Stephanie Yu's guest appearances

Stephanie Yu

Thought For Food Podcast

Adventuring for Knowledge

Your Everyday Rich

Jillian Roberts

Derek Powell

Krysta Wark

Ryan Cochrane

Kimia Hamidi

Julie Angus

OwlTail

Jonathan Wong

Welcome to another episode of "Your Everyday Rich" podcast where we talk to our first guests, Jon Wong and Steph Yu. Jon and Steph are married, have corporate 9-5’s and working towards their everyday rich through investing in stocks and real estate.  In this episode, we cover:   Steph’s atypical upbringing around investing and money in an asian immigrant household compared to Jon’s.  Being introduced to condo investing from parents early on  Why understanding your own risk tolerance and time horizon are key factors when figuring out what to invest in  The importance of long term thinking when investing  Jon &amp; Steph’s investment strategies  Wacky, yet relatable, funny cultural norms around money and family  The age old stigma for asians: hugging parents   Shout out to our sponsor and good friends at Plantwell Inc, a family-owned and operated business located in Milton, Ontario.  Plantwell is not your average grow store. As passionate growers, Plantwell is the destination for a hobbyist of any growing experience to achieve their gardening goals!  Looking to provide you with the essential products and equipment to help you become the best grower you can be!  Check them out online www.plantwellinc.com and on Instagram @plantwellinc.  Connect with Jon and Steph  Jon’s instagram (@jonathanwonginvestor)  Steph’s instagram (@stephmzyu)   Connect with Jason and Jenn  Jason’s instagram (@mrjasonkao)  Jenn’s instagram (@jennfahh27)  Your Everyday Rich instagram (@youreverydayrich)    Disclaimer Your Everyday Rich Podcast is presented solely for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes . Any such information or other material referenced in this podcast should not be construed as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a qualified professional.

Welcome to another episode of "Your Everyday Rich" podcast where we talk to our first guests, Jon Wong and Steph Yu. Jon and Steph are married, have corporate 9-5’s and working towards their everyday rich through investing in stocks and real estate.  In this episode, we cover: <ul> <li> </li><li>Steph’s atypical upbringing around investing and money in an asian immigrant household compared to Jon’s. </li> <li>Being introduced to condo investing from parents early on </li> <li>Why understanding your own risk tolerance and time horizon are key factors when figuring out what to invest in </li> <li>The importance of long term thinking when investing </li> <li>Jon &amp; Steph’s investment strategies </li> <li>Wacky, yet relatable, funny cultural norms around money and family </li> <li>The age old stigma for asians: hugging parents </li> </ul> Shout out to our sponsor and good friends at Plantwell Inc, a family-owned and operated business located in Milton, Ontario.  Plantwell is not your average grow store. As passionate growers, Plantwell is the destination for a hobbyist of any growing experience to achieve their gardening goals!  Looking to provide you with the essential products and equipment to help you become the best grower you can be! Check them out online <a href="http://www.plantwellinc.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.plantwellinc.com</a> and on Instagram @plantwellinc. Connect with Jon and Steph <ul> <li>Jon’s instagram (@jonathanwonginvestor) </li> <li>Steph’s instagram (@stephmzyu) </li> </ul> Connect with Jason and Jenn <ul> <li>Jason’s instagram (@mrjasonkao) </li> <li>Jenn’s instagram (@jennfahh27) </li> <li>Your Everyday Rich instagram (@youreverydayrich) </li> </ul> Disclaimer Your Everyday Rich Podcast is presented solely for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes . Any such information or other material referenced in this podcast should not be construed as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a qualified professional.

