I’m thrilled to be on Living Your Greatness Podcast with Ben Mumme.
#35 Mia Wenjen: A Mom Entrepreneur Celebrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion With Authors of Color
Mia is passionate about parenting, education, and children’s books and writes about these topics at PragmaticMom.com. Mia graduated from Harvard College cum laude in history and science in 1987 and earned an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management in 1993.
Mia talks about her formative years and how did entrepreneurship come into her life. Mia then speaks about what led to the birth of Aquent, a talent agency for people who perform creative work. While studying at Harvard, Aquent ranked #12 on the Inc. 500 list when Mia was 26 years old. Mia then discusses what separates a good entrepreneur from a great entrepreneur. Mia then shares how she successfully transitioned into a work-at-home mom.
Mia’s children are one-quarter Japanese-American, one-quarter Chinese-American, and one-half Korean American. It is one of the reasons Mia is committed to promoting diversity, multicultural and inclusive books to children. This inspired Mia to start Multicultural Children’s Book Day. Mia explains the positive impact that literature celebrating diversity has on children during their formative years.
Mia recently launched a book called Changing The Game: Asian Pacific American Female Athletes. She shares why she wrote the book and what we can learn from reading it. In this book, Mia features 18 Asian Pacific American female athletes that have an incredible story behind their athletic accomplishments. Lastly, Mia defines greatness and what the word means to her.
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p.s. Related posts:
CHANGING THE GAME at Newtonville Books!
CHANGING THE GAME at Multicultural Bookstore & Gifts
CHANGING THE GAME books are here!
My first CHANGING THE GAME virtual author visit
Changing the Game: Naomi Osaka
Changing the Game: Chloe Kim (last day of my Kickstarter Project)
Changing the Game: Michelle Waterson
Changing the Game: Kristi Yamaguchi
Changing the Game: Michelle Wie
Changing the Game: Miki Gorman
Changing the Game: Victoria Manalo Draves
Changing the Game: Natasha “Tasha” Kai
My Kickstarter Project! Changing the Game: Asian Pacific American Female Athletes
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My books:
Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World
- Junior Library Guild Gold selection
- Selected as one of 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023 by dPICTUS and featured at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair
- Starred review from School Library Journal
- Chicago Library’s Best of the Best
- Imagination Soup’s 35 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 for Kids
Amazon / Barefoot Books / Signed or Inscribed by Me
Amazon / Scholastic / Signed or Inscribed by Me
