
Season 7 · Episode 84 · 30 Jan 2026
84 - Audrey Lin
With Audrey Lin
“"I left my job because I thought, Okay, I'll take three months to volunteer. And I really want to learn from this space. Three months turned into three years and into a whole host of different projects and a deeper faith in not knowing."”
Reflections
Q1: Place
If we could do a flypast on any part of the world that is significant to you, which place, city or country would it be and why?
A hill overlooking Golden Gate Bridge
Q2: Life
Give us a glimpse into your life story so far with an emphasis on what you are doing currently?
I grew up in the US with parents who were immigrants from Taiwan. At college exposed to a lot of social issues and was introduced to a group that would gather once a week and sit in silence and then have dinner together. There was like a groundedness and a contentedness, and there was something I couldn't place my finger on, but there was something I wanted to learn from that. And as I got to know people, I learned a lot of them volunteered with this group called ServiceSpace. They started this experiment called Karma kitchen, which was a pay-it-forward restaurant all run by volunteers. A little experiment in generosity. And so I started volunteering with them and realised that as I started to spend my days trying to make other people's days, the stories in my head started changing, and that was changing the way I was showing up in the world. Whether it's in a restaurant where you're welcoming strangers or if it's a news portal where you're hearing about the beautiful things people are doing every day, suddenly, those walls that used to be up when I walked around in the world, they kind of dissolved a little bit.
Q3: Reset
Where on earth is your place or reset or re-charge?
Any place of stillness
Q4: Wonder
What wonder of the natural world excites you the most?
The spark in peoples eyes
Q5: Hopefulness
What is your story of hopefulness (not your own) about a person, business or non-profit who are doing amazing things for the world?
Location
Flyover
A hill overlooking Golden Gate Bridge
Guest
San Francisco
Mentions
ServiceSpace