Maya Lin Sugarman is a storyteller and fitness coach in Los Angeles.
Maya is host and executive producer of Magnificent Jerk, an Apple Original podcast.
On the last day of her grandmother’s life, journalist Maya Lin Sugarman finds a box of forgotten screenplays that sets her on a journey to uncover the truth about their author: her late uncle, Galen Yuen.
She discovers that he was a leader of a Chinese gang, that he went to jail, and, in a final twist, that he poured his life story into a screenplay that was turned into a ’90s Hollywood action movie…starring Rob Lowe, Burt Reynolds, and Ice-T.
Named a “Best Podcast of 2023” by The New Yorker and Vulture and a Webby nominee for Best Documentary Podcast, Magnificent Jerk is an Apple Original podcast produced by Pineapple Street Studios and Overtones Media.
