How To Use Your Difference Make A Difference As Third Culture Kids

Last weekend I was in DC for the annual FIGT conference and it was such a beautiful experience because I got to meet people and Third Culture Kids that I had been interviewing, talking to and collaborating with for the past year and it was such a thrill. When someone asked me what the experience was like, you know speaking at my first conference about something I am so passionate about. I told her that it was such a rush. I went from being nervous pacing around the venue prior to the speech to feeling and amazing surge of energy right before the speech to relief that I had just delivered the speech without mistakes to being humbled by people clapping at something I had just said for six minutes and thirty seconds. I’ve never quite felt anything like it but I honestly feel like this type of conversation is more of what we need to have in today’s society.

We need to learn how to celebrate and embrace our differences.

Defeating the “supposed to” syndrome

Breaking down the “Berlin Walls” that exist today and

Connecting in a digital age.

DBC. Here’s the speech.

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Tayo Rockson

Tayo Rockson is the CEO and President of UYD Media, a media company that encourages people all over the world to use their difference to make a difference while celebrating diversity and educating others. He is an avid writer whose work can be seen on the Huffington Post, Among Worlds Magazine as well as Global Living Magazine. He is an authority on Third Culture Kids and assimilation into new cultures. He is the author of The Ultimate Guide To TCK Living and through his podcast and blog, he is heard and read by thousands of people in over 100 countries. He grew up in four different continents so he considers himself a citizen of the world. He has lived in Sweden, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Vietnam and the United States and his goal is to ultimately leave the world a better place than it was before he came into it. Once he discovered that he was a Third Culture Kid (TCK) or someone who spent the formative part of his childhood years (0-18) outside of his parents' culture, he vowed to use his global identity to make an impact in the world. Feel free to connect with him on Twitter @TayoRockson where he is actively making new friends every day.