You Can't Go Home - You Can Only Go Forward

About this episode

Nina Aziz Justin discusses her experiences of belonging across cultures and her memoir detailing her journey.

Nina Aziz Justin has lived in five countries, worked across forty-seven of them, and spent the better part of five decades asking the question that so many of us quietly carry: where on earth do I actually belong? She is a serial entrepreneur, cultural chameleon, and self-described "rat in the lab" of her own life experiments, Nina has channelled all of that lived complexity into her memoir, The Home Within: A Nonlinear, Soulful Memoir About Belonging Across Cultures and Change. Sh...

People in this episode

Host: Doreen Cumberford

Guest: Nina Aziz Justin

Topics covered

• belonging
• cultural identity
• memoir
• global transitions
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• belonging
• memoir
• cultural chameleon
• entrepreneur
• global transitions

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nomadic Diaries: Mastering Global Transitions

Books & works: The Home Within: A Nonlinear, Soulful Memoir About Belonging Across Cultures and Change

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