Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- With her meteoric rise to prominence on YouTube in 2016, Rowena Tsai currently serves as the host and co-producer of several podcasts, including Beauty Within, Voice Hugs, and A Mindful Life with Rowena Tsai.
- Rowena places a strong emphasis on using her podcasts to uplift others, drawing from her personal experience in the areas of personal development and mindset.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Rowena Tsai was born on December 15, 1991, in Los Angeles, California. At the age of 3, she moved to Taiwan where she was raised because of her father’s import-export business. She later returned to Los Angeles.
- Growing up with seven male cousins and a brother, Rowena embraced her tomboyish tendencies, disliking the color pink and preferring bugs and worms to dolls. She even sported a bowl-cut hairstyle.
Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info
- From 2011 to 2014, Rowena Tsai attended the USC Marshall School of Business for her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Entrepreneurship and Marketing.
- She also attended the HKUST Business School in 2013.
Work, Career, Salary and Net Worth :
- Rowena Tsai is a successful content creator on YouTube since June 2016 and has been hosting and co-producing the Beauty Within podcast since April 2018.
- She started gaining fame for her authentic and sincere vlogs, one of which was her popular 2017 video on “how to wake up at 4 am every day”. The video has now reached over 2 million views.
- Since launching her YouTube channel, Rowena has amassed over 40 million views and more than 700k subscribers. She describes herself as an ordinary person who experiences a range of emotions, and her videos document what motivates her, including people, places, and things. The purpose of her channel is to inspire her audience to take a hard look at their lives and make conscious decisions about how they want to live.
- Tsai shared in a YouTube video (Feb 2020) that the most significant habit she has adopted is setting systems instead of goals. She explains how this has changed her perspective on habitual patterns, and she now focuses on developing systems that lead to consistent progress rather than just setting goals. Rowena experimented with various routines over the years to boost productivity, but this habit has made the most significant impact on her life.
- Rowena produces videos on personal growth & productivity for her podcast A Mindful Life with Rowena Tsai to inspire others to become their best and most genuine selves, exist with purpose, and practise unconditional compassion.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Rowena is grateful to her parents for instilling good moral values in her from a very young age, as having high standards has helped her achieve her success. She also appreciates her cousins for helping her shape up to be a laid-back person.
- Her mom was vegetarian while pregnant with Rowena. Rowena too was a natural vegetarian till she was 9 years old when she had her first meat, dino nuggets from Costco.
- She often cites Timothy Ferriss as a personal hero in creating all her digital content.
- Lion King is her favourite movie.
- During a video where Rowena shared some random stories about her younger self, she mentioned that she and her brother were educated in a Taiwanese high school from the age of 3 until 3rd grade due to their parents’ financial situation. Rowena moved back to the US in 4th grade and struggled with English grammar because her parents wanted to teach the children Chinese. She also described life in Taiwan as relatively sheltered.