5 - Ft. Jonathan Wong & Stephanie Yu - Understanding your risk tolerance, early exposure to condo investing, couch potato stock investing, and hugging asian parents

Welcome to our Ninth Episode!! Recording this episode was our first adventure on the road. We took two buses, one train, and one ferry to get to Stephanie Yu parent’s house in Vancouver BC and record a beautiful conversation. Stephanie is a successful vegan storyteller and world traveler who has inspired a number of people, including ourselves, to acknowledge the benefits of a vegan diet and accept this lifestyle with open arms. Stephanie has also inspired us to think and reflect deeply about life, and acknowledge the fact that “The only constant in life is change“. Stephanie has achieved a lot in her life through the use of social media, including Instagram and Youtube, as well as her book “A Beautiful Mess” which is an awesome reflective book about life in general. Stephanie also has a podcast under the same name “A Beautiful Mess“, which can be found on her website. As soon as Stephanie opened the door to us, we could tell her charisma, love, and open mind mentality. Throughout the recording session, we kept seeing her ability to reflect on life and live in the moment with a free flow mindset. Stephanie truly embodies Bruce Lee’s saying of “BE LIKE WATER MY FRIEND,” which made our conversation extremely impactful and fun. We are very excited for you to get to know Stephanie better, and we hope you enjoy this episode the same way we did.  Outline Stephanie was truly an open book during our conversation, and she actually used our time together to reflect on her own life, which was an awesome experience to witness at first hand. Stephanie was born in San Diego California, and then she quickly moved to Burnaby BC when she was one (1). When she lived in Burnaby, her entire family was part of a supportive community; however, when her parents decided to move to another part of Vancouver, they lost their community and they isolated themselves from everyone. This played an impact on Stephanie parent’s relationship which became toxic and violent. This played a harmful effect on Stephanie’s life down the road in high school when she got overloaded with her home environment and her passion for dancing and school. In grade 10/11 of high school, Stephanie had a foot on both, dance and school, which played a tool physically in her body. This along with her parent’s toxic and violent relationship drove her to develop sleep deprivation, which harmed her health drastically. This then evolved into a depressed appetite and a bad relationship with food, thus causing Stephanie to lose weight and develop an eating disorder. Her entire life at the time revolved on what she ate and what she didn’t, and she was extremely depressed and sad with no personality at all. One day, she came home and her mother was crying looking at a picture of Stephanie when she was healthy, and this motivated Stephanie to reflect about life and take action. Stephanie revealed that this can happen to absolutely anyone, and she encourages people who have an eating disorder to overcome the shame and the guilt and talk to someone about it or take action yourself to better your health.  When Stephanie started to reflect on her life, she called her family doctor and made an appointment with him. His advice was to gain weight as fast as possible by eating junk food; however, Stephanie knew this was not a sustainable way to do it, and so she decided to do her own research on how to gain weight in a healthy way. She got different hits online, and she started reading and watching documentaries including forks over knives. This was a journey of two to three months, and as soon as she saw forks over knives, she became vegan overnight. She followed a bunch of people on social media and saw they were making their food all nice, which then motivated Stephanie to make her food all pretty, starting with her oatmeal. This is how “her oatmeal blog” started on Instagram, which caught a lot of attention from food lovers on social media. After starting her journey with veganism, Stephanie decided to go fully raw vegan, which turned into an obsessive relationship with food once again. As soon as she noticed how her relationship with food started to take a turn, she was able to reflect on her life and make a change once again. The turning point was when she came back home from her world tour with a hormone imbalance due to all her stress and uncertainty about traveling. From then, her relationship with food has improved drastically, up to the point that she is comfortable eating whatever she wants, whenever she wants without stressing out. Stephanie acknowledges the health benefits and deficiencies of a vegan diet, and she supplements with vitamins and minerals accordingly in order to be healthy. She does recognize however, that this relationship with food still has a lot of room for improvement, and she is excited to see how it evolves over time. Stephanie does not think the vegan diet is for everyone, but she does recommend for everyone to be aware of your health, listen to your body, and keep experimenting with different health avenues until one feels perfect with your body. She also reveals how being a vegan is not easy, and that it does take more effort to follow this lifestyle; however, for her, this diet is a rewarding effort not only for her health, but for the planet and the animals.  This conversation snowballed to health in general with regards to doing exercise, meditating, and journaling. This led to Stephanie revealing how she started her book with the main goal of creating something for people to feel like they are not alone, and that it is okay to feel unhappiness and tension, because it is a normal human trait. This led to Stephanie revealing how in her opinion, the natural state of life is in tension and struggle to try to achieve something, and that the ideology that life is always 100% exuberant with joy, happiness, and fulfillment is a lie, and as long as you are aware of that, you can flow with whatever life throws at you more efficiently. Our conversation with Stephanie at this point reveals how feeling confused is natural, and being aware of this confusion can help one move through life in a more enlightened and peaceful way.  