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The Destinations PodcastAuthor: Doni Aldine
Welcome to the DESTINATIONS PODCAST: Where we Explore your Cultural Passions so you can embrace your cultural identity as we bring you tools to Live in Full Color. Destinations Segments include: Destination homeor CultursCASA Destination cuisine-Including CultursCELEBRATIONS! Destination communityCultures. Connection with others, and Negra Como Soy (I am Afro-Latina) segments Destination relationshipsIncluding self-care Destination passion Business Doni Aldine, MBA, is a globally mobile Af ro-Latina and first-generation American (U.S., Trinidadian and Costa Rican Adult Third Culture Kid) who, by age 19, lived in & identified with seven cultures on five continents. As Editor-in-Chief for Culturs Global Multicultural Magazine, Aldine is passionate about creating community for cross-cultural populations. She has extensive global experience in communications, media and marketing for organizations both large and emerging. She has presented around the globe as a keynote, at conferences, at major universities & in major media outlets as an expert focused on communications, entrepreneurship, marketing, branding & cross-cultural identity. Aldine also developed university curricula for global culture identity and served on faculty in Journalism and Media Communication at Colorado State University. Language: en Genres: Education, Places & Travel, Self-Improvement, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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You've Been Code-Switching Your Whole Life — What If You Stopped?
Episode 4
Wednesday, 29 April, 2026
Your hair is different in every climate. Your voice is different in every room. You've gotten good at switching, but you've never gotten comfortable with it. Orion Brown, founder of Black Travel Box, created her brand because the beauty industry had a simple answer for travelers like her: figure it out yourself. But building the brand meant rejection from manufacturers, facing implicit bias every time she walked into a pitch, and fighting for limited funding. This episode explores what it looks like to stop performing long enough to ask what it's been costing you. Topics discussed: 00:00 - Introduction 02:00 - Black Travel Box 03:49 - Where the global beauty industry is lacking 05:54 - The Starter Kit + product line 09:47 - Why she had to formulate the products herself 14:58 - From pre-med to brand manager 22:16 - Losing authenticity in corporate environments 23:53 - The Unmasking Audit 24:33 - Why she finally left corporate 32:12 - The Japan trip that started everything 35:57 - Funding challenges no one warned her about 40:10 - Implicit bias and masking your way to funding 48:20 - Trinidad Carnival + body neutrality 🔗 CONNECT WITH ORION BROWN: https://theblacktravelbox.com/ ABOUT CULTURS: Reaching millions annually, CULTURS champions unique cultural identity, transforming culturally fluid populations (multiethnic and/or geographically mobile people like Third Culture Kids) from being invisible outliers to originals. This includes people of culture in the rapidly growing DNA testing-fueled Not Parent Expected (NPE) community. Our world-class, veteran team of researchers and professionals spans five continents. Get social with us: https://www.youtube.com/@CultursIntlMediaGrouphttps://www.instagram.com/Cultursmag/https://www.facebook.com/cultursmaghttps://www.pinterest.com/cultursmag/ Join the CULTURS community: https://shop.cultursmag.com/products/culturs-membership Original Music by Tommy McMillion, McMillion Entertainment Makeup by Sedrique Olsen Styling by Sonja Henderson
