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Join Jess and Thea in spilling the tea on the real life of third culture kids.From Third Culture Kids to worldly-wise adults, we're unpacking life's cultural suitcases with humor, insight, and a touch of chaos.
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The Job That Found Me on LinkedIn (opens the original)
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Jess gets into her career this time — what it means to be a Creative Director in advertising, why she still takes job interviews just for practice, and how one LinkedIn post pulled her from New York to Tokyo. On realizing her identity, as someone straddling East and West, is her biggest professional strength.Behind the Yellow Curtain is a podcast featuring honest, bilingual conversations with women navigating cross-cultural lives.
Losing Myself to Belong (opens the original)
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The loneliest night of her life, years of code-switching, and the microaggressions she didn't have words for yet — Jess on losing pieces of herself just to belong, and slowly finding her way back. Behind the Yellow Curtain is a podcast featuring honest, bilingual conversations with women navigating cross-cultural lives.
Fiction as a Lifeline (opens the original)
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Jess talks about childhood trauma and how she found her way to heal through fiction: movies, books, Disney and Pixar stories, and especially anime and manga, including one series that became a turning point for how she understood her own emotions. She gets into why fictional stories can reach parts of us that reality can't, and how the coping habits built in childhood quietly shape who you become. Personal, unfiltered, and a little feral. Welcome back to Behind the Yellow Curtain.
Finding Home Within Yourself (opens the original)
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Jess talks about what it means to be a cultural nomad: feeling like an outsider to her own culture since childhood, finding belonging in fiction before she had words for it, and the loneliness of moving first to the States and then to Japan. She gets into the idea of becoming your own culture, being your own home, and why no two cultural nomads share the same journey. Personal, unfiltered, and a little feral. Welcome back to Behind the Yellow Curtain. follow us on https://www.instagram.com/btycp
Tattoos, Bias, Belonging (opens the original)
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Jess talks about life as a "cultural nomad" in Japan: the discomfort of answering "where are you from," and the assumptions that come with looking one way and acting another. From tattoos read as intimidating to being told her honesty was "so American," she gets into how she's stopped letting other people's snap judgments define her identity. Personal, unfiltered, and a little feral. Welcome back to Behind the Yellow Curtain. Follow us on Instagram .
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