Multiracial Whiteboy
Multiracial Whiteboy host Kim Noonan examines the impact of his white upbringing by having personal discussions with other mixed individuals about racial identity in America. Kim is an award-winning filmmaker who currently resides in Los Angeles. https://www.kimnoonan.me/
Episodes
54 episodes
Actress Tiffany Phillips
When Tiffany Phillips moved to Apple Valley, CA. when she was younger, she got teased all the time about her multiracial appearance. Now she makes her living as an actor playing different kinds of ethnicities. But now that the industry has chan...
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Actress Jennifer Field
Actress Jennifer Field was born in San Jose, CA. and became Miss Asia America in her early twenties. Jennifer educates Kim about how the Miss Asian America pageant, how it's vastly different from the Miss USA pageant, her affinity for Korean fo...
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45:23
Musician Bevin Luna
Bevin Luna's music is deeply rooted in Memphis, TN and the Dominican Republic. Her unique multicultural upbringing has allowed her to create what she calls a "Rock and Roots" sound. Bevin talks to Kim about navigating life between h...
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46:55
Writer/Motivational Speaker Torrie Sorge
Writer and motivational speaker Torrie Sorge grew up in a predominantly white community with her single mother in Ohio where she mastered the art of passing as a white female. She spent a great deal of her life wanting to pass as a white girl b...
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1:28:15
Actor Shawn Passwaters Decierdo
Actor Shawn Passwaters Decierdo had three different fathers come into his life before he graduated high school. His unusual upbringing was filled with surprises and personal challenges as a result of each father influencing his racial identity....
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51:02
Actress Britney Young
Actress Britney Young talks about growing up in Japan with her biracial family, moving to Alaska and learning about the shocking history of slavery in America, and the value of becoming an advocate for herself after she was bullied in high scho...
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58:55
Miami Dolphins Biracial Head Coach Mike McDaniel
Multiracial Whiteboy podcast host Kim Noonan talks about the new biracial head coach of the Miami Dolphins, Mike McDaniel, with Dr. Jenn Noble (Mixed Race Psychologist). Mike is white in presenting, but identified himself as a "human" during hi...
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Season 2
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47:02
Natalie Preddie: Travel & Lifestyle Expert
Travel & Lifestyle Expert Natalie Preddie grew up in Ontario, Canada, where she spent her weekends at church with the Jamaican side of her family, then the rest of her week with her predominantly white community. Natalie talks about t...
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55:38
Isabelo Pascual/ Film Producer
Film Producer Isabelo Pascual has fought his entire to life to remove the projection that others have imposed on his Blasian identity. Isabelo talks to Kim about both his parent's legacies (both were immigrants), wanting do more Haitian activis...
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42:00
Fanshen Cox / Development Executive and Producer Pearl Street Films
Fanshen Cox has been featured in the New York Times and on NPR, with OpEds published for Blavity, Shondaland and The Lily. Reared in Cambridge, Massachusetts by a Pan Africanist, Jamaican-born father and white Northwestern mother, Fanshen...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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1:03:33
Alex Chester Actor & Editor-in-Chief of Mixed Asian Media
Actor & Editor-in-Chief, Alex Chester has been in performing and in show business since she was five. She talks to Kim about her early start in the entertainment industry and how it impacted her mixed Asian identity, her short stint w...
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46:02
Comedian Maija DiGiorgio
Maija Di Giorgio is recognized by New York's Time Out Magazine as one of "the freshest, funniest, unique voices to grace the microphone". Maija has been featured on HBO Def Comedy Jam, Hot 97, and many more. Maija talks about the challenges of ...
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46:02
Jackie Stewart Meditation Teacher and Mindfulness Advisor
Jackie Stewart is a meditation and mindfulness advisor. Jackie talks about the challenges of growing up in Orange County with her single Taiwanese mother, struggling with her mixed identity and mother's cultural heritage, the decision to ...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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45:06
Writer/Director Mickey Finnegan
Mickey Finnegan is a Writer/Director best known for his music video and commercial work with artists and brands such as Usher, The Offspring and Pepsi. Mickey, who's Irish & Filipino, talks about his Irish roots in his family, g...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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47:28
Reginald Hardwick / Emmy Award-Winning News Producer
Reginald Hardwick is the News & Public Affairs Director for the Illinois Newsroom. He was a news producer and manager at the NBC station in Dallas, where he won 7 Emmy awards. Born during the Vietnam War and later given up for adoption in t...
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56:12
Ryan Marchand Theater Artist/Educator/Facilitator
Theater Artist/Educator and Facilitator, Ryan Marchand was never raised with the idea of race consciousness and as a result never thought of himself as Black. Ryan talks to Kim about his personal journey of having to find his own way to critica...
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1:06:12
Anya Steinberg NPR Student Podcast Grand Prize Winner
Anya Steinberg was the 2021 Grand-Prize Winner of NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge. Her podcast "He's Just 23 Chromosomes," takes listeners through her journey of self-discovery when she learns that her biological father was an anonymous Korean ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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44:06
Haui | Creator of Mixed↑
Haui is the creator of Mixed↑. His documentary follows his life as he combats the isolations of a BIPOC and LGTQT+ as he helps to normalize the existence of being an “other.” Part testimonial, part confessional, Kim talks to Haui about the chal...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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Doni Aldine/Editor & Chief of Culturs Magazine
Doni Aldine is a globally mobile Afro-Latina and first-generation North American who, by age 19, lived in & identified with seven cultures on five continents. Doni talks to Kim about what it means to be a TCK (Third Culture Kid)...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:03:17
Ryan Alexander Holmes/Actor & Content Creator
Actor and content creator, Ryan Alexander Holmes, has a loyal following on his Instagram page for creating challenging, witty and clever stories about his Blasian identity. But he wants you to know, even though he looks black, he's also 1...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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54:14
Actress Cynda Williams
Actress Cynda Williams likes to say she was conceived in Muncie, Indiana and born in Chicago. Cynda talks to Kim about her parents illegal interracial marriage in 1964, her trailblazing black civil rights grandfather, booking Spike Lee's Mo' Be...
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Season 1
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49:40
Elyse Cizek / Writer, Model-Actress & Singer-Songwriter
After talented and self-proclaimed multi-hyphenate, Elyse Cisek, got called out on a woman of color of L.A. Facebook Group regarding police brutality, she asked herself... What If I'm Wrong? That question has been the first of many steps on her...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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1:10:18
Comedian Adrian Cronk
The first week when comedian Adrian Cronk moved to Kingston, Ontario from North Carolina, he knew his biracial identity might be an issue when a kid on the bus said to him... Why don't you go home, get in the bathtub and paint your face w...
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Season 1
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42:06
Jen Macias De La Parra (she/her)
Jen Macias De La Parra (she/her) is the Designer & Creative Director and Founder of Duende (a design and strategy studio in Portland, Oregon). Jen talks to Kim about growing up in Arizona, becoming an orphan by age 14, being the ward ...
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53:45
Aaron Keller / Author of Marginal Eyes
Aaron Keller is the writer of Marginal Eyes, a memoir of a biracial American’s struggle for identity in a nation of black and white. Kim talks to Aaron about how his life took a turn for the worst at age ten when he moved to a rural subur...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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