Ingrid Hu Dahl: Author & Founder — On Identity, Resilience, and Empowering Future Leaders
- Influence of her interracial parents and their boldness
- Early experiences with cultural clashes and discrimination
Podcast
Overview
In this episode of “The Brand Called You,” host Ashutosh Garg interviews Ingrid Hu Dahl—author, filmmaker, and coach—about her new memoir and her path as a mixed-race queer leader. Here’s a concise episode guide with important moments and discussion points:
00:00:31- What shaped Ingrid Hu Dahl’s journey to leadership and activism?
- Influence of her interracial parents and their boldness
- Early experiences with cultural clashes and discrimination
- Foundational values of truth, empathy, and curiosity
00:02:37- How did Ingrid’s mixed-race, queer background influence her sense of belonging?
- Never fully fitting into one culture or identity
- Coping with “otherness” and learning “multi-layered bravery”
- Using her experience to help others tap into their own strength
00:04:02- How did Ingrid’s creative worlds intersect and impact her professional life?
- Storytelling skills across music, film, and coaching
- Supporting young people in finding expressive tools
- Embracing performance to create open dialogue
00:06:08- What inspired the memoir “Sun Shining on Morning Snow”?
- Book title derives from Ingrid’s Chinese name and family symbolism
- Writing as a way to process her mother’s death and their complex bond
00:08:10- How did her mother’s passing shape the narrative?
- Balancing themes of grief, cultural identity, and hope
- Using humor and uplift to balance the memoir’s emotional weight
00:10:13- Why resilience and love, and what were the hardest stories to tell?
- Choosing growth over pain, inspired by a family idiom about going through “fire”
- Emotionally tough scenes centered on conflict and healing with her mother
00:14:06- Navigating cultural expectation vs. personal truth?
- Living in-between cultures as a gift
- Picking what to keep, challenging what harms, within tradition and identity
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- Influence of her interracial parents and their boldness
- Early experiences with cultural clashes and discrimination
- Foundational values of truth, empathy, and curiosity
