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Talks with a TCK Friend

To Third Culture Kids out there who want to hear from a fellow TCK, I"m your girl! All about growing up as a TCK, self-awareness, cultures, and mental health. I just wanted to share my story and bring on other TCK friends who share their stories or the joys and struggles growing up in different cultures and learning embrace our roots. Join us on this journey and I hope you can learn and grow right alongside of us!

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00:54:06

Parents and Children (ft. Kanako Suwa)

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2025/03/13

Kanako joins us on this podcast as she shares her TCK story and some of her thoughts growing up with Japanese parents. Kanako Suwa (KA-nako) is a Third Culture Kid, EAL teacher at an international school, and an advocate for multilingualism, mental health, equity, agency, passions, and queer & Asian representation in media & in teaching. Kanako uses her experiences of global upbringing & late start to multilingualism to understand and connect with students at international schools. She

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00:38:02

Generational Trauma (ft. Melanie Han)

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2025/02/28

Generational trauma isn't always discussed among families, especially Asian ones. Joining us today is fellow ATCK Melanie who shares how she navigated through the generational trauma she has seen passed down in her family. Born in Korea and raised in East Africa, Melanie Hyo-In Han recently moved from the U.S. to the U.K., where she is a Ph.D. candidate in Creative Writing. She is the author of Uprooted, Replanted, Uprooted Again (FlowerSong Press, forthcoming 2026), My Dear Yeast (Milk &

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00:56:22

Intercultural Couples (ft. Karina)

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2025/02/21

TCKs are multicultural themselves, but how does that play a role in being in relationship? On this podcast fellow ATCK and psychologist Karina talks about her experience counseling intercultural couples and shares some of her personal stories on her relationship.Karina is an ATCK, born in Spain, grew up in different Countries of Europe. She holds a French passport, a Catalan diploma in Psychologist and the tittle of MOTHER to two TCK aged 7 and 9, both born in Belgium, lived in Ireland and Spain

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00:48:23

Online Dating (ft. Chesed)

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2025/02/15

Our second episode in the Valentine's day series talks about online dating and what life has been like married for 5 years. Joining us again is Chesed from our Christmas episode to share her love story.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

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00:44:36

Communicating in Love (ft. Lynette Allcock Yoon)

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2025/02/07

Kicking off our Valentine's month series with Lynette as she talks about her love story, married life the last two years, and communicating in love. Lynette Allcock Yoon is a writer, teacher, and former radio host. She grew up between three countries as a Third Culture Kid (TCK), and now lives in South Korea with her husband. She writes about culture, faith, and relationships from an expat, TCK perspective. She loves helping fellow wanderers & sojourners to feel seen, encouraging them to

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01:06:16

The Emotion of Awe (ft. Mathieu Gagnon )

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2025/02/01

Awe is a unique emotion most people don't talk about. Mathieu a professor at the Royal Military College of Canada discuses his research on the emotion and how it relates to our global up bringing. Mathieu is a Canadian diplomat ATCK who grew up in many different countries (France, Morocco, Canada, Côte d'Ivoire, Haiti, Switzerland). He now resides in Kingston (Canada) with his wife and 2 children, and is a professor of psychology at the Royal Military College of Canada. Mathieu's

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00:43:35

Transportation (ft. Kim C. v. Schönfeld)

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2025/01/24

Transportation is one of the first things TCKs have to learn to navigate when moving to another country. Learning how to do that smoothly is easier said than done. In this episode Kim, a post-doctoral researcher working between Norway and Portugal, talks about her project called "Mobile Worlds" where she discusses transportation from the perspective of a TCK. Kim is a post-doctoral researcher working between Norway and Portugal on a project called "Mobile Worlds". In this

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00:37:23

Trauma Informed Leadership (ft. Elizabeth Vahey Smith)

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2025/01/17

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

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00:48:23

Happy New Year! 2025

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2025/01/11

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! :)

