In this episode I tell you all about the genesis of the podcast and the purpose behind it. So make yourself a good cup of blended coffee, (or blended cocktail, depending on the time it is on your side of the world) and come discover the story behind the big blend!

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🇱🇧🇫🇷 This episode’s guests are Cynthia Kasparian and Dior Sawaya, two Lebanese moms who have decided to transmit their mother tongue, in a foreign country.

With Cynthia and Dior, we talked about:

• The commitment it takes to speak your mother tongue in a different country
• Nurturing the imagination in the language, and developing a vocabulary around feelings
• Passing down traditions and celebrations
• The complexity of the Arab language and hence, it's transmission

Happy blending!

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Haref, Cynthia’s startup will be launched in a few months. If you want to be one of the first to know about their news:

Haref’s website: www.haref.fr

Haref’s instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/haref.fr/

The Big Blend’s website: https://www.thebigblend.co/

The Big Blend’s instagram page: https://instagram.com/thebigblend_podcast?utm_medium=copy_link

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🇮🇳🇫🇷 This episode's guest is Leena Radjibaly, a French with very strong Indian origins, today living in Bangalore.

With Leena, we talked about:

• The gap between the at-home-culture and the outside-of-home-culture
• Surrounding yourself with other multicultural people
• Telling your whole story, even if it is complicated
• Finding the balance between the two cultures

Happy blending!

The Big Blend’s website: https://www.thebigblend.co/

The Big Blend’s instagram page: https://instagram.com/thebigblend_podcast?utm_medium=copy_link

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🇪🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷 This episode’s guest is Robin Molinas, he grew up in London with a Spanish dad and a French mom.

With Robin, we talked about:

• Brothers with a similar education developing different attachments to the cultures
• Speaking the language vs. having the references
• Not belonging fully to any of the cultures
• Connecting as human beings through rituals

Happy blending!

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The Big Blend’s website: https://www.thebigblend.co/

The Big Blend’s instagram page: https://instagram.com/thebigblend_podcast?utm_medium=copy_link

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🇳🇱🇮🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭This episode’s guest is Ute Limacher Riebold, a language expert, and a multilingual mom herself.

With Ute, we talked about:

• Foreground languages and background languages
• Gamifying the navigation between languages while preserving monolingual situations
• Including the kids in the discussions and decisions
• Switching from being “neither, nor” to being “not only, but also”

Happy blending!

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You can find Ute’s courses and info on her website: https://utesinternationallounge.com/

The Big Blend’s website: https://www.thebigblend.co/

The Big Blend’s instagram page: https://instagram.com/thebigblend_podcast?utm_medium=copy_link

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🇵🇸🇱🇧🇨🇦🇯🇴 This episode’s guest is Marwan Farraj, a Palestinian-Lebanese activist and a super dad.

With Marwan, we talked about:

• Feeling Palestinian-Lebanese but having neither passports
• Transmitting culture through activism
• Educating kids about the state of the world & giving them the knowledge to navigate through their multiple cultures
• Managing different religious beliefs in the home

Happy blending!

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The Big Blend’s website: https://www.thebigblend.co/

The Big Blend’s instagram page: https://instagram.com/thebigblend_podcast?utm_medium=copy_link

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🇦🇺🇫🇷🇩🇪 This episode’s guests are Anna and Tanja, one is Australian and the other one is French. They have a little boy together and they live in Berlin.

With Anna and Tanja we talked about:

• Building a non-conventional and multicultural family
• Choosing a biological donor and defining his role in transmission
• The difficulty to transmit citizenship when you didn’t carry the child
• Creating a precedent and actually changing the law
• The burden of knowing that our decisions will shape our kid’s cultural identity

Happy blending! 🥣

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The Big Blend’s website: https://www.thebigblend.co/

The Big Blend’s instagram page: https://instagram.com/thebigblend_podcast?utm_medium=copy_link

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🇨🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪🇫🇷 This episode’s guest is Max Wolke, his family is English, German, Chilean, and French.

With Max, we talked about:

• Dialing up or down different cultures depending on the situation
• Filling in the blanks of family history with time
• Developing an interest in Politics and opinions thanks to cultural exposure
• Having family rituals that bring you closer to culture
• Friends and colleagues’ cultures rubbing off on you
• Valuing and respecting traditional mono-cultures

Happy blending!

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The Big Blend’s website: https://www.thebigblend.co/

The Big Blend’s instagram page: https://instagram.com/thebigblend_podcast?utm_medium=copy_link

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