About The Team

Felicia Lin

Talking Taiwan Award-Winning Host, Producer, and Author

As the Golden Crane Award-Winning Host of Talking Taiwan for nearly a decade, Felicia has always had a penchant for finding the most interesting stories connected to Taiwan related to the diverse individuals who make up Taiwan’s global community. She also does social media for Talking Taiwan.

Perhaps you didn't know that Felicia is also recognized as a leading social media influencer. Recently, one of her quotes was #25 in an article  alongside  Jeff Bezos, Sir Richard Branson, Neil Patel, Gary Vaynerchuck, Kim Garst, and Matt Cutts.

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Kaju Roberto

Talking Taiwan Award-Winning Executive Producer, Sound Engineer, Editor, Graphics Designer, and Webmaster

As the Golden Crane Award-Winning Executive and Co-producer to Talking Taiwan, Kaju is the guy behind the scenes who does the podcast editing, sound, website, YouTube, and likes to dabble with tech.


Talking Taiwan was the brainchild of award-winning radio DJ Rick Monday (2009 Golden Bell winner for his Morning Show on ICRT once upon a time).

In 2012, the show’s producer, Gus Adapon reached out to Felicia Lin saying that he was looking for a female host for a podcast that he was working on called Talking Taiwan. She had never hosted a show and knew nothing about podcasting at the time, but was intrigued by the opportunity and decided to pitch herself for the job. Soon she found herself learning about how structure a podcast episode and how to interview guests.


Talking Taiwan - Winner of the 2021 Golden Crane Awards!

Talking Taiwan proudly announces they are the 2021 Golden Crane Award-Winner for the "Best Special Interest Podcast", where they also received an Honorable Mention in the highly competitive "Society and Culture" category. They were the only podcast to receive the Top Award and also receive an Honorable Mention. The Golden Crane Awards are sponsored by Listen Notes and were held on Tuesday December 21, 2021 by the Asian American Podcasters Association

Talking Taiwan previously had also created and produced the podcast Crushing The Myth, an Asian American speaker series that aims to dispel the “model minority” label of Asia America today.

Crushing the Myth is an awesome Ted-Talk-like series where Asian American creators, entrepreneurs, influencers, and thought leaders each give a 10 minute talk “on stage” (and now during the pandemic over Zoom), by sharing the Asian American perspective while featuring stories that make people listen, learn, and get inspired.

 


Talking Taiwan’s Humble Beginnings

The first episode of Talking Taiwan was released in 2013. Initially, Talking Taiwan didn’t even have a website. All of the podcast episodes were simply available on SoundCloud, and shared on social media. With the support of a sound engineer who edited the episodes, Felicia’s job was to book and interview guests for the podcast. The first year was a beta run for the podcast. Then from 2014-2016 the podcast went on hiatus.

Later, Talking Taiwan was moved off of SoundCloud and it wasn’t until 2016, that it had a website.

Talking Taiwan had been a fun pet project, and a great excuse for Felicia to interview and chat with some really interesting individuals, such as activists, musicians, entrepreneurs, innovators, community leaders, and authors, just to name a few. It was something she wholeheartedly enjoyed doing even though she wasn’t being paid for it.

It was also a somewhat fabled experience since she had the support of a sound engineer and team responsible for updating the website. Many podcasters wear several hats as the sound editor, producer, webmaster, and host.

However, that all changed in late 2017 when Gus decided to step down as the producer of Talking Taiwan and offered to hand over Talking Taiwan to Felicia if she wanted to continue with it. Without hesitation she said yes, even though she wasn’t sure how she was going to make it happen. In the meantime, Talking Taiwan went on hiatus again as Felicia figured out how to proceed.

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The Rebirth of Talking Taiwan

In late 2019 Felicia relaunched Talking Taiwan as Producer and Host with the support of her partner Kaju, who shortly thereafter became the Executive Producer, Sound Engineer, Editor, Graphic Designer, and Webmaster.

Beginning in January 2020, the duo set out to publish new episodes bi-weekly. But when the Coronavirus hit New York City in March 2020, the city quickly became the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S. As New York City went on lockdown, Felicia and Kaju decided to focus their time and energy on Talking Taiwan.

