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MAIM TIME
by MAIM TIME
What time is it? MAIM TIME! A show about overcoming the Asian diaspora identity struggle and Self-Actualization. We go DEEP & HARD into important topics: dealing with our identity struggles, intergenerational trauma with our families, reconciling different cultures, spirituality and religion after church, enterprise, and creative pursuits, and so on... to get closer to realizing our full potential!
Episodes
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The Incredible Reality of Near Death Experiences: Our Ultimate Identity as Love
Send us Fan Mail MAIM TIME hit 10,000 podcast downloads on March 1, 2026! Thank you! March 31, 2026 marks 2 years since I moved back to the States, to San Diego, California. I have a very special important meaningful episode for you. Recently, I’ve been going through a personal spiritual journey...
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KINDNESS WILL SAVE YOUR SOUL
Send us Fan Mail The TL;DR, or the TL;DL for today is this: it doesn’t matter what your identity is or what your struggle is, what your past is, as long as you become a person who embraces the virtues of humility, gratitude, and kindness. So be humble, grateful, and kind. Kind to yourself, kind…
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Using Humility and Gratitude to Cheat the Game of Life
Send us Fan Mail HAPPY THANKSGIVING Y'ALL! I totally forgot to talk about the fundamental idea of Thanksgiving in this episode, what a missed opportunity! Be grateful for all that we have, in spite of all the f'd up origins and backstories of our past. No matter what our life circumstances are.…
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How Quitting Caffeine and Being Bored AF Will Change Your Life
Send us Fan Mail SOLVE ALL YOUR LIFE'S PROBLEMS BY BEING BORED. You can't solve your life's problems if you don't know what your problems are. You can't know what your problems are if you don't give yourself time to be with your own thoughts and just THINK. Also, take a break from caffeine too to...
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The Fighting Spirit of Kyokushin Karate with Sogyel Lhungay
Send us Fan Mail This conversation is with a special guest, my karate sensei: Sogyel Lhungay. He has 2 decades of Kyokushin Karate experience. His is a story that bridges heritage, identity, and the martial arts way. We talk about his life story and where his family comes from, his relationship...
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A Prayer to the Ancestors, for Future Generations
Send us Fan Mail This episode is a meditation and a prayer — to the Ancestors who came before us, on behalf of the future generations who will carry on after we are gone. Drawing from the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius and the Stoic ideal of living a virtuous life in service to others, I reflect on...
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FREEDOM IS A STATE OF MIND
Send us Fan Mail 🎆 Coronado Island, San Diego 🌇 July 4, 2025 🇺🇸 FREEDOM IS A STATE OF MIND Today's my birthday. I’m a Korean-American immigrant born on Independence Day, so let’s talk about freedom. MURKA. We’re going from political to philosophical to spiritual. From July 4, 1776 to Marcus...
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Flowing Into Freedom: Reclaiming Voice, Identity, and Soul as Asian Americans ft. Gavin Masumiya
Send us Fan Mail Watch the video conversation on YouTube here! In this soul-stirring episode of MAIM TIME, we dive into the transformative journey of voice, identity, and liberation with none other than Gavin Masumiya—vocal confidence coach, spoken word artist, and founder of FlowFam. Gavin is…
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Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations: The Ancient Solution to Your Identity Struggle
Send us Fan Mail “The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson You ever feel like you’re stuck between worlds? Too Asian for America, but too American for your Asian family? Like your face tells one story, but your heart is somewhere else entirely? I…
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Martial Arts is the Solution to Your Identity Struggle
Send us Fan Mail This podcast is about dealing with your identity struggle as part of the Asian diaspora. I share personal stories and sometimes interview others to promote healthy, honest conversations about what it means to carry trauma, resentment, and confusion—and how we move toward peace,...
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Rewriting Your Immigrant Family Story by Healing Generational Trauma & Embracing Your Cultural Ethnic Identity
Send us Fan Mail Rewrite your immigrant family history by HEALING INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA and by EMBRACING YOUR CULTURAL ETHNIC IDENTITY! In this powerful and deeply personal episode of MAIM TIME, we dive headfirst into one of the most painful, complex, and transformative experiences shared by...
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A New Chapter in America’s Finest City - 5 Years of MAIM TIME
Send us Fan Mail Here's my cheesy ass episode description courtesy of ChatGPT: Yo, what’s good my people? MAIM TIME is BACK. After a long hiatus, I’m back on the mic to celebrate a major milestone—five years since I first started this podcast. February 2020, right before the world flipped upside...
