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I’m Samorn Selim. 

I’m a lawyer turned career coach on a mission for us to take our careers from dread to joy. As the daughter of poor Lao refugees, I was told to pay my dues.

After coaching over 1,000 clients, I now realize that the idea that you have to pay your dues and work in a toxic place is a myth. 

We can face our challenges head on, do work we are passionate about, and work with good people with kind hearts to make a big impact. So even as we struggle, we can find a sense of belonging.

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Episode 99: Repost: Being Asian and gay, recovering from a toxic workplace, creating cultural competent therapy for AAPIs with Dr. Noel Ramirez (Founder & Director of Mango Tree Counseling & Consulting)

Oct 10, 2023

 

The pandemic and the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes has been devastating for AAPI communities.  How do we heal ourselves from individual, institutional, and systemic traumas?


In this episode with Dr. Noel Ramirez (Founder & Director of Mango Tree Counseling & Consulting, an AAPI mental health group mental health resource center, we discuss:


- How reading my memoir, “Belonging:  Self Love Lessons From A Workaholic Depressed Insomniac Lawyer” transformed him and gave him the courage to change his life and career.
- How being a dancer at a gay Asian night club informed his work as a social worker and therapist.
- How he learned that confronting shame and vulnerability is part of the healing journey. 
- Why mental health is taboo in the AAPI communities, and why it’s important to break this stigma.
- What you can do to get and/or provide mental health support that is culturally competent.


Connect with Noel at https://www.linkedin.com/in/noelbramirez/.


Follow Samorn on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/samornselim/.


Get a copy of Samorn’s book, “Belonging: Self Love Lessons From A Workaholic Depressed Insomniac Lawyer” at https://tinyurl.com/swpc578c.


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