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 …

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 b…

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/thirdculturetalksMusic:Funkorama by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompet…

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 histo…

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 wh…

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-cul…

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!…

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 hers…

In a new milestone where we got to try out new technical issues, Dan invited one of his oldest friends, Armand, to share embarrassing stories from their childhood for Caye's amusement. Half French, half Chinese-Malaysian and having significantly lived in Indonesia, Thailand and the UK, Armand offers his perspective on cultural tourism, their shared…

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! …

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 …

Our guest for this episode, Keren Wang, grew up between Germany and China before now more or less settling in Switzerland. Find out how he went native, about his work in Swiss media, his bonding with Caye about their similar voices, and his complex thoughts about art history and cultural tourism. You might even find out what a Bünzli is. Buy us a c…

On this show our guest is Ben Voegele, an American TCK who grew up in Hong Kong and Taiwan, later also working in Shanghai for some time. He calls in from Utah to share his story with us, involving music puns, the global nature of McDonald's, and well, more name puns. Check out his live webcasts featuring travel and intercultural stories at Ben The…

Our guest in this episode features a very funny friend of the show, Ivana Cvijanovic, who grew up in Serbia, Germany and Switzerland. She talks about the prejudices in central Europe against the Balkans, the communal benefits of co-living in shared housing, and learning languages from TV. Buy us a coffee at our Kofi page! https://ko-fi.com/thirdcul…

We start the new year with a very special guest Danau Tanu PH.d, author of the book "Growing up in Transit: the Politics of Belonging at an International School." We discuss the themes of her book, examining the Third Culture experience from different post-colonial perspectives, identity crisis in later life, and the processes of adjusting to new e…

In this episode, we welcome our guest Megan C. Norton, intercultural trainer, podcaster and Adult Third Culture Kid. Currently based in Michigan, we get to share notes on that most particular of states, but further get to explore her more classic story of global nomad life: constantly moving every 3 years as the child of a diplomat and then for wor…

Dan and Caye take an episode for themselves to talk about something else cultural: subcultures. They discuss some subculture trends in music, geek culture, and their changes over time. The conversation also moves on to discuss how trying subcultures can relate to belonging, growth, and identity, but also be a bit of a human tendency towards tribali…

For this episode, Dan invites a friend, Borna Forsek, who was born in Croatia, grew up in Syria, studied hospitality with Dan in Switzerland, worked on cruise ships and is currently settling in Ireland. He shares stories of growing up in Damascus before the war, life as a hotel management student in Switzerland, and some hijinks in the hotel and cr…

Cayetano returns, this time with a guest from his own adolescence in Michigan, David Flores. He and Caye go down memory lane, particularly of their music journey together, but also include Dan in the discussion comparing International Baccalaureate programs between an American high school and an International School. David even provides a possible …

Caye has been flooded with real-life and had to sit out this episode, so Dan pulled in a comedian friend for a hangout session. Harry Fücks is half-English, half-German and a single dad of two living in Zürich. He has thrived in the local English-speaking comedy scene in Switzerland with his deadpan tone and dark humour. He also co-hosts the XYZ Po…

This episode features a very special guest, Ngoc Nguyen, the author of her upcoming book "Weird Culture Kids." Growing up Vietnamese but attending a French international school in Hanoi, Ngoc opens the door on the wider umbrella of international kids: internationally mobile, culturally confused, but not fitting into the traditional definition of a …

For their Season 2 premiere, Caye and Dan catch up! Dan talks about moving to Poland, they compare the pandemic in different countries, what "popular" meant in high school and how it feels to watch the US election from both inside and outside. This was obviously recorded prior to the 2020 election, so it will age extremely well. Music:Shades of Spr…

Things are changing and temporarily ending! We take a break for the end of the season, coinciding with Dan's move to Poland. They use the opportunity to chat a little about movies and how they're dubbed in different countries, and a bit of a retrospective on the season itself. Buy us a Coffee at https://ko-fi.com/thirdculturetalksMusic:Tuesday by S…

