Welcome to ABG, Asian Boss Girl, a podcast for the modern-day Asian-American woman.

I'm Janet, I'm Mel, I'm Helen, and I'm my Traderon Christianan.

Never have I ever came onto the Netflix scene in April of 2020 and has since been described as a

watershed moment for South Asian representation in Hollywood. Known for breaking Asian stereotypes,

the series was created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher, and is a coming-up age comedy and teen

drama partially based on Kaling's childhood. Our guest today, My Trayee, captured the hearts

of many by playing the character Davey, an Indian-American high school student coping with the death

of her father. We are beyond excited to have her on the podcast. Please welcome to Asian Boss Girl,

My Trayee. So before we get into the show, My Trayee, your family came to Canada as refugees from

Sri Lanka and you grew up in Mrs. Saga, well, Ontario. We always like to start out by sharing

a little bit about the history of our guest. So can you share with us what your childhood was like,

where you grew up, getting about your culture? Yeah, I'm still here in Mrs. Saga right now.

Yeah, growing up in Mrs. Saga for me and like my brother, he's only two years older than me,

with my mom, my dad, all four of us living on the same roof. It was honestly an experience that

I'm very thankful for because I grew up around a bunch of other kids from a bunch of different

backgrounds. So everyone was like trying to figure out who they are and like what's their identity,

which is awesome because you get to learn about where everyone's coming from and you know about

all these different cultures, but you also then have to figure out like, wait, wait, like, what am I?

Like, who am I? What is my identity? How am I to the rest of the world, right? Because usually when

you see brown girl, you're like, okay, you're just like Indian, like that's it. Like all brown people

are just Indian. That's it. But there's nothing else. And I'm like, no, that's not right. That's not

all who I am. That's the check. And then of course, there were other thermal girls, you know,

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