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Culture and family heritage isn’t all sunshine and roses but it can fill you up, give you pleasure, and take you back while inspiring you forward. Hosted by Anika Chabra, join us for rich st...
In our season finale, we sit with Dr. Louisa May Khoo, an urban planner, storyteller, and compassionate observer of humanity, to explore wha...
"Once Mini Me, Now Mini You" traces the evolution of a mother–daughter relationship as it shifts from teaching to learning, guiding to witne...
In this moving episode of the Root & Seed Podcast, host Anika Chabra speaks with Dr. Caron Leid, caregiver, educator, author, and accidental...
In this episode, we explore the evolving mother–sons dynamic behind Lo & Sons, the family-run travel brand founded when Helen Lo was 65. Wha...
Season Eight continues with an intimate conversation about caregiving, identity, and the small “glimmers” that shape family connection. In t...
Season Eight opens with a powerful conversation about legacy, leadership, and the stories we inherit. In this special live-recorded episode,...
This interview is icing on the cake of a season all about identity and connection in the workplace. Part two of the conversation with Mohan...
What does it look and feel like to build a world where there is deep connection between generations in mind? Where we can learn from the wis...
What happens if you don’t have all the answers from your family heritage and/or if your past was filled with trauma and turbulent role model...
How can one design solutions for one of biggest growing demographics in a way that is unique to its proclivities but sensitive to its divers...
Sounds like a dream, right? No matter what stage of your career, aligning your personal and professional values feels like the path to a ful...
Know yourself, and then sell better. When guest Peter Ahn advises tech founders he encourages them to weave their personal story through the...
What a way to launch a season! In this interview, host Anika Chabra draws a relationship between childhood experience, identity and the prof...
Season 7 of the Root & Seed podcast is launching on September 19th. Over the past 3 years we have brought you stories to inspire discovery a...
What happens when Root & Seed co-founders Jenn and Anika get together with mics on to interview each other? Lots of storytelling, advice sha...
Is “almost" anything good enough? It sure is for this episode’s guest Brittany Muddamalle, the voice behind The Almost Indian Wife. As a Cau...
What does it mean to truly represent your culture in a way that is innate, intimate and unique? Eric Hernandez is a Native American hoop dan...
Exploring the role that tradition plays in one’s life feels pretty core to the Root & Seed community. But what role does it play when you ha...
It appears there are no conversations with Darius Bashar that stay on the surface and this is definitely one of them. Darius is a creator, y...
We first discovered Mita Mallick on LinkedIn and we're enamoured with her content about making the workplace truly inclusive and inviting fo...
Season 6 is upon us! After almost 40 episodes of reflecting on our cultural discovery, appreciation, and preservation journeys, we wanted to...
What a way to end a season on identity! Charlene SanJenko's “official” journey to uncover her Indigenous roots started eight years ago. Howe...
There’s something about Samanta Krishnapillai ’s story that is familiar yet unique, destined yet delightful, average yet special. As the fou...
They say we remember moments not days. In part two of our interview with Dr. Jenny T. Wang, Dr. Wang crystallizes a moment between her and h...
Just in time for Mental Health Awareness Month and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Heritage month, we bring you part one of this two p...
Daniel Mazzone grew up surrounded by familial influences in creativity, so it's no surprise that he became an artist. However, his upbringin...
It’s one thing to be able to list off the places you've lived and the experiences you’ve experienced. It’s another to understand how those t...
We are back with another family duo, this time father & daughter Ab and Layla Freig. Layla reflects on what it was like to grow up not fitti...
From the Oscars to Root & Seed in under a week! This episode's guest is photographer of the rich and famous, George Pimentel. As a third gen...
Aren't they? In Part Two of our interview we hear Ryan's softer side including the people, traditions and rituals that make Ryan, Ryan. All...
This bonus episode includes a special announcement from Root & Seed, including the launch of physical conversation cards on Kickstarter on T...
What a way to start off this season! This episode we talk to Ryan Alexander Holmes in the first of a two part series and kick off Season 5 o...
Our relationship with our cultural background, significant events in our upbringing, present day societal and even inherited experiences of...
What do the 90s, hip hop and basketball have to do with one another? For a good number of youth who grew up in Toronto, especially those fro...
As a champion for people's stories across the Asian diaspora, Kyle Leung, host of podcast "What kind of Asian are you?" is used to uncoverin...
We don’t know what we don’t know, but these unknowns still shape us. And can be passed through generations unless it is given air, tended to...
In our first intergenerational podcast interview, we speak to Peter Pham and his mom about their shared love of cooking, their family storie...
Marel Alemany has a deep sense of how his Afro, Latin and Caribbean backgrounds have influenced his present day sense of self. Yet as a pers...
When Nancy Lam started writing her dying mother's story it was in effort to capture her mother's legacy for her children to know and appreci...
When Root & Seed launched, our dream was to talk to a historian. Scratch that. Our dream was to talk to Robert “Lucky” Budd. So this episode...
If you heard our season three finale interview with Grace Phan-Nguyen, you know we left that conversation at the genesis of a whole other st...
It's back to school, back to Fall, back to work and back to the Root & Seed podcast time! Season 4 of The Root & Seed Podcast is launching S...
In our Season 3 finale, we go from a curried goat/goat curry debate :) to bbq pig parades. Food is central to how Grace Phan-Nguyen lives, w...
“When East meets West” (Indian, that is) should be the title of Serena’s cultural journey. With pride on both sides of her identity, we hear...
What happens when a literary agent (aka literary genius) in his golden years opens up about his culture and respect for his roots? You get u...
From self-proclaimed "weekend brown girl" as a teenager, to relearning traditional Bharatanatyam dance as an adult, and soaking in time with...
There is something so freeing about shedding the ‘shoulds’ and ‘musts’ and inviting in simple celebration of our cultures into our daily liv...
You know when a conversation is next level when it feels like therapy....part informative, part healing, part inspirational. This episode we...
What happens when you blend life experiences together with your superpowers and lean into that confluence to bring to the world something th...
Season 3 is here! With the theme of celebration in mind, we are pleased to present Zoe & Brooklyn Brownstone, two sisters who recall how the...