Former Colleagues

Eunice Bae is an actor who currently stars as Grace Choi in Your Friends & Neighbors on Apple TV+, and she took anything but a linear path to get here. After studying graphic design in college and then years of odd jobs, she didn’t even start acting until a friend dragged her to an open call for a musical. From there, it was a slow grind of honing her skills and building confidence, largely...

Alfie Amayo began his journey in London, where he was surely going to become a doctor, until delivering a baby made him realize he wanted to do something else entirely. Long story short, he dropped out and built an award-winning gin distillery from scratch in Cambodia. In today’s episode, we talk about cocktail lore, being in your "yes" phase, and how it's never too late to start again from...

Jordan Thomas Law is a filmmaker and photographer who has reached audiences around the world. His work has screened in film festivals globally, and can be seen in Harper’s Bazaar, Elle Magazine, and Esquire. Like many of us, Jordan didn't know what he wanted to do in life: he worked in a restaurant, a bank, and then a clothing store before finally picking up a camera full-time. In this episode,...

For indie pop duo corner club, things have come a long way since they first nodded at each other from across the room at a college party, where they met through an acapella group. You might know them from their hit single "Manhattanhenge" or from their live shows in New York and SF. But did you know that they hit over 10 million streams on Spotify while balancing full-time corporate day jobs? In...

Justin Sullivan is a recipe developer, food writer, culinary producer. After some time fooling himself into thinking he wanted to be a software engineer, Justin spent 2 years tossing dough and manning wood-fired ovens in some of New York's best pizza shops, and went on to work at Delish doing every job they'd let him do: dishwasher, chicken finger theorist, on-camera talent, and many more. He is...

Abigail Hing Wen works at the intersection of storytelling and technology. She is a New York Times Best Selling Author of five novels, producer, director, woman-in-tech leader specializing in artificial intelligence, as well as a mother of two. She writes and speaks about tech, AI ethics, women’s leadership and transforming culture. In this episode, we talk about implicit biases faced by Asian...

Actor, host, and a former colleague to many, Eric Yang sits down for a solo episode about his finance to acting transition and what to expect in future episodes of Former Colleagues. Follow us at formercolleaguespod.com or on Instagram @formercolleaguespod