Third Culture Kid

How courage and curiosity fuel creativity, and how every young person can start small but think global. When I started selling slime at seven years old, I didn’t think of myself as an entrepreneur. I just wanted to make something cool, share it with my friends, and earn enough to buy more glitter. My “company” was made of Tupperware containers, food coloring, and an overly confident CEO, me. Looking back, that little side hustle taught me more than any business class ever cou

Most people remember school through classrooms, lockers, and lunch bells. I remember a place where none of that existed. Hualien, Taiwan was my classroom for a season, mountains instead of walls, ocean wind instead of hallways, and learning that didn’t arrive in textbooks but in people. Living alongside Indigenous Taiwanese communities near Jiqi Beach reshaped my understanding of what it means to belong. Nothing about that time was performative or “cultural tourism.” It was i