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January 22nd 2023 is Lunar New Year! ✨To help get you ready to receive your red envelopes 🧧🧧🧧 tune into this episode to brush up on your Cantonese and Vietnamese greetings! Visit the Holding Heritage website and episode show notes to view/do
Sarmad Almoullem is a Syrian artist and photographer - and current owner of Campbell River's camera goods store Phototech Fotosource! We talk with Sarmad about his immigration story to Canada from Syria, his passion for photography and art, cu
Taj Singh is the owner of Campbell River's first ever Pita Pit! Taj immigrated from India, and has a wealth of experience and drive that is incredibly inspiring! Listen to us chat about his education and career journey, cultural upbringing, fa
Make sure to check out the full Filipino Snack Tasting Video! We made a trip to the JRV Filipino Asian Store to pick up some of their most popular items to give them a try. 😋---This episode is produced in collaboration with the Immigrant Welc
Meet my uncle Kenny and join us in a chat about heritage, finding belonging and guidance, and passing along the things we learn and value to the next generation. Also hear the heartwarming story of how my dad and him became best friends, and br
In May of 1978, the North and South Vietnamese đồng currencies were unified. This episode features a story from my 婆婆 po4 po4 (maternal grandmother) about one particular memory and experience she had during this time in Hanoi. Her home was rai
Today, April 30th 2022 marks 2 special occasions - Journey to Freedom Day here in Canada, and Holding Heritage's 1 year anniversary!To learn more about Journey to Freedom Day, hop back over to Episode 3! In today's episode, I share a couple par
Today’s episode is the final one in this round of our Newcomer Entrepreneur Series and I am so excited to have the honor of featuring Thanushi Eagalle - Thanu for short - she is the owner of Wild Bee Florals in the Comox Valley.Head over to wil
Today we sit down with Juan Calero - owner of HJ Landscaping in the Comox Valley.Juan was born and raised in Nicaragua and left the country during his mid twenties - around the historically significant Nicaraguan Revolution. We explore Juan's i
Today we sit down with Tania Ly - owner of Gold Phoenix Asian Foods in the Comox Valley.Gold Phoenix Asian Foods focuses on offering the Comox Valley authentic Cantonese and Vietnamese cooking classes as well as small batch dim sum orders via t
Today we sit down with Linh Nguyen - owner of Pearly Nails and Spa in the Comox Valley. Linh was born and raised in Vietnam and immigrated to Canada 7 years ago. Within the short amount of time, she worked hard to open her own salon at the age
Happy Lunar New Year! | 新年快樂! | Chúc Mừng Năm Mới! In today’s episode, I’ll be going over some of the many common New Year greetings and wishes in both Cantonese and Vietnamese to help wish you, your family and loved ones all the bes
In this episode I chat with 2 friends - Michael and Chon about growing up speaking an obscure dialect of Chinese referred to as Ngai! We dive into what it was like for them, and how they've both navigated growing up in Canada and England. Be s
Today’s episode is an exciting one because I get to introduce one of my best friends, Annie - and her incredible mom! We share with you today a really remarkable and poignant moment in Annie’s Mom’s refugee story - which was when she was almost
In today’s episode, I’m really happy to be able to introduce you to Raymond Liens, he shares pieces of his wonderful family story - like growing up in South Vietnam, their journey to Canada being government sponsored, opening the first South-Ea
Trong Nguyen is one of my uncles! In this episode, you hear about his personal experiences fleeing Vietnam in the 1980’s from South Vietnam. He was one of the captains of his boat at the age of 19, and he lets us into several of his incredible
Meet the amazing Nina Le! Nina is currently the communication coordinator for Montreal’s Concordia University’s TESL Resource Centre and a Master's student in Applied Linguistics at the University. She's focusing on heritage language maintenanc
In Part 3 of this 3 part series with Sinh Ha, you’ll hear about my dad’s memories of the day his family left down to the beach to board their refugee boat to Hong Kong. Be sure to visit holdingheritage.com for show notes and more information.Mu
This episode is Part 2 of a 3 part series with Sinh Ha - My Dad. In this episode you’ll hear about how and why my grandfather and eldest uncle were put in jail, and my dad’s memories and experiences around these events leading up to their boat
If you’ve listened to episode 2, you’ll have already briefly met my dad and heard a few of his memories, but in this coming 3 part series with him, I’ll guide you through a more detailed account of his early past and experiences. In Part 1 - yo
This episode, I introduce you to my mom, Phuong Ly! She recalls some stories from her childhood and growing up in Vietnam as well as a few from her family's refugee experiences in China and Hong Kong. We touch on the relationship between my gr
Exploring my cultural identity as a 2nd gen Chinese Canadian is a huge part of why I started Holding Heritage and why I'm so passionate about it. Journey to Freedom Day is a national day of commemoration here in Canada of the exodus of Vietname
We take a glimpse into how to approach the daunting task of opening conversation with our parents and how simple connection with them can potentially be. If we’re wanting to learn more about them, our culture, our families, even ourselves - it
My name is Hollie! I am a second generation Chinese Canadian. Which means my ethnic background is Chinese and I was born and raised here in Canada - however, my parents and their families were born and raised in Vietnam. In the 1970s after the
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