Podcasts: Voicing Lived Experience
Sharing lived experience through podcasts helps people feel less alone and more understood. By talking openly about disability, neurodivergence, mental health, and identity, Dennis V. Tran creates conversations that reduce stigma and make these experiences easier to understand. This work helps people feel seen, supports self-advocacy, and gives communities and organizations real-world insight they can use to build more inclusive spaces.
Explore the podcasts below to listen, learn, and join the conversation.
Asian Lifing Podcast
Launched in 2021 after 6 months of life coaching, the Asian Lifing with Dennis Tran podcast explores mental health, disability, and identity through the lived experience of a disabled, neurodivergent Vietnamese American. The series follows Dennis’s journey as a partially blind, late-identified AuDHD individual living with glaucoma and C-PTSD, offering honest conversations about healing, access, and self-advocacy. Through storytelling and practical reflection, the podcast supports listeners in moving from survival toward resilience and growth.
5 years later, the Asian Lifing podcast served as Dennis' launching pad for storytelling, advocacy, community building, leadership development, and the inclusion work he does today.
1.3K+ listeners reached
Courageous
Thank you for your courage to share your story and struggles, as there's no doubt the podcast will help others going through similar things.
Impressive
YOUR EPISODE IS SOOOOO GOOOD!! It made me beam with so much happiness!! You really articulated SO WELL your story.. why it matters.. inspiring others.. what to look forward to for future episodes!! I can't say enough good things. I'm truly impress!
A Deep Understanding of Culture Stigma
When I first met Dennis, he was hosting and producing the podcast, Asian Lifing. Sharing Asian heritage and lived experience as Asian-American disability advocates, it was crystal clear that Dennis had a deep understanding of the cultural stigma and silence surrounding disability and mental health as he lends his voice to the intersection of culture, disability, identity, and empowerment.
Resourceful
We never really talk about these things, but it's so important to communicate. Thank you for being that resource for others to be able to connect with.
Necessary!
This topic is so necessary to bring up and be discussed!
A Momentous Step
CONGRATULATIONS on making this HUGE step and having the courage to put it out into the universe. We're all celebrating you!
Speaking on Topics That Aren't Commonly Discussed
This was a significant milestone for Dennis in which many praised him for his courage, vulnerability, and how amazing and awesome it was speaking on topics that aren't commonly or openly discussed.
An Inspiration
I have a sister with autism. You are definitely going to inspire so many people with all your accomplishments!
Listen to the Asian Lifing Podcast Selected Episodes Here
Innovating Inclusion Podcast
Dennis V. Tran brings lived experience and curiosity to his role as a host on the Innovating Inclusion podcast. Through open, thoughtful conversations with changemakers, he helps make topics like disability inclusion, universal design, advocacy, and innovation more relatable, grounded, and accessible.
Featured Innovating Inclusion Episodes
- Innovating Inclusion — Podcast Host | 2025
Ollie Cantos on National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) and White Cane Day
- Innovating Inclusion — Podcast Host | 2025
Saran Tugsjargal — Policy Maker, Advocate, Mongolian-American, and a College Freshman
Host, Produce, or Strategize With Dennis!
Dennis V. Tran brings lived experience to every podcast he creates, hosts, or advises, making conversations on disability, identity, and inclusion engaging and accessible. Book time with Dennis to collaborate and bring your podcast or audio project to life!
Note: Dennis speaks both English and Vietnamese and is available to support projects, consulting, and collaborations in either language.