Home Is Something You Carry: Third Culture Kids, Identity & Belonging

Quiero un panino con cheese, July 2026

What does home really mean when you’ve spent your life moving between countries, cultures, and continents?

In this episode, Gaia Striano and Sam Frearson-Tubito—author, speaker, and third-generation global nomad—talk about the realities of growing up as a Third Culture Kid (TCK), raising globally mobile children, and navigating identity, belonging, and home across cultures.

Having lived in 15 countries and raised four fourth-generation global nomads, Sam shares her deeply personal journey of international relocation, expat parenting, and motherhood. Together, discussions about the emotional realities of global mobility, the gifts and challenges of raising multicultural children, and why belonging isn’t tied to one place—it is something we build throughout our lives.

What does home mean when you’ve lived everywhere?

House of Peregrine, June 2026

In this episode, Mickelle welcomes back repeat guest Sam Frearson Tubito, third-generation global nomad and author of Beneath a Borrowed Sky. Sam returns to explore motherhood, identity, belonging, raising fourth-generation global nomads, and the truth that home may be something we carry within ourselves. Plus: the emotional reality of adult children living across the world, the unseen work of the supporting spouse abroad, learning the language of every new life chapter, and what it means to live honestly in the in-between.

Third Culture Kids, Identity & Home: Life Across Borders

Female Entrepreneurs Magazine, April 2025

In this episode of The Real Female Entrepreneurs, Angel France talks with Sam Frearson-Tubito, a third-generation global nomad and mother of four grown Third Culture Kids. She shares her lived experience navigating identity, belonging, and reinvention across borders, and how those lessons continue to shape her work, family, and creative projects. You’ll walk away from this conversation with a new perspective on resilience, planning, identity, and what it really means to call a place home – no matter how often that definition changes.

Redefining ‘Home’ | Pico Iyer’s Wisdom | short clip

House of Peregrine, March 2025

“Home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul.” — Pico Iyer. Sam Frearson-Tubito is shifting our understanding of home this week on the podcast.

“Home is not a place, it is a feeling” Raising kids across continents

House of Peregrine, March 2025

In this episode, lifelong Third Culture Kid and memoirist Sam Frearson-Tubito traces her journey from St. Kitts to France, Zaire, Côte d’Ivoire, Hong Kong, Zambia, Egypt and beyond, explains how she and her British-Italian husband have raised four children across Holland, Tokyo and the U.S. without boarding school, and shares hard-won lessons on identity, resilience, co-parenting decisions, language learning hacks and crafting a stable family culture amidst constant change. Sam also reveals why “home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul,” why she’ll never tell her kids “the world is your oyster” again, and how giving her children the world now means following them around it later.