Pivoting During the Pandemic

Randy Lau had always wanted to preserve his heritage and honor his parents and their legacy, so during the pandemic, he decided to start a YouTube channel, with his parents as its stars. In this episode, our host, Brittany Luse,  talks with Randy and his parents — Chung Sun Lau and Jenny Lau — about how their channel came to be, how YouTube has allowed them to connect with a larger community, and how they built a successful business from their YouTube channel in only a few short months. Some participants have been compensated for their involvement in this series.

KEY TOPICS & TIME STAMPS

• [4:20] About the channel
• [5:20] Documenting family history and recipes
• [6:49] Deciding to share recipes
• [9:25] What led Randy to start a YouTube Channel
• [11:32] How Chung felt about being on YouTube
• [17:45] The role food played in Chung and Randy’s lives growing up
• [22:58] How YouTube changed the Lau family’s lives financially

RESOURCES

• Listen on YouTube
• Episode Transcript
• Made With Lau Website

SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLES

• Youtube: Made With Lau
• Twitter: @madewithlau
• Instagram: @madewithlau
• Facebook: @madewithlau
• Brittany's Twitter: @bmluse
   

CREDITS 

The Upload is a podcast by YouTube produced in partnership with National Public Media. Our Executive Producers are Brianna LaFleur and Erica Osher. Supervising Producer Shannon Boerner. Our Lead Producer is Theresa Avila; Editing and Engineering by Alie Kilts; Production Assistance by Gurjit Kaur with support from Maddy Weinberg. Our logo was created by Jen Grottle and our music is by TimaLikesMusic. Voice over by Lawrence Lew. Hosted by Brittany Luse.