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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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Letters to 아빠: October 26, 2023

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2025/05/22

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit staysoftstayopen.substack.com/subscribe

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13:14

March 7, 2025: Pay Artists for their Work

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2025/04/29

This episode is about holding my 10th Asian American Art Club meeting! We talked about having integrity as artists, while living in a capitalist society. We talked about artists’ relationships with money. We talked about the value of art and the lack of compensation artists receive and are expected to receive for their labor. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit staysoftstayopen.substack.com/subscribe

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21:30

February 28, 2025: 삼일절, The March First Movement

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2025/04/29

This episode is about 삼일절. I wrote this piece on March 1, 2022:Today is 삼일 운동 (Samil Undong), also known as 삼일절 (Samiljeol), the Mansae Demonstrations, the March First Movement, and Independence Movement Day. In Korean history, this day marks one of the first public displays of Korean resistance against Japan’s brutal colonization of Korea, between 1910 and 1945.103 years ago, on March 1, 1919, 33 independence activists signed the Declaration of Independence at a small restaurant in Seoul, that was

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28:44

February 21, 2025: Our friends can see us more...

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2025/04/25

This episode is about talking to my best friend Andrew, and how sometimes our friends can see us more clearly than we can see ourselves. He said, “You’re a person whose reputation precedes you.” I need to remember this. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit staysoftstayopen.substack.com/subscribe

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00:37:53

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #238: February 10, 2025

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2025/03/27

This episode is about the difficulty of recovering from our trip to Virginia, 엄마 apologizing to me about being overly critical, and the surprising grief that comes with my relationship with 엄마 changing, even if it's for the better.Support the Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg.

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00:20:39

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #236: February 7, 2025

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2025/02/12

This episode is about talking to one of my closest friends, Sonny Van. In this episode, I talk about the history of our 12-year friendship. We met in August 2012, when I was 23 and Sonny was 26. We lived in the intern house for 3 months together, we lived in a van and slept in people's homes for 10 weeks together, we were the Northeast Nomads together, we traveled across the country together. We lived some of our best days together, and I will always love him and our teammate, Justin. Greg and I

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00:28:54

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #235: February 6, 2025

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2025/02/12

This episode is about our 6th Asian American Art Club meeting! We talked about authenticity, identity, outcasts, cool versus not cool, Jupiter as Virginia, New York as the moon, myself as Earth, and the gravity between both places as our relationships, plexiglass people on conveyor belts and multifaceted gems floating in space. MY BRAIN ALWAYS FEELS SO EXPANSIVE AT THESE MEETINGS!Support the Podcast:⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg/membership

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00:24:52

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #234: February 5, 2025

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2025/02/12

This episode is about the immense pain that Virginia holds for me, the immense difficulty of visiting 아빠's grave at the cemetery, the concept of delayed grief, and how pregnancy both compounded my grief and distracted me from my grief.Support the Podcast:⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg/membership

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00:19:33

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #233: February 4, 2025

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2025/02/11

This episode is about all of my feelings catching up to me after coming back to New York from Virginia. Grief whiplash is a term I came up with to describe experiencing delayed feelings of grief. My morning walks are my daily meditation. As a Complex-PTSD survivor, it's imperative to get back into my body.Become a Patron of the Podcast:⁠https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg/membership

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00:19:10

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #232: February 3, 2025

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2025/02/11

This episode is about the stress I feel about missing my Friday episode, and it's mostly a reflection of that day. This episode is about the Asian American Art Club meeting I hosted over Google Meet where we talked about our dreams. This episode is about how dreams change as we grow, and they also stay the same. This episode is about the difficulty of holding onto our dreams throughout all that life throws at us.Become a Patron of the Podcast:https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg/membership

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00:19:52

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #231: January 30, 2025

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2025/02/11

This episode is about talking to my family in Korea over KakaoTalk for 설날, my 2025 intention to regularly communicate with my family in Korea, my 이모's incredibly kind and validating messages to us, and my incredibly vulnerable messages back. This episode is about how I come from a family of writers, artists, and deep feelers, and how I have received the intergenerational gift of art, writing, and 정 from my family. This episode is about seeing the silent battles of a widow, 엄마. This episode is

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00:46:57

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #230: January 29, 2025

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2025/02/11

This episode is about observing, surviving, grieving, and celebrating our first 설날 together as a family.Become a Patron of the Podcast:⁠https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg/membership

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00:29:13

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #229: January 28, 2025

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2025/02/11

This episode is about driving down from New York to Virginia for our family's first official 설날, and the thoughts and feelings that come up for me when I'm in Virginia with 엄마, without 아빠.Become a Patron of the Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg/membership

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00:17:00

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #228: January 27, 2025

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2025/02/11

In this episode, I read, unpack, and explore a newsletter I wrote and published called:Reclaiming our Lost Holidays: 설날. I talk about the grief that comes with reclamation, the things we lose when we leave our homes, and the painful and beautiful experience of being an immigrant.Become a Patron of the Podcast:https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg/membership

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00:21:24

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #227: January 25, 2025

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2025/01/25

This episode is about my wins of the week, relationships as art, my first show since 아빠 died, and singing and teaching 아리랑 to the next generation, to keep our culture alive.Support the Podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg/membership

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00:31:24

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #226: January 23, 2025

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2025/01/24

This episode is about being exiled from a friend group and community, being verbally assaulted by someone I considered to be my friend, and being abandoned by my friends who watched in silence. Support the Podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg/membership

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00:24:22

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #225: January 22, 2025

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2025/01/23

This episode is about trying things, changing your mind, the anxiety character in Inside Out 2, the grief that comes with accepting disappointing realities and unmet expectations, and the permission to leave things and people instead of working overtime to fix them. Support the Podcast: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg/membership

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00:20:31

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #224: January 21, 2025

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2025/01/22

This episode is about feeling an 8/10 hopelessness about my own personal life, the state of our country, and the state of our world, and the incredible courage of Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde today, who looked the beast in the eye and pled for mercy for the marginalized, with an unshakeable peace, humility, and power, at the presidential inaugural prayer service. Support the Podcast: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg/membership

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00:29:28

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #223: January 20, 2025 —...

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2025/01/21

This episode is a dispatch for a very dystopian day. It's about our need for hope in the face of despair. Today is a day of mourning. Today is a day of grief. We have permission to feel all of our feelings. Dissociation, rage, hopelessness, despair, numbness, helplessness, powerlessness, fear, devastation. All of our feelings are valid. Although we can barely see it, there is hope. There is a light at the end of this seemingly endless tunnel of darkness. There are people fighting for justice

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00:33:09

Stay Soft, Stay Open, Ep. #222: January 17, 2025

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2025/01/21

⁠This episode is about our third Asian American Art Club gathering and how much these meetings are expanding my mind and shifting my perspective on social norms and my art practice. Support the Podcast: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/jieunandgreg/membership

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