Mia Park on Hope, Ancestor Survival, and Creative Resource — EP54

Mia Park is powered by hope and engagement. As a Chicago based multidisciplinary artist, Mia shares her passion for discovery through acting, teaching yoga, writing, playing music, producing events, and volunteering. She is fiercely herself and takes every opportunity to live and experience.

In this episode, we explore Mia’s incredible ancestral story of escaping North Korea, the challenges and joys of acting — being Nurse Beth on the show Chicago Med, the lessons of the self in teaching prenatal yoga in jails, and how women can explore their relationship to being a leader.

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Life-Giving Breath Meditation with Mia Park — EP54a

Mia guides you through coming into the alchemy of life-giving breath, listening to and being in the body in this five minute meditation.

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Show Notes

  • 0:00 Intro
  • 1:05 Sponsored by Dream Class
  • 2:44 Opening — Happy New Year
  • 4:00 Ending the Year Episode
  • 4:23 Experiencing With More Ease
  • 5:45 Introducing Mia Park
  • 7:23 Conversation
  • 7:50 What Are You Not?
  • 9:30 What’s Your Story? How Did You Get Here?
  • 10:32 Mia — Always Driven by Hope
  • 11:52 Where Is Mia From — Family and Childhood Trauma?
  • 13:01 Escaping With Creativity
  • 13:36 Growing Up Around Church and a White Bearded Man as a Savior
  • 15:59 Rebellion and Longing for Spirituality
  • 16:27 On Drugs and Moving to Korea Moving Around the World
  • 18:29 I Am Lucky but I Am Also Super Driven
  • 19:59 Mia’s Ancestry Story and Her Real Life
  • 21:02 Japan, Korea, Nagasaki, and the Atomic Bomb
  • 22:48 Starting a New Life in South Korea
  • 23:25 Mother Born and Raised in North Korea and the Escape
  • 24:06 Korean War
  • 25:12 No Coincidences
  • 28:28 Let’s Not Talk About It (Elderly Dismiss the Conversation)
  • 29:48 How Does Knowing Your Story Affect You?
  • 30:29 Creative With Resources / Wrapping Gifts With Rice Gift
  • 31:56 Eating Money for Storage and Survival
  • 35:47 The Americans
  • 36:31 Working on Sensitivity in Material Arts
  • 37:58 Ancestry Survivor Sense Is Coming Out of the System / Abuse of Mia’s Body
  • 39:51 The Abuse Tied to the Female Lineage
  • 40:27 Listening to What Little Mia Needs
  • 42:24 Connecting Hip Pain and Surgeries to the Ancestry
  • 45:16 What’s It Like to Teach Yoga in Jails?
  • 47:17 What’s the Lesson With Nurse Beth (Character of Tv Show)?
  • 50:52 How Can Women Step Into Their Own Leadership?
  • 55:41 Outro

Intro Music by Nick Werber

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