Work with me.

Have me on your show, make something with me, or tell me about your product.

For hosts and producers

Podcasts

I’m a good guest if your show is about family, money, caregiving, grief, immigrant parents, fatherhood, starting over in midlife, or building an audience from nothing. I bring documents, dates and the parts I got wrong.

I record remotely from California, Pacific time. Two weeks of lead time is ideal.

I’m open to talking about anything from my background and what I’m doing now. These are the ones people ask about most.

The $1.50 carrot bill
My family remembers my uncle billing my mom for carrots at my dad’s funeral. What his family did after he died, the handwritten insurance sheet I still have, and why thousands of strangers answered with their own family’s version.
Six months, fifteen years ago
We saw nine doctors. Eight of them gave my mom about six months, and she’s still here. What long caregiving does to a son, a marriage and a bank account.
The plan that caregiving ate
I had a career mapped out. Caregiving took it, and I had to build work that fit around my mom’s care: courses, books, and now stories.
I don’t believe in ghosts. My family does.
They say my dad came back for the money. I don’t believe it, and I still want him to visit me.
Growing up without a dad, and being one
Mine died when I was 11. Now I have a four-year-old and a two-year-old.
How I grew an Instagram account at 44
I had two rules: it has to be fun, and I track everything. More than 100 experiments later, about 30,000 people follow, and I can tell you what worked and what flopped.
Telling family stories in public
How I asked my mom and my sisters, what I leave out, and what happens when a story stops belonging to you.

For other creators

Creators

I like making things with other creators. The simplest version is one reel together: I tell one true moment from my family, and you answer the question it raises for your audience.

If you’re a lawyer, a nurse, a therapist, a financial planner or another storyteller, there’s probably a story of mine that fits what you do.

For brands and agencies

Brands

I make talk-to-camera videos for brands. Eight in ten of the people who watch me are women, most of them 45 or older, in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.

Tell me about your product and I’ll tell you whether it fits.

Audience figures are from my Instagram insights, as of November 10, 2026.

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Instagram and TikTok: @breathe.a.sy

Short bio (50 words)

Symon He tells true stories about his immigrant family to about 30,000 Instagram followers, led by the series Poor Crazy Asians. He has cared for his mother through fifteen years of stage 4 cancer. Before that he taught more than half a million students online and wrote three books on real estate.

Long bio (150 words)

Symon He tells true stories about his immigrant family on Instagram and TikTok. He started on September 17, 2026, talking to his phone camera, and about 30,000 people followed in the first eight weeks. His series Poor Crazy Asians follows the family his father left behind: a grandmother who played favorites, an uncle who ended up with his father’s life insurance, and a mother left to raise three children. Its most watched episode has 1.1 million views.

Symon has cared for his mother through fifteen years of stage 4 cancer, and he left corporate work in 2015. He has taught more than half a million students online, with over 800,000 enrollments on Udemy and LinkedIn Learning, and wrote three books, including Airbnb For Dummies. He holds degrees in computer engineering and economics from UC Irvine and an MBA from Stanford. He lives in California with his wife and their two young children, and he makes the YouTube channel Homebrew Club with his friend Jim.