S3E02 - Walking Brands (ft. Natasha Ibrahim)

The guys are joined by the hilarious Amira Elbanna for this episode! Half-Egyptian, half-Finnish, Amira grew up in the UAE, Finland and is now based in Luxembourg. She chats with us about transitioning from the Middle East to Finland, the few media she enjoys watching and the experience of having her own YouTube channel as a content creator. Check her out at @same.but.different.amira on Instagram and Same Same But Different on Youtube!  Buy us a coffee at our Kofi page! https://ko-fi.com/thirdculturetalks  Music: Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Once again, the boys embark on new and uncharted territory. This time its the wild, unpredictable, and prolific world of... Fashion! Join Dan, Caye, and this episode's wonderful guest Shrouk Golestaneh, as they talk about TCK fashion, how being a TCK has influenced her design process in her own enterprise, the state of the industry, the parallels between all artistic constellations, and the pressures of making it as a designer... oh and also something about Korean food! Join for us for a very, dare we say... "stylish" episode Buy us a coffee at our Kofi page! https://ko-fi.com/thirdculturetalks Music: Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

In our original recording with @sophiaslice from @floaters_podcast we had an extra segment that we found hilarious, but didn't quite match the tone of the episode. If anyone on Broadway makes our idea, you heard it here first! Buy us a coffee at our Kofi page! https://ko-fi.com/thirdculturetalks Music: Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

What happens when podcasters host other podcasters? In this episode we host the host of the Floaters podcast, Sophia! With a mixed heritage of German, Spanish and English and growing up in Nigeria, Colombia, Estonia and Poland, Sophia shares experiences about boarding schools, moving back in with her whole family since she was little, and how history is best told by older family. Together we share cooking tips and our mutual experiences starting DIY independent podcasts!  This episode doesn't include a following bonus segment, which features our pitched collaboration project: Jurassic Park: the Musical. Keep an eye out for when we drop that bonus!  Buy us a coffee at our Kofi page! https://ko-fi.com/thirdculturetalks Music: Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

For this episode we digitally sat down, despite a few technical issues, with Natasha Ibrahim, whose complicated background includes India, Pakistan, Uganda, Canada, the USA and Australia and was calling in from Costa Rica. Natasha is a travel blogger, fitness model and global nomad entrepreneur! We talk about adapting accents to new environments when moving, the responsibilities of travel bloggers when promoting tourism, and how to choose your career path by what you want, rather than what is expected of you.  Music: Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

For our season 3 premiere, we invited Ruth E. van Reken, the co-author of "Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Between Worlds" on the podcast! We chat about the history of getting Third Culture Kids as terminology into publication and its development over the years with now three editions of the book, the wider umbrella of increasingly diverse cross-cultural stories, and how culture is a shared concept, which is what makes TCKs a collective of individuals that are, themselves, each a collective of cultural influences. Buy us a coffee at our Kofi page! https://ko-fi.com/thirdculturetalks Music: Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

The TCT duo meet another boat kid and decided it was time for our two boats to clash! Bringing back Selene Collins from season 1, who grew up on a sailboat around Latin America, and Rob Renger, who grew up on a mission ship travelling around the world. They compare notes about storms, happy stickers and box people.  Buy us a coffee at our Kofi page! https://ko-fi.com/thirdculturetalks Music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4342-shades-of-spring License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Today we feature another guest who reached out to us to share her story. Born to Dutch and Bolivian parents, Anne grew up in rural Peru, Bolivia, Nepal, before questioning her identity in the Netherlands. She shares stories about fishing for piranhas, working with mobility preparation for local schools with cross-cultural kids, and reinventing herself as a teenager in Nepal.  Buy us a coffee at our Kofi page! https://ko-fi.com/thirdculturetalks Music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4342-shades-of-spring License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This episode's guest is Jane Wang, a life coach, intercultural trainer, and overall inspiration to self-actualise your life by discovering your own goals rather than those arbitrarily set by society. She joins us for discussions about identity crises, international dating commitment issues, and a lot of Wang puns.  Buy us a coffee at our Kofi page! https://ko-fi.com/thirdculturetalks Music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4342-shades-of-spring License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Caye and Dan return to a two-person format to celebrate the completion of his bachelor's degree. We take the opportunity to talk about architecture, modern German culture, movies, tourism, the experimental nature of exploring ourselves through the safe space of fiction, and how Caye is actually the old soul deep inside.  Buy us a coffee at our Kofi page! https://ko-fi.com/thirdculturetalks Music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4342-shades-of-spring License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/