This point in the recording session evolved into a more spiritual talk about life. Here is where Stephanie talks about her experience with attending a Vipassana meditation center, and how it changed her life and inspired the format of her book. Vipassana meditation retreats can be found anywhere in the world, and it consist of 10 days of no talking, no physical or eye contact with anyone, no exercise or journaling, essentially nothing but your mind and your own thoughts. The main goal of the experience is to connect with your inner self and your soul in order to truly understand your believes and values as well as your opinion on what life is truly about. This is a truly awakening experience since you learn how to deal and face your screaming thoughts, and once you expose yourself to this journey for ten days, it becomes liberating.   At this center, she started thinking how trees experience and face all the different seasons in a year with their roots grounded standing tall. She also started reflecting how the trees see a number of people and animals walking/flying by every day, and she knew at that moment in time, that she was not alone because the trees were there with her. This ideology of the tree being supportive and accompanying her in her journey of being at the Vipassana center is the main inspiration behind her book. Throughout this experience, she learned how to face all the different seasons (ups and downs) of her life with her roots grounded standing tall. When we asked Stephanie what spirituality meant for her, she gave us a beautiful simple answer that will stick with us forever. She said that spirituality is having grace and being loving and patience with yourself and others. She also mentioned that spirituality means having a sense that anything that happens in your life is what you make of it, and nothing is a waste of time. Everything has reasoning, and there is deep reflecting and learning that can be done with every experience. This deep thinking has somewhat brought Stephanie peace in her life, and she is very grateful she has reached this point at such a young age.     Stephanie accepts herself where she is right now, but she does have ambitions to move forward and improve, and she knows that “The only constant in life is change“. At this point in the recording she reveals one quote that helps her deal with adversity and tough situations, and it goes as follows: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things that cannot change, the courage to change the things that I can, and the wisdom to know the different”  Stephanie revealed to us that she always used to fight the things that she couldn’t change, and it brought her a lot of stress. But when she realized to let go of the things she does not have control over, she learned to focus that energy to more useful things that she could control, like loving herself and loving life.  “Expectations are just resentments waiting to happen” is another quote that Stephanie lives by. This showed Stephanie that letting go of your expectations will lead to finding peace and joy. She learned how to put her head down, ride the wave acknowledging you have some control over where you want to go, but you have no control over where the wave is moving towards. Furthermore, if you don’t like your wave, get out of it, and wait for the next one behind you and ride it hard full of energy and passion. You can fail goals, it’s okay, you can let go of waves, it’s not a big deal because there are a number of waves coming up right behind you that you can choose to ride. Be flexible like water my friend, and go with the flow acknowledging that “The only constant in life is change“. When Stephanie was young, she started noticing how she was “A human doing, not a human being,” and she found herself always rushing to do everything. But she learned that all ambitions and goals come with divine time, and if you keep moving forward slowly with your goal and overcome all the little obstacles, you will eventually achieve anything you put your mind into it. JUST remember to be like water, and don’t fight the obstacles, move around them or over them.    We started talking about mushrooms and how they can help people reach a place of deep thinking, reflection, and connection to life by being grounded and aware of your current environment. Stephanie acknowledges that you don’t have to take mind altering substances to reach this point, but mushrooms are definitely a shortcut to reach this point. Once you know what it feels like to be there, you can reach that point on your own since you know where you want to go. She feels it is easier now to reach that same point because she knows how to get there base on the knowledge on how it feels. We then snowballed the conversation to taro cards, and how the magic of them is that it helps you reflect about yourself. This is because they provide an environment where deep reflecting and thinking is accepted and expected. This environment can be reached with a number of different things like journaling, exercise, mind altering substances, etc.    We asked Stephanie what her identity is, and she revealed how she loves the idea of certain type of identities like being out in nature and being a low maintenance woman. However, she realizes that this is what she wished she was and what she wanted to be, not what she truly is. She reveals that she is a very deep thinking, analytical, data oriented person, and overall a weird beautiful mess, and she loves herself because of that. Stephanie is now going back to school, and she wants to study social and personality psychology. By the end of the recording Stephanie reveals how she has reflected a lot about her life in the last couple of years, and she now accepts and loves her father for who he is. She is excited to go back to school in the academic environment and learn more bout herself and the world, and she is excited to struggle because she feels like she finds meaning and fulfillment in life through struggle since she knows she is accomplishing something. Finally, she encourages everyone to face life and embrace struggles/learn resilience to come out of the tings that hurt “expect adversity because it is the natural state of life, but it is not permanent“.  Resources and Special Remarks  Forks over knives A beautiful Mess Podcast A Beautiful Mess Book Stephanie Yu Website Vipassana Meditation  The 5 Love Languages

