Can You Speak Regular?

In this episode

• It Be Your Own Kids: She has done everything right. The trips, the food, the language, the flags on every wall. And then her four-year-old told her to speak regular. Every parent who has ever worked hard for their children and watched them casually undo it in one sentence will feel this moment.
• Bum Bum Bum: She does not just tell you what it feels like to leave Panama and come back to Washington DC. She shows you. You will feel the weight of that transition and laugh at the same time because that is just real life.
• They Came to Build the Canal: We rarely hear how different cultures ended up where they did. Her family came from Barbados and Jamaica to build the Panama Canal and never left. This is a piece of history most people have never heard and it will stop you.
• Parenting Is Deliberate: Her parents raised her in the United States and never once let Panama feel far away. The Sunday dinners, the trips back, the music, the language. Now she is doing the same for her children. This is what intentional heritage preservation actually looks like in practice.
• Reconnection Looks Different for Everyone: From speaking broken Spanish with confidence to getting your four-year-old into typico dance classes, she shows you that there is no one right way to stay connected. You just have to start somewhere.