People Like Us

Aida Karabu is a Kenyan TCK who lived in Kenya, Tanzania, Cambodia, Ethiopia, UK, Kenya again and currently resides in Canada. Aida talks about her hardest move which was at the typical age for TCKs ...

11 Nov 202030min

Tamara Yousry is a TCK with mixed heritage – English and Egyptian who has ended up in Perth, Australia. Her whole life is one of travel and culture, having lived in Kuwait, Egypt, England, Scotland, ...

4 Nov 202029min

Richard Loat is a TCK who currently lives in Singapore. He is hugely interesting, not least because he's in the process of writing a book about famous and successful TCKs. The reason he's doing this ...

28 Okt 202030min

Nathan didn't know he was a TCK until recently. He has been delighted to discover that actually, he's not mad (!!) and that there's a whole world of people like us. When we talked for this episode of ...

21 Okt 202028min

Christopher O’Shaughnessy is a passionate and versatile author and speaker who uses a unique blend of story-telling, humor, and provocative insight to engage a wide array of people on topics ranging f...

14 Okt 202032min

Stephen Yap currently lives in the UK, having spent his formative years between Hong Kong and the UK. He describes the very real experience of reverse culture shock. He also discovered that his know...

7 Okt 202032min

Carolina Travaglio lives in Spain. She was born in Venezuela and moved to France aged 18 months. She then moved to the USA returning to Venezuela aged 7 and stayed there until she was 19. The intern...

30 Sep 202029min

Javaneh Pirzad is an unusual subject for my podcast, because she’s not a TCK herself. However, her child is. Javaneh is British-Iranian and grew up in Iran. She has lived most of her adult life as a...

23 Sep 202033min