<h4>Welcome to our Ninth Episode!!</h4> Recording this episode was our first adventure on the road. We took two buses, one train, and one ferry to get to Stephanie Yu parent’s house in Vancouver BC and record a beautiful conversation. Stephanie is a successful vegan storyteller and world traveler who has inspired a number of people, including ourselves, to acknowledge the benefits of a vegan diet and accept this lifestyle with open arms. Stephanie has also inspired us to think and reflect deeply about life, and acknowledge the fact that “The only constant in life is change“. Stephanie has achieved a lot in her life through the use of social media, including <a href="https://www.instagram.com/happyandhealthy96/?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwLwxp6WhFuvMZMdx__SCDg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Youtube,</a> as well as her book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Mess-Stephanie-Yu-ebook/dp/B07KDSD6RR" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Beautiful Mess</a>” which is an awesome reflective book about life in general. Stephanie also has a podcast under the same name “<a href="http://stephyu.com/podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Beautiful Mess</a>“, which can be found on her <a href="http://stephyu.com/podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a>. As soon as Stephanie opened the door to us, we could tell her charisma, love, and open mind mentality. Throughout the recording session, we kept seeing her ability to reflect on life and live in the moment with a free flow mindset. Stephanie truly embodies Bruce Lee’s saying of “BE LIKE WATER MY FRIEND,” which made our conversation extremely impactful and fun. We are very excited for you to get to know Stephanie better, and we hope you enjoy this episode the same way we did.  <h4>Outline</h4> Stephanie was truly an open book during our conversation, and she actually used our time together to reflect on her own life, which was an awesome experience to witness at first hand. Stephanie was born in San Diego California, and then she quickly moved to Burnaby BC when she was one (1). When she lived in Burnaby, her entire family was part of a supportive community; however, when her parents decided to move to another part of Vancouver, they lost their community and they isolated themselves from everyone. This played an impact on Stephanie parent’s relationship which became toxic and violent. This played a harmful effect on Stephanie’s life down the road in high school when she got overloaded with her home environment and her passion for dancing and school. In grade 10/11 of high school, Stephanie had a foot on both, dance and school, which played a tool physically in her body. This along with her parent’s toxic and violent relationship drove her to develop sleep deprivation, which harmed her health drastically. This then evolved into a depressed appetite and a bad relationship with food, thus causing Stephanie to lose weight and develop an eating disorder. Her entire life at the time revolved on what she ate and what she didn’t, and she was extremely depressed and sad with no personality at all. One day, she came home and her mother was crying looking at a picture of Stephanie when she was healthy, and this motivated Stephanie to reflect about life and take action. Stephanie revealed that this can happen to absolutely anyone, and she encourages people who have an eating disorder to overcome the shame and the guilt and talk to someone about it or take action yourself to better your health.  When Stephanie started to reflect on her life, she called her family doctor and made an appointment with him. His advice was to gain weight as fast as possible by eating junk food; however, Stephanie knew this was not a sustainable way to do it, and so she decided to do her own research on how to gain weight in a healthy way. She got different hits online, and she started reading and watching documentaries including <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/70185045" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">forks over knives</a>. This was a journey of two to three months, and as soon as she saw <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/70185045" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">forks over knives</a>, she became vegan overnight. She followed a bunch of people on social media and saw they were making their food all nice, which then motivated Stephanie to make her food all pretty, starting with her oatmeal. This is how “her oatmeal blog” started on Instagram, which caught a lot of attention from food lovers on social media. After starting her journey with veganism, Stephanie decided to go fully raw vegan, which turned into an obsessive relationship with food once again. As