Amy终于在去年年底，采访到了一位她非常佩服的好朋友——李泽尧。目前，他的全职工作是一名在PINT任职的网络工程师。业余时间，他是纽约市立大学亨特学院的客座教授。从屏幕前到讲台后，作为一名年轻的外国教授，泽尧在美国公立大学教课的过程中经历了非常多有意思的身份转换和奇异故事。在这集中，我们均娓娓道来。 李泽尧是一名生长在北京，如今长居在纽约的网络工程师，设计师，以及教育者。他本科毕业于上海纽约大学，研究生毕业于纽约大学帝势艺术学院互动电子媒体学位。 感谢聆听！我们希望你能加入和我们的对话。你的评论和评分对这档播客至关重要，我们提前感谢你的参与。 你也可以和我们在以下社交平台直接对话： Instagram: @spark_podcast Facebook（脸书）: @thesparkpodcastwithmegandamy 或直接给我们的邮箱发邮件t [email protected]! 我们会尽最大努力，直接回复你的消息。 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thesparkpodcast.substack.com

In this episode, Amy had a casual conversation about careers, lifestyles, and the meaning of being a global citizen in today’s context with one of her friends, Zeyao Li. Zeyao is a web engineer at PINT, an adjunct professor at the Hunter College Film and Media Department, and a fellow Bejinger / New Yorker/ NYU Shanghai Alumni. He unleashes his creativity through web design, and he is on his way to inspire hundreds with his can-do spirit and curiosity. Amy终于在去年年底，采访到了一位她非常佩服的好朋友——李泽尧。目前，他的全职工作是一名在PINT任职的网络工程师。业余时间，他是纽约市立大学亨特学院的客座教授。从屏幕前到讲台后，作为一名年轻的外国教授，泽尧在美国公立大学教课的过程中经历了非常多有意思的身份转换和奇异故事。在这集中，我们均娓娓道来。 李泽尧是一名生长在北京，如今长居在纽约的网络工程师，设计师，以及教育者。他本科毕业于上海纽约大学，研究生毕业于纽约大学帝势艺术学院互动电子媒体学位。 This episode was recorded last year during the holiday season. 这个单集录制于2021年。 Thank you so much for listening! We’d love for you to join in on the conversation! If you haven’t already, please rate and review this podcast! You can also connect with us on * Instagram: @spark_podcast * Facebook: @thesparkpodcastwithmegandamy * or send us an email at [email protected]! 感谢聆听！我们希望你能加入和我们的对话。你的评论和评分对这档播客至关重要，我们提前感谢你的参与。 你也可以和我们在以下社交平台直接对话： Instagram: @spark_podcast Facebook（脸书）: @thesparkpodcastwithmegandamy 或直接给我们的邮箱发邮件t [email protected]! 我们会尽最大努力，直接回复你的消息。 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thesparkpodcast.substack.com

Amy and Meg are back with a brand new episode of The Spark in the New Year, kicking things off how it all began - in conversation, just the two of them. As they embrace the Year of the Tiger wholeheartedly, Chinese New Year brings the concept of home to mind. They realized that the concept of home and it’s definition has changed for the both of them, especially over the course of the pandemic. They also reflect on how far they’ve come since their very first episode and look ahead to what’s next. Thank you so much for listening! We’d love for you to join in on the conversation! If you haven’t already, please rate and review this podcast! You can also connect with us on * Instagram: @spark_podcast * Facebook: @thesparkpodcastwithmegandamy * or send us an email at [email protected]! * official website: https://www.thesparkpodcast.org/ 在新年来临之际，火花电台上新了！正像电台刚开播时那样，这集的内容聚焦在两位主播之间的对话。虎年已到，春节的喜庆固然离不开“家”的概念。过去几年，疫情的反复让Amy和Meg不得不重新思考“家”到底在哪里，以及“家”的定义到底是什么。除了对“家”的讨论，Amy和Meg还回顾了从火花电台成立初期到现在，两个人和电台的共同成长。在节目结束前，二人还讨论了火花电台在新的一年，将如何继续创作有意思，有远见，有温度的内容。 感谢聆听！我们希望你能加入和我们的对话。你的评论和评分对这档播客至关重要，我们提前感谢你的参与。 你也可以和我们在以下社交平台直接对话! 我们会尽最大努力，直接回复你的消息： * Instagram: @spark_podcast * Facebook（脸书）: @thesparkpodcastwithmegandamy * 或直接给我们的邮箱发邮件: [email protected]! * 官方网站：https://www.thesparkpodcast.org This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thesparkpodcast.substack.com

