CULTURS explores how growing up across cultures, countries, and identities shapes who you become. Hosted by Elleyne Aldine, each episode is a conversation with someone whose life spans worlds. CEOs, artists, scholars, coaches, and everyday people who grew up between cultures, countries, and identities. How did moving between worlds make them think differently? Lead differently? Love differently? What did it cost them? And what did it give them that nothing else could? If you carry more than one language, more than one kitchen, more than one way of seeing the world, this show was made for you. You're not between worlds. You're the bridge. New episodes weekly.
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Dr. Charles Warter was born in Chile, moved around the US his whole childhood, and didn't have a word for any of it until he was 26 and stumbled onto the Third Culture Kid literature in grad school. Suddenly the quirks weren't quirks. The hyper-awareness when walking into a room, the friendships dropped without flinching, the way he read everyone before saying a word. All of it had a name, a body of research, and a community.
In this conversation with host Elleyne Aldine, Dr. Warter talks about building Protected Roots, his intensive treatment center for kids and young adults, and his new contract with TriWest, the largest insurer for military families. He breaks down why one sibling thrives in a constantly moving family and another struggles, why TCKs often find collaboration harder than connection, and why depending on other people is a skill, not a risk.
Topics discussed:
00:00 - Discovering the TCK literature at 26 and everything clicking
03:00 - Building Protected Roots and the TriWest military families contract
07:30 - The classroom moment he realized he was the one leaving
12:30 - Cultural humility, Hawaii, and getting rocked on the East Coast
14:30 - Why one sibling adapts and another struggles in the same family
20:30 - Why TCKs connect deeply but collaborate uncomfortably
24:30 - The third space and the universal language of attunement
28:30 - The farewell box and TCKs who have less to give
30:30 - Trusting your intuition, the first survival skill of a TCK
31:30 - Why depending on others is a muscle, not a risk
CONNECT WITH DR. CHARLES WARTER:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-charles-benjamin-warter-5bb2234a/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/PRI/100092351931156/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/protectedrootsintegrative
X: https://x.com/pritreatment
Website: https://pritreatmentcenter.com/
ABOUT CULTURS:
Reaching millions annually, CULTURS champions unique cultural identity, transforming culturally fluid populations (multiethnic and/or geographically mobile people like Third Culture Kids) from being invisible outliers to originals. This includes people of culture in the rapidly growing DNA testing-fueled Not Parent Expected (NPE) community. Our world-class, veteran team of researchers and professionals spans five continents.
Get social with us:
https://www.youtube.com/@CultursPodcast (https://www.youtube.com/@CultursPodcast)
https://www.instagram.com/Cultursmag/
https://www.facebook.com/cultursmag
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Join the CULTURS community: https://shop.cultursmag.com/products/culturs-membership
Original Music by Tommy McMillion, McMillion Entertainment
Hair by Tanya Mason
This episode was produced by Podcast Boutique: https://www.podcastboutique.com
18 Jun 2026
What It's Like Growing Up When No One Looks Like You
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Kimberly Ming is Chinese and Puerto Rican, born and raised in Fort Collins, Colo., U.S.A. where almost no one looked like her or her sister. The microaggressions weren't always big, but they piled up: A teacher asking who in the room believed racism existed and only her hand going up. A stepbrother's voicemail using a slur she didn't yet know the meaning of. The constant "what are you," asked more out of confusion than curiosity.
In this conversation with host Elleyne Aldine, Kimberly talks about moving to Puerto Rico to reconnect with the half of her family she barely got to know, raising her 11-year-old son across cultures, and turning years of feeling invisible into a spoken-word audiobook called “The Untold Stories of a Chinese Puerto Rican Woman.” She also shares the piece she wrote about being the China-Rican Borinqua-Wannis, and what it means to stop apologizing for being mixed.
