#149: Lifestyle Brand Sapiens, Healthy Living, Live-streaming in Chinese Market and Empowered Mindset with Ellen Chen

Chiwi Journal

My guest today is Ellen Chen. Ellen is the cofounder of the lifestyle brand Sapiens. With a background in biomed and bioengineering, Ellen also serves as a science communicator, connecting with a broad online audience.

In today’s episode, we talked about…

1. Ellen's background in biology and how it influenced her journey into entrepreneurship and healthy living.
2. The inspiration behind Ellen's healthy lifestyle brand, Sapiens, and its mission.
3. Key principles and practices of a healthy lifestyle that you can incorporate into your daily routine.
4. The differing perceptions of health and fitness standards between Western and Asian cultures, including discussions on body image and body positivity.
5. Insight into beauty standards in China.
6. The impact of social media on people's health.
7. Ellen's secret recipes for making complex scientific papers easy to understand.
8. The age-old question: "Do you lose muscle if you do cardio?"
9. Drawing inspiration from science communicator Andrew Huberman.
10. Strategies for lifestyle community building in the Chinese market.
11. Ellen's approach to creating informative and interactive content through live-streaming.
12. Ellen's insights on balancing her time and routine while running a business, writing, and exercising.
13. The three key mindsets Ellen wants to leave with listeners, especially those facing challenges on their healthy living journeys

Books/links mentioned in this episode

• Follow Ellen on Instagram @minor_demon
• Diet, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Cancer: a Global Perspective Report
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• First Interview in the Metaverse
• Flexible Dieting by Alan Aragon
• Why Calories Don't Count by Giles Yeo
• [Body positivity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_positivity#:~:text=Body positivity is a social,as an undesirable social construct.)
• The Circadian Code by Satchin Panda
• Dose-response relationship between weekly resistance training volume and increases in muscle mass
• Exercise Snacks
• Huberman Lab
• Lex Fridman Podcast

Follow Sapiens Club Dou Yin 1: @SapiensClub Dou Yin 2: @新西兰Summer WeChat Channel: @SapiensClub

“For humans and all species, the sensations, the perceptions and the thoughts and the feelings that we have in our life span, none of that is actually carried forward, except the ones that we take, and we convert into actions, such as writing, actions, such as words actions, such as engineering new things.”

- Andrew Huberman