What happens when you stop shrinking, stop filtering, and finally let your real voice take up space?

To kick off Season 4 of Tune Up Your Warrior and celebrate AAPI Heritage Month, Jenny sits down with stand-up comedian and podcast host Julie Kim for a conversation about comedy, identity, voice, representation, and what it means to stop trying to fit into roles that were never built for you.

Julie shares her journey from corporate consulting on Bay Street into stand-up comedy, and how years of being told, directly and indirectly, what was “appropriate” for a woman of colour to say on stage shaped her early career. She opens up about the pressure to tone herself down, avoid certain topics, and distance herself from the very parts of her identity that would later become central to her voice.

Together, Jenny and Julie talk about motherhood, authenticity, representation, healing through humour, and Julie’s podcast BOTHERED, where social irritations and deeper injustices collide in the most honest and hilarious ways. This is a conversation about being fully yourself, staying bothered for the right reasons, and why women, especially Asian women, owning space still matters so deeply.

Julie also shares why she believes girls and women give her hope, and defines a warrior as someone who keeps going despite the barriers in front of them.

This episode is funny, thoughtful, honest, and the perfect way to open a new season.

To learn more about Julie Kim and her podcast, visit: https://www.juliekimcomedy.com/podcast