"This meat suit is getting in the way!" Shelly Wright is the master of one liners, and the brain child of my new segment called 'Two TCK's Hanging Out, where Mike brings a regulary listener on the podcast to talk about being a TCK. And she's the first, of course! They start out by rating our celebrity hood (3:30), and then Mike asks Shelly the ridiculous question (6:00). They move on and talk about how many times she has moved (7:00), and what she is doing now (10:00). Shelly has "Joan of Arc" aspirations in conflict resolution management (11:00). They talk about how the "fallout" of being a TCK helps us professionally. They jump off the path a bit to ponder the differences with us and non-TCK's and how TCK's view the world they live in (18:00). Mike opens up about how his career ambitions overlap with Shelly's (22:00). On the other side of the coin Shelly shares what their TCK cryptonite is, since they often clumsily misrepresent a "soup of cultures". Then with the final question, Shelly shares what events helped her and her family solve the legacy issues that often plague TCK's from taking ownership of their own life as a "hybrid species". (33:00). Lastly, Shelly brings perspective to Mike's efforts with this TCK podcast and what it provides all of them "floating in [their] abyss" (38:00). Connect with the host, Mike Sullivan AND find out about his new book, Building Bridges: Can We Love & Relate in a Polarized World? https://sullyworks.com/

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