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YOU ARE THE FUTURE (Birthday Special)
Send us Fan Mail Happy Birthday America, and Happy Birthday to ME! What’s good? This is your annual MAIM TIME birthday episode special where I reiterate all my usual sheeeeiiiit about identity, coming to accept and love all of your identity, self-actualization, being the bridge between the East…
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AWAKENING THE SLEEPING DRAGON IN ALL ASIAN DIASPORA
Send us Fan Mail YOUR DEAD ANCIENT ANCESTORS HAVE BEEN WAITING THOUSANDS OF YEARS FOR YOU TO REALIZE THERE IS A SLEEPING DRAGON INSIDE OF YOU YOU NEED TO BE THE ONE TO AWAKEN IT TODAY #072: I usually describe this podcast as a show about Asian diaspora overcoming identity struggle to become the...
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RISE PETER, KILL AND EAT: Why Jesus Is Not Enough *TRIGGER WARNING*
Send us Fan Mail LISTEN TO THE GREATEST MOST MIND-BLOWING MAIM TIME EPISODE SO FAR THIS YEAR! 🤯🔥 #071. Listen to episodes of MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice, or on YouTube. KILL AND EAT YOU MUST COMPETE Jesus is not enough for you to become the strongest most capable competitive...
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#070 | The Gift of Competition
Send us Fan Mail Listen to episodes of MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice, or on YouTube. This episode focuses on the importance of understanding competition as the basis of life and essential to nature, and why we must compete in order to become the best versions of ourselves in all...
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#069 | International Man of Mystery Flies to Jakarta in a Private Jet
Send us Fan Mail Listen to episodes of MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice, or on YouTube. The name's TIME.... MAIM TIME. It’s me again. They thought I was dead. Some said I escaped to North Korea. They thought I was in jail, or worse: They thought I went back to college to finish my...
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D I R T Y • T H I R T Y • 三 十 • 🇺🇸 🎂 🇰🇷
Send us Fan Mail Listen to episodes of MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice, or on YouTube. Happy birthday America! Thanks to all you MAIM TIMERS, we finally reached over 5000 downloads for MAIM TIME! This is a big milestone. Every download counts. You count. I count, but I didn't always...
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#067 | Becoming the Hero of Your Own Journey
Send us Fan Mail CUNSOOM MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice... and YouTube! #067: "Be the hero of your own story." Nobody's going to take charge of your life but you. No one can be the hero of your own journey, but you. You write your own story. You're not the mistakes of your past.…
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#066 | The Disney Miracle of being American-Born Chinese ft. Victor Zheng II
Send us Fan Mail CONSUME MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice... and YouTube! #066: This is Part II of a great chat with Victor, who talks more about his experiences in film in America and China, and PURSUING HIS DREAMS KICKING IT WITH AND WORKING ALONGSIDE ASIAN HOLLYWOOD! Really awesome...
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#065 | Living Yin and Yang as an Indie Filmmaker ft. Victor Zheng I
Send us Fan Mail CONSUME MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice... and YouTube! #065: We have a GREAT CHAT here with a super cool dude, Victor. If you're into indie filmmaking, acting, and living a rich multi-faceted life, listen to Victor speak! This is Part I, stay tuned for Part II. Victor...
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#064 | Ushering in the Asian American Renaissance with Ryan Takemiya
Send us Fan Mail CONSUME MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice... and YouTube! #064: This is the most amazing time to be alive in human history, especially for Asian societies, and especially for Asian-Americans and diaspora worldwide. There's never been more opportunity. We're experiencing…
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#063 | How to Manifest your Way towards Transcendence - Seibo Knows!
Send us Fan Mail CONSUME MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice... and YouTube! #063: Six exits and however many millions earned and burned later... what does it all mean? What do you do when you reach "success"? What do you do when you're BURNED OUT? How do you stay young? What's the secret?...
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#062 | This Short Film is Changing Lives and It's Not Even Out Yet!
Send us Fan Mail CONSUME MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice... and YouTube! #062: This episode is AWESOME! I interview Chelsie, a filmmaker who posted about her AMAZING upcoming short film "Mandarins" on the Asian Creative Network FB Group. Big shoutout to the ACN fam, we love you! This...
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#061 | I'M QUITTING MY JOB aka How to Dunning-Kruger Your Way to Success ;)
Send us Fan Mail CONSUME MAIM TIME on your podcast player of choice... and YouTube! #061: I'm quitting my main job that I've been working for 8 years to pursue a full-time freelance copywriting career. From April 2022, I'll basically be totally running my own business, pitching and closing leads,...
