Hey guys, welcome to the Lavendare Lifestyle, the podcast on Lifestyle Design for

millennials. My name's Eileen and I'm here to guide you to become a master artist of life.

You can create the life that you've always imagined.

Life is an art.

Make it your masterpiece.

So today I have a real treat for you guys. I'm bringing on another guest and in my mind I want to bring people who inspire me. I want to bring on people who are real

artists of life, you know, people who are out there creating the life that they

want to live, the lifestyle that they want to live. So today I'm really

happy to bring on my friend Clarissa Wei. Clarissa is a freelance journalist backpacking to all the provinces in China. She writes for Vice and

Eder and that's just the start of it. She has so many credentials under her belt

but she's just an awesome person in general, someone who's just daring

to be able to travel the world on her own and find those interesting stories.

So what's up, Clarissa?

Hi, thanks for having me on.

Yeah, things are good.

I'm in Lanzhou right now, which is in the Gansu province of China.

Okay, I actually don't know where that is.

It's like north-South, East, West.

Where is that?

It's Northwest.

I was here when I was 19 in college and I went to a town called Dunhuang where I rode camels and hung out in the desert.

But now I'm in the capital of the province and it's a city that's built alongside the Yellow

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