Episode 13: Jane Cho

It’s become a truism that there is no such thing as a stupid question. By the time you reach the 5th grade you’ve probably been told 500 times to ask questions, don’t be afraid to raise your hand or knowledge is power. Most of us, however, leave many questions on the table because we don’t want to make someone else feel uncomfortable, or we don’t want to appear to be stupid, or we are afraid of what the answer may be. 

Being afraid of what the answer may be is where Jane Cho begins. She takes us all by the proverbial collar and shakes us into a different kind of wokeness. She cajoles us into being awoke to ourselves and demands that we shake off the inertia that sets in from either compartmentalizing our lives or settling for the safe and the status quo. She cheers us on to boldly ask ourselves, do we have to give up everything to have the life we want? The answer could be yes, the answer could be no, but if we don’t ask the question, we live in a perpetual state of holding our breaths. 

As a mother, wife, educator, artist and executive coach, Jane pulls from all facets of her life and experience to remind us that it is up to us to clarify our stories and that indeed we get to write our own narratives. She encourages us to get rid of faulty notions of success and failure and replace them with those things that satisfy and fulfill us on a spiritual and emotional level. Only then can we embrace the complexity of all of life. Only then can we release victimhood and stand in true authenticity.