Expressing the Fullness of Who You Are with Kim Thai

Joining our host, Yuliana Kim-Grant, on Thursday, October 14, 2021 is Kim Thai, an Emmy-award-winning producer, writer, activist, and mindfulness teacher. She is the founder of GaneshSpace, a community organization dedicated to creating spaces to dismantle internalized oppression and explore identity through the lens of intersectionality. Kim shares her Phoenix Tale on how she rediscovered herself after her divorce.

 Kim begins the conversation by sharing the event that redirected the course of her life: her divorce. She talks about experiencing heartbreak and turning to yoga at the time and how this event set her on a path of discovering her life and finding independence. In this self-discovery, Kim found herself exploring her sexuality and embracing her queerness. She discusses the challenges of being the only person of color in a room and how her life experiences have made her create impacts geared towards encouraging diversity. She also talks about unlearning the generational trauma passed on to her from her parents’ experiences as refugees. The episode concludes with Kim talking about Ganesh and sharing the one song that describes her life, a song about acceptance and stepping into the world and knowing you’re enough.

Episode Highlights:

• The event that redirected the course of Kim’s life

• Experiencing heartbreak in divorce

• Finding yoga in a time of need

• How Kim embarked on a journey of independence and self-discovery

• Kim’s exploration of her sexuality

• What does queer mean now? - Kim’s piece

• The challenges of growing up as an Asian American in Texas

• Observing from a distance as one different from others

• Generational trauma- staying in survival mode

• Migrating to Texas

• Kim talks about Ganesh

• The one song that describes Kim’s life.