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Multiracial Whiteboy host Kim Noonan examines the impact of his white upbringing by having personal discussions with other mixed individuals about racial identity in America. Kim is an award-winning filmmaker who currently resides in Los Angeles. https://www.kimnoonan.me/
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When Tiffany Phillips moved to Apple Valley, CA. when she was younger, she got teased all the time about her multiracial appearance. Now she makes her living as an actor playing different kinds of ethnicities. But now that the industry has changed, she has had to rethink how she wants to be fully seen. Tiffany talks to Kim about getting into fights…
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Bevin Luna's music is deeply rooted in Memphis, TN and the Dominican Republic. Her unique multicultural upbringing has allowed her to create what she calls a "Rock and Roots" sound. Bevin talks to Kim about navigating life between her southern and Dominican cultures, how it shaped her musical taste and individuality, her desire to leave Memphis as …
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Writer and motivational speaker Torrie Sorge grew up in a predominantly white community with her single mother in Ohio where she mastered the art of passing as a white female. She spent a great deal of her life wanting to pass as a white girl because she was ashamed to acknowledge that her biological father was of Afro-Puerto Rican descent. However…
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Actor Shawn Passwaters Decierdo had three different fathers come into his life before he graduated high school. His unusual upbringing was filled with surprises and personal challenges as a result of each father influencing his racial identity. Shawn talks to Kim about accepting his unusual mixed identity and how he has chosen to walk with it in lo…
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Multiracial Whiteboy podcast host Kim Noonan talks about the new biracial head coach of the Miami Dolphins, Mike McDaniel, with Dr. Jenn Noble (Mixed Race Psychologist). Mike is white in presenting, but identified himself as a "human" during his first team press conference. Kim related all too well to McDaniel's discomfort about having to identify …
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Travel & Lifestyle Expert Natalie Preddie grew up in Ontario, Canada, where she spent her weekends at church with the Jamaican side of her family, then the rest of her week with her predominantly white community. Natalie talks about the challenges of navigating between both worlds, feeling lost when she arrived at university, moving to the UK at ag…
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Film Producer Isabelo Pascual has fought his entire to life to remove the projection that others have imposed on his Blasian identity. Isabelo talks to Kim about both his parent's legacies (both were immigrants), wanting do more Haitian activism, his starting from scratch worker's mentality, and carving out a successful individual legacy of his own…
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Fanshen Cox has been featured in the New York Times and on NPR, with OpEds published for Blavity, Shondaland and The Lily. Reared in Cambridge, Massachusetts by a Pan Africanist, Jamaican-born father and white Northwestern mother, Fanshen uses her family’s heritage to spark conversation and challenge notions around race, class and gender. Fanshen t…
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Actor & Editor-in-Chief, Alex Chester has been in performing and in show business since she was five. She talks to Kim about her early start in the entertainment industry and how it impacted her mixed Asian identity, her short stint with pop girl group Dream, trying to find middle ground, therapy, and Asian community building and solidarity.…
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Maija Di Giorgio is recognized by New York's Time Out Magazine as one of "the freshest, funniest, unique voices to grace the microphone". Maija has been featured on HBO Def Comedy Jam, Hot 97, and many more. Maija talks about the challenges of being a mixed comedian, her Italian family's unique journey to America, the impact of her talented mother,…
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Jackie Stewart is a meditation and mindfulness advisor. Jackie talks about the challenges of growing up in Orange County with her single Taiwanese mother, struggling with her mixed identity and mother's cultural heritage, the decision to model in Asia, and leaving on the fly to a Nepal Montessori. A great story about personal redemption!…
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Mickey Finnegan is a Writer/Director best known for his music video and commercial work with artists and brands such as Usher, The Offspring and Pepsi. Mickey, who's Irish & Filipino, talks about his Irish roots in his family, growing up with no Asian role models in his life and the ongoing challenges of dealing with the typical Asian male stereoty…
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Reginald Hardwick is the News & Public Affairs Director for the Illinois Newsroom. He was a news producer and manager at the NBC station in Dallas, where he won 7 Emmy awards. Born during the Vietnam War and later given up for adoption in the States, Reginald talks to Kim about the challenges that came with growing up as one of the only black kids …
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Theater Artist/Educator and Facilitator, Ryan Marchand was never raised with the idea of race consciousness and as a result never thought of himself as Black. Ryan talks to Kim about his personal journey of having to find his own way to critical race consciousness, why he won't date others on dating apps, healing through art and education, and why …
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Anya Steinberg was the 2021 Grand-Prize Winner of NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge. Her podcast "He's Just 23 Chromosomes," takes listeners through her journey of self-discovery when she learns that her biological father was an anonymous Korean sperm donor she had always been told was a doctor. Kim talks to Anya about the half-Korean father she grew…
