For the second episode in Tune Up Your Warrior’s three-episode Season 4 opener for AAPI Heritage Month, Jenny sits down with Christopher Tse for a powerful conversation about silence, identity, diaspora, and reclaiming voice.

Christopher Tse is an educator, organizer, and writer based in Whitehorse, Yukon. According to the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, he has spent 15 years working alongside community leaders on decolonization, environmental justice, migrant advocacy, and structural racism. He is also a former runner-up at the Poetry Slam World Cup and teaches social work at the University of Victoria.

Together, Jenny and Christopher explore how silence has functioned in Asian communities as both a survival strategy and a form of resistance, how the model minority myth has reinforced expectations of quietness and compliance, and why the Asian diaspora cannot be treated as a monolith. They also talk about art as resistance, storytelling as truth-telling, and the tension between assimilation and solidarity.

We close the episode through the spirit of Eyes Open, Chris' widely shared anti-Asian racism PSA/poem written and narrated for Asian Heritage Month. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGQtaCyp8f8

This episode is personal, thoughtful, and deeply relevant for anyone who has ever felt the tension between belonging and authenticity, between adaptation and erasure, and between inherited silence and reclaimed voice.

This week on Tune Up Your Warrior, I sit down a second time with Judge Albert Wong for the final episode in our three-episode Season 4 opener, and it is a conversation that feels especially important right now.

Not because it adds to the noise.

But because it asks a deeper question underneath it:

What does freedom actually mean?

Albert brings a rare perspective to that question. After 40 years in the Canadian Armed Forces | Forces armées canadiennes, including work in Afghanistan and on UN peacekeeping missions, he has seen what the oppression of freedom looks like up close, especially for women.

Together, we talk about freedom not just as a political concept, but as the right to exist, express yourself, and move through the world without oppression, harassment, or fear.

We explore:

❤️‍🩹 Why allyship has to go beyond “I believe you”

🛑 How we address harmful behavior at its source, not just after the damage is done

⚡ What rupture in human relationships looks like right now

👿 Why patriarchy and systemic inequality still shape how power moves

♥️ And what moral courage looks like in everyday life

I also share a personal reflection on how being touched inappropriately at a conference violated something fundamental: my freedom to exist, my freedom of joy, and my safety from harm.Albert and I will also both be speaking at the upcoming ACCT Foundation Summit in Waterloo May 15-17, we’d love to see you there. Be sure to grab your tickets: https://acctfoundation.ca/summit/https://acctfoundation.ca/summit/

This one is thoughtful, honest, and deeply relevant.

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