Protect your peace and rest because it's been a really hectic and stressful couple

of months, you know, maybe even the past, yeah, definitely the past year as well.

I am not on my phone whenever I'm not actively posting or working on something and just

having that boundary because I've been seeing a lot of, I was seeing a lot of accounts

post pictures of hurt Asian Americans and violence and that really triggered me and I know

that that's been the case for other Asian Americans as well.

So you know, protect your peace, find what gives you joy and that could be whatever makes

you happy and, you know, create that boundary because we can't do this fight, like we can't

this movement really requires us to rest first.

Now let the magic begin.

Hello, I'm Jayma, Jayma Yo means it is Raquel and welcome to your own magic, a soul

expanding and heart opening podcast and this episode is sponsored by Skillshare and

Green Chef more about them later on in the episode along with In the Shadows as always.

And now this episode was extra special as this topic is something that I've been looking

forward to addressing for months now and I'm happy to have had this conversation with Kim

Syrah, an activist, artist and South Asian influencer.

Her handle is at Kim Syrah and she has so many great posts informing people on a variety

of social issues and topics like being in our life or black people and trans people

along with focusing on Asian American experiences and has had many experiences and learned

a variety of different issues that need to be heard.

So I totally honor her for using her platform to highlight and honor a variety of different

social issues and in our chat we talk about Asian American experiences and a few things

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