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

2022/6/23
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Bear Liu分享了选择英文名"Bear"的经历,以及从中国到新西兰的职业发展历程,包括在新的文化环境中重新开始职业生涯的挑战和经验。他谈到了2012年开始创建中文播客的初衷和内容演变,以及2019年开始创作英文内容的原因、过程和挑战,包括克服语言障碍、目标受众定位、内容创作工具的选择和使用等。他还分享了平衡工作、创作和家庭生活的方法,以及给想成为双语内容创作者的建议。最后,他谈到了中国文化背景对英文内容创作的帮助,以及想传达给女儿的人生经验。 Camilia与Bear Liu就双语内容创作的挑战、经验和技巧进行了深入探讨,包括如何克服语言障碍、如何选择合适的创作工具、如何平衡工作与生活、如何找到目标受众以及如何衡量内容创作的成功等方面。

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Bear Liu discusses why he chose 'Bear' as his English name and how it reflects his personality and experiences.

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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?

Books/links and creators tools mentioned in this episode: