Discover Vietnam: A Vietnam Podcast
I’m your host, Niall Mackay. Each week I share my personal stories, my wife and I's and with guests connected to Vietnam — entrepreneurs, artists, locals, Viet Kieu, expats, and voices from across the community, including the LGBTQ+ world. Discover Vietnam: A Vietnam Podcast takes you inside the stories shaping life in one of the world’s most dynamic countries. The conversations are honest and unscripted. Sometimes funny, sometimes challenging — always real. Together, we discover what it means to live, work, and thrive in modern Vietnam. If you’re curious about Vietnam beyond the headlines and guidebooks, this podcast offers the insights and perspectives you won’t hear anywhere else.
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Back Catalog Rewind : Discover Vietnam - Breaking Barriers Through Conversation To Open Up About A Painful Past | Tracey Nguyen Mang Part 2
Join the Seven Million Bikes Community. This episode’s guest, Tracey Nguyen Mang, is the founder and creator of the award winning podcast: The Vietnamese Boat People. This podcast shares the stories of hope, survival and resilience from the Vietnamese diaspora during 1975-1992. Tracey was so interesting and engaging an
“If I really spent $4,000 a month, I’d have a villa and a problem.” Having Markeiz back on Discover Vietnam felt like picking up a conversation we never really finished the first time. When he first joined me back in 2020, I was recording out of my bedroom, praying the iPhone wouldn’t ruin the audio. This time, we were
Back Catalog Rewind : Discover Vietnam - Families Traumatic Escape Inspired The Vietnamese Boat People Podcast | Tracey Nguyen Mang Part 1
This episode’s guest, Tracey Nguyen Mang, is the founder and creator of the Vietnamese Boat People podcast, an award winning podcast which shares the stories of the Vietnamese diaspora, and something that has often been discussed with previous guests on this show. Tracey was born the youngest of seven children, in Nha
Back Catalog Rewind : Discover Vietnam - Ukrainian Returns Home Days Before War - Escapes Back To Vietnam | Anastasia Sokyrka
Donate to Ukraine! I met Anastasia Sokyrka in Government Quarantine in 2020 at the start of the pandemic. You can listen to my episode with her and my wife, Adrie, about our experiences while we were living them. Since then we have become close friends, a silver lining of a tough experience (17 days with no mattress, n
Back Catalog Rewind : Discover Vietnam - Living As A Trans Man In The USA & Vietnam | Zion Johnson
Join The Community with Zion! Zion Johnson is a former Transactivist, a writer and Seven Million Bikes superfan. He is the only person in the world to have a Seven Million Bikes tattoo! In this episode we talk about; - Zion"s gender journey - his trans-activism in the US - transitioning from a black female to a black m
Back Catalog Rewind : Discover Vietnam - Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis in NYC To Creating Saigoneer | Brian Letwin
The opening guest of Season 7 is Brian Letwin, a New Yorker in Saigon since 2010. Brian is the co-founder and CEO of the Urbanist Network which includes Saigoneer, Urbanist Vietnam and Urbanist Hanoi. Using his 15 years experience working in digital media both on the agency and publisher side Saigoneer has now been run