Topics discussed:
00:00 - Growing up Chinese and Puerto Rican in Fort Collins
06:30 - Feeling isolated with no representation around her
07:30 - When small microaggressions become a bigger trauma
09:00 - The classroom moment that made her question herself
13:30 - Moving to Puerto Rico to reconnect with that side of her family
20:30 - What her ancestry chart revealed about her global lineage
23:30 - Raising a mixed 11-year-old son across cultures
27:30 - Giving her son a voice in the family's moves
30:30 - Why she wrote “The Untold Stories of a Chinese Puerto Rican Woman”
34:30 - Her spoken word piece on being the China-Rican Borinqua-Wannis
🔗 CONNECT WITH KIMBERLY MING:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberlyming/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberlyming/)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimberly.ming (https://www.instagram.com/kimberly.ming)
Threads: https://www.threads.com/@kimberly.ming (https://www.threads.com/@kimberly.ming)
Website: https://www.multiculturalmami.com/ (https://www.multiculturalmami.com/)
ABOUT CULTURS:
Reaching millions annually, CULTURS champions unique cultural identity, transforming culturally fluid populations (multiethnic and/or geographically mobile people like Third Culture Kids) from being invisible outliers to originals. This includes people of culture in the rapidly growing DNA testing-fueled Not Parent Expected (NPE) community. Our world-class, veteran team of researchers and professionals spans five continents.
Get social with us:
https://www.youtube.com/@CultursIntlMediaGroup (https://www.youtube.com/@CultursIntlMediaGroup)
https://www.instagram.com/Cultursmag/ (https://www.instagram.com/Cultursmag/)
https://www.facebook.com/cultursmag (https://www.facebook.com/cultursmag)
https://www.pinterest.com/cultursmag/ (https://www.pinterest.com/cultursmag/)
Join the CULTURS community: https://shop.cultursmag.com/products/culturs-membership
Original Music by Tommy McMillion, McMillion Entertainment
Hair by Tanya Mason
This episode was produced by Podcast Boutique: https://www.podcastboutique.com
11 Jun 2026
Why Multicultural Hair Needs a Completely Different Approach
Tanya Mason grew up between her Caucasian grandmother's fine hair and her Indian mother's hair that wasn't quite hers either. Nothing the beauty world taught her covered the texture in the middle. After 30 years behind the chair, she stopped following the rules and started asking why: Why conditioner? Why the big chop? Why nothing on the shelf actually worked?
In this conversation with host Elleyne Aldine, Tanya talks about the multicultural hair gap nobody taught her in beauty school, the ingredient in your conditioner that's also approved as jet fuel, and the water she trademarked that changed everything for her clients. She also shares her CPC formula: Commitment, patience, consistency. The restoration program that lets you keep your length, and why the real damage to your hair isn't the product, it's what's coming out of your tap.
Topics discussed:
00:00 - Growing up between her grandmother's and mother's hair textures
03:30 - 30 years behind the chair and what beauty school never taught her
05:00 - Why she became an educator to fix her own confusion
13:00 - Why the type of water you drink matters more than you think
16:00 - The story behind My Water and her trademarked process
20:30 - Why most people don't actually need conditioner
21:30 - The conditioner ingredient also approved as jet fuel
24:00 - What conditioner does once it dries on your hair
31:00 - The restoration program that lets clients keep their length
33:00 - CPC. Commitment, patience, consistency
CONNECT WITH TANYA MASON:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanya-mason-4a4561128/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanya-mason-4a4561128/)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tanyadoeshairllc/ (https://www.instagram.com/tanyadoeshairllc/)
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ABOUT CULTURS:
Reaching millions annually, CULTURS champions unique cultural identity, transforming culturally fluid populations (multiethnic and/or geographically mobile people like Third Culture Kids) from being invisible outliers to originals. This includes people of culture in the rapidly growing DNA testing-fueled Not Parent Expected (NPE) community. Our world-class, veteran team of researchers and professionals spans five continents.
Get social with us:
https://www.youtube.com/@CultursIntlMediaGroup (https://www.youtube.com/@CultursIntlMediaGroup)
https://www.instagram.com/Cultursmag/ (https://www.instagram.com/Cultursmag/)
https://www.facebook.com/cultursmag (https://www.facebook.com/cultursmag)
https://www.pinterest.com/cultursmag/ (https://www.pinterest.com/cultursmag/)
Join the CULTURS community: https://shop.cultursmag.com/products/culturs-membership (https://shop.cultursmag.com/products/culturs-membership)
Original Music by Tommy McMillion, McMillion Entertainment
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