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Gentle Boundary Statement
Grown Between Worlds is a storytelling and reflective space — NOT a debate forum, a hot-take platform, or a place for sensationalized trauma.
While many guests work in mental health and community settings, this podcast does NOT provide therapy, clinical advice, diagnosis or crisis support.
If you are experiencing acute distress or are in crisis, please contact local emergency or mental health services in your region.
We are committed to creating a space grounded in respect, anti-oppression and compassionate dialogue.
Hate speech, harassment or dehumanizing rhetoric will not be tolerated in community interactions!
FAQs
Who is this podcast for?
Grown Between Worlds is for adult children of immigrants seeking validation, language, and connection.
It’s also for non-immigrant partners who want to better understand their loved one’s lived experience, and for therapists, educators, and community workers supporting immigrant communities.
We especially center women, queer and trans, neurodivergent, and disabled people navigating complex cultural and relational dynamics
Do I need to identify as an immigrant to listen?
NO. While we centre adult children of immigrants, our themes — identity, belonging, love across difference, family expectations, and redefining success — resonate widely.
If you’ve ever felt “in between,” you may find yourself reflected here.
Why does this podcast feel important right now?
In a time of rising xenophobia and hostility toward marginalized communities, we believe stories matter.
This podcast creates space for nuance, visibility and shared wisdom — honouring the resilience and depth of people living between cultures.
Is this a mental health podcast?
Not in a clinical sense...
While many guests work in mental health and community settings, this is a storytelling space — not therapy or clinical advice.
Listening does NOT replace professional support.
What topics do you explore?
We explore identity, code-switching, intergenerational dynamics, intercultural partnerships, queerness, neurodivergence, redefining success, and the ways migration shapes love, career and wellbeing.
Each season includes an introduction, guest conversations, and closing reflections.
Can I suggest a topic or apply to be a guest?
YES. You can share anonymous feedback, suggest themes, or apply to be a guest through our Contact page.
We review submissions seasonally.
Season 1 Episodes
Available Weekly - Starts April 15, 2026
S1 E1:
"What Does It Mean to Grow Between Worlds? The Identities We Inherit & Choose"
In this opening episode, Forouz Salari (she/her) and Miranda Ramnarayan (she/her) reflect on identity, belonging, and their experiences as first- and second-generation immigrants.
Through personal stories, they explore cultural negotiation, inherited expectations, and the influences that have shaped their lives.
They also share why they created Grown Between Worlds: to hold space for thoughtful, honest conversations that honour the complexity of immigrant experiences and amplify voices too often left out of the wider narrative.
S1 E2:
"Who Gets to Belong? Cultural Negotiations in the Diaspora"
Nikoo (Nikki) Sedaghat (she/her) reflects on growing up as the child of first-generation Iranian immigrants and the layered experience of identity, belonging and cultural heritage.
She shares what it means to move between cultures, navigate Islamophobia and carry the protective habits shaped by expectation, pressure and the need to fit in.
The conversation also touches on body image, beauty standards, connection to land, and changing ideas of success within immigrant communities.
It’s a thoughtful episode about cultural humility, emotional intelligence, and learning how to connect more honestly.
S1 E3:
"Embracing Queer Arab Identity post 9-11"
Rayan Anton (he/him), a queer and trans Palestinian, reflects on growing up as the child of immigrants while navigating identity, belonging, and life in a new country.
He speaks about queerness, cultural inheritance, grief, and the weight of returning to a homeland shaped by distance and loss.
This episode is a powerful conversation about self-definition, fluid identity, and making space for all the parts of who you are.
S1 E4:
"Too Much, Too Loud, Too Brown: Xenophobia in the New World”
Tracey Jastinder Mann (she/they) reflects on a multi-generational experience of migration and the emotional, political and cultural forces that shape identity and belonging.
They speak to the pressure to assimilate, the weight of navigating multiple identities, and the lasting impacts of colonialism, capitalism and racism on migrant lives.
This episode is a powerful reminder that migration is not just personal. It is structural, collective, and deeply tied to healing, resistance and liberation.
S1 E5:
"Rewriting Masculinity & Performing Whiteness in the Diaspora"
Gio Iacono (he/him) reflects on growing up as the child of immigrants and the layered experience of cultural identity, belonging and self-definition.
He speaks about privilege, intergenerational influence, reconnecting with ancestral roots, and the courage it takes to move through different cultural worlds.
This episode is a thoughtful conversation about identity, loneliness, and what it means to honour where you come from while continuing to define yourself.
S1 E6:
"Between Grief & Gratitude: Intersections of Identity & Belonging"
Xuan-Yen (XY) Cao (she/they) reflects on their journey as a Vietnamese immigrant and the layered experience of identity, belonging and intersectionality.
They speak about the role of community, the impact of larger systems on personal life, and the importance of advocating for yourself while making sense of who you are.
This episode is a thoughtful conversation about fluid identity, empathy, self-compassion, and the beauty and complexity of growing between worlds.
S1 E7:
"Unapologetically Becoming: Cultural Reclamation after Immigration"
Sandra Borkovic (she/her) reflects on her experience as a first-generation Bosnian Serb immigrant, sharing how family, language, and ancestral roots shaped her sense of identity and belonging.
She speaks about settling into a multicultural environment, parenting across cultures, and the uncertainty that can come with building a life between worlds.
This episode is a thoughtful conversation about staying curious, practicing self-compassion, and navigating identity with care.
S1 E8:
"What We’re Taking with Us: Reflections on Season 1"
In this closing episode, Forouz Salari (she/her) and Miranda Ramnarayan (she/her) reflect on the shared emotional language of migration, identity and code-switching.
They speak about the tension between survival and self-erasure, the guilt that can come with cultural expectation, and the ongoing work of belonging without feeling like you have to explain your existence.
It’s a thoughtful conversation about what this season has revealed, what so many immigrant families carry, and the kind of honesty and connection they hope to bring into Season 2.
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Land Acknowledgement
Grown Between Worlds is recorded and produced across lands now known as Toronto, Ontario (Canada) and Queensland (Australia).
In Toronto, we acknowledge that Tkaronto is situated on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and the Mississaugas of the Credit River, and is covered by Treaty 13 and the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Treaty. This land is now home to many First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples, as well as settlers and newcomers.
In Queensland, we acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which this work is created, and we pay respect to Elders past and present.
As a podcast exploring migration, belonging and identity, we recognize that our conversations take place within ongoing histories of colonization and displacement. We are committed to continued learning, reflection, and support of Indigenous-led communities and initiatives in the places we live and work.
