"Same, same but different" with Yasmine Sadri

Accra-based chef, Kuda Makoni shares his adjustment to the U.S. after arriving from his native Zimbabwe as a young person on the cusp of adulthood. He shares his personal journey of trying to find the right spaces to fit and how his eventual journey into the culinary world just changed everything.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode, actress Georgia Goodman  discusses her early years growing up mixed race in Asia & Africa and managing the situations where people did not know how to categorize her. She also shares how her internationalism has helped her career and why she thinks the UK film industry is becoming more inclusive. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode, we explore the life of therapist Anna Linde, a Brazilian adoptee who was raised in Sweden. Anna shares her experience of the struggle to understand her identity as a person of color and recounts what happened when she finally met her biological family. She also discusses her year of travel while worldschooling her children. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode, Yasmine Sadri discusses her highly mobile childhood growing up between Belgium and the U.S. She shares how her work with marginalized populations was partly inspired by her family’s own immigrant movement story. Yasmine also discusses how she's currently using her voice to speak on behalf of those who don’t have the platform or the freedom to do so.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Global Marketing & Communications expert Doni Aldinevshares her memories from her vibrant, highly mobile third culture kid childhood. She also discusses why she built Culturs and why her work especially focuses on the spaces that exist even in cross-cultural contexts.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Researcher and programme manager Motsabi Rooper discusses growing up mixed-race in a predominantly White family in the UK. She also shares her journey of working in the foreign service and her eventual decision to leave. She also highlights why she is centering her work on supporting parents raising children of color in mixed families or those who have gone through transracial adoption.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Consultant Marti Tesfaye describes her journey from Ethiopian-American kid in the 90s NYC to Ethiopian-American adult in Ethiopia. She discusses the pivotal, societal moments  that encouraged her and her husband  to leave their successful, professional life  for the country where their immediate family had emigrated from decades prior.  She also  dissects the ways her own  move mirrors and differs from what her family experienced going West. --Stay connected with The Global Chatter!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Marketer and content creator, Jessy Bernard reflects on growing up between her Black, Caribbean and American identities. We discussed the long-standing and challenging stereotypes about Haiti, and this leads to a greater conversation about the media depictions of black countries. She talks about living in a country where you don't have to think about being Black, and gives some insight as to how she's been able to maintain her career and work remotely.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Ancestors unKnown founder, Dana Saxon, returns to the podcast to talk about life in Bristol (England). She shares the struggles of finding community as a solo expat in her 40s, why she doesn’t refer to herself as an expat, and what the highs of building on a social digital enterprise across borders.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week’s revisit episode is with Tamara Thorpe. She’s a leadership coach and organizational strategist whose career has taken her to 30+ countries.  In this look back, Tamara shares how her mother’s willingness to let her spend an unusual summer in Europe sowed the seeds for the international life she has built.Take a listen, then revisit Season 3, Episode 1 to hear her full episode. And don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review and share this podcast with others!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy