Welcome back to the Golden Goddess Affirmation Podcast, where Asian women focus on our mental health. Kathleen Dang serves the Asian American community through her culture-centric, education-centric community work. She relates it to her affirmation, "I define my roles as a woman, whether that means a mother at home, a CEO, both, neither or more."

Kathleen recognizes that these labels add a lot of pressure to our lives and shares a personal story about a transition in her life. She has advice for things that are challenging to habit form: attach it to something you enjoy doing.

Trixi and Kathleen discuss the barrier of being the overachieving Asian American girl and being misdiagnosed.

Timestamps

[00:02:04] Episode Affirmation

[00:04:20] “I get to choose what my labels are.”

[00:09:10] “Am I just being wishy-washy?... But also, that’s okay.” - Trixi

[00:12:01] The Pandemic “soup of people realizing things about themselves and the world.” - Kathleen

[00:16:51] Mental health coaches

[00:29:00] On our mental health system being so behind

[00:39:30] Q&A: "How can women outwardly support each other (in non-cringey ways)?"

[00:51:35] Her final advice: “Start at the beginning.”


Learn more about the Urban Restoration Counseling Center Trixi shouts out here [https://urbanrestorationcounseling.org/].

Kathleen invites you to connect with her professionally on her LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleen-sy-dang/], and all of her recent activities can be found through her Linktree [https://linktr.ee/kathleendang].

Find out more about Golden Goddess Affirmations at [https://thethoughtfulbeast.com/] and follow Trixi here [https://www.instagram.com/thethoughtfulbeast].

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This podcast is being produced by the Far South Border North grant [https://www.sandiego.gov/far-south-border-north]. Trixi received this grant with 59 other individual artists and a number of non-profits in the San Diego and Imperial Counties.