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Kimberly Ming is Chinese and Puerto Rican, born and raised in Fort Collins, Colo., U.S.A. where almost no one looked like her or her sister. The microaggressions weren't always big, but they piled up: A teacher asking who in the room believed racism existed and only her hand going up. A stepbrother's voicemail using a slur she didn't yet know the meaning of. The constant "what are you," asked more out of confusion than curiosity.

In this conversation with host Elleyne Aldine, Kimberly talks about moving to Puerto Rico to reconnect with the half of her family she barely got to know, raising her 11-year-old son across cultures, and turning years of feeling invisible into a spoken-word audiobook called “The Untold Stories of a Chinese Puerto Rican Woman.” She also shares the piece she wrote about being the China-Rican Borinqua-Wannis, and what it means to stop apologizing for being mixed.

Topics discussed:

 00:00 - Growing up Chinese and Puerto Rican in Fort Collins

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Reaching millions annually, CULTURS champions unique cultural identity, transforming culturally fluid populations (multiethnic and/or geographically mobile people like Third Culture Kids) from being invisible outliers to originals. This includes people of culture in the rapidly growing DNA testing-fueled Not Parent Expected (NPE) community. Our world-class, veteran team of researchers and professionals spans five continents.

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Tanya Mason grew up between her Caucasian grandmother's fine hair and her Indian mother's hair that wasn't quite hers either. Nothing the beauty world taught her covered the texture in the middle. After 30 years behind the chair, she stopped following the rules and started asking why: Why conditioner? Why the big chop? Why nothing on the shelf actually worked?

In this conversation with host Elleyne Aldine, Tanya talks about the multicultural hair gap nobody taught her in beauty school, the ingredient in your conditioner that's also approved as jet fuel, and the water she trademarked that changed everything for her clients. She also shares her CPC formula: Commitment, patience, consistency. The restoration program that lets you keep your length, and why the real damage to your hair isn't the product, it's what's coming out of your tap.

Topics discussed:

00:00 - Growing up between her grandmother's and mother's hair textures

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanya-mason-4a4561128/

ABOUT CULTURS:

Reaching millions annually, CULTURS champions unique cultural identity, transforming culturally fluid populations (multiethnic and/or geographically mobile people like Third Culture Kids) from being invisible outliers to originals. This includes people of culture in the rapidly growing DNA testing-fueled Not Parent Expected (NPE) community. Our world-class, veteran team of researchers and professionals spans five continents.

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Brianne Kirkpatrick-Williams has spent almost 20 years as a genetic counselor, and she's one of the only people in the world doing this specific work. She helps people figure out what to do after a DNA test rewrites their family story. A parent who isn't a parent. A heritage that was never theirs. A chapter no one ever mentioned. Over 40 million people now have their DNA in consumer databases, and the surprises don't stay quiet.

In this conversation with host Elleyne Aldine, Brianne talks about founding Watershed DNA, co-authoring DNA Guide for Adoptees, and the seven surprise discoveries she's made inside her own extended family. She explains why one DNA discovery can ripple through an entire family, why "just call them" is rarely the right move, and how identity, health, and heritage all sit inside the same strand of code.

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ABOUT CULTURS:

Reaching millions annually, CULTURS champions unique cultural identity, transforming culturally fluid populations (multiethnic and/or geographically mobile people like Third Culture Kids) from being invisible outliers to originals. This includes people of culture in the rapidly growing DNA testing-fueled Not Parent Expected (NPE) community. Our world-class, veteran team of researchers and professionals spans five continents.

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Eugene Tapahe grew up on the Navajo Nation with no running water and no electricity, raised by his grandmother in the Diné language, learning ceremony before he learned English. As a Native artist, he's spent his life being asked to speak for all 576 federally recognized tribes, as if one brown face could carry that. He couldn't. No one can. And the anger that built from being flattened into a single story almost became the whole story.

Now he's a Diné photographer, the creator of the Art Heals: Jingle Dress Project, and the first Native American to have a solo show at the BYU Museum of Art. In this conversation with host Elleyne Aldine, Eugene talks about the dream that started it all during COVID, the soil samples he washed from 98 places across America, and the moment he realized he'd become the thing he was fighting. 

Topics discussed:

00:00 - Growing up on the reservation with his grandmother

🔗 CONNECT WITH EUGENE TAPAHE:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenetapahe/

ABOUT CULTURS:

Reaching millions annually, CULTURS champions unique cultural identity, transforming culturally fluid populations (multiethnic and/or geographically mobile people like Third Culture Kids) from being invisible outliers to originals. This includes people of culture in the rapidly growing DNA testing-fueled Not Parent Expected (NPE) community. Our world-class, veteran team of researchers and professionals spans five continents.

