I call it chasing my paintings.

I want to live the way that I paint, and I want to find balance, and I want to have it be organic,

one stroke, one character built upon the next with geometric and then organic shapes.

Soft and hard, these things that are juxtaposed, living in harmony, this is how I'm supposed to live.

Yeah, I have no freaking clue how to do it.

And so the painting is a driving force for my life now.

And so I just need to learn how to talk softer and be kinder to myself as it'll take a whole

lifetime and I'm not going to figure it out. And it's hard.

So, did you ever notice how sometimes life brings us to our knees in order to bring us back to our

essence? It leaves nothing left to do other than listen for and follow that voice that says

there's something inside of you that is so true, so visceral, so real, that it must get out.

And there's no longer any way to avoid it. It's time.

Question is, what happens when we honor that voice? Do things magically get easier, come roaring

back to life, does the universe truly support the way we so often hear it does, or does it continue

to walk away? Well, there's only one way to know, and that is to heed the call.

And that's exactly what my guest today, Mike Han, has done. Mike loved art as a kid,

even began studying it, but didn't see a way to make a living at it, so he buried the impulse and

got an entry-level job in a sushi restaurant. Now, over the years, he became a deeply skilled and

sought after a Makashi sushi chef rising up in that world and was just about to open his own place

when the pandemic hit. Literally overnight, he found himself without work, without a vision,

without enough money to pay his rent that month, and to a certain extent out of hope.

But he still had one thing, that artistic impulse that had never left him, and it began calling

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