About this episode

Jon Wong shares his journey of seeking belonging and the challenges he faced growing up as the only Asian kid in his class.

A search for belonging can make you fearless in all the wrong ways, and Jon Wong knows that story from the inside. Jon joins us from Vancouver, Canada, and walks us through growing up as the only Asian kid in his class, navigating third culture identity, and trying to earn a place to fit in. That hunger for acceptance spiralled into a life of drugs, dealing, arrests, and juvenile detention by the time he was sixteen, before his parents intervened and sent him to Teen Challenge. What stands ou...

People in this episode

Host: J.D. Pearring

Guest: Jon Wong

Topics covered

• belonging
• identity
• addiction
• youth
• acceptance

Keywords

• belonging
• third culture
• identity
• drugs
• juvenile detention
• Teen Challenge

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Vancouver, Canada

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