Unity Through Diversity

01/15/2025

Podcast Club is back!!
Before you registering your child for this semester, we made some changes for this year's workshop, there will be 2 groups of training, one is for new enrolled students, one is for returning students. details can be found on the registration page.
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In next few days, we would like to share some feedback from the students from last semester's podcast club, First part is what's their favorite part of this podcast club, following the videos will cover: challenge part and what they learned and what they want say to the new enrolled students.

ThanksHemmeter Elementary School Hemmeter Parent Teacher Council for trusting us to work with your students. We are honored to partner with United We Go to bring you this unique workshop to improve students' communication skills, conversation skills, story telling skills and boost their confidence.

If you would like to support this program for us to serve more students, you can hop to our how to support page for more info.
https://www.unitedwego.org/support-us

11/20/2024

Recording day 2!
We officially wrapped up this semester’s “How to Create a Podcast” workshop. 🙌

At the end of the workshop, I asked students few questions to get their feedback!

What’s the most challenging part of this podcast workshop?
1, how to come up questions fast enough,
2, how to not have long pause during the conversation,
3, ask open ended questions

What’s your favorite part of this workshop?
1, recording, so cool to hear my own voice
2, getting to know new people
3, snacks ( yes, snacks 🙌 of course)

What’s one thing you improved?
1, before I was shy to say hi to people, now I feel more confident
2, confidence
3, learn how to ask many different questions

What’s your advice for those who interested in this workshop?
1, it’s might be hard at the beginning, but don’t give up, when you get to recording, you will love it
2, it’s fun and get to know other people

We will share the recording with parents after we done editing part.

We won’t make this workshop happen if we don’t have the support from the communitUnited We GoThis program is powered by United We Go’s new initiative “Voice of Youth”, and we aHemmeter Elementary Schooltudents from Hemmeter Elementary School to be the pioneer of this initiative

If you have any questions about podcast workshop or “Voice of Youth” program, you may reach out to
[email protected] or [email protected]

11/13/2024

Unity Through Diversity is a podcast i created back in 2020, it took me over a year to lunch it and due to the high amount of commitment with United We Go the nonprofit I founded early 2023, I had to put this podcast on pause. 🙏

However I never felt I love this podcast or this creation less than before, actually it allows me to restructure this platform to serve more ppl.

So, the podcast is coming back/ returning soon…
Stay tuned 🙌🙏

11/13/2024

Time flies, recording day 1, one more week, we are going to wrap up this semester’s “How to create a podcast” workshop series!

This is one of the collaborative project with United We Go 🙌 to support youth in improving storytelling and public speaking and communication skills.

It’s amazing to see how those students grow in last few weeks, thanks Hemmeter Elementary School for continuing to provide this workshop for their students. 🙌💜

We will share the clips from their podcasts in next few weeks. 🙏

10/02/2024

Week 1 of our Podcast workshop 💜
Start with Meditation as always to get students calm and relaxed so they can focus on the class.

We started with intro and shared with them how the podcast equipment works, and let them test some of the sound equipment. 🙏

Their favorite part probably is the snacks part 😆
Looking forward to seeing you all next Tuesday for our week 2 class. 🙌

04/18/2024

We officially finished this semester’s “How to create your podcast” workshop. 🎊🎉

9 bright students, experienced what’s feel like to be a podcaster. We reviewed the episodes we recorded. We shared our feedbacks, we brought cupcakes and flowers to celebrate their effort and engagement. 🙌

Gonna miss their faces 🙏

Way to go 👍 Hornets 🐝 , see you all soon. 🔜

04/03/2024

Honored to be interviewed by Bold Journey Magazine 🙏 thank you so much.

I think this will be a great reintroduction of myself for the journey I embarked on in the last few years.
United We Go Inner Sensory Healing Unity Through Diversity

https://boldjourney.com/news/meet-gina-anayana/

Being the only one in the room has been a theme in my life. That lead me to create a safe container for those who felt the same way. 🙏

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Gina Anayana. We

03/13/2024

Ep 66 is coming out today at 11:11am! Ben and Lolo from 🙏 special series collaborated with to highlight small business in the Great Lakes Bay Region. 🤩🙏

Tune into any main podcast platforms to get to know more about the team behind this amazing coffee lounge in the community. 🥰

Unity Through Diversity:
Podcast Page: https://bit.ly/3HdI8gN

03/13/2024

Hemmeter Elementary School podcast workshop! Week 5 🙌

Things looks like very easy actually needs to put in lots practice and effort. These hornets 🐝 chose to create their own podcast. Because they have something they would like to create, to share with the world. 🌎

We usually starts with meditation to guide students to relax and calm down after all day stimulation in school so we can focus on the workshop. Today we tried to have one student guide us which is really fun 🤩

Week 7-8 will be the recording session. In the last 5 weeks. We worked on podcast structure, we worked on how to ask questions, we worked on designing the podcast layout, we worked on chosing podcast name and potential episodes, we worked on practicing interviewing others and being interviewed by others.

We are not looking for a perfect outcome at the end of these 8 weeks, but a way of presenting your ideas and conduct conversations around this topic, be creative, fun and enjoyable in the learning process.

Soft skills are so very important in these days, working with kids has been lots of fun in my life. So proud of you all and cannt wait to see you all next week. 🥰🙏

03/05/2024

February was filled with many movement, its full but fast. Last day of Feb, I got invited to attend this event from Delta College, Dr. Gavin meeting with the Latino community. (Right? And I was the only Asian in the meeting) I was questioning why I am at a Latino community meeting for quite a while. 😆

During the Q & A part, Dr. Pam said something that reminded me of why I am there. She said, at certain point, we are not only representing those who look like us, but you represent those who also doesn’t look like us. (Not her exact words, just to be clear).

That moment I tune into the core of this meeting. The awareness and acknowledgement of the diversity in our community, the willingness and commitment to work with each other. It’s that the spirit of United We Go?

This belonging is everyone is itching for, belonging is not a place you find on this earth planet, belonging is your choice, when you choose to be somewhere with what you choose to do and to be, the longer you be you, you increase the energy movement. Be-long each time to claim your spot. However, for someone to claim their place, the big environment matters, the community matters. We are choosing a community that is welcoming, supportive, respectful, open minded, honest, loving, diversified.
So proud of the Latino community, they show up, they share what’s on their heart, they speak up for themselves. 🙏

I love delta college offering this kind of community meeting every semester, hear the people out, have a conversation and discussion about what happened. What’s going on and where is heading to.

One day. One day, we look around, recognize not from color, not from race, not from gender, but the love for all that involved. 🙏

Step out from the building and pass by those two big murals installed last summer, and visited Artisan Urban Bistro to finish my last bit of Feb. I am complete. 🙏🙏 love your neighbor. ❤️

02/07/2024

Behind scenes with Chad and Lesley from Reality Check Bay City, LLC 😍 Feb small business highlight 🙏

Tune into for the full interview with Chad and Lesley to get to know their family and services in our community. 🥰🙏 release at 11:11am Wednesday.

We also have fundraising event on 2/16 from 5pm to 11pm at Reality Check. Support small businesses, support non profit. 🙌 Family Fun Fundraising Event at Reality Check Bay City

Unity Through Diversity:
Podcast Page: https://bit.ly/3HdI8gN

Platforms you can stream on:
Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3Hf33jK
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3kepPiz
Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3GMkiaN

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