We have grown up in a generation that first felt the impacts of social media in middle school. There were no guides on how to navigate these platforms or their potential long term ramifications. We consider how we have been impacted by social media in our lives, if we would change our past approaches, and how we’ll continue to deal with it moving forward.

Everyone seems to have goals for Kris’ dating life except Kris. We sit down and learn about his dating history and consider HIS dating goals and how to reconcile those with everyone else’s goals.

Ema and Izak have been dating for 10 long years. After all this time, we sit down and discuss how things got started and where things are going. Kris asks deep probing questions to learn more about the highs and lows of a 10 year relationship.

In Part 2, Kris and Ema continue their conversation about their identies and whether they would consider those identies surface level, important, or core identities. This conversation helps them truly understand one another's foundations and provides a foundation for future conversations.

Ema and Kris come from very different cultures. We are both mixed, but that’s where our cultural similarities end. We take this time to reflect on how our identities as well as lay the foundation for future conversations about our cultures. This episode is part 1 of 2 of our identity mapping conversation.