Episode 146: Amazin LeThi

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Amazin LeThi was left in an orphanage in Saigon and raised by a white family in Sydney, only to suffer abhorrent racism and bullying. On top of this, she genuinely believed she was "the only Asian LGBTQ kid in the world," because she had literally never met anybody who looked and felt like she did. But things unexpectedly began to change for her at six years old when she discovered bodybuilding! Amazin discusses her unique journey, her incredible advocacy work, and her affinity for Arnold Schwarzenegger!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody.
0:07.0	Hey y'all.
0:08.0	Welcome to Coming Out with Lauren and Nicole. We are a weekly podcast where we have on queer folks from all walks of life.
0:15.0	They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large.
0:20.0	Because who doesn't love a coming out story?
0:22.6	We are here today with Amazon Letty.
0:26.1	Amazon is an LGBTQ advocate, an athlete, keynote speaker, and an ambassador for six organizations.
0:34.3	But first and foremost, she is a lady of leisure.
0:42.1	She truly has so many different titles and things that she's done. She worked with the Obama administration. I literally at the
0:47.3	top of this said, how do I boil this down? Because there's just so much to talk about. So I will
0:52.8	throw it to Amazon to say, hey, and introduce yourself.
0:56.8	Hello.
0:57.9	Hello.
0:58.7	So lovely to be on your podcast, weekly podcast and share my story and my work.
1:07.9	I know when kind of people ask me, what do you do?
1:10.5	I think I don't even have business cards
1:13.1	anymore because it just doesn't fit. It was like a business eight by 11. It was getting too large.
1:20.7	And when I do those kind of little bios on Instagram and Twitter and the social media, I think
1:24.6	it's just getting a little bit too long now. How do I kind of like do an acronyms?
1:30.7	Sure.
1:30.9	It's a good problem to have.
1:33.2	Yeah, it is a good problem to have.
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