In this episode, Amy and Meg sit down for one final conversation of The Spark’s Motherhood Series which organically stemmed from a single episode and turned into a beautiful, sensitive, and powerful series featuring three inspiring mothers. For Amy and Meg, it only felt fitting that the last guests of the series were the mothers they’ve been in conversation with since day one - their own. 在这集中，Amy 和 Meg 以回顾她们自己和妈妈的对话的方式结束了火花电台的母亲系列。这个“系列”最早从一个单集孕育而生。在采访了三位有故事的妈妈后，原本的 “单集” 演变成了一个美丽，敏感，但又充满力量的系列。Meg和Amy在进行了三轮采访后一致认为，没有比她们自己的妈妈更适合做最后一集特殊嘉宾的人选了。 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thesparkpodcast.substack.com

Raised in Shanghai, China, Jenny Zheng is a fellow millennial, entrepreneur, influencer, and a new mom in Manhattan. She is the founder of Velvet.Co, an international public relations and marketing agency and living her life to the fullest countering challenges with instinct. In this conversation, Jenny opens up about becoming a mother, striking the balance between work and life outside of work, and she shares her secret to fearless living. Throughout our time together, Jenny reiterated that the only way to achieve your goals is to love it more than you fear the process. 她长在上海，和我们一样是千禧一代。她是企业家，也是网红，还是一位住在曼哈顿的一岁半女婴的妈妈。她是国际公关和市场营销公司丝绒联合的创始人，在生活中，正是因为她勇敢地拥抱挑战，听从内心，Jenny才将生活的潜力发掘到了极致。在这集中，Jenny分享了成为妈妈的历程，平衡生活和工作的有效方法，以及如何无所畏惧地拥抱生活的每一天。从我们简短的座谈中，Jenny用自己的经历告诉我们她成功的秘密：一个人如果想要达成到事业和生活上目标，那么Ta对目标的热爱必须大于Ta对过程的畏惧。 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thesparkpodcast.substack.com

Dr. Wednesday Martin is a social scientist, storyteller, and #1 New York Times Bestselling Author. Her book, Primates of Park Avenue (translated into “I Am a Mother, I Need the Hermes Birkin Bag” in Chinese), stirred up a heated debate across oceans and sparked an greater awareness around “exhausted motherhood” and the scarcity mindset that runs rampant through circles of affluent mothers across the world. In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Martin to demystify the social structures that stand tall around upper class societies and identify the common threads that connect all mothers - Birkin Bag or not. 韦内斯迪·马丁博士是一位社会学家，故事叙述者，以及纽约时报排名第一的畅销书作者。她的著作《我是个妈妈，我需要铂金包》（英文翻译为《回忆录：公园大道上的母猩猩》）描述了她作为一个“新人”在纽约上东区的妈妈圈“打怪升级”的过程。这本书触发了社会各界对“鸡娃”现象，和普遍存在于中产，甚至中上产阶级女性间的稀缺性心态的激烈讨论。在这集中，火花电台和马丁博士一同解密社会结构是如何造就了女性日益激增的焦虑感，以及真正让女性之间产生共鸣的东西——当然，这个东西不仅仅是爱马仕的铂金包。 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thesparkpodcast.substack.com

赞了：在母亲节之际，我们决定发布与一位实实在在的超能女性的对话。她是“酷妈黛安娜”。曾经的她是一位投行人士，一位时尚设计师，以及竞技拉丁舞舞者。现在，她是两个男孩的妈妈（认真的，她简直是全能）正巧录制于国际妇女节，黛安娜和Meg还有Amy分享了作为一位在不同文化和不同国家之间，养育具有世界观的小朋友的经历和故事。当黛安娜成为妈妈的时候，她必须学习如何重塑自己的崩塌的个人身份。内容创作和录制视频帮助她找回了内心的平静。在创作的世界中，她想利用自己的平台，讲述那些值得被听见的伟大和充满力量的女性和母亲的故事。 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thesparkpodcast.substack.com

We're celebrating Mother's Day by kicking off a Motherhood Series in conversation with a true wonder woman and "cool mum," Dianna Lee. She's a former investment banker turned fashion designer, a Latin ballroom dancer and mother to two boys (Seriously, she does it all). Recorded by happenstance on International Women's Day of all days, Dianna shares with Meg and Amy the ins and outs of her world as a mother traversing between cultures and countries with her two children. When Dianna became a mother, she had to learn how to rebuild her self-identity. Content creation and video-making has brought her back home to herself, carving out a space where she wants to tell the stories of amazing women and mums who deserve to have their voices heard. This episode also has a sister episode (Episode 21) where Amy and Dianna sit down for an additional conversation fully in Mandarin. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thesparkpodcast.substack.com

