NEXT THING WITH JING

Jan 27 2025 21 ep. 53 mins 1
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Welcome to NEXT THING WITH JING! A podcast about next chapters + new adventures starting now, with your host Jing Lauengco. Brand Strategist. Chief Optimist. Filipina Founder of Other Brown Girl. NEXT THING WITH JING brings a blend of brand, business + human potential stories exploring transformational turning points, setbacks, comebacks + never-going-backs. Meet creative entrepreneurs + women of culture making meaning while making a living. Get insights + inspiration from interviews with personal, professional + social change agents who found + fueled their next thing in the new now.

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21: Do The Thing That Changes Everything

Jan 27 2025 19 mins  
Forget waiting – your "next thing"? It's already within you. It's about stepping into your power, story, energy, and truth. And designing a life that finally feels like yours. No more doubting. No more waiting. No more social scrolling calling it “research”. Your "next thing" isn't out there. It's what shows up when you show up. Your evol

20: SUPERNOVA: My Word for 2025

Jan 27 2025 23 mins  
Hello January! Tme to tap into your SUPERNOVA energy and your word for 2025! This year, my word is SUPERNOVA. Because I'm all about expanding into my (and your) brightest, most radiant self just like a star who propels and transcends itself through an epic burst of concentrated transformational light. You know, that fiery, fierce illumination that comes from deep within your s

19: What I'd Tell My Older Self: JING LAUENGCO

Jan 27 2025 52 mins  
Welcome back to season 3 of NEXT THING WITH JING! It's been a minute (or two and a half years plus to be exact...) with a "new now" upon all of us. This calling and comeback? It's all about resilience. Looking back, looking forward, and lifting each other up with fierce truthfulness. Embracing change and a new era with a deeply personal glimpse of what's tra

18: Designing Identity + Family: JENIKA MAY GONZALES

Aug 31 2022 55 mins  
Delighted to welcome JENIKA MAY GONZALES, a multi-talented Filipino-American graphic designer and always inspiring Cleveland foodie to the pod! Jenika works with diverse clients including Cleveland’s most beloved brands — Mitchell’s Ice Cream, Market Garden Brewery, Church and State, Fount, and Océanne to name just a few. Designing for independent artists, sma

17: Poetry + Faithful Pursuit of Agency STEPHANIE GINESE

Jul 17 2022 63 mins  
New on #NextThingWIthJing! Delighted to welcome writer STEPHANIE GINESE to the pod as she launches her potent debut book of poetry! Drawing inspiration from rap, comedy, and legendary international family love stories, join us as we explore GINESE’s proud Puerto Rican roots and early elementary school love of Edgar Allen Poe. Following in her grandparents’ footsteps as writers,

16: Cross-Cultural Art + Storytelling MALLORIE FREEMAN

Jul 04 2022 60 mins  
Fittingly named after speed performance brand “Mallory Ignition,” I had a blast connecting with Multidisciplinary Visual Artist MALLORIE FREEMANS’s creative spark, spunk, and spirit – mesmerized by her family’s fierce Filipina-Irish entrepreneurial adventures full of “wild energy,” charisma, and family legend-making. Whether pursuing intuition and teenage dreams to lo

15: A Life Story + Film of Resilience: EMILY HANAKO MOMOHARA

Jun 30 2022 54 mins  
New on the pod! Humbled and honored to welcome international artist, activist, educator, and documentary filmmaker EMILY HANAKO MOMOHARA. Listen in as we explore 1940’s AAPI feminism, patriotism, resilience, perseverance, leadership, and “gaman (我慢)” – Japanese for “silent endurance” from Zen Buddhist origin meaning "enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience a

14: High Fashion + High Impact: AIMON ALI

Jun 06 2022 66 mins  
Get fascinated and tune in with Pakistani-born, Toronto-raised fashion phenom AIMON ALI, the iconic influencer bringing impeccably chic, sophisticated community events to a runway near you. (Oh, and fun facts? Her name means “elegance” and she loves to unwind and de-stress by watching Korean variety shows!) Blending her psychology and business background with her love of all th

13: Leading Change with PRIDE: MAYOR KAHLIL SEREN

Jun 01 2022 68 mins  
Celebrating PRIDE month and recorded live on Memorial Day, I caught up with my friend Cleveland Heights MAYOR KAHLIL SEREN to talk about his vision and inspiration behind his historic 100-year win, his deep love of family, his admiration for his activist moms, and how his childhood shaped him to be the modern leader he is today. Named after a Lebanese poet and a certain pink water

12: Food For Thought In The CLE: LISA SANDS

May 22 2022 52 mins  
Recorded live from chic Zhug with a huge thanks to the always gracious, generous and gastronomically gifted Doug Katz and staff, I had the chance to interview (and photograph!) LISA SANDS of CLE Foodcast, NEO's All Local Food Podcast to celebrate her one-year podcast anniversary. With candid, heart-opening fun facts about her Pittsburgh family roots, baby elephant petting in Thaila