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About Me — Yiqing Zhao

Would-be-doctor-turned actor, writer, and creative life coach. INFJ. Capricorn. Foster dog mom, yogini, home chef, and foodie.

Yiqing Zhao
About Me Stories
4 min readJun 22, 2021

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Author’s screenshot of an audition tape

Oh gosh, how I’ve been wanting to write here and dreading the whole time! Articles and listicles are not as half challenging as this one, because…well because I have too much to say and there’s no formula.

Kinda sorta like my trajectory — no formula, just guts. I trusted the roadmap would appear and it did.

Before I jump in to tell you about me, you might want to read a story about my name:

I was a medical student in China and did two surgeries on real people as an assistant. During my last year in college, I was doing a depression study on rats and was supposed to make them depressed. Yep, you probably already guessed that I failed, miserably, as my study subjects didn’t get depressed but I did.

That was the turning moment of my life, where I realized treating people’s physical bodies was not something I wanted to do, as most…

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About Me Stories
About Me Stories

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A publication dedicated to bringing out the stories behind the writers themselves. A place of autobiographies. Types of personal stories include introductions, memoirs, self-reflections, and self-love.

Yiqing Zhao
Yiqing Zhao

Written by Yiqing Zhao

Actor/Writer/Creative Life Coach. Mental health advocate, animal activist, foodie. https://www.instagram.com/yiqingzhao1222/ https://coaching.yiqingzhao.com

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