Pelayo Alvarez is the host, founder, and producer of The Forbidden Apple Podcast, a space to reclaim your spirituality. He’s also been one of Amy’s best friends for the past three years after she moved to New York City. Pelayo grew up in the Catholic Church in Gijon, a northwestern city in Spain. He never felt like he belonged. His personality and identity felt bigger than what Gijon could offer or hold space for. So he left. After an internship turned into a full-time job, he found solace in New York City. New York allowed Pelayo to embrace his creative inner voice becoming a podcaster, a youtuber, a performer and a comedian. Most importantly, he was able to embrace his sexuality, and as a result, his authentic identity. Pelayo Alvarez 是禁果播客的主播，创作人和制作人。禁果播客是一档助力他人寻找内心力量的播客。在忙碌录制播客的同时，Pelayo也是自从Amy过去三年来，也就是自从她移居到纽约后新交到的最好的朋友之一。Pelayo出生在位于西班牙西北部的城市希洪。他从没在自己的出生地找到归属感。他从来都觉得希洪并不是一个可以包容他个性及身份的地方。所以他离开了生长的城市。机缘巧合之下，一个位于纽约，本该短暂的实习变成了全职工作，他终于在纽约找到自己的慰藉。相比较希洪，纽约包容的环境允许Pelyo去追逐自己的创作灵感，追随自己内心的声音。于是，他成为了一个播客创作人，一个视频创作人，一个演艺人员以及一个喜剧演员。更重要的是，他终于可以大胆地做自己，接受并且发展自己的一切个性和与生俱来的品质。 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thesparkpodcast.substack.com

The third installment of the “Artist Series,” Meg and Amy dive deep into conversation with, founder of Latitude Gallery in New York City, Shihui Zhou. In this episode, Shihui Zhou shares her story and invites us all to come along with the adventure that is opening an art gallery in 2020, that today, is not only surviving, but in many ways thriving. Shihui also opens up about her journey here - the peaks and valleys - both professionally and personally, introducing the beautiful concept of “radical softness.” 在艺术家系列的第三集，Meg 和 Amy 与纽约Latitude Gallery的创始人Shihui Zhou展开了一场深入的对话。在这集中，Shihui Zhou向听众分享了她在被疫情席卷的2020年，在异国他乡创办自己画廊的故事。如今，这家画廊不仅存活了下来，而且朝气蓬勃。温柔且强大的Shihui在接受The Spark Podcast 的采访时提到了”理性的软弱“——那是从一个学生到一个创业者的过程，也是一个充满着事业上和生活上各种高潮和低谷的过程。 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thesparkpodcast.substack.com

生长在北京的 Ariel Ziyi Cui从小就知道自己长大后想成为一个艺术家。从五岁拿起画笔的那一刻起，她就再也没有将笔放下。三年前，她来到纽约学习设计。今天，她在纽约的一家精品住宅建筑事务所做与室内整修相关的工作。她终于实现梦想，并且成为了一位展览和室内设计师。作为火花电台“艺术家系列”的第一位嘉宾，在访谈和交流中我们深入探索了在他想寻找灵感，追随创作热情的过程。对于Ariel而言，在不同文化间穿梭的生活方式让她终于可以睁开双眼，敞开心扉地生活。 Born and raised in Beijing, Ariel Ziyi Cui always knew she wanted to be an artist. She began painting at five years old and never stopped. Three years ago, she came to New York to study design. Today, she’s an exhibition and interior designer, and working for a boutique residential architecture firm specializing in gut renovations. The first in our Artist Series, our conversation with Ariel Ziyi Cui kicks off the exploration of what it means to pursue your passions and follow dreams far from home. For Ariel, living a life between cultures has left her feeling like she’s finally living with her eyes and heart wide open. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thesparkpodcast.substack.com

Born and raised in Beijing, Ariel Ziyi Cui always knew she wanted to be an artist. She began painting at five years old and never stopped. Three years ago, she came to New York to study design. Today, she’s an exhibition and interior designer, and working for a boutique residential architecture firm specializing in gut renovations. The first in our Artist Series, our conversation with Ariel Ziyi Cui kicks off the exploration of what it means to pursue your passions and follow dreams far from home. For Ariel, living a life between cultures has left her feeling like she’s finally living with her eyes and heart wide open. 生长在北京的 Ariel Ziyi Cui从小就知道自己长大后想成为一个艺术家。从五岁拿起画笔的那一刻起，她就再也没有将笔放下。三年前，她来到纽约学习设计。今天，她在纽约的一家精品住宅建筑事务所做与室内整修相关的工作。她终于实现梦想，并且成为了一位展览和室内设计师。作为火花电台“艺术家系列”的第一位嘉宾，在访谈和交流中我们深入探索了在他想寻找灵感，追随创作热情的过程。对于Ariel而言，在不同文化间穿梭的生活方式让她终于可以睁开双眼，敞开心扉地生活。 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thesparkpodcast.substack.com