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00:59:16

2024 Recap (ft. Irene Domingo)

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2024/12/30

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. ---------------------------------------- If you would like to be a guest on the podcast or just want to connect, feel free to reach out! Insta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@mariesuazoauthor ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ FB: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠mariesuazoauthor ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Email: info.marieauthor@gmail.com Like what you hear? Consider sponsoring this

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01:02:29

TCK's Christmas Traditions (ft. Chesed)

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2024/12/23

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

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00:32:05

Children's Books to Bond Over (ft. Cassidy Lewis)

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2024/12/06

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

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00:36:20

80 Years a TCK (ft. Barry Barns)

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2024/11/29

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.Retired 'Renaissance Man' (1991‐Now): Active in lifelong learning, clear thinking, wisdom development, international and domestic travel, art, performing arts, writing, social commentary, values analysis, personality styles, personal philosophy, photography, classic cars, alternative energy design & construction,

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00:40:55

Relationship to Food ( ft. Claire Sibley)

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2024/11/12

One of the things that brings us right back to our childhood as TCKs is food. Today Claire joins us as share her journey and how it has impacted her upbringing and shaped who she is today. Claire Sibley is an Adult Third Culture Kid (ATCK) whose unique upbringing spans eight countries. As the daughter of a Marriott executive, Claire's childhood was marked by frequent moves and occasional stints living in hotels. Now settled in the Philadelphia area for nearly a decade, she continues to

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00:50:52

My Liberian Upbringing (ft. Georgie Davis)

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2024/11/04

Our guest Georgie joins us to talk about her TCK upbringing in Liberia in the 80s with Liberian sisters. Georgie Davis was born and raised a “third culture kid” in Monrovia, Liberia by American missionaries parents. At seventeen, she relocated to her father’s home state of South Carolina, where she met and married her husband, Artie. Driven by their commitment to diversity and unity, Georgie and Artie spearheaded the birth of a multi-ethnic church in a racially challenged community, watching it

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00:32:13

Healthy Risk Taking (ft. Anna Danforth)

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2024/10/19

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

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00:50:56

Processing Your Emotions (ft. Chris Bret-Harte)

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2024/10/08

Chris, recently discovering the term TCK, shares his journey learning to process his emotions with the multiple layers of growing up as a TCK. Chris is a TCK who grew up moving throughout Latin America. Every member of his immediate family was born in a different country. It's been a journey of obstacles and joys, and it's something he's excited to talk about! Blog: Christopher's Substack ------------------------ If you would like to be a guest on the podcast as well, feel free to reach out and

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00:52:07

Culture and Consciousness (ft. Jennifer Lee Peterson)

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2024/09/23

Jennifer shares her story of growing up in Hong Kong and shares her experience of transitioning back to the US.Jennifer Lee Peterson, HK MPK TCK, was born during the Vietnam War (and a typhoon), in colonial Hong Kong, the youngest of 4, to a China-born American Lutheran missionary preacher (himself a missionary preacher's kid - MPK), and to mom, a teacher. Jennifer lived in Hong Kong most of her first 13 years, with a few years in the midwest and eastern coast U.S., then high school in

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00:47:20

Awareness of Being a TCK (ft. Annegret Bertsch)

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2024/09/02

TCK mom and Expat Coaching Specialist, Annegret shares her experience of the moment she discovered the term "Third Culture Kid" and how that has changed the way she parents her kids. Annegret Bertsch, ECPC, is a solution-focused coach with a diploma from Erickson Coaching International. Specializing in assisting expatriates and their families, she provides guidance during and after their time abroad. With experience in supporting people who have dealt with culture shock, expat guilt and

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00:44:22

Ups and Downs of the TCK Life (ft. Tina Watson)

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2024/08/27

Tina joins us today as she shares her story of growing up staying in one place then now the mom that moves her kids around the world. We talk about identity, and how faith has led to her viewpoint today.Tina was raised as a TCK in Egypt, and now now is raising my own two TCK boys. She is currently live in Italy with her family. ------------------------ 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

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