For this episode, Caye gets to meet an old friend of Dan's: Krisi Keranova. Krisi is originally Bulgarian, studied with Dan in Switzerland, and went on afterwards to travel the world. She talks about her sustainable coffee work in Panama, raising a multilingual child, and fun hotel stories . You can find her online managing the social media behind …

In this very special episode, we invite our guest Selene Collins to tell us the most unique story we've ever heard: growing up on a boat. She shares her stories of living on a boat as a child for 7 years, watching for pirates, sleeping on an anchor, only occasionally being abandoned on other boats to meet other boat kids. We even hear about her re-…

In this episode Caye gets to meet a friend of Dan's from his hostel volunteering and backpacking days. Jeremy is a hostel manager in Malaysia and has seen many travellers and volunteers, including Dan, pass through. The gang tell stories, discuss Malaysia as a travel destination, talk about the odd relationship of the business of tourism with the c…

In this episode, our guest is Aicha, born in Germany but grew up moving around multiple countries in Africa. As a cool, fun person we thought she would be perfect to share some general dating stories, and as a final treat to you, dear listener, to test some Third Culture themed bad pick up lines. Hilarity ensues. Tuesday by Sascha EndeLink: https:/…

In this episode, we have a chat with our guest, Trish Navidad, about life expectations and how that varies across cultures. We even somehow got to talking about sports. Trish is the social media manager for TCK Global, an online community for Third Culture Kids, and maintains her own blog @trishtypesaway tackling the issues of people facing the unc…

Dan and Caye talk one of Caye's favourite topics: music, especially those they associate with different parts of their heritage and history. They discuss the discovery of different music through different countries they lived in and adjusting to new places and the popular (or not) music of the time and place. Caye talks about Spanish Caltic rock, p…

For this episode, we interview Calvin Widjaja, the host and founder of Global CKtizens, an online show hosting interviews of and for Third Culture Kids. Calvin grew up between Singapore and Indonesia and has thoughts to share on how life sucks but it's what you do about it that uplifts you. We discuss the slippery slope that is nostalgia, especiall…

Remarking on the recent passing of grandparents, Caye and Dan talk about their family histories, dealing with both growing up far removed from their extended families due to their mobile upbringings and reacting to their passing while unable to travel. Dan's family history involves the family's experience of the Vietnam War and immigrating as refug…

Today Cayetano and Dan had a chance to interview Jen Mohindra, a Third Culture Kid sho grew up between the UK, Australia and Kenya with a mixed and adopted Scottish-Indian-English background. After years of career, Jen has become a Life Coach for TCKs, offering career and life advice for how to use their international backgrounds for their own self…

Today we share TCK stories with an invited guest, Chel! We talk travelling unattended as a minor, anthropology, moving with pets and messy CVs. You can find Chel at @deadbirdgallery on Instagram where she only sometimes photographs animals that look like they're sleeping. Music:Tuesday by Sascha EndeLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/2992-tuesdayLicen…

Cayetano and Dan talk Switzerland, our unpopular opinions about sitcoms and some cultural nuances in comedy, while Dan also gets to interview LA based comedian Erik Escobar about stand-up and online comedy and how it can make your life better. Follow him at @erikescobar for his ongoing online comedy spots! Music: Tuesday by Sascha EndeLink: https:/…

While testing a new recording method to hopefully increase our audio quality, Caye and Dan just started talking a little about architecture and a lot about movies. We weren't planning on releasing it but considering we wanted to talk about some of these topics anyway we thought we'd release it as a bit of bonus content. Intro and Outro Music:Tuesda…

On this episode, Cayetano and Dan talk about repatriation, when TCKs return to their passport countries, as well as volunteering experiences, all through the framework of how disappointing some media is. Intro and Outro Music:Tuesday by Sascha EndeLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/2992-tuesdayLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/--- Se…

Dan and Caye introduce what Third Culture Kids are, their own backgrounds, and meander about such topics as music, repatriation, and identity crisis. Apologies for audio quality here and there, we just wanted to get that first episode out! TCK Global Jams Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/26bOavXOlx45u3TkryRgVp?si=4cTWyhQ8SPC_96Bu…