The Mash-Up Americans

The co-creator of "Master of None" hangs with us to talk immigrant parents, his BFF Shonda Rhimes, and writing the real ish. Visit mashupamericans.com for more

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For today’s meditation: grab a pencil and paper! The bestselling illustrator and graphic journalist Wendy MacNaughton is the founder and host of Draw Together. She will lead us through a drawing exercise “Chill Out Drawing for Stressed Out Times.” Draw Together is a participatory drawing podcast and interactive art class focused on imagination and community. Although Wendy’s show is ostensibly for kids, we have found it touches the inner kid in all of us.

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More about Wendy MacNaughton:

Wendy MacNaughton is an illustrator and graphic journalist with a background in social work (MSW). She combines the practice of deep looking, listening and drawing to create stories of often overlooked people, places and things.

As a visual columnist for The New York Times and California Sunday Magazine, Wendy MacNaughton drew stories everywhere from high school cafeterias to Guantanamo Bay. She has illustrated, authored and edited eleven books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat, The Gutsy Girl by Caroline Paul and her own book, Meanwhile in San Francisco: The City in Its Own Word.

She is the creator and host of DrawTogether, an participatory drawing show for kids that uses art to bolster social-emotional skills, self-confidence and connection. She is also the co-founder of the Women Who Draw with Julia Rothman, an advocacy database launched in 2016 to increase visibility and opportunities for underrepresented artists, illustrators and cartoonists. She lives with her wife in San Francisco, but you can often find her on the road in her mobile drawing studio built inside the back of a Honda Element. You can find Wendy MacNaughton @wendymac and Draw Together DrawTogether.Studio

Credits for the Draw Together Podcast:

Editor: Amy Standen, Drawing music: Chris Colin, Theme song: Thao Nguyen

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Welcome to the second meditation of our Grief, Collected series, which come out every Friday.

Today is a breathing meditation with Linda Thai. Linda is a therapist and leads meditations as part of her somatic healing practice. She will take us on a 10 minute meditation to explore our relationship to our ancestors through release and healing. And for those us that get antsy about the idea of meditating for 10 minutes - we get it! Take a walk and see how it feels.

Linda Thai is also featured in Episode 3 of the podcast.

More about Linda Thai and her work here.

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More about Linda Thai -

Linda is a trauma therapist and educator who specializes in brain and body based modalities for addressing complex developmental trauma. She is highly sought after for her trainings in trauma-informed care, compassion fatigue resilience, and vicarious trauma recovery skills for human services professionals. As an adjunct faculty member in the Social Work Department at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Linda's decolonized approach to education and engaging teaching style makes her well-loved with students. She assists internationally renowned psychiatrist and trauma expert, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, with his private small group psychotherapy workshops aimed at healing attachment trauma. She has a Master of Social Work with an emphasis on the neurobiology of attachment and trauma.

Grief, Collected is a production of The Mash-Up Americans. Executive produced by Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer. Senior editor and producer is Sara Pellegrini. Development Producer is Dupe Oyebolu. Production manager Shelby Sandlin. Original music composed by The Brothers Tang. Sound design support by Pedro Rafael Rosado. Website design by VOKSEE. Grief, Collected was supported in part by a grant from The Pop Culture Collaborative.

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We're baaccccckkkkk!!!! We have so much good stuff coming to you this year - about life and grief and joy. To start - The Mash-Up Americans has produced it's first fiction show Love & Noraebang! It's the most happy, joyful, fun Mash-Up love story starring Randall Park, Justin H. Min and Francia Raisa. Our tagline: The only thing better than karaoke is finding The One.

Produced by The Mash-Up Americans and Sonoro, Love & Noraebang is the first romcom, k-drama, telenovela podcast series that has it all: business enemies thwarting love, long distance drama, unrequited love, a match-making best friend, and last but not least, a surprisingly talkative City of Dreams.

Episode 1 is right here in the feed, and the the whole show is available now wherever you listen to podcasts.

Episode 1: Gonna Sing You My Love Song

Jaesun Choi, heir to a Korean chaebol, celebrates a huge work win with his cousin Chloe and his besties at Don Dago’s, his favorite Mexican restaurant in LA, where he fancies the cocktails, the mole, AND the owner, the gorgeous and brilliant Ana Campos. Jaesun finally gets the guts to ask Ana out to noraebang — an invitation she’s been waiting months for — and the music and the mics are just the thing to kickstart their romance. But, not everybody is happy about it.

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About Love & Noraebang

Ana, a Mexican American entrepreneur, and Jaesun, an heir to a Korean chaebol, unexpectedly fall in love in modern day LA. After months of innocent flirting and one passionate karaoke session later, Ana finds out that Jaesun must return to Korea for his two-year military service. As their time together is running out, they try to make the best out of it. Rooted for by their families, thwarted by mysterious threats to their businesses, separated by a whole ocean and a 16 hour time difference, they’re figuring out if they can make it work. Will their love survive the long wait — and everything else?

Credits:

Los Angeles / Randall Park

Ana / Francia Raisa

Federica / Ana Gonzalez Bello

Mark / Rafael Torres

Chloe / Julia Cho

Kunwoo / Steve Lim

Jaesun / Justin H Min

Sookmin / June Yoon

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