Su-chin Pak

“I was one of three hosts for a daily talk show on the Oxygen network when it first launched in 2000. This was before 'Bad Girls Club,' so don't judge.”

“My parents own a restaurant in downtown Oakland - Garden House - and I started working there at 8. I'd work the cash register while people looked at me skeptically. Free child labor!”

“I had an unusual college experience because I traveled the world while going to school at the same time. Now, to look back, I was very lucky.”

“People will talk about money in the general sense, but not in the specific sense of, like, where'd you fail, how'd you succeed, how'd you do it.”

“Ten million 16-year-old girls would sell their right arm to live the life that I've had.”

“My parents are small business owners, and the Korean community, like a lot of immigrant communities, is very much owner-driven.”