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Stay Soft, Stay Open

A podcast about vulnerability, courage, and creativity. I"m your host, Jieun Ko. staysoftstayopen.substack.com

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00:27:30

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #221: January 16, 2025

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2025/01/21

⁠In this episode, I read a newsletter I sent on November 28, The National Day of Mourning. I talk about the ongoing genocide and alleged ceasefire in occupied Palestine after 15 months of brutality, and how history continues to repeat itself. Our small act of boycotting the fourth Thursday of November is an act of resistance. This act of resistance matters. Read on Substack: https://jieunandgreg.substack.com/p/today-is-a-national-day-of-mourning?r=27xxpf Support the Podcast:

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00:21:47

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #220: January 15, 2025

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2025/01/21

This episode is about how doing things we don't have the capacity to do, doing things that don't align with our character or our values, and doing things we don't want to do, lead us to feeling resentment. Resentment is just information to us — a white flag from our body, saying, "Help! I don't want to do this anymore..." Resentment is our body's way of alerting us to change directions and get back in alignment with ourselves and our values. Support the Podcast:

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00:13:50

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #219: January 14, 2025

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2025/01/15

In this episode, I read the newsletter I published on December 31, 2024 called, "We survived the year." You can read it on Substack: https://jieunandgreg.substack.com/p/we-survived-the-year.Support the Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg/membership

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00:35:00

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #218: January 13, 2025

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2025/01/14

This episode is about how magical thinking and creativity can create a bedroom. We moved our bedroom to the kitchen, and now we have a nursery-storage-room-closet-office! The options are endless! Support the Podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg/membership

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00:47:38

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #217: January 10, 2025

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2025/01/14

This episode is about my second Asian American Art Club gathering and the indescribable magic that I'm discovering that comes from artists coming together and sharing their ideas, experiences, and art with each other. We talked about the balance of routine and spontaneity in life, the impact of scale on our perspective on life, and the importance of believing in ourselves as artists. A woman (documentary filmmaker) who was listening into our conversation thought David and I were rehearsing for a

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00:28:22

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #216: January 9, 2025

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2025/01/10

This episode is about a hard fucking day, internalizing the garbage that was thrown at me, fighting to climb my way out of a 500-foot canyon with the help of my solid, fierce community, and how immensely proud I am of myself, for all that I am and all that I've done.Listen to this episode on a future garbage day, Jieun. I believe you. I'm sorry. You didn't deserve this. You will survive this. Support the Podcast: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg/membership

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00:24:33

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #215: January 8, 2025 — 12...

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2025/01/10

This episode is about my 12-year anniversary with Greg and the honest difficulty of this year's anniversary, the grief of our relationship ending in the way that we've known it now that we have a child, and the gratitude I have for Greg and our 12 years together. Support the Podcast: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg/membership

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00:23:55

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #214: January 7, 2025

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2025/01/08

This episode is about how hard it is to hold onto our dreams because we will face adversity and experience failures on our journey towards our dreams. In the pursuit of our dreams, there are no guarantees — I can try and succeed, or I can try and fail. But if I don't try, I am guaranteed to fail, with no chance of success. Our dreams are worth pursuing, even if they don't come true in the way we wanted or expected.Support the Podcast: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg/membership

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00:30:04

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #213: January 6, 2025

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2025/01/08

This episode is about believing that I deserve to get paid for the work that I do, and the three communities I'm going to grow this year — Asian American Families of Brooklyn, Gajok, and Asian American Art Club. Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg/membership

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00:27:32

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #212: January 3, 2025

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2025/01/08

This episode is about the beautiful experience of my first Asian American Art Club gathering with our first club member — my friend, David Pham — and how astrophysics led him to finding his family in Sweden. Our dreams are worth pursuing. ♡ Support the Podcast: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg/membership

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00:12:57

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #211: January 2, 2024

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2025/01/08

This episode is about the difficulties of traveling with a baby, and the challenges of coming back to New York after being in Virginia for two weeks. Support the Podcast: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg/membership

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00:18:19

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #210: January 1, 2025

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2025/01/02

Happy Gregorian New Year! This episode is about my 2025 bucket list, the importance of holding onto our dreams, and speaking our heart's greatest hopes into existence. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg/membership

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00:14:51

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #209: December 23, 2024

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2025/01/02

This episode is about driving down to Virginia for the holidays and the grief that comes for me with this drive.

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00:37:26

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #208: December 20, 2024

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2024/12/20

Today's episode is a round-up of all the highlights of this week: talking about Asian names names and 백일 with other Asian American moms in the neighborhood, going to the dentist and having a dentist friend, Haejoon and all of the beautiful things he holds within himself, sending a newsletter, and going to therapy.

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00:20:38

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #207: December 19, 2024

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2024/12/20

This episode is about the Christmas traditions I like — watching B-level Christmas movies like The Princess Switch 1, 2, and 3, making yarn ornaments, and putting up lights and a Christmas tree. I haven't watched Home Alone 1 and 2 since 아빠 died. I think I might be able to watch them this year.

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00:13:14

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #206: December 18, 2024

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2024/12/19

This episode is about how we aren’t stuck on the hamster wheel of trying to keep up with the social pressures of society, and how we can take all the weights off and get off the wheel. We aren't late for the new year and we're allowed to go slow, stay present, and look back on 2024 with pride that you survived. That alone is a feat worthy of celebration. Perfection is a lie. Failing is succeeding. And there are hidden gifts in the trying.

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00:19:59

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #205: December 17, 2024

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2024/12/18

This episode is about how we have permission to opt out of the holidays. We are no required to buy a tree, buy gifts, see family, or visit Santa. Holidays are days, just like any other day on the calendar, and we aren't required to do anything that doesn't feel safe for us, even if it's a holiday. I wish I knew this before my dad died. I wish we could've not celebrated Thanksgiving together. I wish we could've done Christmas in our own way together.

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00:22:09

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #204: December 16, 2024

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2024/12/17

This episode is about my grief group holiday gathering that I had at my home on Sunday, how this past year of friendship with these incredible women has truly been such a blessing to my life, and how we need community like we need air.

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00:30:24

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #203: December 13, 2024

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2024/12/17

This episode is about a closing reception and artist talk I went to at SK Gallery in Koreatown, for my friend Gyun Hur and Gi Huo, two Korean American artists based in New York City. The exhibit was called, "Invisible Connections," The title of the exhibition refers to an inquiry by poet and translator Don Mee Choi. Choi questions whether true translation is possible, from the Korean language to English, citing the misalignments forged by “neocolonial war, militarism, and neoliberal economy” as

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00:19:30

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #204: December 12, 2024

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2024/12/13

This episode is about why I want to change the podcast title to Stay Soft, Stay Open, and how sharing the announcement of Haejoon's birth was met with so much love from our community. The love I received reminded me just how loved and supported I truly am. ⁠Support our Podcast + Become a Patreon Subscriber: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg⁠⁠⁠

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