Explaining to a co-worker how to say your name correctly, or picking your battles and avoiding that awkward conversation altogether. Failing to express your deepest emotions in your mother-tongue because you can't ever seem to tap into that passionate vocabulary when you most yearn to. Being one version of yourself with your co-workers, and a whole different version with your family, with neither group having unfettered access to your true self. We've all performed this balancing act on some level, an act that seems exponentially more convoluted if you are an immigrant.

If you're like us, you've had conversations about this balancing act with your friends and family, people with this shared experience. We created this Balancing Identities mini-series within this season to put some of these conversations on the record.

Over the next few episodes, we'll talk with some of our friends about their relationship with their unique names, we'll talk about our experiences as multilingual adults having to interact with the world through different languages, and we'll explore our experiences as Indians growing up in Zambia.

Check out the trailer for snippets and join us in unpacking these conversations in the upcoming episodes!

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