First of All

About First of All

First of All is a real, unfiltered conversation on career, family, relationships, & culture. Your host is actress/director/entrepreneur Minji Chang, who will bring in her friends & special guests from all walks of life to kick back in her virtual living room. Together we will laugh, drop whatever knowledge we have, & speak our truth on weekly featured topics. Get ready for good times & all the feels.

Publisher

Potluck Podcast Collective

Category

education · health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

18 Jul 2017

Latest episode

9 Jan 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 204 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   9 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT

   202 - Shedding the BS & Transforming (Whether We Like It Or Not)

   2025 was...a year. For some it was the most fulfilling and expansive year of their lives. For others, it was a time of reckoning and what can only be described as unhinged agony leaving us shivering in fetal position on the bathroom floor. Or a lovely mix of both. Whatever was in the stars or cards or maybe the compromised pH of our local tap water, 2025 appears to have produced some significant change. In this solo episode, Minji dives into some of her own epiphanies, triumphs, losses, and overwhelming waves of anxious despair - all in hopes to provide some commiseration, clarity, and grounded intention as we head into another year of guaranteed change and evolution. *Disclaimer: This episode was recorded before the horrific murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. Our hearts go out to her family, and the entire community locally and globally that mourns continued unjust actions of our current administration. We hope the justice is served swiftly and ask everyone to hold strong in standing up against corrupt and illegal abuse of power. Follow Minji On: Instagram (@minjeezy) (https://www.instagram.com/minjeezy/) Instagram (@firstofallpod) (https://www.instagram.com/firstofallpod/) Subscribe to Minji's new meditation & voice note YouTube! OK Breathe - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@OKBreatheMeditation) ▫️ Music featured in this episode include "Uzutrap" (https://open.spotify.com/track/0JTPzok6lcxjJ39oUKKTPT?si=132eda64118444d2) by Uzuhan ▫️ This podcast is part of Potluck: An Asian American Podcast Collective (http://www.podcastpotluck.com/) Audio Engineer @marvinyueh (https://twitter.com/MarvinYueh) Social Media Manager @JulianaDeer (https://www.instagram.com/junanaderp/)

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   15 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT

   201 - Taking Back the Narrative & Unmasking the Fetish with Kaila Yu

   Host Minji interviews author Kaila Yu about her memoir "Fetishized," exploring reclaiming narratives, challenging sexualization, and embracing agency.

3. 

   27 Jun 2025

   #200 - Into the Unknown & Doing the Work with Ada Tseng (Journalist & Author)

   Journalist Ada Tseng discusses with host Minji Lee the realities of succeeding in the entertainment industry and shares insights from her book, offering inspiration for listeners to pursue their dreams; this is an interview.

Inside a recent episode

202 - Shedding the BS & Transforming (Whether We Like It Or Not)

Published 9 Jan 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But anyway, I'm always looking for meaning and sometimes I'm right and sometimes I'm wrong a lot of times I'm right. And these are things that I'm not like happy to be right about. That's the thing that I wanted to distinguish here like people that are super woo and like spiritual and whatever you want to call that. It's not like we're always finding things that are like hunky -dory making us feel good all the time. A lot of these revelations are not like pleasant. They're actually really revealing of like our shadow sides of all of our trauma and our toxicity and our patterns and all the stuff like I just want to defend that because I think some people will misconstrue you know spiritual spirituality leaning folks to be like I was just trying to like be pie in the sky about things or it's just being kind of frivolous and shallow and I really I really don't look at it that way. […]

Who has been a guest on First of All

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Kaila Yu
• Ada Tseng
• Andrew Ahn
• Julie Krafchick
• Yue Xu

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

3,642

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

114 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

63 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 75 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

78

Social presence

97

YouTube

68

Engagement

67

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