The Value of Suffering and Surrender (feat. Ming-Jinn Tong)

Hey, folks! We are thrilled to be back for season 4 of Hmonglish, and we’ve got a lot of great conversations coming your way. You’ll hear from Hmong entrepreneurs, Hmong influencers, Hmong veterans, and Hmong scholars.

But today, for this first episode, Yia isn’t speaking to a Hmong person at all. He’s speaking to a Chinese American man named Ming-Jinn Tong. If you’re a regular listener of the podcast, you’ll know that Ming-Jinn has been on the podcast twice already: once for a prerecorded episode and once for a live episode.

Ming-Jinn is one of Yia’s best friends. They go way back. He’s also an incredibly gifted speaker and thinker. So we brought him back to the show for a third time to interview Yia about all the stuff going on in his life, and there has been a lot going on in Yia’s life.

First off, Yia is still recovering from a nasty health scare: he had an infected hematoma in his leg, which got so out of control that he had to get multiple surgeries to save his leg and, really, his life.

On top of all this, Yia has been hard at work getting his new restaurant, Vinai, prepped and ready for the public to enjoy.

Even more, he continues to have his frequent TV and media engagements, so there has been a lot going on.

Today’s episode is all about taking a pause to check in, and what better way to do that than between two very close friends.

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