Talks with a TCK Friend

Fellow TCK, Sophia, joins us on this podcast sharing how her up bringing as a multi-cultural as shaped her up bringing. She also shares her journey of understanding what "home" is for her.

Sophia B. is a French-Moroccan-American TCK who grew up between the US and France and lived in 7 countries in the past decade. Moving around taught her how to find home in people rather than places - a lesson that inspired her to help build and shape the TCK community in Los Angeles over the past five years. She works as a creative manager and producer, and whether she's hosting dinners in LA or organizing poetry retreats around the world, Sophia believes a big hack in life is to master the art of making anywhere feel like home.Instagram: @sophiabelala

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

Fellow TCK Jhorna, mother, wife, and embodiment coach, shares her journey being a transracial adoptee and how her experience led her to help other TCKs.

Jhorna is a Mother, a Wife and an intuitive Mindset and Embodiment Coach. As a TCK and a transracial adoptee, growing up in Eastern Africa and the Indian subcontinent, Jhorna grappled with her own identity, sense of belonging, and where her “I” fit into the many collective groups she has had the privilege to be a part of. Upon moving to the United States, her passport country, she felt ill-equipped to face the challenges of cultural adjustment and the realities of racism both in her community and in her work life. After the birth of her children, she fell into a severe depression and through this painful journey, connected to her intuitive wisdom in order to heal the complex trauma that comes from continually feeling like an outsider.
Today, she bridges a 20-year professional background in identity development with the art of spiritual connection. Through self compassion and channeled embodied practices, she helps women leaders and other change makers heal their wounds of trauma and marginalization, create inner belonging and connection, and in doing so step confidently into the clarity of their own vision in order to “be the change they want to see in the world” (Gandhi). Jhorna deeply believes that TCKs are one of the groups in the world today with the unique intel to build the necessary bridges within humanity at this time. She is passionate about co-creating with others who want to access their inner gifts to transmute all forms of oppression and suffering and build a world of sustainable creative expression and joyful connection.

Feel free to reach out either via facebook or through her website https://www.inner-res.com/

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

Tanya joins us again to discuss new updates in job hunting as a TCK. Tanya, a fellow TCK and an International Career coach, who shares her story of navigating through finding her career and giving us practical tips in the process of searching for jobs. Job Seeking as an ATCK part 1

Tanya Podvrsan, international career coach and recruiter, empowers individuals, leaders, and teams within French startups for more than two decades. Currently, she trains and coaches in French, English and Slovene individuals, managers, and executives in their job search/recruitment navigation globally. Tanya is also active in the local Kodiko Association for refugee job search, promoting training and coaching in an untapped talent. She's an American-Slovene and lives in Strasbourg France.Instagram: ⁠@tanyapodvrsan⁠------------------------If you would like to be a guest on the podcast as well, feel free to reach out and send us a message on Instagram!If you have any questions of just want to reach out follow me on the following: Insta: @mariesuazoauthor FB: mariesuazoauthor Email: [email protected] what you hear? Consider sponsoring this podcast monthly to help me continue on making this content :) ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support me!⁠------------------------------------------Music: Savour The Moment by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Fellow TCK, John, shares his research on Filipino TCKs coming back to their home country and what his personal experience has been like being a Filipino Cambodian TCK.

John is a Fil-ATCK who lived in Cambodia due to his parents' missionary work starting at the age of 5. He stayed there and was homeschooled for the majority of his life until he was 21. Because of his experiences, he is now pursuing a Graduate degree in Counseling, driven by his passion to be an ear to people who need to be heard. He loves coffee and enjoys reading manhwa. He's just a chill guy.

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Music: Savour The Moment by Shane Ivers

Fellow TCK, Carmen, gives us an update on her transition to Colombia from earlier this year. She shares some of the things she has gotten used to and some of the new challenges she is facing in this transition.

Born in Germany, grew up and educated in Beijing and the UK, Carmen was exposed to a variety of cultures as a result of her multicultural upbringing to a German father and a Cantonese mother. At just 15 months old, Carmen and her family relocated to Beijing due to her father’s work assignment, a move that was initially intended to last two years. The biggest plot twist led them to stay in Beijing for 18 years instead where she attended and graduated from an international high school.

Carmen returned back to Germany for work with the intent to reconnect with her roots. However, what she hadn't anticipated was the reverse culture shock and the challenge of "fitting in" to a culture she thought she knew.

