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What happens when your cultural heritage comes from one country, but your upbringing and worldview are shaped by another, and then you return to that ancestral culture as an expat?

In this episode, Sabiya welcomes Bindi Basan, a British-born transformation leader with Punjabi roots, whose global career has taken her from Yorkshire to Mumbai, Dubai, Singapore, and beyond.

Together, they explore the subtle and surprising layers of of identity, leadership, cultural nuance, and unconscious learning. 

 Key themes explored in this part:

• Navigating leadership as a Third Culture Kid
• What it’s like to be an expat in the country your grandparents called "home" 
• Holding onto inherited culture while the homeland evolves
• Language, identity, and the subconscious cultural code-switching
• Hidden blind spots of global leaders and cross-cultural teams
• How intuition and lived experience shape cultural sensitivity
• The reality of being misidentified, and misunderstood, across geographies
• Social etiquette from Japan, to India, and the power of adaptation
• When intuition meets experience: sensing unspoken tensions in diverse teams

Subscribe for Part 2, where we dive deeper into leading with authenticity, resilience, and creative expression.

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