susan - Harvard classmates and Asian American working moms who get real about the pressures of fitting in while standing out. https://modelminoritymoms.com Model Minority Moms is a project of Real Life Media LLC.

Episode Date
Ep84: A divorce in real-life
Apr 26, 2024
Ep83: The D-word
Apr 12, 2024
Ep82: Maybe we're ok, maybe it's Maybelline
Mar 29, 2024
Ep81: Mom Rage
Mar 15, 2024
Ep80: An Exclusive with the author of A Manicurist's Daughter
Mar 01, 2024
Ep79: Getting help as a mom
Feb 16, 2024
Ep78: Discipline - you got it under control, right?
Feb 02, 2024
Ep77: What's in a baby daddy?
Jan 19, 2024
Ep76: Periods
Jan 05, 2024
Ep75: Birthdays birthdays
Dec 15, 2023
Ep74: Too Enriched for my blood?
Dec 01, 2023
Ep73: [LIVE RECORDING] Almost over the hill - Confessions of a recovering, middle-aged overachiever
Nov 17, 2023
Ep72: Downshifting careers as a Mom
Nov 03, 2023
Ep71: Clinging to the Mother Tongue
Oct 20, 2023
The Back to School Episode
Oct 06, 2023
Backstreet's Back -- All Right?
Sep 22, 2023
Ep68 - Our Final Episode
Apr 07, 2023
Ep67: The dreaded teenage years - a book with Dr. Emily Kline
Mar 31, 2023
Ep66: Vacationing with kids - the big picture episode
Mar 24, 2023
Ep65: Traveling with kids - the nuts and bolts
Mar 17, 2023
Ep64: To au pair or not to au pair?
Mar 10, 2023
Ep63: Potty training
Mar 03, 2023
Ep62: For Real Tho - what we expect from our kids in our retirement
Jan 13, 2023
Ep61: FOR REAL THO - supporting parents in old age
Dec 23, 2022
Ep60: Bonus - Figuring Out the Santa Policy (repost)
Dec 16, 2022
Ep59: FOR REAL THO - How do you find a decent therapist?
Dec 09, 2022
Ep58: FOR REAL THO - Help! My mom distorted my body image growing up and now she is doing the same to my daughters.
Dec 02, 2022
Ep57: Holding onto relationships when we disagree
Nov 18, 2022
Ep56: Rupture and repair (or no repair?) between parents and kids
Nov 11, 2022
Ep55: Second time around - navigating inter-sibling tension and rivalries
Nov 04, 2022
Ep54: Second time around - can we maintain our sanity?
Oct 28, 2022
Ep53: Second time around - we got a PhD in nursing, pumping, milk storage and formula!
Oct 21, 2022
Ep52: Second time around - sleep is hard to come by
Oct 14, 2022
Ep51: Second time around - the early days
Oct 07, 2022
Ep50: Why does 'fusion' food make us so mad?
Sep 30, 2022
Ep49: The Last Bite Rule (alternative title: How to eat with Asian Ladies)
Sep 23, 2022
Ep48: Meal plan, grocery shop, wash, chop, cook, clean and repeat
Sep 16, 2022
Ep47: Food is our sixth love language
Sep 09, 2022
Ep46: What is the American in the Asian-American?
Sep 02, 2022
Ep45: Let's have a real conversation about Roe vs Wade
Aug 26, 2022
Ep44: Choosing self-expression
Aug 19, 2022
Ep43: When kids get sick, how do working parents cope?
Aug 13, 2022
Ep42: What is the meaning of meaning in a career?
Jul 01, 2022
Ep41: Inspiration for your career journey - interview with Maggie Hsu
Jun 24, 2022
Ep40: Career and Money
Jun 17, 2022
Ep39: Managing careers with your spouse
Jun 10, 2022
Ep38: Tiger dad in a foreign land (Part 2 of 'what do your parents think about your career?')
Jun 03, 2022
Ep37: What do your parents think about your career?
May 27, 2022
Ep36: Susan's large intestine career journey (Our mid-thirties career crisis Part 2)
May 20, 2022
Ep35: Our mid-thirties career crises
May 13, 2022
Ep34: Choosing to be a single mom
May 06, 2022
Ep33: When Moms are Judged
Apr 29, 2022
Ep32: Sugar, Screens and Salt - What's your policy?
Apr 22, 2022
EP31: Dating Lessons Learned
Apr 15, 2022
EP30 Career + Kids = ?
Apr 08, 2022
EP29 The Realities of Childcare
Apr 01, 2022
EP28 The Midwestern Hapa Dad: Jeanette’s Husband Tells All
Mar 11, 2022
EP27 The Harvard-sized Crater in Our Life
Mar 04, 2022
EP26 How an MD Start-Up Dad Juggles Career and Family: Kate’s Husband Tells All
Feb 25, 2022
EP25 - How We Almost Broke Up (Part 2 of Adult Friendships)
Feb 18, 2022
EP24 The Awkwardness of Adult Friendships & How We Almost Broke Up (Part 1)
Feb 11, 2022
EP23 Asian Shame, Guilt, and Anger - the Tyranny of “Should”
Feb 04, 2022
EP22 Extreme Introvert Survives Extreme Extrovert: Susan’s Husband Tells All
Jan 28, 2022
EP21 COVID Holds Me Hostage
Jan 21, 2022
EP20 The FOMO and Fear of Having a Second Kid
Jan 14, 2022
EP18 (Bonus) Figuring Out the Santa Policy
Dec 17, 2021
EP19 (Bonus) Surviving the Holiday Chaos.
Dec 17, 2021
EP17: Triggered by your family? You're not alone!
Oct 08, 2021
EP16: Our bodies, our selves
Oct 01, 2021
EP15: Free range tiger (parenting)
Sep 24, 2021
EP14: So, what's your attachment style?
Sep 17, 2021
EP13: What's so great about being a mom?
Sep 10, 2021
EP12 The Fertility Journey
Sep 03, 2021
EP11 Mental Health // I’m Fine Until I’m Not Fine
Aug 27, 2021
EP10 Choosing the "Best" School
Aug 20, 2021
EP9 (Bonus) Why "Model Minority Moms"?
Jun 16, 2021
EP8 Never Feeling at Home with Race
Jun 08, 2021
EP7 "Hey Society, A Little Help Here?" Love, Moms
May 28, 2021
EP6 Intercultural and Interracial Relationships
May 21, 2021
EP5 The Anxiety and Pleasures of Money
May 14, 2021
EP4 I Like Like You
May 06, 2021
EP3 Now We're the Adults
Apr 30, 2021
EP2 Get me a Diaper, My Identity Just Imploded
Apr 30, 2021
EP1: What Really Happened During Birth
Apr 28, 2021