People Like Us

Richard Loat is a TCK who currently lives in Singapore. 

He is hugely interesting, not least because he's in the process of writing a book about famous and successful TCKs. The reason he's doing this is so that we TCKs can see just how awesome the impact of our TCK upbringing can be.

Listen to our conversation in this week's episode.

Nathan didn't know he was a TCK until recently. He has been delighted to discover that actually, he's not mad (!!) and that there's a whole world of people like us.

When we talked for this episode of my podcast, it became apparent that even TCKs who don't know that they're TCKs, still have the TCK issues that we all share.

Christopher O’Shaughnessy is a passionate and versatile author and speaker who uses a unique blend of story-telling, humor, and provocative insight to engage a wide array of people on topics ranging from Third Culture Kids and the effects of globalization to building community and increasing empathy.

Chris’ book, Arrivals, Departures and the Adventures In-Between, has received high praise from students, teachers, and otherexperts in the TCK and international community as a resource that is both enjoyable to read at a student level, and able to instill truths, insights and skills essential to navigating life successfully as a TCK.

Listen as Chris and I chat about his life to date.

Stephen Yap currently lives in the UK, having spent his formative years between Hong Kong and the UK.

Carolina Travaglio lives in Spain. She was born in Venezuela and moved to France aged 18 months. She then moved to the USA returning to Venezuela aged 7 and stayed there until she was 19.  

The international moves she experienced were due to her father studying for a PhD in France and then taking a job in the States.  

Even though Carolina returned to her passport country aged 7, she had already become firmly established as a TCK as she had no remembered knowledge of Venezuela, or of her family there.  

Listen as we talk about her TCK experience, and her life to date.

Javaneh Pirzad is an unusual subject for my podcast, because she’s not a TCK herself. However, her child is.  

Javaneh is British-Iranian and grew up in Iran. She has lived most of her adult life as an expat in various places including UAE, Algeria, UK, India. Since 2018, she has lived in the Netherlands.  

Javaneh is a psychotherapist who works with children and adolescents, including TCKs.  

Listen as she and I talk about the things that affect TCKs and how they can be overcome.

Christina Hoag is a well-travelled TCK! Born in New Zealand, she went on to live in seven other countries as a child and has lived in another three as a foreign correspondent. She has reported for many different news publications, including the Financial Times, the New York Times and the Miami Herald.

Christina is also an award winning author!

Listen as I discuss all things TCK with this accomplished TCK woman.

Lisa is not unusual as a TCK in that she lives in the UK midlands and has an accent that doesn’t fit the expectation!

Born in Taiwan, her family moved to Canada for 4 years, and then back to Taiwan for Lisa’s high school. Lisa took her degree in the US and her masters degree in the UK.

Listen as we talk about her experience growing up globally.

Terry has made his most recent move just weeks ago to country-side of central France.

He describes what home means to him and talks about his experiences of revisiting some of the places he lived during his childhood.  He also talks about cultural belonging and how he responds to the question "Where are you from?

Megan Norton is a true TCK as she grew up everywhere!   

She was born in Virginia in the US, moved to Pretoria in South Africa, back to Virginia, then to Seoul in South Korea. Next she moved to Bonn and then Frankfurt in Germany, then on to Tokyo Japan. She graduated high school in Tel Aviv in Israel and went to university in Florida.  

Listen as she and I talk about her truly varied life as a TCK.