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Between Passports
by Vini T.
Ever felt like you’re reading a room in a language you don’t quite speak yet?Between Passports explores the "cultural competency gaps" that define the immigrant and traveler experience. Host Vini dives into the awkward, beautiful, and life-changing moments that happen when our old worlds collide with our new ones. Through listener-submitted stories, we bridge the gap between where we’ve been and where we’re going.Weekly episodes. Occasional surprises. Always authentic.🌍 Ready to share your story? Head to betweenpassports.com and join the conversation.
Episodes
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THE SECOND GENERATION | Episode 19
For 28 years, Marina was the Chinese girl in Brazil. Then she visited China for the first time. Within ten minutes, she discovered that people there saw her as a foreigner, too. Born and raised in São Paulo to Chinese parents, Marina had spent her entire life answering one question: "Where are…
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WHEN ARE YOU GOING BACK? | Between Passports – Episode 18
Seven years. A mortgage. A dog. A career. A favourite café. Neighbours who knew her by name. Camila, from Mexico, had built an ordinary life in Sydney, Australia. And that was exactly the point. Then, at a dinner party, someone she'd just met asked: “So... when are you going back?” Going back...
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The Citizenship Test | Episode 17
Sara studied Canadian history for six months. She learned the Prime Ministers, the provinces, Confederation, the rights and responsibilities of Canadian citizens. She passed the test, took the oath, and eventually received her new Canadian passport. Then her father called from Tehran. He was…
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The Bargain | Episode 16
Linh grew up in Vietnam, where the first price wasn't always the final price. Bargaining wasn't rude. It was simply part of buying something. Then she moved to Australia. A supermarket cashier was confused. A pharmacy wouldn't negotiate. And at an Apple Store, one innocent question — “What’s your...
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The Promotion | Between Passports Ep. 15
Daniel moved from Kenya to Canada believing that good work would speak for itself. His performance reviews seemed to prove him right: excellent work, reliable, technically outstanding. But when management positions opened, Daniel kept getting passed over. The feedback changed slightly each time…
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The Reverse Move | Between Passports Ep. 14
Aiko left Japan for Brazil because she fell in love. Tokyo was organized, predictable and quiet. Rio was almost everything she had been raised not to expect: loud, spontaneous and constantly inviting itself into her life. Years later, she still misses Japan every day. But when someone asks…
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Between Passports Ep. 13 – The Group Chat
Every morning, Kartik wakes up to more than 200 WhatsApp messages from fourteen different group chats. He knows what's happening in everyone's life. He just doesn't have anyone to have dinner with. A story about technology, distance, and why sometimes the opposite of loneliness isn't...
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Episode 12 – The Remittance
The first thing she paid every month wasn't her rent. It was home. Forty percent of her paycheck crossed the Pacific to the Philippines before Canada took its share. Before the landlord. Before life. She worked as a teacher in Vancouver. Every month, the transfer was almost automatic. Not because...
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Between Passports Ep. 11 - The Funeral
Her grandmother died in Peru. María was standing in a small apartment kitchen in Germany, still wearing the clothes she'd worn to work. The funeral was starting thousands of kilometers away. She wasn't late. She was impossible to reach. She opened airline websites. The cheapest ticket cost more...
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Between Passports Ep. 10 - Two Accents (Full Episode)
A seven-year-old boy comes home from his first week of school and asks his mother: "Mum, why do the other kids say I talk funny?" She freezes. Not because she doesn't know what to say. Because she's been asking herself the same question for years. Sofía is from Guatemala. She moved to Mexico. She...
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Between Passports Ep. 10 - Two Accents (Short Story)
A seven-year-old boy comes home from school and asks his mother: "Why do the other kids say I talk funny?" She freezes. Sofía is from Guatemala. She moved to Mexico with her son. She thought she understood what it meant to adapt to a new country. Replace your vocabulary. Replace your identity....
