As an Asian woman building a wellness brand in the U.S., how have your heritage and cultural influences shaped your approach to health and healing?
My connection to healing came through my grandmother, who was from Shanghai. She came to the U.S. in 1942 to study Western medicine — she was an ENT doctor — but was never able to practice here and couldn’t return home because of the political climate. Growing up, I would watch her do tai chi at sunrise with a traditional Chinese sword. That image stayed with me — graceful, disciplined, deeply rooted. I didn’t grow up immersed in Traditional Chinese Medicine, but through her, I felt a connection to something bigger: to my culture, to resilience, to legacy. Creating Moon Rabbit became a way to honor that — to carry forward something that felt both ancestral and deeply personal.