Release the expectations that limit you, by Lulu Wang
Meditative Story
WaitWhat
4.6 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Lulu Wang, writer-director of The Farewell, and Expats, grows up in a family where the expectations for her future are clear: she’s destined to become a piano prodigy, and she must be grateful for the sacrifices her parents have made to give her that opportunity. In today’s episode, Lulu tells the story of how she finally finds her own space away from those expectations, and in doing so, unlocks the joy of making her own discoveries.
Listen to Franklin Leonard's Meditative Story, "Writing the main character": https://listen.meditativestory.com/FranklinLeonardPIO
Lulu’s new show, EXPATS, can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Expats-Season-1/dp/B0CMHGXRHN
Find Lulu on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thumbelulu/
Find Lulu on X: https://twitter.com/thumbelulu
If this episode resonates with you, we’d love to hear from you. Please take a moment to share your reflections by rating and reviewing Meditative Story in your podcast player. It helps other listeners find their way to the show, and we’d be so grateful.
Each episode of Meditative Story combines the emotional pull of first-person storytelling with immersive music and gentle mindfulness prompts. Read the transcript for this story: meditativestory.com
Sign up for the Meditative Story newsletter: https://meditativestory.com/subscribe
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hi listeners it's Rohan. |
| 0:02.0 | Before we begin today's story, we have a brief request. |
| 0:06.0 | Would you check your podcast listening app and make sure you're following meditative story? |
| 0:11.0 | A recent Apple Podcast update is preventing some |
| 0:15.0 | listeners from getting notified when a new meditative story drops and |
| 0:19.0 | following the show or refollowing it if that's the case will fix this issue. To see if this |
| 0:26.0 | happened to you open the Apple Podcasts app search meditative story and select the |
| 0:32.4 | show page in the top right corner you might |
| 0:35.8 | see a pause symbol. Tap the pause symbol to resume. If you see a download symbol |
| 0:41.9 | go to the settings to set up automatic downloads. |
| 0:45.0 | Or if you see a plus symbol, hit it to follow the show. |
| 0:50.0 | This ensures new episodes pop up right in your app, so you never miss a story. |
| 0:56.0 | Thank you so much for your support. I continue moving through the crowd and my gaze lands on a magician in a bowler hat showing his card tricks to a kid. |
| 1:21.0 | The kid watches, amused, but the magicians not smiling. I lift my camera to |
| 1:28.8 | my eye. He looks right back at me. It's like a moment of confrontation. |
| 1:36.0 | Him, seeing me, seeing him. I capture it. Lulu Wong is the acclaimed |
| 1:47.0 | the |
| 1:49.0 | Lou Wong is the acclaimed writer director of the film The Farewell and the new must see |
| 1:55.4 | limited series expats. In today's episode, Lulu shares the story of how she |
| 2:02.2 | grows up in a family with rigid expectations for her future as a skilled pianist. |
| 2:09.0 | It's only when Lulu finds space away from those expectations that she realizes there is unbridled joy in having |
| 2:17.3 | the freedom to make our own discoveries. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from WaitWhat, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of WaitWhat and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.