They started to produce and publish brand new episodes from a wide variety of guests. Some of those guests covered topics related to the pandemic. A few old episodes that were lost when Talking Taiwan was moved off of Sound Cloud were re-edited and released. The Talking Taiwan website was improved (and continues to undergo upgrades). Most importantly the duo committed to publishing new content on a weekly basis.

In April 2020, they released a record number of 11 episodes. That same month, Talking Taiwan went from being on one platform (Apple Podcasts) to being published to 40 different podcasting platforms. During the month of June alone, seven new episodes were released. As of today near the end of 2021, we are now on over 70 platforms worldwide. 

Beginning on March 24, 2020, Felicia and Kaju have published a new Talking Taiwan podcast episode without missing a single week.

Since publishing weekly in March 2020, Talking Taiwan has received twenty-five (25) 5 Star Reviews on Apple Podcasts to date. Downloads for Talking Taiwan increased by 675% from January to December 2020.  That is an exponential growth of 45.6% per month! And throughout the entirety of 2021, we have continued strong growth.

We'd like to give a big Thank You to our intern Zoe Parrrot who created the cool Motion Graphic near the start of our YouTube videos beginning with Episode 264 Hsin-Tai Wu. Check out our videos on our YouTube channel and please subscribe at https://www.youtube.com/@talkingtaiwan.

We definitely are looking forward to Zoe's further excellent contributions to Talking Taiwan in the future!

Talking Taiwan: The Longest Running Podcast about Taiwan

With publication of its first episode on June 5, 2013, Talking Taiwan is currently the longest active running podcast about Taiwan, and the only independently produced Taiwanese-American English speaking podcast in the world that covers political news related to Taiwan.

It's a distinction we are very proud of.

Every week like clockwork we continue to share the interesting stories connected to Taiwan, and Taiwan's global community.  It has been a pleasure, and we are certainly looking forward to sharing the most interesting and latest breaking stories about Taiwan regularly for many years to come!

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Talking Taiwan Now Ranked in Top 3% of all Podcasts in the World

Listen Notes – a top search engine that tracks the data for all podcasts – publishes the Listen Score (LS), which is a metric that shows the estimated popularity of a podcast compared to all other rss-based public podcasts in the world according to global rank. The higher the global rank by %, the more popular. It’s the Nielsen ratings for podcasts.

According to Listen Notes, Talking Taiwan is now ranked in the top 3% of the most popular shows now out of 3,310,388 podcasts globally, estimated by Global Rank.

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When Felicia and Kaju recently heard the news, this was indeed an honor and a delightful surprise.

This is a testament to the high quality of content they bring to their listeners every week. They are truly humbled and thankful to all of their wonderful listeners who have made this possible!

 

Talking Taiwan is About the Interesting People Related to Taiwan

In several reviews, listeners have noted Felicia’s easy conversational style and ability to allow her guests to shine during interviews.

Felicia’s penchant for winning elusive interviews from a wide variety of interesting guests related to Taiwan allows us to continue to consistently produce informative, entertaining, and thought provoking content. The variety of content and guests featured on the podcast has captured Talking Taiwan’s ever-growing fan base and kept them coming back for more!

As a result, all the hard work by the team is now paying off.

We can now see Episode 200 on the horizon, but the Talking Taiwan Golden Crane Award-winning Dynamic Duo definitely won’t stop there. They are only getting started!

As Talking Taiwan’s listenership continues to grow consistently with nothing stopping it, Felicia and Kaju won’t either. Rest assured that the one thing that’s made this podcast what it is will remain: Talking Taiwan will always be about the guests.

Tune in every Monday to Talking Taiwan on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Audible or your favorite podcast platform to explore, to celebrate, and to learn about the interesting people related to Taiwan.


Where to Listen to Talking Taiwan Around the World!

 Talking Taiwan can now be listened to and downloaded on over 70 different platforms around the world. Listen to and Subscribe to our podcast on some of your favorite popular platforms.

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Book Felicia Lin for an Exclusive Interview

Award-Winning Host of Talking Taiwan and Su Beng Biographer Felicia Lin is now available for interviews.
Her empathetic easy-going  yet deeply-informed style of conversation and mastery of the topics has elevated Talking Taiwan to the Top 5% of all podcasts in the World.
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