Community Highlights: Meet Bryan Pham of Asian Hustle Network

Today we’d like to introduce you to Bryan Pham.

Hi Bryan, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
My dream of Asian Hustle Network started with a trip to the Meiji Jingu Shrine in Tokyo—one of the most famous Shinto temples in Japan. There, nestled in the beautiful grounds, visitors pause to write down their deepest, heartfelt wishes on wooden wishing tablets called ema (絵馬), hang their prayers from a string, and depart. Afterward, the shrine’s priests and priestesses individually pray for every one of the thousands of wishes around the world to come true, and for each of the writers to feel unburdened.

In April 2019, I found myself standing there and rooted for hours in the peaceful, silent space, reading the wishes of those who had come before us. A wish for a family member to recover from illness, a wish to be accepted into a certain college, a wish to be forgiven, a wish to be a good parent. Each was deeply relatable, like anything that comes from the most vulnerable depths of our hearts.

I have found that in our own upbringings as Asian Americans, we were taught to keep our heads down and save face, especially when we were struggling. But later in life, as we went through our own entrepreneurial journeys, we learned that bringing others along for the ride certainly made the journey less lonely. And the greatest connections we made along the way all started with the same thing: honest, heartfelt, and vulnerable storytelling.

My goal with Asian Hustle Network is to create a space of camaraderie and support for Asians in the diaspora to share their stories, whether about their entrepreneurial journey or about other personal journeys close to their hearts. Often, we’ll distribute, amplify, or do whatever else we can to help our members garner the connections that help them succeed.

Since our founding, we’ve seen members pivot their businesses, post their new products in the Asian Hustle Network for feedback, and sell out within the next few hours. Others built such loyal client bases through the Asian Hustle Network that they quit their jobs to start their own practices. Many more members have used the community to raise money for personal causes and crowdfunding campaigns, find new team members or business partners, make new friends, and even locate long-lost relatives.

Asians in the diaspora not only have a rich history of creative entrepreneurship dating back centuries, but they’re also building an explosively exciting entrepreneurial era today: rewriting our narratives, reclaiming our cultures, rousing our tastebuds, and simply rejoicing in being ourselves.

We launched the network as a blog and a Facebook Group in 2019. In 2020, we incorporated as a profit entity to help small businesses with website/mobile development, branding, and content marketing. We later added accounting, legal, and recruitment, becoming an all-in-one service for businesses. In 2o21, we launched AHN Foundation, which is our nonprofit 501c3 arm of AHN, to host worldwide events under Asian Heritage Week, Asia Tech Week, Uplifted Conference/gala, and Singapore Mansion Party, and in 2022, we launched Asian Hustle Ventures, investing in 21 AAPI-founded businesses.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
It has been a very humbling experience building AHN, coming with someone with only a Software Engineering background, I had to learn a lot about community, how to build a business, how to make ourselves sustainable while finding a way to uplift and drive the Asian community forward.

As you know, we’re big fans of Asian Hustle Network . For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about the brand?
Asian Hustle Solutions is a full-service premier agency that handles legal incorporation, accounting, recruitment, and web/mobile development services. We believe in building your own luck and transforming ideas into reality

How do you think about happiness?
Asian Hustle Network is my ultimate ikigai

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