Talks with a TCK Friend

Missionary Kid, Elise, joins us as she talks about her MK upbringing and how it is now influencing her as a TCK mom raising her own family.

Elise Reyes Varela is an TCK who grew up between Mexico and the United States. She and her husband work with UIM Aviation in Chihuahua, Mexico serving the indigenous people groups of the sierras. They have two little tcks who keep them laughing and thankful.

Instagram: @parentingtcks

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TCK moms Tracy and Melissa, hosts of roundtrip stories podcast, joins us as they talk about transitioning back to their passport countries. They also talk about how the pandemic affected their families lives from the progress they already made when moving back.

Tracy M. Vilanova is passionate about building bridges through education. She refers to our world as a neighborhood, and delights in crossing bridges, whether they be streets, borders, or oceans, to know her neighbors and connect neighbors with each other.

Melissa Ens didn’t grow up wanting to live abroad, but she married a TCK and ended up moving abroad for 2.5 years with him and their 3 kids. She’s been passionate about global community and expat/repat stories ever since.Podcast: Roundtrip Stories Podcast

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Fellow TCK, Joan joins us as she talks about growing up in the same generation as author of TCK bible, Ruth Van Reken, without the term "TCK" Joan was born in West Papua, Indonesia, when it was known as Dutch New Guinea. She lived there until she was 11 when her family was evicted from the country. After a year in the U.S., her family was reassigned to Trinidad. And she went to a boarding school on the western side of Venezuela. She and her family returned to the Chicago area of the U.S. before her junior year of high school. She stayed in the U.S. from her junior year until after college.

Since then, she has lived in four other countries - Mexico, Guatemala, the Philippines, and Canada. Right now, she and her husband make their home in Georgia, USA, but spend much of each year traveling to teach in other countries.

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Fellow TCK Tess, artist and filmmaker, joins us on this podcast talking about her experimental documentary titled "How Now, House?" and how her childhood has impacted line of work.

Tess grew up in Europe with US-American parents and is now based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands where she is an artist and filmmaker. In her work she often addresses issues of connection/disconnection, and seeing things in their larger context, something rooted in her upbringing. You can find her work at www.tessmarinart.com

Screening dates for her documentary:

• June 7, opening of 'How Now, House?' installation at Galerie Lecq in Rotterdam. It's viewable until June 29th (from the street, no opening times).
• June 21-22, the two screenings of 'How Now, House?' at Sheffield DocFest in the UK,
• June 28-July 5, screening of 'How Now, House?' at ShorTS International Maremetraggio in Trieste, Italy
• Meet Tess on July 10th, 2025 in Brighton, UK for an event hosted by the Brighton Animation Festival.

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Fellow TCK friend, Carmen joins us to talk about her current transition to another country and the struggles of keeping our hearts open in relationships because of our internal TCK clock.

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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Sam Cronin is a TCK singer-songwriter and full-time nomadic travelling musician. Originally from England, he spent just three years there in his childhood between Africa, Europe & the Middle East. Drawing from his experiences, he sings a lot about being a TCK and also draws a lot on elements of folk, world and ethnic music to tell stories of travel, migration and whatever inspires him as a citizen of the world.

https://www.samcronin.co.uk/

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Dr. Perez an, international psychologist, consultant and speaker and fellow Adult Third Culture Kid joins us on today's podcast as we talk about communication among family, generational understanding between parents, and figuring out how to navigate that as globally mobile adults. Dr. Perez is an international psychologist, consultant and speaker. She is a third culture kid/adult (TCK/A), living during her childhood in the Philippines, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Dr. Perez is faculty in the Department of Psychology at Adler University and has taught courses in human development and psychology for almost 30 years.

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It is not always easy explaining our TCK upbringing who did not grow up in a similar way. Our guest Urmi joins us as she talks about how she navigated being Bengali by blood and Italian by birth as well as moving around different cities and countries growing up.

Urmi Hossain is Bengali by blood and Italian by birth. She works in the financial services industry in Canada, where she is currently residing. She is a self-published author, speaker, blogger, polyglot, and mentor. She is the holder of the CFA and CAIA charter.

Her first book is: Discovering your identity, a rebirth from interracial struggle.

She advocates women's empowerment and is very passionate about teaching and mentoring other girls and women.

She is part of the organization called Women In Leadership for the Victoria Chapter in Canada as the social media lead where she spreads the message of gender equality and more women in leadership positions.

She enjoys being a promoter of self-investing and personal development.

In her free time, she enjoys reading books and practicing Muay Thai

Book: Discovering Your Identity : A Rebirth From Interracial Struggle
YouTube channel: Urmi Hossain, CFA, CAIA
Instagram- @urmamio

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Music: Savour The Moment by Shane Ivers

How do TCK navigate empathy in their ever changing environment? That's a topic we will be discussing with our guest author, podcaster, and speaker Chris O'Shaughnessy.

Christopher O’Shaughnessy is a passionate and versatile speaker, comedian, and author who uses a unique blend of story-telling, humor, and provocative insight to engage a wide array of people on topics associated with globalization and cross-cultural understanding. Chris is enlisted by organizations large and small ranging from international schools and educational institutions to government agencies and businesses across the globe. He has worked in, lived in, or traveled to more than 100 countries and brings first hand experience of an ever-globalizing world to his audiences.

Book: Arrivals, Departures and the Adventures In-Between

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Music: Savour The Moment by Shane Ivers