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Haui is the creator of Mixed↑. His documentary follows his life as he combats the isolations of a BIPOC and LGTQT+ as he helps to normalize the existence of being an “other.” Part testimonial, part confessional, Kim talks to Haui about the challenging personal topics explored in his film, moving back and forth between Canada and the UK, finding app…
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Doni Aldine is a globally mobile Afro-Latina and first-generation North American who, by age 19, lived in & identified with seven cultures on five continents. Doni talks to Kim about what it means to be a TCK (Third Culture Kid), the 13 dimensions of a TCK, the multi-cultural lifestyle, unresolved grief when she settled down in Colorado, and how 21…
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Actor and content creator, Ryan Alexander Holmes, has a loyal following on his Instagram page for creating challenging, witty and clever stories about his Blasian identity. But he wants you to know, even though he looks black, he's also 100% Chinese. Kim talks to Ryan about growing up in the San Gabriel Valley with his Chinese family, learning abou…
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About Guest James Frazier is an American entrepreneur, record executive, film producer, director, and actor. He is best known as founder of Legit Ballin Records with Twista and Fred Taylor. Born in Chicago, IL, he worked in a grocery store and construction with his uncle learning the values of hard work at an early age. He was determined to make a …
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Actress Cynda Williams likes to say she was conceived in Muncie, Indiana and born in Chicago. Cynda talks to Kim about her parents illegal interracial marriage in 1964, her trailblazing black civil rights grandfather, booking Spike Lee's Mo' Better Blues, and of course, One False Move, where was nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award for Bes…
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After talented and self-proclaimed multi-hyphenate, Elyse Cisek, got called out on a woman of color of L.A. Facebook Group regarding police brutality, she asked herself... What If I'm Wrong? That question has been the first of many steps on her road to finding her own sense of truthfulness. Elyse talks to Kim about her riveting article Dear White F…
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The first week when comedian Adrian Cronk moved to Kingston, Ontario from North Carolina, he knew his biracial identity might be an issue when a kid on the bus said to him... Why don't you go home, get in the bathtub and paint your face white. Adrian talks to Kim about growing up in Canada and the Carolinas, being inspired by the deacons at his bla…
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About Guest Gregory Pace, better known as "Celebrity DJ YG ". He is a 29 year old DJ born in the rough streets of the south side of Chicago, Illinois, where he spent 13 years of his life at, In 2001 his mother of three children moved to Columbus, Ohio to begin a better life for him. Several years later DJ YG got out in the real world and starting r…
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Jen Macias De La Parra (she/her) is the Designer & Creative Director and Founder of Duende (a design and strategy studio in Portland, Oregon). Jen talks to Kim about growing up in Arizona, becoming an orphan by age 14, being the ward of the state, living with multiple families while having no place to call home, dealing with sheriff Joe Arpaio, put…
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About Guest Ellenaij is a singer, rapper and songwriter born and raised in Bridgeport, CT. She sang her first solo when she was 5 years old and since then, she’s created her own unique sound and refuses to be boxed into one genre. Her first released EP entitled ‘SLICK’ which is an acronym for Self Love Is Conscious Knowledge shows her musical and l…
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About Guest BOSSALENA is a recording artist, Certified Engineer & entrepreneur. She was raised in Compton, California but now resides and kicking up dust in San Antonio, Texas for the past couple years. She is a very passionate and explosive performer with accurate and precise delivery. Sharpened over years of dedication and love for the craft of m…
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About Guest : Trill- is someone or something that is too real. This is a verb that is very accurate in describing this American born Hebrew Israelite recording artist Willie Harpe Jr. also known as Trill Will from Deland, Florida was born in 1982 at Deland Florida Hospital. Trill Will grew up in the Spring Hill Community. Addicted to Hip-Hop from t…
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Aaron Keller is the writer of Marginal Eyes, a memoir of a biracial American’s struggle for identity in a nation of black and white. Kim talks to Aaron about how his life took a turn for the worst at age ten when he moved to a rural suburban in Indiana, the anger and destructive behavior that manifested itself into other areas of his life as a resu…
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Multiracial Whiteboy goes international with Danielle, April & Layla, the sharp and insightful podcast hosts of Growing up Brit-ish, where they celebrate their differences and share their own experiences through the lens of more than one cultural identity. Kim talks to the mixed podcasters about assimilating into British culture, sustaining their u…
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About Artist The Real J Israel is an up and coming R&B and soul artist from Atlanta, Georgia. With a unique sound that combines chill, downbeat R&B tones with refreshingly down-to-earth vocals, The Real J Israel is one of the hottest names in the genre. Growing up the son of a minister, The Real J Israel spent most of his early life in and around g…
