Episode 117: Doing "The Work" with Jenn Im

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Emily, Madelyn, Jen

Relationships, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Today, we take the time to sit down and chat with Youtuber, entrepreneur, social media guru, and true Asian BOSS Girl, Jenn Im!! She is someone who is super proactive about truly understanding herself and is setting an amazing example for others to do the same. She has spent hours reading self-help books, attended vulnerability events, and written countless pages in her journal to process her thoughts. You may know her as one of the OGs in the fashion space through her YouTube channel, ClothesEncounters, which boasts over 2 million subscribers. But today, she is joining us as just another human being who shares the same struggles many of us do on a day-to-day basis. This episode was edited by Michelle Hsieh. ___ P A R T N E R S mentioned in this episode: - All of Us: Get a $25 gift card, personalized genetic ancestry & traits results, and one of 10,000 Fitbit devices at joinallofus.org/abg - Function of Beauty: Get 20% off first purchase at FunctionofBeauty.com/ABG - HBO Max: Check out all the incredible content HBO Max has curated to celebrate APAHM at http://trk.hbomax.com/aff_c?offer_id=7&aff_id=1160&url_id=26 - Issuu: Get a Free Account or 50% off a Premium Account at issuu.com/podcast with code: ABG - Penguin Books: Uplift the stories by AAPI authors that you love by sharing them on social media using #ReadAsianAuthors. Throughout the month of May, Penguin Random House is donating 15% of its site profits to Asian Americans Advancing Justice, up to $30K. Find your next read at PenguinRandomHouse.com or go to bit.ly/ReadAsianAuthors. - Uncommon Goods: Get 15% off first purchase at UncommonGoods.com/ABG S U B S C R I B E T O U S ! - @asianbossgirl on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / YouTube / Instagram / Twitter / Facebook - More about us at asianbossgirl.com E – M A I L U S ! - hello@asianbossgirl.com S U P P O R T U S ! - merch: asianbossgirl.myshopify.com - donation: anchor.fm/asianbossgirl/support --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/asianbossgirl/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to ABG, Asian Boss Girl, the podcast for the modern-day Asian-American woman.
0:04.0	My name is Mel, I'm Helen, I'm Janet, and I'm Jed.
0:18.3	Jen, thank you so much for joining us today. The three of us have been watching you for a while,
0:23.4	and anyone out there who's watching as well knows that Jen is incredibly vulnerable
0:27.8	and open with your content, which we really appreciate. On the podcast, all three of us have
0:32.7	talked about this concept of doing the work, you know, really digging deep and getting to know
0:37.2	yourself. And when we talked about having you on, we discussed, you know, having a format that
0:41.2	was going to be a really personal conversation, almost like a therapy session, so I was, you know,
0:46.0	not as like intimidating, so thank you so much for agreeing to be on and joining us for
0:51.0	so excited to have you here. Oh, thanks guys. Honestly, I'm so stoked to be here. This kind of
0:56.9	looks like my therapist office, just kind of hilarious. We've got like a, like a gray carpet,
1:01.8	and we've got a couch like this, yeah. I know, so thanks for having me. It's incredible. I love
1:08.0	your guys' podcast. It's like very rare to see so much visibility, so it's nice to see people
1:15.3	that look like be killing yourself. Same here, likewise, girl. Yeah, speaking about therapy
1:20.8	couches, I think we'll just dive right into the topic. Yeah, we've got transitions,
1:25.4	no bandages. Let's do it. Let's go, let's go deep. So Jen, like, when did you start, you know,
1:30.9	doing the work and was like, was there a defining moment that led you to start? Yeah, I mean,
1:36.1	I guess we'll have to go way back. I think just growing up, I have always had just extreme moods.
1:43.3	I felt like there was no middle. It was either I was extremely happy, almost like a euphoric state,
1:48.9	and then there was my negative state that felt completely hopeless, like existential,
1:56.3	angry. So it always felt like the pendulum was swinging back and forth, and I can like,
2:02.2	recognize this now, now that I'm older, and I can see it from hindsight. But yeah, growing up,
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