soon as she noticed how her relationship with food started to take a turn, she was able to reflect on her life and make a change once again. The turning point was when she came back home from her world tour with a hormone imbalance due to all her stress and uncertainty about traveling. From then, her relationship with food has improved drastically, up to the point that she is comfortable eating whatever she wants, whenever she wants without stressing out. Stephanie acknowledges the health benefits and deficiencies of a vegan diet, and she supplements with vitamins and minerals accordingly in order to be healthy. She does recognize however, that this relationship with food still has a lot of room for improvement, and she is excited to see how it evolves over time. Stephanie does not think the vegan diet is for everyone, but she does recommend for everyone to be aware of your health, listen to your body, and keep experimenting with different health avenues until one feels perfect with your body. She also reveals how being a vegan is not easy, and that it does take more effort to follow this lifestyle; however, for her, this diet is a rewarding effort not only for her health, but for the planet and the animals.  This conversation snowballed to health in general with regards to doing exercise, meditating, and journaling. This led to Stephanie revealing how she started her book with the main goal of creating something for people to feel like they are not alone, and that it is okay to feel unhappiness and tension, because it is a normal human trait. This led to Stephanie revealing how in her opinion, the natural state of life is in tension and struggle to try to achieve something, and that the ideology that life is always 100% exuberant with joy, happiness, and fulfillment is a lie, and as long as you are aware of that, you can flow with whatever life throws at you more efficiently. Our conversation with Stephanie at this point reveals how feeling confused is natural, and being aware of this confusion can help one move through life in a more enlightened and peaceful way.  This point in the recording session evolved into a more spiritual talk about life. Here is where Stephanie talks about her experience with attending a Vipassana meditation center, and how it changed her life and inspired the format of her book. <a href="https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vipassana meditation retreats</a> can be found anywhere in the world, and it consist of 10 days of no talking, no physical or eye contact with anyone, no exercise or journaling, essentially nothing but your mind and your own thoughts. The main goal of the experience is to connect with your inner self and your soul in order to truly understand your believes and values as well as your opinion on what life is truly about. This is a truly awakening experience since you learn how to deal and face your screaming thoughts, and once you expose yourself to this journey for ten days, it becomes liberating.   At this center, she started thinking how trees experience and face all the different seasons in a year with their roots grounded standing tall. She also started reflecting how the trees see a number of people and animals walking/flying by every day, and she knew at that moment in time, that she was not alone because the trees were there with her. This ideology of the tree being supportive and accompanying her in her journey of being at the Vipassana center is the main inspiration behind her book. Throughout this experience, she learned how to face all the different seasons (ups and downs) of her life with her roots grounded standing tall. When we asked Stephanie what spirituality meant for her, she gave us a beautiful simple answer that will stick with us forever. She said that spirituality is having grace and being loving and patience with yourself and others. She also mentioned that spirituality means having a sense that anything that happens in your life is what you make of it, and nothing is a waste of time. Everything has reasoning, and there is deep reflecting and learning that can be done with every experience. This deep thinking has somewhat brought Stephanie peace in her life, and she is very grateful she has reached this point at such a young age.     Stephanie accepts herself where she is right now, but she does have ambitions to move forward and improve, and she knows that “The only constant in life is change“. At this point in the recording she reveals one quote that helps her deal with adversity and tough situations, and it goes as follows: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things that cannot change, the courage to change the things that I can, and the wisdom to know the different” Stephanie revealed to us that she always used to fight the things that she couldn’t change, and it brought her a lot of stress. But when she realized to let go of the things she does not have control over, she learned to focus that energy to more useful things that she could control, like loving herself and loving life.  “Expectations are just resentments waiting to happen” is another quote that Stephanie lives by. This showed Stephanie that letting go of your expectations will lead to finding peace and joy. She learned how to put her head down, ride the wave acknowledging you have some control over where you want to go, but you have no control over where the wave is moving towards. Furthermore, if you don’t like your wave, get out of it, and wait for the next one behind you and ride it hard full of energy and passion. You can fail goals, it’s okay, you can let go of waves, it’s not a big deal because there are a number of waves coming up right behind you that you can choose to ride. Be flexible like water my friend, and go with the flow acknowledging that “The only constant in life is change“. When Stephanie was young, she started noticing how she was “A human doing, not a human being,” and she found herself always rushing to do everything. But she learned that all ambitions and goals come with divine time, and if you keep moving forward slowly with your goal and overcome all the little obstacles, you will eventually achieve anything you put your mind into it. JUST remember to be like water, and don’t fight the obstacles, move around them or over them.    We started talking about mushrooms and how they can help people reach a place of deep thinking, reflection, and connection to life by being grounded and aware of your current environment. Stephanie acknowledges that you don’t have to take mind altering substances to reach this point, but mushrooms are definitely a shortcut to reach this point. Once you know what it feels like to be there, you can reach that point on your own since you know where you want to go. She feels it is easier now to reach that same point because she knows how to get there base on the knowledge on how it feels. We then snowballed the conversation to <a href="https://fashionmagazine.com/culture/tarot-cards-meaning/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">taro cards</a>, and how the magic of them is that it helps you reflect about yourself. This is because they provide an environment where deep reflecting and thinking is accepted and expected. This environment can be reached with a number of different things like journaling, exercise, mind altering substances, etc.    We asked Stephanie what her identity is, and she revealed how she loves the idea of certain type of identities like being out in nature and being a low maintenance woman. However, she realizes that this is what she wished she was and what she wanted to be, not what she truly is. She reveals that she is a very deep thinking, analytical, data oriented person, and overall a weird beautiful mess, and she loves herself because of that. Stephanie is now going back to school, and she wants to study social and personality psychology. By the end of the recording Stephanie reveals how she has reflected a lot about her life in the last couple of years, and she now accepts and loves her father for who he is. She is excited to go back to school in the academic environment and learn more bout herself and the world, and she is excited to struggle because she feels like she finds meaning and fulfillment in life through struggle since she knows she is accomplishing something. Finally, she encourages everyone to face life and embrace struggles/learn resilience to come out of the tings that hurt “expect adversity because it is the natural state of life, but it is not permanent“.  <h4>Resources and Special Remarks</h4> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/70185045" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Forks over knives</a></li> <li><a href="http://stephyu.com/podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A beautiful Mess</a> Podcast</li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Mess-Stephanie-Yu-ebook/dp/B07KDSD6RR" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Beautiful Mess</a> Book</li> <li><a href="http://stephyu.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stephanie Yu</a> Website</li> <li><a href="https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vipassana Meditation</a> </li> <li><a href="https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/five-love-languages-the-secret-to-love-that-lasts/194304?a_aid=5ac7fa60b2780&amp;refId=38712&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjw1pblBRDSARIsACfUG13ml14gDuIn5Gi7NNuZDCAsSaffskn8XY8hsuNokuU4dqgirPdxA1oaAoMcEALw_wcB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The 5 Love Languages</a></li></ul>