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#060 | Selling Yourself to Yourself in 60 Seconds
Send us Fan Mail CONSUME MAIM TIME on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or your podcast player of choice... and YouTube! #060: I'm going through The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz. This is perfectly in line with the content matter of Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz - check…
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#059 | If I Learned This Secret 10 Years Ago, I'd Be 100 Times Who I Am Now... NOT CLICKBAIT LOL
Send us Fan Mail NEW UPDATES: MAIM TIME 2nd Anniversary. Hooray! Thanks to all those who've listened to the show up until now. It means so much to me. I'm finally a YouTuber now LOL. The MAIM TIME YouTube Channel is up! All episodes from Episode #1 will be published until it catches up with the...
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#058 | A Perfect Vision for Your Future Perfect Self
Send us Fan Mail #058: I'm sharing with you my absolute ideal perfect future. I highly encourage you to envision what your perfect future, your perfect self, looks like, and write that shit down. Then, tell yourself that you believe in yourself and put your subconscious to work to make it into...
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#057 | I Believe I Can Fly... with Samy Kwon Part 2
Send us Fan Mail #057: How many Asian brothers or sisters do you know that grew up in South America speaking Spanish, and then immigrated to the US to live a better life and KILL IT? Here we have a dope convo with my Korean-Bolivian brother from another mother Samy, living a life of freedom in...
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#056 | From Korea to Bolivia to America - Samy Kwon Part 1
Send us Fan Mail #056: How many Asian brothers or sisters do you know that grew up in Latin America speaking Spanish, and then immigrated to the US to KILL IT and live a life of freedom? Samy is the mfkin gawd of recycling metals, m8. Here we have a dope convo with a brother from another mother…
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#055 | Making 2022 the Best Year of Our Lives LFG (HARD)
Send us Fan Mail #055: Last episode, we talked about how HARD 2021 was. This episode is about New Years resolutions (or if that's a loaded term for you, just say goals) for 2022, and let me tell you: I'm going to absolutely fkin kill it HARD! LFG! No matter how HARD last year was, or how much…
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#054 | Looking BACK at 2021, Look Forward to 2022
Send us Fan Mail #054: Time for a personal reflection! How was 2021 for you? Was it easy or HARD? Did you make a lot of money? Did you lose a lot of money? For me, this has been one of the hardest years of my life. Almost a year ago, I injured myself working out. I stopped working for 4 months. I...
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#053 | The Greatest Gift to Humanity
Send us Fan Mail #053: What is the greatest (Christmas) gift you've ever gotten? Maybe it was a new phone, or computer, or even a car. Maybe a guitar. For me, it was some dinosaur toys, an Xbox 360 when I was a kid. But I'm not just talking about material gifts. Warning: I'm going FULL…
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#052 | Christmas? What's mean???
Send us Fan Mail #052: I used to hate Christmas when I was a kid because it reminded me of how out of place I was compared to the other American kids. It reminded me of how much I hated being Korean cause it made me feel different, and how I hated America because I didn’t feel accepted in the...
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#051 | Maim rambles about MAIM TIME podcasting for a bit
Send us Fan Mail #051: This episode is a stream-of-consciousness experiment where I ramble on for a while, probably nothing new you haven’t heard before if you’ve heard previous episodes. Just emphasizing again, it’s okay if you’re not where you want to be in life, just enjoy the process! That’s...
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#050 | Being First Generation Gods with Aaron Tam
Send us Fan Mail #050: Aaron Tam is the founder and host of the First Generations Podcast. He is also a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and martial artist that loves to devote his time in networking and personal growth. Growing up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he was raised in…
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#049 | What Does a Happy Thanksgiving Mean to a Korean-American?
Send us Fan Mail #049: Happy Thanksgiving y’all! I’m thankful for my life today, all the good people in my life, and for my heritage and culture. I’m thankful and grateful and proud to be Korean, American, Korean-American, and thankful to be who I am today. What does a Happy Thanksgiving mean to…
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#048 | Cantonese-American Mommy Talks about Building Future Leaders One at a Time
Send us Fan Mail #048: Kaiyan is a Cantonese mommy living in America! She has her own podcast, called Us Mommios, all in Cantonese, for Cantonese mommies. We cover a lot of topics, from Asian diaspora identity, to motherhood, child education/psychology, to family, to building future leaders. I…
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#047 | Busan NFT Adventures: The Real NFTs were the Friendships We Minted All Along
Send us Fan Mail #047: Do you know what time it is? STORY TIME! A few days ago, I embarked on a cheeky adventure to Busan for Busan NFT 2021. Busan is a beautiful place, highly recommend it to anyone who hasn’t gone already. It was an awesome trip! Here are just some reflections on the trip and…
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#046 | That Awkward Moment When You Meet Your Mentally Unstable Mother for the First Time
Send us Fan Mail #046: Sang Don Park is a talented beatboxer comedian who I met years ago while doing standup comedy. He spent a big chunk of his childhood in America before moving back to Korea. Here’s Part 1 if you missed it! In this part 2, we talk about... How Sang found out his mother wasn't...