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Between Passports Ep. 09 - Both, Always
This week is different. Urmi Hossain asked us to use her real name. She was born in Italy. Her family is Bengali. She now lives in Canada. For years, she lived a dual life. Not because anyone asked her to. Because it was easier. Italian outside. Bengali at home. Different rooms. Different…
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Between Passports Ep. 08 - The Return
Emeka left Lagos for London at 22. Twelve years later, he finally went home. He expected to feel like himself again. Instead, he found that home had moved while he was away—not just the city, but his place in it. His accent was no longer Nigerian enough. He was called "the Londoner" with pride…
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Between Passports Ep. 07 - The Sick Day
Lucas from São Paulo moved to Munich for work. When he got sick, he did what he'd always done: he called his manager and told him everything. The fever. When it started. The exact feeling. The paracetamol at 2am. The orange juice his flatmate brought. The call lasted 6 and a half minutes. His...
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Between Passports Episode 06 - The Name
Mei-Lin walked into her first job at 24 years old. Her manager mispronounced her name twice, then asked: "Do you have something easier?" She invented Amy on the spot. She used it for three years. This is a story about the small surrenders immigrants and minorities make in professional…
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If Something Happened Tonight, Who Would You Call? The Story of a Nurse Who Couldn't Answer | Between Passports Episode 5: The Emergency Contact
Ana is a nurse in Singapore. For six years, she's handed hospital forms to hundreds of patients. They fill in the emergency contact line without thinking—husband, mother, sister. One Tuesday, she became the patient. And she couldn't fill in the blank. This is a story about the safety net you…
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Maman vs. Nonna: How an Iranian and Italian Family Nearly Broke a Wedding | Between Passports Episode 4
When Layla decided to marry Marco, she didn't just marry him. She married two families—one Iranian, one Italian. Both loud. Both loving. Both absolutely certain they knew the right way to do a wedding. The Tahdig was non-negotiable. Three types of antipasto was the minimum. The ceremony would…
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Episode 3: The Queue — The Rule No One Tells You
“There was a gap. I stepped into a gap.” What happens when something completely normal in one culture… is a silent crime in another? This episode follows Youssef, a Moroccan project manager living in London, who makes a simple mistake in a coffee shop — stepping into a gap in a queue. What he...
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Between Passports Ep. 01-02 - The Accent
Arjun is an engineer from India living in Seattle. For six months, he spent every night on a commuter train practicing a new accent—working on his R's, flattening his sentence rhythms, erasing the sound of where he came from. Nobody asked him to. His boss never complained. The system just made…
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Between Passports Ep. 01-01 - The Last One at the Table.
Gabby arrived in Toronto knowing nobody. When her roommate invited her to a birthday party, she thought she'd finally found her moment to belong. So she stayed. While everyone else left, one by one, she stayed—honoring an invisible rule from home that nobody in Canada seemed to follow. This is a...
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00: Welcome to Between Passports – The Stories That Don't Make the Postcard
Have you ever moved countries and realized your life just became a beautiful, hilarious disaster?" Welcome to the trailer for Between Passports, a new podcast dedicated to the raw, unfiltered, and deeply human experiences of living abroad. Hosted by Vini T.—a trilingual international education...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Ever felt like you’re reading a room in a language you don’t quite speak yet?Between Passports explores the "cultural competency gaps" that define the immigrant and traveler experience. Host Vini dives into the awkward, beautiful, and life-changing moments that happen when our old worlds collide with our new ones. Through listener-submitted stories, we bridge the gap between where we’ve been and where we’re going.Weekly episodes. Occasional surprises. Always authentic.🌍 Ready to share your story? Head to betweenpassports.com and join the conversation.
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Vini T.
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Ever felt like you’re reading a room in a language you don’t quite speak yet?Between Passports explores the "cultural competency gaps" that define the immigrant and traveler experience. Host Vini dives into the awkward, beautiful, and life-changing moments that happen when our old worlds collide...
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