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In about 30 seconds, one DNA test erased the name, the heritage, and the Latina identity Dr. Paulette Bethel had carried her entire life. The family she thought she came from was not the family her genes pointed to, and a long-held secret reshaped everything she believed about herself.

In this episode, Paulette opens up about the grief of losing an identity that felt unshakable, what it took to rebuild from truth, and how that pain became the foundation for her NPE (Not Parent Expected) Identity Disruption Model, now helping thousands navigate the same kind of loss.

Topics discussed:

00:00 - The moment a DNA test shattered her identity

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulettebethel/

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ABOUT CULTURS:

Reaching millions annually, CULTURS champions unique cultural identity, transforming culturally fluid populations (multiethnic and/or geographically mobile people like Third Culture Kids) from being invisible outliers to originals. This includes people of culture in the rapidly growing DNA testing-fueled Not Parent Expected (NPE) community. Our world-class, veteran team of researchers and professionals spans five continents.

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Chris Armas grew up in a Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Italian household where family, discipline, and hard work came first. In 1970s New York, his parents avoided speaking Spanish at home to protect their children from discrimination — but their culture still shaped everything he became.

Now a National Soccer Hall of Fame inductee and head coach of the Kansas City Current, Armas reflects on his journey from Long Island youth soccer to the US National Team and the highest levels of coaching. He shares lessons on identity, leadership, teamwork, and the values that built his career.

Topics discussed:

00:00 - Growing up in a Puerto Rican and Cuban household

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Reaching millions annually, CULTURS champions unique cultural identity, transforming culturally fluid populations (multiethnic and/or geographically mobile people like Third Culture Kids) from being invisible outliers to originals. This includes people of culture in the rapidly growing DNA testing-fueled Not Parent Expected (NPE) community. Our world-class, veteran team of researchers and professionals spans five continents.

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Culture. Discomfort. Resilience. These are worth more than any degree.

Joe Hyrkin, former CEO of Issuu and Silicon Valley veteran, didn't build his business skills in a boardroom or classroom. They were earned on the streets and trains of China.

In this episode, he shares what nearly a decade in China taught him about negotiation, resilience, and reading any room you walk into.

Topics discussed:

00:00 - Introduction

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joehyrkin/

ABOUT CULTURS:

Reaching millions annually, CULTURS champions unique cultural identity, transforming culturally fluid populations (multiethnic and/or geographically mobile people like Third Culture Kids) from being invisible outliers to originals. This includes people of culture in the rapidly growing DNA testing-fueled Not Parent Expected (NPE) community. Our world-class, veteran team of researchers and professionals spans five continents.

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Your hair is different in every climate. Your voice is different in every room. You've gotten good at switching, but you've never gotten comfortable with it.

Orion Brown, founder of Black Travel Box, created her brand because the beauty industry had a simple answer for travelers like her: figure it out yourself. But building the brand meant rejection from manufacturers, facing implicit bias every time she walked into a pitch, and fighting for limited funding.

This episode explores what it looks like to stop performing long enough to ask what it's been costing you.

Topics discussed:

00:00 - Introduction

https://theblacktravelbox.com/

ABOUT CULTURS:

Reaching millions annually, CULTURS champions unique cultural identity, transforming culturally fluid populations (multiethnic and/or geographically mobile people like Third Culture Kids) from being invisible outliers to originals. This includes people of culture in the rapidly growing DNA testing-fueled Not Parent Expected (NPE) community. Our world-class, veteran team of researchers and professionals spans five continents.

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His grandparents fled Spain. His parents left Mexico. He grew up hiding it all.

Chef Alex Villar, co-founder of The Cooking Clubhouse, was once ashamed of everything that made his family different — pig roasts in the backyard, loud dinner parties, and a Spanish-speaking home. But those exact cultural roots later became the blueprint for his business.

In this episode, Alex shares how growing up between cultures shaped him as a chef, entrepreneur, and culturally fluid adult that he is today. Plus, stay for a special segment with Khadija Taylor, who breaks down the Spanish-inspired tablescape for this episode's Culturs Celebrations dinner.

Topics discussed:

00:00 - Introduction

https://thecookingclubhouse.es/about-us/

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ABOUT CULTURS:

Reaching millions annually, Culturs champions unique cultural identity, transforming culturally fluid populations (multiethnic and/or geographically mobile people like Third Culture Kids) from being invisible outliers to originals. This includes people of culture in the rapidly growing DNA testing-fueled Not Parent Expected (NPE) community. Our world-class, veteran team of researchers and professionals spans five continents.

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