Nikita 雅涵 Tu-Bryant is Taiwan-born Aotearoa (NZ) based Artist. Known for fronting psychedelic-pop trio • KITA • , Nikita has worked in theatre and film as an actor, writer, and composer. She’s an all round shredder. In this episode, she talks about how she aims to live in a way that is artful and mindful, without a back up plan, learnings of hope, her relationship with herself, with self-deprecation, alcohol, learning from childhood trauma, artistic process, positive change. She gives her perspective of her experience of taiwanese cultural norms for females and also her experience of racism in NZ. This is a juicy episode where we also laugh out loud and talk about falling in love with yourself and karaoke with 'Combat Dan' at 4am.

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