SeroTunein explores what wellness really means across cultures. Host Kurien Thomas, an Indian American reflecting on his own upbringing as a "Desi Born Confused" , asking the essential question: How do we help ourselves and our communities feel better? Each 'epidose' explores what wellness means to different people—from entrepreneurs to psychologists to youth with powerful lived experiences. Through honest conversations and stories that make us feel seen, we name the things we've been taught to hide. Let's tune in.
SeroTunein
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Podcast Overview
SeroTunein explores what wellness really means across cultures. Host Kurien Thomas, an Indian American reflecting on his own upbringing as a "Desi Born Confused" , asking the essential question: How do we help ourselves and our communities feel better? Each 'epidose' explores what wellness means to different people—from entrepreneurs to psychologists to youth with powerful lived experiences. Through honest conversations and stories that make us feel seen, we name the things we've been taught to hide. Let's tune in.
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July 14, 2026
Beyond Two Worlds: We Never Learned to Say "I Love You"
<p>When someone you love is struggling — not with their heart, but with their mind — do you even have the words? For many raised in cultures where community comes first, emotional pain is something you endure quietly so you don't become a burden.</p><p>In the series finale of SeroTunein, host Kurien Thomas unpacks the cultural scripts, gendered silences, and unspoken rules about what you're allowed to feel and who you're allowed to tell. Five Asian American young adults get honest about therapy, masculinity, and the inherited habit of keeping two faces.</p><p>But there's a quieter revelation too: the long car ride, the hike through the woods, the fruit left at your door. None of them is a conversation about feelings — and all of them are how love gets spoken anyway.</p><p>In this episode:</p><ul><li>Why Asian Americans are about half as likely to seek mental health services</li><li>The particular struggle young men face in showing vulnerability</li><li>How "acts of service" become a language of care</li><li>Why the confusion of living between two worlds might be the source of our creativity</li></ul><p>🎧 This is the final epidose of the series. Subscribe, follow @serotunein, and share it with someone who might see themselves in these stories. Rate and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.</p>
July 14, 2026
Between Two Worlds: Too Asian, Not Asian Enough
<p>For a lot of Asian Americans, well-being was never a conversation — it was a result. Study hard, perform, and if it looked okay on the outside, you were assumed okay on the inside.</p><p>In this epidose of SeroTunein, host Kurien Thomas sits down with five youth ambassadors from the 2025 World Expo and asks a deceptively simple question: when did you last feel a strong sense of personal well-being? The answers surprised him — less about rest, more about autonomy, being seen, and finally getting in the "driver's seat" of their own lives.</p><p>In this episode:</p><ul><li>A final figure skating performance that closed a full circle</li><li>Why validation sometimes hits hardest from a total stranger</li><li>How running, hiking, and community became lifelines after COVID</li><li>The complicated truth about finding belonging inside your own culture</li></ul><p>Part two of a three-part series on culture, identity, and mental well-being.</p><p>🎧 Follow @serotunein, and share this episode with someone who's ever felt too Asian for one world and not Asian enough for another. Rate and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.</p>
July 14, 2026
Between Two Worlds: Asian American Youth at the World Expo
<p>What makes a young Asian American fly halfway across the world to represent the U.S.? For five youth ambassadors at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, the answer was more personal than a résumé line.</p><p>In the premiere of SeroTunein, host Kurien Thomas introduces the people behind this series — first-gen kids of immigrant parents drawn to Japan by family history, language, a career pivot, or simply the desire for a fresh start. Together they begin asking the questions they were rarely asked growing up: about expectations, identity, and belonging between two cultures.</p><p>In this episode:</p><ul><li>What a World Expo actually is (think World Cup, minus the sports)</li><li>Why so many Japanese American ambassadors chose to reconnect with their roots on their own terms</li><li>The quiet search for community that shapes the first-gen experience</li></ul><p>This is part one of a three-part series on wellness, culture, and identity.</p><p>🎧 Subscribe and follow @serotunein so you don't miss the next epidose. Rate and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify — it truly helps the show grow.</p>
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