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#045 | How Beatboxing Comedian Sang Don Park Learned to Fit into Korean Society
Send us Fan Mail #045: Sang Don Park is a talented beatboxer comedian who I met years ago while doing standup comedy. He spent a big chunk of his childhood in America before moving back to Korea. We talk about… Self-dev message of the day: Sang brought up that he recently quit coffee: If you’re...
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#044 | The Struggle for Modern Women, Defining Luxury, and Finding Who You Are with Cheska - Part 2
Send us Fan Mail #044: This is Part 2 of a great conversation we had with Cheska! If you haven’t checked out Part 1, here it is: #041 | Embracing Your Identity with Cheeky Cheska. In this part 2, we talk about... writing empowering-ass women’s stories, real stories of successful women overcoming...
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#043 | Why Learning Hangeul and Korean Is the Proudest Achievement of My Life
Send us Fan Mail #043: Happy Hangeul Proclamation Day everyone! This is yet another episode where I talk about a holiday and then segue into ranting and raving about whatever I want. It’s also perhaps one of the most important episodes dealing with the central theme of this podcast about…
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#042 | Korea's National Foundation Day: Garlic and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!
Send us Fan Mail #042: October 3 is Korea’s National Foundation Day, Gaecheonjeol (개천절; 開天節). It celebrates the founding of the Korean people! Gaecheon means “Opening of Heaven.” It actually commemorates 2 dates: October 3 2457 BCE and October 3 2333 BCE. On October 3 2457 BCE, Hwanung 환웅, a son…
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#041 | Embracing Your Identity with Cheeky Cheska - Part 1
Send us Fan Mail #041: Cheska is a young global professional killing it everywhere she goes! Born in Seoul, Korea, raised in New Zealand (climbing trees, chasing sheep), to later settling, working in New York, she is a living embodiment of multi-culture. At first glance, her journey is...
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#040 | Chuseok You Suck!
Send us Fan Mail #040: A Happy Chuseok You-Suck to all y’all, Koreans and expats! I’ll give some brief background on this Korean autumn harvest holiday for the ignorant infidels so that we can all reflect upon its meaning (and how much you suck, ohohoho)! Holidays including this one can be a...
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#039 | How to Interpret Your Heritage to Seek the Best Version of Yourself
Send us Fan Mail #039: The idea of “heritage” deserves its own podcast! Heritage can be defined as cultural traditions, architecture, buildings, language that a people collectively share. Specifically, what is your individual racial/cultural/family history? Where do you come from? Let’s...
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#038 | Korean Comedian Pursues His Dream - But at What Cost? ft. Danny Cho Part 2
Send us Fan Mail #038: This is part 2 continuing our conversation with Danny Cho, LA born-and-raised Korean American who quit his six-figure consultancy job to pursue comedy. He hosts the Noonchi Podcast with Bobby Choy. He does standup comedy IN KOREAN and has been fostering the Korean standup...
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#037 | Korean-American Comedian Learns to Laugh It Off ft. Danny Cho Part 1
Send us Fan Mail #037: Danny Cho is an LA born-and-raised Korean American who quit his six-figure consultancy job to pursue comedy. He’s toured for many years in the States and throughout Asia. Several years ago, he started doing standup comedy IN KOREAN and has been fostering the Korean standup...
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#036 | What I'm Sacrificing for My Dreams - Past Dreams and Career Paths
Send us Fan Mail #036: Part 1 was about the material possessions and the hobbies associated with them that I’m turning away from. In this episode, I talk about my former dreams of being a club promoter, a theologian/pastor, a hip hop artist, as well as potential career paths in industries that…
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What time is it? MAIM TIME! A show about overcoming the Asian diaspora identity struggle and Self-Actualization. We go DEEP & HARD into important topics: dealing with our identity struggles, intergenerational trauma with our families, reconciling different cultures, spirituality and religion after church, enterprise, and creative pursuits, and so on... to get closer to realizing our full potential!
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