Chiwi Journal

#136: Bilingual Content Creator, Picking English Names, Publish Consistent Content and Live A Productive Life with Bear Liu

Jun 23, 2022

01:05:03

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Do You Have Any Tools to Help You Create Content?

02:27

How to Start Creating Content in a Second Language

05:21

Do You Feel Your Chinese Background Helps You to Create English Content?

04:36

Introduction

2min

How to Name Yourself in New Zealand Kiwis

2min

What's Your Career Journey?

5min

How to Start From Scratch in a New Country

4min

Is There a Perfect Accent in a Native Speaker?

2min

How Can I Make a Chinese Podcast a Host?

5min

What Makes You Want to Do More English Content?

2min

How Can I Create Content in English?

4min

How Do You Feel When You First Published Your English Content?

1min

10.

What I'm Doing on Social Media for Finding a Good Job

6min

11.

How to Build a Trust in the Process

2min

12.

What Tools to Help You to Create English Content?

3min

13.

Do You Have Any Tools to Help You Create Content?

2min

14.

What Are the Most Popular Episodes From Your Podcast or Some Popular Content From Your YouTube Channel?

5min

15.

How to Balance the Time and Personal Energy as a Content Creator

5min

16.

How to Start Creating Content in a Second Language

5min

17.

Do You Feel Your Chinese Background Helps You to Create English Content?

5min

18.

What's the Number One Lesson You'd Like to Pass on to Your Daughter

2min

19.

How Can I Reach Out to Other People? Thanks for the Inspiration Camilia

2min

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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