Our True Colors: Mixed Race Voices and Other Stories of Belonging
Our True Colors is a podcast about identity, belonging, and life in the in-between. We explore what it means to be mixed race, multiracial, multicultural, racially ambiguous — or to grow up across cultures, through adoption, or in any space where identity doesn’t fit neatly into a box.
What’s it like to feel like you fit everywhere yet belong nowhere, all at the same time? If you or someone you love has ever been called a racial riddle, an ethnic enigma, or a cultural conundrum, this show is for you.
Each season, host Dr. Shawna Gann — a business psychologist and author of Mixed Signals: A Multiracial Window into Civility and Belonging at work — is joined by a new co-host who brings their own lens. Together with guests, they share candid conversations, family stories, and professional insights that remind us we don’t clock in and out of our identities.
At its heart, Our True Colors is about connection: creating a space where mixed, multicultural, and cross-cultural voices can be heard, where belonging is explored, and where “otherness” becomes something powerful to claim.
Our True Colors is an extension of The Culture Crucible, Dr. Gann’s practice dedicated to building stronger, more inclusive workplace cultures. Learn more and connect at www.culturecrucible.com
Our True Colors: Mixed Race Voices and Other Stories of Belonging
Latest Episodes
Living in the Third Space: A Story of Transcultural Adoption with Kim Bell
Kim Bell was born in Korea, adopted at three and a half, and raised in New York City by a white father and a Chinese mother who shared her culture as if Kim were Chinese too. Growing up, people kept telling her she wasn't Asian enough, white en...
Ordering the Whole Fish: Finding Yourself in the In-Between with Kim Middleton
In this episode, Dr. Kim Middleton joins Dr. Shawna Gann to talk about growing up Korean American and White in Las Vegas, being misread in both White and Korean spaces, and the rare, life-changing moments when someone sees you exactly as you se...
Transracial Adoption: Two Sisters, Two Journeys with Maeve and Shea Lucas
“We don’t look like we belong together, but we do.” That’s what Maeve and Shea Lucas’s mom used to say when strangers couldn’t see them as a family. In this episode, Dr. Shawna Gann sits down with the sisters, both a...
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Who Cares? Drew Faulkner on Living Authentically in a World Full of Expectations
How would you answer if someone asked you what it means to "live out loud"?In this episode of Our True Colors, Dr. Shawna Gann and co-host Marcel De Jonghe welcome Drew Faulkner, a Buffalo, New York native currently compl...
Mermaids, Mixedness, and Mixed Race Studies with Dr. Brittany Wiley
About This EpisodeDr. Brittany Wiley has been teaching since before she had a classroom, assigning herself summer book reports and turning her siblings into students. Today she teaches ethnic studies at Cuesta College, and in thi...
