In this episode of Successful Student Transitions: A Time to Thrive, we're joined by Lisa Liang an intercultural storytelling expert, speaker, actor, and TCK advocate for a deeply moving conversation about change, identity, and belonging.

Lisa grew up across Central America, North Africa, the Middle East, and the United States as a multiracial dual citizen, navigating constant movement from an early age. She shares how those early experiences of waking up in unfamiliar places, making friends in new classrooms, and shoving down the losses shaped her understanding of transition.

We explore:

• Why storytelling is the most powerful tool for navigating change and how expressing your experience creatively can transform pain into connection
• The difference between surviving and thriving through transition, and why your feelings, all of them are 100% valid
• Three practical go-to strategies for students facing new environments: giving your experience a "space and a place," grounding yourself through embodied breathing, and never dismissing what you feel
• Why the so-called "best years of your life" can feel like anything but and what to do when they don't

Whether you're a young person stepping into a new world, a parent watching from the sidelines, or anyone who's ever felt like the odd one out, this episode is a reminder that the mess and the magic of change are inseparable and that your story, however hard, is gold.

Find Lisa's work at interculturalstorytelling.com and her solo show Alien Citizen at aliencitizensoloshow.com