Fireside Chat: Queer Identity and Relationships with Jiggy Yoon and Norman Tran
In this fireside chat, Jiggy Yoon and Norman Tran discuss how being queer affects the way they show up within their relationships. They will cover specifically:
✨ The queer Asian experience
✨ Why vulnerability is dope
✨ How being strong and loving yourself are not mutually exclusive
Join this fireside chat to discover the power of owning all the parts of your identity, even the parts that seem contradictory.
Jiggy Yoon is a youth motivational speaker, high-performance coach, and lead facilitator at 🌈 Relating Between the Lines. Growing up, Jiggy's mom seared into her consciousness the idea that "high performance" was the be-all-end-all of goals. But when her mother lost her battle to cancer, Jiggy questioned the gospel of pursuing excellence for excellence's sake. In her search, she took a course by Dr. Christopher Uhl, which introduced to her the idea that what we need more in life is not excellence, but self-compassion. She quickly rose from student to assistant lecturer because of how much the message resonated with her, and she now actively teaches this to competitive athletes, entrepreneurs, and young adults. In Relating Between the Lines, Jiggy is helping people see that the greatest act of self-love is to be fully who we are. For her, it's that it's possible to have a chronic illness and be an athlete, to be well-mannered and tatted, to be reflective and outspoken, to be queer and Christian, for we are the space between our labels.
Norman Tran is a facilitator for Stanford Graduate School of Business' legendary Touchy-Feely class, which has trained MBA's on interpersonal dynamics for over 50 years. After facilitating and creating learning experiences for companies like Facebook, IDEO, Stanford d.school, he co-founded 🌈 Relating Between the Lines, an 8-week program that teaches the art of skillfully navigating conversations with the people we care about most. Norman is on a mission to “queer-eye” communication by sharing what he’s learned as a gay neurodivergent (ADHD 2e) man trying to find a sense of belonging in a world that is not designed for people like him.