Kulap Vilaysack | Origin Story, It’s Complicated

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  Hey, my guest today is Kulop Filaisac.

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  So, decades ago, Culp's parents fled violence in Laos, finding themselves in a refugee camp in Thailand before moving to DC, where Culp would be born, and then shortly after, to Minnesota, where she would grow up.

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  But her world was blown apart when, at the age of 14, in the heat of a fight, culaps mom revealed that her father was not, in fact, her biological dad.

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  And the trauma of that moment, it really shook her, but would then largely get buried, just sort of tucked away as she left home, built a career, and got married.

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  And now, decades later, a successful writer, director, actor, comedian, former co host of the long running, who charted podcast where she sat behind the mic for eight years and the creator and showrunner and sometimes director of the tv series Bajillion Dollar properties, Kulap started considering really having her own family and having kids, and she felt like she had to discover her true origin story in order to finally move forward.

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  So she decided to do something radical to take control of her own narrative.

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  She mounted a quest to uncover the truth, one that led her to travel back to Laos in search of a biological father that she had never known, let alone never even knew existed until she was 14.

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  And to find out the events, the moments, the experiences that led to her family being what it was, and those awakenings would forever change her, her life, her understanding of her parents, extended family, and the choices they all made.

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  The story is offered in Culp's original documentary origin story.

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  We dive into this decades long experience in today's conversation.

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  So excited to share it with you.

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  I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.

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  We're hanging out, sitting here as part of the Good Life Project podcast, which started as video, actually, in 2012, transitioned to audio 2014 ish.

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  But you were in the podcast space kind of like, way before who charted what started around 2010?

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  Is that right?

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  Yes.

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  Right?

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  Is that right?

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  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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  Because we were the fourth Earwolf podcast, right?

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