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"I can tell people almost anything and they believe it. But the thing I actually am, they’re always shocked by.” Actress Erin Ruth Walker, who's Black & Jewish, talks to Kim about struggling to take up space as a black woman, trying to figure out what "being black" means to her since the George Floyd tragedy, and the poem she chose to write to give…
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About Guest Jermaine William McPhatter better known by his rap stage name Big Jae, is a hardworking, motivative, ambitious, confident songwriter and entrepreneur. Big Jae loves art museums, comedy shows, playing sport related video games, and spending time with his daughter and family when not doing music. Born in Baltimore, Maryland but raised in …
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Lisa Helmi Johanson had a mic drop moment that set her voice and herself free... But it took a little work to get there. Lisa "Hurricane" Helmi Johanson (Korean and Finnish) talks to Kim about her mother leaving it all behind and coming to America from Korea with her Fiddish father, dealing with inappropriate comments about being Asian in college, …
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Actress & dancer, Candice Coke, has lived several different lives as a result of her immense talent as an athlete, dancer and performer. Candice, whose her mother is Polish, and father is Jamaican, talks to Kim talks about going to door to door as a Jehovah Witness with her mother, graduating HS early to attend NYU on a diving scholarship, booking …
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About Artist Robert Minott is a Jamaican recording artiste/songwriter/producer who resides in Houston, Texas. Born and raised in St.Andrew, Jamaica, Robert migrated to the US in 1974 and released his first album titled “Love Struck” in1991. As a recording artiste, he has appeared centerstage leading celebrities of reggae music that includes, Burnin…
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About Artist Jamar Richard Perkins (Born February 15th,1992) known by his stage name KYNG BAM is an American rapper, songwriter , actor from Baltimore ,MD . KYNG BAM has appeared in multiple films and tv shows including Star in fox , complications indeed USA and Tripple 9. Bam founded his PMG label in 2011 and launched the PMG clothing line in 2020…
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Lauren Shields always struggled to share her journey as a mixed woman. Her mother is Irish and English, her father is African-American, and Native American (Cherokee and Choctow lineage). As she says, "I wasn't black and white enough, and had zero connection to my indigenous side." What Kim didn't see coming during their conversation however was wh…
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Once Sharmane "MixedGirlMane" Fury, reveals her entire family background, you realize that she is exactly what she says she is...militantly mixed (Black, Japanese and White). The host of the popular podcast, Militantly Mixed, opens up to Kim about her grandparents interracial marriages in the fifties, Japanese domesticity classes, trying to connect…
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For Jonah Aimz, it's his love of filmmaking and acting, that has led him on a creative journey to find his individual voice and identity as a person of Middle Eastern, Turkish and Indian descent. Jonah talks to Kim about the growing pains that came during his formative years in a small town in Illinois, where he says 90 percent of the week was spen…
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Dr. Jenn discovered early on in undergrad that her research about racial identity led her to 'me' search. After all, she is Tamil Sri Lankan and African-American. Now, Dr. Jenn helps coach parents to help raise confident and secure mixed race kids. Kim digs deep with Dr. Jenn to discuss the overwhelming difficulty that parents struggle with when it…
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Christina Raia is a New York City based Writer/Director and the Founder of CongestedCat Productions. Christina has said that her mixed race background and particularly her mother's Indo-Trinidadian culture play a major role in Christina's interest in portraying underrepresented perspectives across diverse spectrums of identity in her writing and di…
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Rahanna Bisseret Martinez was a finalist on Top Chef Junior in 2018. Since then, she’s interned with such acclaimed chefs as Nina Compton, James Beard and Emerill. Oh, and she's only 16 years old! Rahanna, who is Haitian, Mexican and African-American, talks to Kim about how her family has influenced her unique culinary style, being a finalist on To…
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The Multiracial Whiteboy podcast ends 2020 on a positive note with actor, Joel Steingold (The Chi, How To Get Away With Murder, Maron ). Joel, who is Black & Jewish, talks to Kim about growing up in the city of Detroit with his single white Jewish mother, going to Hebrew school in the suburbs, booking more voice-over jobs once he changed his full n…
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Lisa Marie Rollins is a Black/Filipina freelance director, writer and new play developer. She's a Sundance Institute Theatre Lab Fellow (Directing) and Directors Lab West member. She's also the first person Kim reached out to when he was developing the podcast. Lisa talks to Kim about how she didn't want to become the poster child for transracial a…
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Dana Powell is a successful comedic actress in Hollywood. She's widely known for her role as Pameron Tucker on Modern Family, but has also starred in Bridesmaids, Veep, Suburgatory, and many others. However, while shooting a short film that Kim wrote and directed, she revealed that she was 1/2 Mexican, and the entire cast & crew was shocked and unc…
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Writer Susan Ito continues to write about the mixed experience that has impacted her life. Maybe that's because Susan's biological mother was Japanese, and her father was white, but then later, was given up for adoption to a Japanese family in New Jersey. I know, it's complicated. Susan talks to Kim about finding her biological Japanese mother, the…
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