Michelle Jungmin Bang, SUN & SSUKGAT, The Korean Art of Self-Care, Wellness & Longevity

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Award-winning Korean American eco-entrepreneur and author Michelle Jungmin Bang joins Zibby to discuss her charming, life-changing new guide, SUN & SSUKGAT: The Korean Art of Self-Care, Wellness & Longevity—which also includes Michelle’s gorgeous, hand-drawn illustrations. Michelle describes the severe burnout she experienced while launching a startup that led her to explore traditional East Asian health practices. She reflects on the urgency of preserving cultural health traditions—touching on gut health, the wisdom of ancestral diets, and the simple lifestyle changes (like mindful eating and walking) that can dramatically improve well-being.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive
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0:29.3	have to.
0:30.3	Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day.
0:36.2	For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zibbi Owens.
0:44.7	Michelle Jungmin Bang is the author of Sun and Sukhgat, the Korean art of self-care, wellness, and longevity.
0:52.0	Michelle is an award-winning eco-entrepreneur and Harvard Business
0:55.0	School graduate who spent 16 years living in Asia as a Korean American from New York City.
1:00.0	Her wellness guide covers her research, interviews, and personal eco-conscious journey in uncovering
1:05.1	centuries-old well-being traditions from her time in Asia and Korea, where scientists project
1:10.1	its people will top longevity charts in 2030.
1:13.2	Michelle is the co-founder and founding CEO of the R Collective, formerly BYT, a sustainable fashion brand
1:20.0	that creates affordable luxury pieces out of high-end materials that would otherwise have been disposed of in a landfill.
1:26.0	She is passionate about driving social impact
1:28.2	and serves as a board director and founding member of various mission-driven organizations.
1:33.2	Welcome, Michelle. Thank you so much for coming on Totally Booked with Zibby. Congrats.
1:38.5	I am so excited to be here today. Thank you so much for having me, Zippy.
1:42.5	Well, I could use a self-care discussion this morning.
1:46.0	I feel like we all could use this, some maybe anti-aging, some make yourself feel better. Oh, my gosh.
1:54.4	Okay, share your secrets. Why did you write this book? Tell, how did you get into this whole field, discuss the whole thing?
2:02.5	Yeah. Well, I'll just go back and say I'm a Korean American and a social impact entrepreneur.
2:08.1	So I trained in East-West preventative care, integrative nutrition, which extends into training in healthy aging and mother baby care. And the book is actually about
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