In the second episode, we explore the ways the diaspora creates home in heritage and how that creates new forms of hybrid belonging.

Summer travel is often romanticized. But what about the kind of travel that doesn’t end? In this opening episode, host Lys explores what it means to live away from where you were born and the quiet, often invisible strength it takes to remake a life elsewhere.

From aesthetic escapes to acts of survival, we draw a line between vacation and migration, wanderlust and diaspora. Through personal reflection and cultural critique, this episode invites you to see migration not as loss but as layered, resilient design.

Topics explored:

- The emotional labor of living abroad

- Travel vs. migration: who gets to move freely?

- Diaspora as adaptation, not absence

- Loneliness, performance, and the cost of a “better life”

This episode is for the quiet border crossers. The cultural shapeshifters. The ones building home where none existed. You are not lost, you are layered.

#TheFindingBlyssPodcast

Home is a feeling, a memory, a story we carry. This podcast is for those who have left their homes and are working on rebuilding it, wherever they are. Through stories, reflections, and conversations, we explore belonging, identity, and the echoes of home that shape us. Each episode is a journal, an archive, a map retracing the journey back to self. Join me in my contribution to a collective consciousness of what it means to belong between worlds.