S01E12: Tayo Rockson still remembers what happened on Aug 22nd 2012.
He was dissatisfied with his job in a city he didn’t want to live in. Driving to work another car cut him off, forcing him to swerve into the road guard, and flipping his car onto its side.
He was left with no serious injuries. But this brush with harm or death stirred up an existential crisis, “Who am I? What have I done with my life?”
Now, nine years on, he is the CEO of UYD Management, a cross-cultural consultancy firm. He is the host of a successful cultural podcast, As Told By Nomads, where it’s on its 570th episode. And, he’s also been invited to do three TED Talks… in one year!
As a Nigerian, he has lived in four continents, five countries. He is now based in New York.
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Timestamps
(1:22) Tayo’s Third Culture Kid background
(12:36) Life under Dictatorship vs. Democracy
(19:51) UYD Management’s journey
(28:26) How to deal and communicate with ignorant and privilege people?
(34:14) A specific and vivid memory from his international childhood
(37:30) Tayo’s opinion on Black representation in America
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