How do you define success? Is it a reflection of a person’s total accumulated wealth? Accomplishments? Materialism? Happiness?
Philip Wang has been an industry leader in the content creation and creative entrepreneur space for twenty years.
Helen Wu and her fellow Asian Boss Girls share stories about vastly different yet similar experiences for Asian American women.
Ryan Alexander Holmes is tackling racism and dismantling stereotypes about growing up as a Black Asian in America.
And Kelly Mi Li is shifting the scarcity mindset as a serial entrepreneur through Bling Empire while building her own.
These Asian creatives are redefining wealth and success for the next generation of the Asian diaspora.
The origins of our relationships with money
The connection we have to our heritage shapes our identity and how we see the world. So, when it comes to redefining wealth and success, we can’t help but look at the origins of our relationships with money. The cultural values our parents and elders taught us are a major factor in shaping our relationship with money.
Content creator and actor Ryan Alexander Holmes shares that growing up and even now as an adult, he has a whole drawer of plastic bags. “In my culture, we save those bags for future use – and that saves money.”
Growing up “as the son of a Chinese immigrant and Black man who grew up in poverty in the Deep South,” he still often considers “how can this help me pursue my passion?” when considering a purchase.
Similarly, Wong Fu Productions Co-Founder Philip Wang recalls that the idea of saving and his money sensibilities came from watching how his parents spent. “[There was]…a lot of frugality.”
Wang’s wife, Helen Wu, who has a professional background in finance, could never bring herself to accept the money that her parents offered for her to have fun with friends. “I could see how hard they worked for their money, and I…
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