A home for Asian American voices to reclaim identity, rewrite inherited narratives,
and create lives that finally feel like their own, using research-backed strategies and expert opinions from the Asian American community and allies.
Courage Class with Dr. Lindsay Kwock Hu
Courage Class is a podcast created for the Asian American community, many who have spent our lives navigating between worlds.
We were raised to be resilient, accomplished, and grateful – often at the cost of our own needs, creativity, and emotional well-being. We learned how to succeed in systems that rewarded our silence and endurance, while carrying cultural expectations that left little room for rest. Courage Class exists to name that experience and offer a different way forward.
Through honest conversations, personal storytelling, and science-backed insight, Courage Class centers the lived realities of Asian Americans. Lindsay and her trailblazing guests explore what it means to honor where we come from while choosing how we want to live now.
About Lindsay
Dr. Lindsay Kwock Hu is a third-generation, eldest-daughter Asian American scholar-practitioner, creative, and mother of three whose work centers on learning, identity, and action. Across a twenty-plus year career in education, research, and leadership, she designs learning environments that honor and capitalize on cultural backgrounds to equip people – especially those from marginalized communities – to reclaim agency and make meaningful change.
Lindsay is the founder and host of Courage Class, a learning and storytelling platform shaped by lived experience and created in response to the mental, emotional, and physical toll of assimilation, hustle culture, and cultural silence. Through stories, reflection, and dialogue, Courage Class invites people to examine inherited narratives and choose how they want to show up in their lives and communities.
In 2025, Lindsay wrote, directed, and produced Closer to Truth, a short-form documentary exploring identity, boundaries, and personal transformation. She holds a doctorate in Educational Leadership from USC and lives in Los Angeles with her family.
Amplifying the Asian American community’s lived experiences – to create a space where truth-telling, personal transformation, and integrity are not only allowed but encouraged.
Here, we help one another unlearn the roles we were taught, reclaim our voices, and move toward lives aligned with who we really are – not who we’re told to be.
Top Episodes
Episode 6
Rest is Not the Opposite of Ambition: Lessons from a 6-month Sabbatical
Episode 1
Therapy That Sees Us: Why Cultural Fit Matters in Mental Health
Episode 108
Living the Life They Didn’t Choose For You – Creativity, Rest and Partnership as Asian Americans
Episode 12
Burned Out, But Everything Looked Fine
Courage Class Notes
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