Welcome to the very first episode of Fly with Lily.

Here Lily talks about her vision and a bit about herself!

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01 About Fly with Lily

Intro

“Hey Lily Wong here, and this is Fly with Lily Podcast.

Life can throw us unexpected curveballs of all kinds…From the loss of a loved one, career change, or family problems. For me, it was the loss of my mother and my marriage. The worst experiences of my life, led to the most euphoric learning experience and life journey I ever could have imagined. My journey let me dive within myself, overcome my fears, drop disempowering beliefs, and remove mental limitations.

From motivation, language learning, business, nomadic life stories of world travel, to just plain dropping your baggage, Fly with Lily podcast offers the inspiration you need to open yourself to this world of opportunities...without limits!”

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Welcome to the Fly with Lily podcast, this is your host Lily Wong and I want to thank you for joining me in this very first episode.

In this episode, I’d like to share my vision for this podcast and tell you a little bit about myself.

Each week the podcast will be updated every Saturday, 10 am central time. The topics will include my personal stories, travel tips, language learning, motivational stories, and business development, all to inspire you to open yourself to this world of opportunities.

My major was Journalism and Communication in college. While I was running around interviewing people as an intern in school, I always felt that I wanted to tell my own stories one day instead of writing other people’s stories. At that time, I didn’t have much in me to tell, but overtime I’ve collected experiences, adventures, and many life lessons. Some of them I truly believe will bring you valuable and entertaining lessons, as you see the world through an East Asian girl’s eyes. My friends always love hearing about them, so now I’d like to share them all with you in this podcast. Although English is not my first language, each episode is carefully written by me and proofread by my English teacher Christiana before I record.

Podcasting is actually not new for me. I have been podcasting since 2014 and I have a very popular English learning podcast called 学英语环游世界 - or - Learn English So You Can Travel. It has more than 20 million downloads. However, most of the episodes are done in Mandarin, and I feel bad when a lot of my English speaking friends ask to listen to my podcast. So, I started planning this new album.

I have been told that my stories are very healing and inspiring. I sincerely hope you will enjoy them. If you like what you hear, I’d really appreciate if you’d leave a 5-star review on my iTune page.

You may be picking up a bit of a Chinese accent as I’m speaking English, and you would be right. I’m originally from Taiwan and Mandarin is my first language. It might surprise you that I actually self-taught myself English by listening to tons of podcasts! I didn’t start speaking English until I was 20. In case you’re curious, I was born in 1982…. I’m a Sagittarius….well you do the math. Maybe sometime I’ll record an episode where I cover how I started speaking English and making 100 USD per hour by teaching it.

As I’m recording this, I’m currently traveling in beautiful Tokyo, Japan. As a matter of a fact, as of today, January 2017, I’ve been traveling for a total of 14 consecutive months. Last year I was also able to travel in 11 different countries and did podcasting around the world. My life was totally transformed because of a brave decision; when I - figuratively speaking - jumped off the cliff to figure out how to fly.

Well,