My guest is Jean Chung, co-founder of FAM, a member-owned health and wellness cooperative that focuses on community-based experiential learning through the arts. Jean learned from a young age that honesty and authenticity are valuable in building relationships. Her parents moved to the U.S. from Korea in the late 70s, and started a community in Virginia. They successfully led that community for over 30 years, which helped shape Jean's love for people, relationships, and values.

Her love for people and building relationships naturally led her to community building. Some of her greatest joys are seeing a group of people strive for a common goal and achieve it together, and learn about themselves along the way.

In our conversation, we explore the ways that the patriarchy has impacted the most powerful feminine experiences - pregnancy, birth, and motherhood - and how that has extended outward into lifestyle choices. Jean shares her story about pivoting from "the religion of obstetrics", leading her to create a short dystopian film about how we treat pregnant people and channel them through the machine and into a certain type of lifestyle.

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