how we started

We’re Da Eun and Sophia - we’ve been in a long-distance friendship for 10 years, and we’ve been podcasting together for 5 years!

We met through 🎻🎹 classical music friends in the Bay Area.

During college (Da Eun at Stanford, Sophia at Pomona), we always had so much to tell each other, so we made a joint blog to update each other asynchronously.

After we graduated in 2018, Da Eun moved to NYC and Sophia moved to Seattle.

We started bamboo & glass on a whim to document the whirlwind of changes we experienced post-grad in our 💻🎬career, mental health, and relationships.

our 5-year journey

Through our podcast, we’ve gotten to:

⭐ amplify 100+ guests

🤔 dive into unfamiliar topics (personal finance, spirituality, immigration)

😜 invent novel storytelling formats (“Your Next Date” dating show: In each of our 10 episodes, we went on a date with a single friend that one of us knows really well and the other doesn’t, to help listeners get a sense of their dynamic with a friend and with a stranger. We also dropped in audio recordings from their friends to hype them up (and roast them) 👀

🤝 learn to be better creative partners to each other

🌏 make sense of our past and current events

🏆 create our own definitions of success for our podcast

🌿 continue to evolve our podcast in ways that best support our learning and growth; we make the podcast work for us, not the other way around!