In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we bring you an episode from Inheriting Season One. Inheriting is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations.

Leialani Wihongi-Santos is CHamoru and was raised on the island of Guam with a distorted view of history. She was taught that the United States "saved” her island from occupation by Imperial Japan. As she’s gotten older, Leialani has learned that framing is not entirely true. In some ways, the U.S. military took advantage of the island and the people who live there, sometimes destroying culture and customs that had survived centuries of colonization. Leialani is now determined to understand more of this history from a CHamoru perspective, so she can preserve and teach it to others. In this episode, she turns to her grandpa, Joseph Aflleje-Santos, for answers.

Stay connected with us! E-mail us at inheriting@laiststudios.com to share your questions, feelings, and even your story. 

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we bring you an episode from&nbsp;Inheriting Season One.&nbsp;<a href="https://laist.com/podcasts/inheriting">Inheriting</a> is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations.
Leialani Wihongi-Santos is CHamoru and was raised on the island of Guam with a distorted view of history. She was taught that the United States "saved&rdquo; her island from occupation by Imperial Japan. As she&rsquo;s gotten older, Leialani has learned that framing is not entirely true. In some ways, the U.S. military took advantage of the island and the people who live there, sometimes destroying culture and customs that had survived centuries of colonization. Leialani is now determined to understand more of this history from a CHamoru perspective, so she can preserve and teach it to others. In this episode, she turns to her grandpa, Joseph Aflleje-Santos, for answers.
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Inheriting: Leialani & The Occupation of Guam

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we bring you an episode from Inheriting Season One. Inheriting is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations. 

Leah Bash is an avid runner, a dog mom, a wife – and there’s a part of her family’s history she can’t stop thinking about. The fact that both sides of her family were incarcerated alongside 125,000 other Japanese Americans during World War II. Her father and his six siblings spent more than three years behind barbed wire at isolated camps in Manzanar, California and Crystal City, Texas. After Leah learns about her father’s struggles with panic attacks and is herself diagnosed with bipolar disorder, she starts to wonder: could those experiences at camp during World War II have far-reaching consequences a generation later?

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we bring you an episode from&nbsp;Inheriting Season One. <a href="https://laist.com/podcasts/inheriting">Inheriting</a> is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations.&nbsp;
Leah Bash is an avid runner, a dog mom, a wife &ndash; and there&rsquo;s a part of her family&rsquo;s history she can&rsquo;t stop thinking about. The fact that both sides of her family were incarcerated alongside 125,000 other Japanese Americans during World War II. Her father and his six siblings spent more than three years behind barbed wire at isolated camps in Manzanar, California and Crystal City, Texas. After Leah learns about her father&rsquo;s struggles with panic attacks and is herself diagnosed with bipolar disorder, she starts to wonder: could those experiences at camp during World War II have far-reaching consequences a generation later?

Inheriting: Leah & Japanese American Incarceration

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Dr. Carl Hart on Drug Use in the Pursuit of Happiness

Cristela Alonzo talks about getting a show, losing a show, getting help and moving forward.

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Cristela Alonzo talks about getting a show, losing a show, getting help and moving forward.
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Cristela Alonzo on How You Can’t Buy Self Care

Jermaine Fowler (“Judas and the Black Messiah,” “Coming 2 America”) talks about how his curiosity is his superpower.

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Jermaine Fowler (&ldquo;Judas and the Black Messiah,&rdquo; &ldquo;Coming 2 America&rdquo;) talks about how his curiosity is his superpower.
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Jermaine Fowler Is A Fun Dad

The actor and comedian on developing his uniquely dark style of comedy and how standup has helped him develop a healthy outlook on life.

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The actor and comedian on developing his uniquely dark style of comedy and how standup has helped him develop a healthy outlook on life.
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Byron Bowers On Freedom Through Acceptance & Bad Acid

The Black Lives Matter International Ambassador on the power of trusting that you are doing the thing that's right over doing the thing that’s popular.

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The Black Lives Matter International Ambassador on the power of trusting that you are doing the thing that's right over doing the thing that&rsquo;s popular.
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Janaya Future Khan On What Comes Up In The Ring

René Pérez Joglar AKA Residente tells Diane how he stays centered and creative during even the hardest of times.

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René Pérez Joglar AKA Residente tells Diane how he stays centered and creative during even the hardest of times.
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Residente on How He Quiets the Noise

Demi is revisiting her nearly fatal overdose in a new documentary, Dancing With The Devil, telling the story on her own terms. She tells us what gets her up in the morning and explains the importance of self-care and how it might also help you.  

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Demi is revisiting her nearly fatal overdose in a new documentary, <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2021/02/demi-lovato-dancing-with-the-devil-documentary-trailer.html">Dancing With The Devil</a>,&nbsp;telling the story on her own terms. She tells us what gets her up in the morning and explains the importance of self-care and how it might also help you.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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Demi Lovato on ‘Dancing With The Devil’

Growing up, I was taught to say that I was “ok” when I really wasn’t. Mental health just wasn’t something that anyone in my family or community talked about or even had access to. Yet pretty much everyone was affected by it. 

Today, young people of color are disproportionately affected by mental health issues and are not getting the resources they need, and I want to change that.  

And this is why this podcast exists.

Yeah No, I’m Not Ok, my new podcast made in collaboration with LAist Studios, is here to open up the conversation about mental health. Every week we will explore issues that youth face all over the world (addiction, depression, anxiety, suicide, radical self love, and much much more) through conversations with friends, colleagues, activists, artists and health care professionals, all people who have gone through something life-changing and are now healing from it. 

We want to start a mental health revolution. A movement that can start by talking about how we feel. One where we’re not ashamed of our own human experience. 

What will feel like simple conversations among friends will really become a complex narrative of what is happening right now, especially to young people of color. With a real and emotional sound and few easy answers, Yeah No, I’m Not Ok will hopefully become a critical show in a critical time, a place for you to bring your complicated feelings and spend time with people who are rooting for you.

– Diane Guerrero

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Growing up, I was taught to say that I was &ldquo;ok&rdquo; when I really wasn&rsquo;t. Mental health just wasn&rsquo;t something that anyone in my family or community talked about or even had access to. Yet pretty much everyone was affected by it.&nbsp;
Today, young people of color are disproportionately affected by mental health issues and are not getting the resources they need, and I want to change that.&nbsp;&nbsp;
And this is why this podcast exists.
Yeah No, I&rsquo;m Not Ok, my new podcast made in collaboration with LAist Studios, is here to open up the conversation about mental health. Every week we will explore issues that youth face all over the world (addiction, depression, anxiety, suicide, radical self love, and much much more) through conversations with friends, colleagues, activists, artists and health care professionals, all people who have gone through something life-changing and are now healing from it.&nbsp;
We want to start a mental health revolution. A movement that can start by talking about how we feel. One where we&rsquo;re not ashamed of our own human experience.&nbsp;
What will feel like simple conversations among friends will really become a complex narrative of what is happening right now, especially to young people of color. With a real and emotional sound and few easy answers, Yeah No, I&rsquo;m Not Ok will hopefully become a critical show in a critical time, a place for you to bring your complicated feelings and spend time with people who are rooting for you.
&ndash; Diane Guerrero
This LAist Studios podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp and our listeners get 10% off their first month of online therapy at&nbsp;<a href="http://betterhelp.com/LAist" data-stringify-link="http://BetterHelp.com/LAist" data-sk="tooltip_parent">BetterHelp.com/LAist</a>
Support for this podcast is made possible by Gordon and Dona Crawford, who believe that quality journalism makes Los Angeles a better place to live. This program is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.

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