Through her own experiences, Carmen seeks to share her insights on the value of relationships and the meaning of identity. She hopes to educate others about the rewarding as well as the challenging aspects of living as a multicultural third culture kid. It gave her the opportunity to develop resilience and open-mindedness while also acknowledging the struggles of identity, home, unstable environment and dealing with endless goodbyes.

Instagram: @⁠carmelita627_

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Music: Savour The Moment by Shane Ivers

Japanese ATCK , Hiroko, joins us as she talks about her childhood going back and forth between Japan and America. She shares how different showing love is in each culture and how she shows love to her own multi-cultural family.

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Hiroko is a Japanese ATCK and a mother of two CCKs living in New York City. She is the founder of UpTCK, where she provides TCK care for Japanese expat families in New York City, Tokyo, and beyond.

Born in Japan, she moved back and forth between the U.S. and Japan several times during her formative years before repatriating at age fourteen.

She worked in Tokyo, bridging people from diverse cultural backgrounds in film production, until she found “home” in New York City with her husband.

It wasn’t until her 40s that she discovered the term Third Culture Kid. When she did, she couldn’t help but wish she had learned about TCKs much earlier in life. This realization led her to pursue ways to support TCK and their families in Japan, New York, and around the world as they navigate their identities and life transitions.

Instagram: @uptck.jp

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Music: Savour The Moment by Shane Ivers

Yemeni-American filmmaker, producer, and fellow TCK, Ari Ali, joins us as she talks about her latest film, Ben Between Africa - a personal and historical film about her seven-year search for her late uncle's final letter. She shares her journey of making the film and how it changed the bond between her and her TCK mother.Ari Nasser Ali is a documentary filmmaker currently screening her film "Ben Between Africa," a personal and historical account of her seven-year search for her late uncle's final letter. The search for the letter leads her back in time to mid-century Ethiopia, where her grandparents worked as Mennonite Missionaries. The film explores topics of family separation, the ripple effects of Western evangelism, intergenerational healing, and the universal experience of searching for a place to call home.-----------------------------------

Movie: Ben Between Africa

The Missionary Kids

Ari's Instagram: @captainaali

Movie Screening Dates:

September 12th, 6 pm 

The Potter's House 

Washington, DC 

Tickets

September 28th, 3 pm - 

Greencroft Community Center 

Goshen, IN  

Tickets

October 18th - 6 pm

W/Holly Berkley Fletcher  

Angelila Pop Up - Union Market

Washington, DC

Tickets

November 13th - 5:00 pm 

Ben Between Africa + A Photographic Memory

Museum of Photographic Arts 

San Diego, CA 

Tickets

December 13th - 31st 

Virtual Screening 

Tickets 

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Music: Savour The Moment by Shane Ivers

President of the Board of Families in Global Transition, Hannele, joins us on the podcast talking about the difference in the generations of TCKs. Speaking from her experience growing up without the term TCK to this modern day and discussing the unique challenges of TCKs for each time period.

Hannele Secchia is a TCK who grew up between Ethiopia, Kenya and the UK, although she has Finnish and German nationality. She has an HR background, but feels passionate about enhancing expats' quality of life, whatever country she is living in. Hannele recently patriated for the first time to Finland and is currently the President of the Board of Families in Global Transition.

Links

Families in Global Transition

Letters Now Sent: on Amazon

For our 100th podcast episode as I bring back 2 of my fellow Diplomat TCK friends that I met when I first started my podcast! Join us as we talk about where we were then and where we are now and see how much we have grown in the last few years. Having other TCKs journey with you in life makes a whole world of difference!

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Music: Savour The Moment by Shane Ivers

For TCKs, figuring out our careers its as endless as looking at the horizon. We aren't bound by one country, but we think of so many different opportunities around the world. So in this podcast fellow TCK, Christopher, joins us to talk about how he discovered his career path as a teacher, and the different lessons he learned along the way.

After a childhood spent as an MK in France, Russia, and Wisconsin, Christopher attended college and began a 20-year independent school teaching career in the USA. He taught seven years at a small boys boarding school in Connecticut, took a break to pursue a graduate degree in comparative literature, and then became an upper school English teacher and class dean at the Harker School in San Jose, CA. Christopher teaches classes in literature and film, leads a variety of student clubs, and enjoys reading, music, and conversation.

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Music: Savour The Moment by Shane Ivers