Talks with a TCK Friend

Everyone has to work at some point in their life, but what if that very workplace was the cause of trauma. Elizabeth Vahey Smith, author of The Practice of Processing and the upcoming book Trauma-Informed Leader is COO of TCK Training and the Unstacking Co., joins us on this episode as she talks about her up coming book on trauma informed leadership.

Elizabeth Vahey Smith, author of The Practice of Processing and the upcoming book Trauma-Informed Leader is COO of TCK Training and the Unstacking Co. and has over 10 years of experience in leadership. She’s a Trauma-Informed Care Practitioner through TIC Training Center. Elizabeth provides coaching and consulting on trauma-informed leadership, including debriefing services for workplace trauma.

Book: Trauma Informed Leadership

Website: https://elizabethvaheysmith.com/

Intsta: @elizabeth.vaheysmith

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Wishing you all a new year and hope you guys are as excited as I am about this up coming year with the different podcasts I will be releasing this year! :)

It has been such an awesome year full of amazing stories from so many different TCKs. Irene joins us again from last year to recap what it has been like for her as a listener of this year.

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Christmases can vary for TCKs because of our transient nature. There are times we can't go to see our family, have to celebrate it alone, or celebrate it in a culture that doesn't celebrate it at all. Join us as we discuss what Christmases were like for us growing up and how we look at Christmas as adult tcks, and what we do to navigate this time of year. Hope you feel a little less alone as you join us in our conversation. Merry Christmas!

Chesed is an adult third culture kid who grew up in Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia. For the last 12 years she has been living in Virginia training college students how to navigate cross-cultural transitions in an emotionally healthy way. She is passionate about coaching emerging adults in that process and showing them how this world was never meant to be their home anyway (Philippians 3:20).

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TCK Merch: @chesedco_maps

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Cassidy Lewis is a self-published author who writes and designs children's books for families who live far apart. Since bidding farewell to family and friends in Scotland and moving halfway across the world to Australia in 2019, she knows firsthand the challenge of living abroad and raising a family far from your home country. Welcoming her daughter Madison in 2022, more than ever Cassidy wanted to bridge the miles between her little one and family overseas. That's how "Children's Books To Bond Over" came to be - a growing collection of vibrant, engaging and educational children's books especially designed to nurture familial bonds and help little one's feel more closely connected to their roots and heritage. What started as an idea her mother (and co-founder) Laura had - a meaningful keepsake a grandparent could gift their grandchild - became a growing enterprise that resonated with an underserved community: long-distance families across the world. Suddenly, "Children's Books To Bond Over" had purpose beyond her own family, and it became Cassidy and Laura's mission to create a book for every country in the world so no loving family member, no matter the distance, had to forgo the special bonding moment that is reading time.

Instagram: ⁠@childrensbookstobondover

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Barry joins us and shares about his life as a Military Brat who has moved around 42 times in the last 80 years. He shares his wisdom to fellow TCKs going on their TCK journey.

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Music: Savour The Moment by Shane

One of the things that brings us right back to our childhood

Claire Sibley is an Adult Third Culture Kid (ATCK) whose

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Nostalgic FoodWhy is "home" never where I currently am?

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Music: Savour The Moment by Shane

Our guest Georgie joins us to talk about her TCK upbringing in Liberia in the 80s with Liberian sisters.

Instagram: ⁠@georgiedaviswrites

On this podcast Anna Danforth, author of 2 TCK books, joins us to discuss healthy risk taking in her TCK up bringing and how that affected her as an adult.

Anna Danforth grew up in Cameroon as a third culture kid where she developed a passion to help global families thrive overseas. She married her high school sweetheart from DR Congo and they raised their two kids in Lesotho and on a farm in South Africa.  Anna drew on her experiences as a third culture kid, missionary, and teacher at the Africa Orientation Course to write Raising a Family Overseas.  She also provides training on Ethical Image Sharing as a Global Citizen.  Anna lives on a fruit tree and macadamia farm in KwaZulu Natal with her husband, two kids, dogs, cats, horse, and best friends.

Instagram: @raising_a_family_overseas

Book: Sam's Roommate Disaster

Raising a Family Overseas

Chris, recently discovering the term TCK, shares his journey learning to process his emotions with the multiple layers of growing up as a TCK.

Blog: Christopher's Substack