We were lucky to catch up with Mei Tang recently and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Mei thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Has your work ever been misunderstood or mischaracterized?

Of course, and before it used to bother me. But through age and experience we also realize and recognize it’s not anyone’s journey except our own. Things might not have always made sense, but as long as we know who we are, and what we are here to be any opinions or outside, influences does not matter.

Mei, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

From being an entrepreneur, to being a dancer, to being a spiritual guide, to being an event, organizer, and all of the other roles that we are here to play, things never fully made sense as to why I was being called you so many things in my life.

Many people that do not know my full background, or who I am may think, and assume that life has always been easy for her to navigate. However, a lot of what I do is not meant for my family or peers to understand.

In fact, most of the time a lot of people that supported me were actually people that did not know who I was, or was close to me. At an early age I had learned that there’s many people around them a project what they want me to do, but as a rebellious and unique unicorn, that I see myself, my way has always been “unconventional”.

I like to say that a big part of my life is to live for the moment and take opportunities that feel good. Sometimes when we go to college or go through life in general, a lot of people say that we need to have a five year plan or “where do we see ourselves in the next 20 years?”. For me, life was never so easy and where the universe gave me exactly what I thought.

From the challenges and tribulations that I have been through, a lot of negative self talk to outside forces, not knowing better, but to dim my personality, and who I am, all of these things, lead up to me, being more confident about myself, and who I am.

Not everyone is blessed to have the right guides and leaders or mentors around them, but the sooner I was able to realize and recognize how I needed to be strong for myself, the easier life came to have me get a better sense of what I need to do for myself.

Some people know me as: Playmeite, while others know me as Mei, but I know that all of the versions of who I am imprints a big part of what I am and what I am here to do.

Naturally, as an empath, I have also met a lot of people who have needed my guidance, while I was also doing my best to figure things out on my own.

A lot of my journey was self taught, and it wasn’t until later on in life that I started to attract some mentors and people around who would be able to guide me more. However, sometimes when you are so used to doing things your way, or being the one to leave your path, it doesn’t mean that it’s easy to take advice from others or now trust people who say they are able to help.

Being able to put my ego aside and see that now is the time that the universe is sending me people who are going to also support and uplift me, miracles started to happen, as I began to realize that I can also be all of the things that I have always wanted to do.

This means that I am able to be an entrepreneur and an artist, all at the same time. I would like to say that, as an outlier here in this world, we do not need to choose one thing or be one thing. It is important to cultivate, and be good at all the things that we would like to achieve. With discipline and focus this is easier to do, but we do not need to be stuck in one role if we do not want to be.

With that being said, I am here to make sure that the people around me and meet me feel inspired to be the best version of themselves and do whatever they feel is in alignment with their soul purpose and mission. Most importantly, have fun while doing it all!

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

Not many people know this about me, but coming into America without speaking any English as a person adapting in school full of other kids that we’re not used to being around “Asian Americans” was a great example of how determined I was to make sure that I can adapt and not be made fun of.

Later, on in life, I attracted relationships that tested how much I valued and loved MYSELF. To the point where I had to leave everything that I owned just to show to myself that my sanity in my spirit meant more to me than anything material.

From living in my own 5 bedroom home, with a semi-luxury life, having a great amount of the material necessities; things that would make one feel comfortable or “secure”, there was a point in my life, where I had to leave all of these things just to save myself.

This meant that I literally had to start all over and be left with nothing more than just the bare minimum. Through that journey, I had to learn how to start, falling in love with myself all over again, and falling in love with rebuilding. It wasn’t then until I noticed, and realize that “PTSD” and “depressio” was a real thing. Although I’ve had friends and family that have experienced and have had to deal with these parts of them, experiencing it yourself as a whole other thing, when you are suffering in silence.

I knew that I could not give up or result to leaning into addictions, or looking for outside things to comfort or console what was happening in my life. This was also a time where many people I really cared about, started to pass away to the other side, and I mean really, I felt like I was losing everything that I have loved or thought made me secure.

I looked to the Universe and inner-self for the strength that I needed was beyond anyone and what people could help me with. For once in my life, I needed to ask for help and trust in myself so deeply that I allowed the Universe to also send to me the right people and opportunities that will help me get out of this “hole”.

Like they say, “no diamonds could be built without pressure”, and all I really had was faith, and to know that some thing will get better if I just stayed in alignment through meditation, prayer, taking care of my mind, body and spirit correctly, and feeding myself everything that I need to become a better person and an evolved version of who I am.

Here we are now, and although life is not perfect I am in so much peace within that. I appreciate it going through everything that I went through just to be able to know that I can be happy, no matter what is happening, and look past adversities. The biggest part of this lesson is the universe, teaching me how to be grateful and how to be resilient. I hope that this brief story brings inspiration to someone that needs it as well.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

My mission and driving my creative journey is so that I can inspire other creators to keep creating. There are so many creative people around me that do not live their full purpose being a creator because they are bogged down, thinking that they need to focus on the serious parts of life and Doing job that they don’t necessarily enjoy. But in any case, I was also one of these people and it took a lot of removing self limiting thoughts and beliefs to take myself on full-time and being a creator. In a perfect world I would love to see everybody’s shining and doing what they are great at inside their spirits. Maybe there has been a calling that people have let go of, or put a pause on, and have not returned to, but my mission is to spark that inspiration in them, and have them get back to who they truly are.

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