The Mindful Midlife Crisis Episode 74--Too Foreign for Here, Too Foreign for Home: A Korean Adoptee Meets Her Birth Family with Brook Mallak
In this week’s episode, Billy talks to Brook Mallak. Brook is a Korean adoptee who recently reunited with her birth mother and sisters for the first time. Brook is here today to talk about that reunification experience and how her time in Korea has her feeling too foreign for here, yet too foreign for home.
Billy and Brook discuss:
–How the two of them randomly met at a restaurant in Seoul
–What a reunification program looks like and how it happened for her
–Getting ahold of her family in Korea
–How the pandemic stretched out their reunion
–The idea of being too foreign for here, too foreign for home
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–Summer Session 4--Billy's Friends in High Places
–Episode 29--Discover Your Inner Awesome by Being Unapologetically You with Life Coach Jill Dahler
–Episode 44--The Urgency of Awareness with Jodi Pfarr
–Episode 33--How Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Make Us an All-Around Better Society with Global Inclusion and Diversity Business Leader Ericka Jones
–Episode 36--Finding Our Meaning and Purpose through Self-Journey with Dr. Yvette Erasmus
–Summer Session 6--Soul Walkers: Billy Finds Clarity and Meaning in Seoul with Iggy Lee
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