The Bridge
Between Worlds

From Kingston to the
world — and back to myself

I grew up in Jamaica with a deep sense of community, family obligation, and collective responsibility. I later lived and worked in Mexico, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Cuba — experiences that shaped my understanding of cultural transition, belonging, and what it truly means to navigate life between worlds.

When I entered U.S. federal service, I stepped into a world built on entirely different rules. For years, I excelled on the outside while navigating an exhausting tension inside: honoring the collectivist values of home while performing the individualism required at work. Sending money home while struggling to build my own financial foundation. Code-switching in every room I entered until I could barely hear my own voice.

Culture shock, cultural dissonance, and what I now call cultural homelessness — the feeling of not fully belonging anywhere — are real. They have names. And they have paths through them. It wasn’t until I began doing the inner work — drawing on my academic training, my intercultural expertise, and my Christian faith — that everything shifted.

I wrote Decoding America because I needed that book and it didn’t exist. I launched the podcast because I needed those conversations. I built The Bridge Concepts because I needed that coach — and couldn’t find her. Now I am her. And I built this for you.