Episodes

  • On living and being human: The case about psychotherapy

    On living and being human: The case about psychotherapy
    Jan 24 2019
    In this final episode on Voice America, Dr. Nguyen opens up the question about what her profession offers toward the struggle to be human.
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    55 mins
  • How do we love each other: The case for curiosity

    How do we love each other: The case for curiosity
    Jan 17 2019
    Dr. Nguyen continues to make her case for human connection by questioning the forces behind curiosity, Friendship, and psychotherapy.
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    56 mins
  • How we de-humanize each other

    How we de-humanize each other
    Jan 10 2019
    In continuing to make her case for kindness and tenderness, Dr. Nguyen examines the forces that prevent our recognition of each other's humanity and corrupt our sense of connection to each other.
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    56 mins
  • What makes us human: The case for tenderness

    What makes us human: The case for tenderness
    Jan 3 2019
    Dr. Nguyen gives a retrospective of the series. In her review of what has been gleaned from her conversations with guests, the host highlights the basic fact of the human condition and speaks of the current breakdown in mutual recognition and connection in human intercourse. This episode circles back to her debut hour and makes an impassioned argument for kindness and tenderness.
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    55 mins
  • Fighting against trafficking: Retrieving the human.

    Fighting against trafficking: Retrieving the human.
    Dec 27 2018
    In this last interview of a guest for the show, the host features a Vietnam-based foundation that is devoted to the empowerment of women and youth via the fight against human trafficking. Dr. Nguyen’s conversation with the Director of Pacific Links Foundation exposes the historical, socio-economic and human conditions in Pacific Asia that makes trafficking a lucrative business. They also discuss the strategies to restore dignity and power to victims of trafficking.
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    56 mins
  • Training for music or for life

    Training for music or for life
    Dec 20 2018
    In this special, intimate episode Dr. Nguyen is in conversation with a celebrated concert pianist about her work. The host interviews her fellow Vietnamese about her life experiences and insights as a musical prodigy, an immigrant, and a teacher. Her guest will also share her own insights into her favorite composers. The conversation seeks to tease out the parallels in her musical training and her training for life.
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    56 mins
  • Living as Art

    Living as Art
    Dec 13 2018
    In this episode, Dr. Nguyen is in conversation with the Executive and Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall, about his view on Art and Life. Through this interview about his mission at Carnegie Hall, Sir Clive Gillinson speaks with Dr. Nguyen about his view on the value of the arts, the meaning of happiness, and the parallels between the making of an artist and successful living.
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    55 mins
  • Making Art and Selling Art

    Making Art and Selling Art
    Dec 6 2018
    The host is in conversation with two senior staff about the value of Art in our lives Specifically, she interviews the Chief Marketing Officer on the creative aspect of her job in making music accessible to the general public, and the Assistant Director of the Early Childhood program on the rewards and challenges of facilitating the creative impulse in young children and their families.
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    51 mins