Giving Narration

Jim and Sai talk about how they begin life rooted in family, as sons and a daughters, brothers and sisters.

In those early years, belonging feels certain, defined by the people around them and the roles they naturally step into.
But over time, those roles shift, and the people who once defined that sense of belonging are no longer around.

What remains is the question of what it means to belong when those connections change, and how they continue to carry that sense of responsibility, care, and identity forward.

What is Giving Narration?

Giving Narration is a reflective podcast with personal narrations to lived experiences. Jim Vue and Sai Thao are husband and wife. They both are first born Hmong Americans. Jim was raised in Tulsa, OK in a smaller family with 4 children while Sai was raised in St. Paul, MN in a large family with 11 children. Jim and Sai have been married for 21 years and they are parents to five children, three girls and two boys ranging from the ages of six to eighteen years old, and all with special needs.