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

I'm Janet, I'm Mel, and I'm Helen.

May is a very special month for us here at Asian Boss Girl. For one, it is Asian-American

and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, APAM for short, and it's also Mother's Day coming up on May 8th.

In light of Mother's Day coming up in the three of us on this podcast, today's discussion

will be honoring our mothers and talking about what it was like for them as immigrant mothers in

this country. While we talked about the immigration stories and past episodes, their journeys to

America, we never got to really ask them. What was it like for you as someone who loved home to

raise a daughter here in America? This month, we are working with Old Navy on a campaign to

celebrate our AAPI heritage. We are so pleased to be partnering with them on this very important

conversation, so thank you, Old Navy, for sponsoring this episode. Yes, so we went ahead and

interviewed our mommas. We were able to bring in some clips of the recordings into this podcast

for texture, but for the most part, we'll be sharing their responses through our words.

So to start off for just a bit of background, we asked our mom what age did they have their

kids and followed up with a question that I've always wondered, especially for immigrant parents

in moving to a foreign country and deciding to have children in America, that they also have to

move away from their village and support system that would have helped them to raise their child.

Was it something that they feared? What was the reasoning that drew them to want to even move to

America in the first place? Hmm, those are really good questions. They were. So how did your mama

respond, Miss Melody? So I did ask them all these questions. So she told me she wanted to have kids

at 26. So she had me at 26. That was the first born. At age 26, and the reason is I want to make

sure I have a house and a stable income before I'm having kids. Actually, I was very lucky. I did

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