Growing Up Nguyen

Do you speak another language? Tune into Huong, Karin Hanh, Hedda Hieu, and Benjamin Hoang as they discuss the blessings and challenges of a heritage language and whether it's worthwhile.

Dissecting a term like racialization isn't easy but we get into it this episode! Huong, Karin Hanh, Hedda Hieu, and Benjamin Hoang share how our Vietnamese-American identity affects what people believe about us and what it means for the stories we tell ourselves.

How do you know you're loved? Huong, Karin Hanh, Hedda Hieu, and Benjamin Hoang talk about what expressions and feelings of love mean and why this quiz can help you better connect with others.

While honoring the two year anniversary of their Bo's (father) passing, Huong, Hanh, Hieu, and Hoang have a discussion on grief and their different processes of moving forward. 

We’ve talked about what it’s meant for us to be Vietnamese-American throughout several chapters. For this final chapter, we talk about customs and traditions and how we blended several to create and carry out a uniquely Vietnamese-American ceremony--the funeral for Bo, our dad.

12 years later… Hieu and Hoang visited Vietnam! They traveled from North to South Vietnam while riding a moped, dabbling in snorkeling, and even meeting unknown family members. This chapter, they share what it was like for them, years later after Huong and Hanh’s trip, to come face to face with being Vietnamese-American in Vietnam.

Our first trip to Vietnam! And the first time meeting our paternal cousins... Well, for three of the crew, at least. From a wedding to the sand dunes, it was quite the journey. Listen in on today’s chapter to hear more about Huong and Hanh’s experiences on the other side of the Pacific Ocean and what it felt like to come face to face with being Vietnamese-American in Vietnam.

This chapter, we got some confessions. But our real-life confrontations and conversations don’t need to be a secret! In today’s release, we delve into what our experiences have been like growing up Vietnamese in America.

You’ve probably felt out of place and awkward before. We’ve definitely felt the same, and especially when people have made a point of the things that make us stand out as Vietnamese-American. This chapter, we share stories and memories of those times we didn’t feel “Nguyen” enough.

Tune in to learn more about what Huong, Karin Hanh, Hedda Hieu and Benjamin Hoang know and *still* don’t know about how our parents and grandparents came to the United States and how our parents met.

For this first chapter of our book, Huong, Karin Hanh, Hedda Hieu, and Benjamin Hoang sit down to talk a bit about what brought about our podcast and what it was like growing up in our Nguyen household.

Huong, Karin Hanh, Hedda Hieu, and Benjamin Hoang delve into what our sibling relationship dynamic looks like and why we do (and don’t) work well together.