Building Talking Taiwan's Legacy

Help us get "The Show on the Road" as we take the Talking Taiwan podcast back to Taiwan just in time for the presidential election on January 13th. We want to take this opportunity to showcase Taiwan’s young vibrant democracy and to do some in-person episodes with guests who are based in Taiwan.

We’re calling it our “Talking Taiwan Election Tour” campaign. We plan to do several election coverage episodes with Courtney Donovan Smith, who is a seasoned political commentator, Taiwan News columnist, ICRT correspondent, and has frequently appeared on Taiwan Plus News, and on the Taiwan Plus Taiwan Talks show. We’re planning to meet with Courtney in Taichung to do a live in-person episode there.

During this trip we are not only going to be in Taipei and Taichung but we plan to also travel down to Kaohsiung. We’ll be doing coverage and meeting with special guests from northern, central and southern Taiwan. We are looking forward to meeting some of our past guests in-person for the very first time. Speaking of meeting people in person…

While we are in Taiwan there will be two special in-person gatherings organized for Talking Taiwan, one at the Pic Collage Office, thanks to John Fan, and another gathering will be held at 4SC CrossFit’s Xindian Branch, thanks to T.H. Schee.

PLEASE NOTE: GoFundMe donors will not be eligible to attend these in-person gatherings, due to GoFundMe’s rules and regulations which state that 1) fundraisers that offer perks or rewards to donors aren’t allowed and 2) no giveaways, or promotions may be offered in exchange for any donations made to your GoFundMe.

If you’d like a special invitation to one of these in-person gatherings with us in Taipei, make sure you make your donation Paypal, Zelle, Patreon or personal check and provide us with your email address. Visit: https://talkingtaiwan.com/support/for more details on how to contribute.

Our goal is to raise $25,000 to cover all expenses for the “Talking Taiwan Election Tour” like air fare, accommodations, travel within the island, transporting all of our equipment and other incidentals. We are setting a deadline of December 31st to raise money for this trip.

We’re off to a great start because we are starting off with a Matching Donation Pledge of $5,000 offered by Patrick Huang. This means the first $5,000 we raise will be automatically doubled to $10,000 and we’ll be nearly halfway to reaching our fundraising goal.

During this campaign we will be completely transparent in publicly listing the names of donors and the amounts donated. However if you’d like to be kept anonymous, you can indicate this when you donate on GoFundMe or inform us at the time of your donation. The tally for “Talking Taiwan’s Election Tour” will be shown on the Talking Taiwan website and on our GoFundMe page the count will begin after $19,129. So we will need to reach a total of $44,129* on GoFundMe.

[*If we raise our overall goal of $25,00, the total on Go Fund Me will reach a total of $44,129]

There are some other ways that you can support us. You can donate/offer housing during our stay, or donate airline tickets, or hook us up with discounted airfares.

We’ll be sure to share more exciting news and announcements as the campaign progresses. So stay tuned for more updates from us.

We are so grateful for our growing listenership and want to say thank you to all of our listeners, past, present and future. It’s thanks to you and all of our supporters and donors that make what we do possible.

So help us get this show on the road. And raise the money by December 31st!

Support Talking Taiwan: https://talkingtaiwan.com/support/

About Talking Taiwan

 

Talking Taiwan is the longest running Taiwan-related podcast. Since 2013, Talking Taiwan has been sharing stories connected to Taiwan and Taiwan’s global community. Podcast guests have included award-winning authors, scientists, entrepreneurs, activists, and intriguing individuals. The podcast aims to create a better awareness and understanding of Taiwan.

 

The show is co-produced by Talking Taiwan’s host Felicia Lin and sound engineer/webmaster Kaju Roberto.

 

 

Who We Are

 

Felicia Lin is an award-winning podcast host and producer, a second generation Taiwanese-American and Taiwanese-Canadian, one of the founders of ITASA (Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association), and is working on the biography of the late Taiwanese revolutionary Su Beng (史明).

 

Felicia is also recognized as a leading social media influencer. One of her quotes has been listed as number 25 of “43 of the Best Social Media Marketing Quotes ,” alongside Jeff Bezos, Sir Richard Branson, Neil Patel, Gary Vaynerchuck, Kim Garst, and Matt Cutts.

 

Kaju Roberto is a Hawaiian-born award-winning podcast producer, musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and filmmaker. He is the founder of the band Rad Jet which will be releasing its debut album "96 Guns" in Summer 2022. He was the cameraman and interviewer of Felicia’s first YouTube video about Su Beng (史明).

Talking Taiwan is a Golden Crane Podcast Award Winner and the longest-running Taiwan-related podcast.

 

 

What We Have Achieved

 

On December 21, 2021, Talking Taiwan won a Golden Crane Podcast Award for the "Best Special Interest Podcast."

 

Talking Taiwan is currently the longest-running Taiwan-related podcast, with its first episode airing on June 5, 2013.

 

Out of 2,825,970 podcasts worldwide, Talking Taiwan is now among the Top 5% of all podcasts in the world.

 

Talking Taiwan's listenership has increased by 675% since March 2020.

 

According to Liberated Syndication, Talking Taiwan's downloads have increased by 858% since January 2020.

 

Since March 24, 2020, the duo has produced a new episode every week.

 

Talking Taiwan is one of the few Taiwan-related podcasts that produces weekly content.

 

Talking Taiwan can be listened to and downloaded on over 70 different platforms around the world or from its website www.TalkingTaiwan.com.

 

 

Our Vision

 

We are proud to be a Golden Crane Podcast Award Winner and the longest running Taiwan-related podcast and want to keep it that way for years to come.

 

We plan to expand by:

 

• Sharing written transcripts for each episode in English and a Chinese translated version

 

• Conducting our operations in both the U.S. and Taiwan

 

• Updating needed equipment to meet the challenges we are facing to serve our ever-growing fan base

 

• Growing the podcast by covering a wider range of issues globally e.g. Europe-related news

 

• Having funds to pay for a translator or research assistance

 

• Having funds to pay for increasing overhead

 

• Incorporating Talking Taiwan as a 501(3)(c) or hybrid

 

• Developing streams of revenue for Talking Taiwan

 

• Building a sustainable infrastructure to assure the long-term legacy of the podcast

No giveaways, or promotions are offered in exchange for any donations made to us on GoFundMe.