Reframing Hmong-ness in Our Professional Careers

Hi all! Welcome back to HmonglishThere are two quick things I want to mention before we start.The first thing is that we are VERY excited about this guest. Her name is Pahoua Yang Hoffman and she is the Senior Vice President of Government & Community Relations for HealthPartners, which is a massive nonprofit healthcare provider based in Minnesota. She is a good friend of Yia’s and she came to the table today with a lot of fascinating insights into Hmong culture. She’s brilliant and thoughtful – with a fascinating career history, and I can’t wait for you to learn more about her.Second, I want to apologize for not bringing you an episode last week Wednesday.For season 2 thus far, we’ve been doing a weekly cadence every Wednesday. A season of Hmonglish is six episodes. I’m sure many of you expected episode 5 to come out last week and not today.Our production schedule has been a bit behind due to scheduling issues with guests and trying to work around Yia’s super busy itinerary. As many of you know, Yia's career is blowing up right now, and he’s being pulled in a lot of different directions, so we’re doing our best to work with that. He will be heading out of the country this week and we’re expecting him back within the next two weeks. With that being said, I can’t promise that we’ll have episode 6 out next week Wednesday.Thank you so much for your patience and understanding. We are incredibly thankful to have such a passionate, kind, and engaged fanbase, and we want to make sure we’re being open and honest with our communication on all matters relating to the show.- If you enjoy the show, let us know by leaving a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.Be sure to check out the show on Instagram and Facebook.Oh, and our YouTube channel is finally here!-Produced by Gleam Tower MediaAll music courtesy of Artlist