Hi, Binchies. Hope you're having a wonderful weekend. This week for our bonus episode, I had the

amazing experience of getting to talk with one of my absolute best friends from college, Mimi Lee.

We talked about her experience growing up in Shanghai, coming to America, growing up Buddhist,

the history of zombies, getting kicked out of bars for fighting men, and more.

If you want to listen to the full episode, it's available on our Patreon, which is patreon.com slash binge-topia.

Hope you enjoy this snippet.

Would you say that your Buddhist upbringing helped you, like, with your mental health earlier?

Oh, for sure.

I also forgot to tell.

I actually don't even know if you know this part about me but I was

low-key bullied in middle school but I remember that was when like beta buddhas really helped me go through

that time right um yeah so like I remember going home and telling my mom like I don't understand

like people would tell you these things like my like I had like two friends who stood by me and

everyone else like would not dare talk to me because they're like oh yeah this girl is

gonna be really mean to us if we even have a conversation about you and they're like she made

up all these like mean nicknames this all went away in a couple of months like after but still when

you're in middle school and you're getting bullied, it's like so hard. Yeah, and it made no sense to me.

But yeah, during that time, it was very hard and being a Buddhist.

My mom would remind me of the teachings and she's like, this is a time for you to like realize that this is not just philosophy.

You leave on a shelf.

Like, this is when you have to apply to your real life.

So that was hard and also I think I think

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