Unapologetically U.S. is a podcast with Dr. Omotayo Banjo, professor of media psychology and expert on cultural identity, which shakes up our racial and cultural boxes. In this podcast immigrants and their children celebrate our unique heritage, consider what it means to live in between cultures, and contemplate what it means to be American.
Undoing what we Inherited: Healing from Systemic Racism
In this episode, Dr. Meera Murthi process her status as Brahmin (an upper caste group) in India and being South Asian in the U.S. A compassionate, reflective soul she discusses the work of deconstructing her privilege in service of the greater good--Love.
27 Jul 2025
Swipe Left on Tradition: Dating as a Second Gen
What do you do when you are raised in two cultures and you are looking for love? In this episode, we discuss finding love as a transnational, second-generation American,
18 Jul 2025
The Taste of Heritage: From Ghana, With Flavour
In this episode, Kwesi, co-owner of a local African restaurant reflects on his identity journey. Kwesi discusses learning to find himself and becoming secure in his Africanness while being an American.
11 Jul 2025
Crowned Across Continents: Building Community, Filling the Gap
We have heard it said, "If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far go together" In this episode, Dr. Banjo talks to Chief Ife Bell the Zosimli Naa of the Kingdom of Dagbo in Ghana, born in the United States. Listen to her story of finding her roots, discovering her purpose, and developing communities!
3 Jul 2025
The Value, Work and Labor of the Immigrant
In this episode, Sina Safayi shares his experience as an immigrant from Iran and his personal success in the U.S. A champion for education, reminds us that we are country of countries, a culture of cultures, and he shares how the success of a nation is largely based on immigrant labor and professional pursuits.
25 Jun 2025
Connecting to Your Root Systems
In this episode, I chat with Carol Tonge, author and founder of End Polite Silence. We discuss the importance of staying rooted while branching out to explore new worlds and the importance of our root systems on how see ourselves and where we see our future.
16 Oct 2021
Transnational Adoption and Finding a Cultural Identity
In this episode, Rebecca Snyder shares about her experience being an Adopted Chinese-American. Making sense of being Chinese in a White family, feeling disconnected from China, and at times feeling othered in America.
2 Oct 2021
Mental Health and Boundaries
I got to chat a little more with Dr. Zainab Okolo about managing boundaries as a second-gen while belonging to a collectivistic culture but growing up in an individualistic one.
2 Oct 2021
On Mental Health and Being Second Gen
In this episode, we discuss the tension between growing up in U.S. culture and having a collectivistic ancestral heritage. How do we cope with our identity as individuals, maintaining our psychological well-being, develop relational intimacy, and express boundaries in cultures that might be more enmeshed, hierarchical, or authoritative? At a certain age, do we listen to our parents or listen to ourselves? Do we sit with our feelings or do we push past them? Our experiences are certainly not generalizable but might resonate.
17 Jul 2021
Raising Second-Generation Children in the U.S.
Foreign-born Americans may learn to assimilate, but their ancestry is in their heart. What considerations are given to raising their children born in America? Jin and Hyeri discuss their assimilation experience and their journey raising second-generation children as Asian-Americans. We also discuss how they process and teach their children about racism, anti-Asian sentiments and tensions between Black and Asian communities in the U.S.
10 Jul 2021
Secure at the Intersection
In this episode, Dr. Charisse L'Pree, media psychologist and communication professor, shares her experience as a monoethnic and multiracial American, how she navigates being in her motherland Guyana and her homeland America and rests in the complexity of her identity as an Afro-Sino Guyanese Black and Asian American woman in the United States.
4 Jul 2021
Changing the Narrative
In this episode, I chat with comedian and actor Seyi Brown about the impact of representation on the Nigerian immigrant experience and the value of shifting the narrative as an industry insider.
25 Jun 2021
Living In Between
In this episode I talk with my friend of almost 20 years, Stutee K, an immigrant from India and mother of a second-generation American. We discuss assimilation, transnationalism, belongingness, and feeling like an immigrant or their children are never truly one or the other by virtue of of having a mixed cultural experience.
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