Welcome back everyone to Unlocking Your World of Creativity. I'm Mark Stenson and this is the podcast where we go around the world to talk to creativity experts about how they get inspired, how they organize their ideas and most of all, how they make the connections and get the confidence to get their work up at the world of creativity.

I'm Mark Stenson and this is the podcast where we go around the world to talk to creativity experts about how they get inspired, how they organize their ideas and most of all, how they make the connections and get the confidence to get their work up and out into the world.

And I'm so pleased today to talk to a creative person who has this nice blend of the left brain and right brain that feeds her creativity.

I'm a medical background and studies in medicine and health care and public health, now expressing all that energy and creativity and acting and writing and coaching others in creativity.

And my guest is Yee-ching Jiao. Yee-ching glad to have you on the program.

Thank you. I'm so glad to join you today.

What a creative spirit Yee-ching is and we're just going to dive into all angles. She also publishes quite frequently blogs and articles.

But I guess I'd like to start Yee-ching and what you're doing now and how you're expressing your creativity these days.

So what I'm currently working on is a feature film, a feature film script about this family of three generations of Chinese immigrant women trying to achieve self-actualization here in the US, but then the pandemic happens and everything's taken away.

So they have to struggle to find themselves on a new ground.

So that's what I've been working on. I was like doing the beads and doing the board before actually start the writing process because I think it's really important to plan the story so that you can go with the flow.

And what about your background and your cultural history feeds that kind of a story. What inspired that topic?

It's actually very primal and very personal. So last year I wrote a full length play about a Chinese American adoptee and we had a Zoom reading about it.

But honestly that came from my own childhood issues, you know, family because I'm the only child of my parents and now I'm just thousands of miles away from them.

And you can expect there's the mismatched expectations and, you know, emotional, there's some codependent issues there.

So I really just tapped into those things and that's how I got the idea for my feature script as well.

But this one focuses more on the mother daughter relationship, like the mother daughter and then grandma granddaughter relationship.

Oh, my play, the play that's already written is more on the child and both parents, but especially more on the father side.

So I'm really just tackling all kinds of family issues, my own insecurity, my childhood trauma, everything.

I think that's where my artwork is is that I know this is a safe place for me to express because this is the only place I have to let these wounds to show these wounds.

So I can, you know, make something of them.

Well, in each and I can't help but wonder, maybe this is just a good time to jump into it that as you're pursuing your creative arts now and acting and writing.

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