Being a TCK is hard, and being a TCK parent might be just as hard. Today's episode we are talking to a TCK mom. Join us as we discuss what it's like to raise TCKs from a mom's perspective, while as I share my perspective of what it was like growing up with first time TCK parents. From expectations, communication style, and just trying to understand each other's perspective.

Mikayla Stover is a mom of three children who recently moved from the USA to Costa Rica making their children third culture kids. Mikayla spent a year in Brazil at the age of 18 but has otherwise lived in the US until now! Currently Mikayla supports her entrepreneur spouse and their children in this transition navigating new relationships, culture, language, school, and everything in between.

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Bringing a friend from my Egypt years to talk about what it's like to leave Egypt a place she has known her whole life and transition to life in Brazil. She shares her experience of how she cope and went through the process of transitioning as an Adult as a TCK.

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Wrapping up my book series with chapter 9-10. The most vulnerable chapters in my book. Join me as I tackle the mindset I learned of my up bringing and make sense of it as an adult.

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We are halfway through going through my book with this episode going through chapter 6-8. We explore some of the mindsets I had as a kid and how that affected me as an adult. I also talk about how my parent's expectation of me also affected the way I view myself and also seeing what life might have been like for them as they were raising me as a TCK.

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"Who am I?" Is a question every TCK faces one way or another. In this podcast we talk about the expectations that was put on me as a child and how that lead to being culturally confused for most of my life. We look at different experiences I've gone through that lead me to find my identity and what that means to me as an adult. Coming to terms with who I am took awhile, but thankful that I am able to share my process with the world.

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We are combining Chapters 3 & 4 from the book to talk about Culture Shock. Moving for the first time as an 11 year old impacted me in more ways that I could vocalize at that age. Join me as I process some of the experiences I had and how I gained certain thought processes because of it. I also talk about how important TCKs are in our world today despite having to endure so many difficult things in our childhood.

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We kick off Day 2 of our 10 day upload going through every chapter in my book "Tales of a Diplomat's Daughter as we prepare for the launch of the Audiobook on April 3rd. In this podcast I discuss the process of moving and the logistical aspect of it as well as the difficulty of transition that I experienced when I first moved from Korea to the Philippines. I talk about how different expectations were set on me by different relatives because of the lack of exposure I had to Filipino culture and how I handled those situations.

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We are starting the countdown for the release of my Audio book on April 3rd! As a gift to my dedicated listeners I will be posting every day for the next 10 days until the launch of my audio book going through every chapter of the book and processing some of my thoughts and ideas I had while writing the chapter and also some of the revelations I had after having processed some of the ideas since publishing the book.

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Join us with our guest from last week Cali Mendoza, fellow diplomat's daughter and pick up from where we left off as we discuss our Diplomatic upbringings as we navigate through school life and how we took those experiences and made it into positive outcomes in our future.

Cali has lived in Australia, Belgium, the USA, and the Philippines and currently resides in Toronto, Canada.

She passes the time by reading, writing, and desperately wishing that she could own a dog.

Music: Savour The Moment by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

This week I am joined by my childhood friend Cali, who is a fellow Diplomat's Daughter for the Philippines. We talk about how our childhoods were similar yet different despite having parents that both worked for the Philippine Embassy abroad. 

Cali has lived in Australia, Belgium, the USA, and the Philippines and currently resides in Toronto, Canada.

She passes the time by reading, writing, and desperately wishing that she could own a dog.

Music: Savour The Moment by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com