Our Stories

OUR STORIES  As part of the new documentary film project that NamQuyen (Q) Le and I are working on, Rachel, our Director of Photography, and I flew to Louisville, Kentucky in early April to do some scouting and preliminary filming and interviewing. (Detail info of the...

No Way Out – Depression

Recently, I signed up for a Storytelling for Change course by Acumen Academy. As a professional speaker, I am consistently improving my storytelling skills and refining my stories. An assignment for the course was to literally draw a Life Journey Map with pen and...

Defeated Even Before I Started

What does failure mean? How do people fail? Why do people fail? What is success? Why is it that certain people are successful and other people are not? What does success even mean? Who gets to define what success is and what failure is? We can all admit that the...

Watching Myself on a Big Screen

“Coffee Talking Mental Coffins” was screened at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival last month at the Regal L.A. Live movie theater. This new cut of “Coffee Talking Mental Coffins” is over ten minutes long and I divulged more about the connections between my...

WHAT is MY NAME?

My birth name is Kuo Ping Chih (郭禀志). Kuo (郭) is my last name and family name which means castle or fort. Ping (禀) technically is my middle name and it means wise or wisdom. Chih (志) is my actual name which means courage or bravery. My mother wanted me to be wise and...

Summer Road Trip

Over the Memorial Weekend, my friend and I drove through the Deep South from Miami to Dallas. We drove along the east coast of Florida and visited places like West Palm Beach, Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, and St. Augustine. From there, we cut through...