My guest today is Bear Liu. Bear is a product designer and design mentor. He hosts an award-winning podcast show called BearTalk, focused on sharing his learnings and ideas in design and personal experiences in reading and parenting.
In this episode, we talked about:
- How do Chinese people pick up their English names?
- From working at a ‘tier 18’ city in China as a designer and building a business in web2 to migrant to New Zealand to raise a family —- Bear’s story as an immigrant.
- How to navigate life while moving to a new country, finding a new job and welcoming a newborn at the same time?
- Why is it essential to have a role model to learn and mimic, especially in difficult life moments?
- What does it feel like to start a tech podcast in 2012 and win an award from Apple?
- What motivates Chinese speakers to create content in English? What emotional journey did we go through?
- How create content online can change people’s life?
- Two tips on being a productive content creator that can keep publishing content consistently.
- What tools do we use as bilingual content creators? How to find our audiences, and how to measure success?
- How to start a content creator journey while still working full-time and having a family to look after？
- What’s the NO.1 lesson to pass on to the next generation?
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