The Inclusion Room

Belonging From the Inside Out Finding ground in myself instead of a place

Maybe belonging, in the end, it’s about refusing to lose yourself while you keep crossing borders, from inside out.
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Belonging From the Inside Out Finding ground in myself instead of a place

Maybe belonging, in the end, it’s about refusing to lose yourself while you keep crossing borders, from inside out.
#Expatlife #Storytellers

Read “Belonging From the Inside Out“ by Emanuela B on Medium: medium.com/a-culturated...

Scene from Life Abroad #1
In France, you might find yourself watching a theatre play in the living room of someone you’ve never met, invited by a friend of a friend. A glass of wine in hand, take a seat among strangers, and for one evening, the stage is a stranger’s home.
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Distance acts on memories like corrosion: suddenly, I can’t recall a name, a song, a street, can’t find a word.
A new hole has appeared, right beside an old one I had learned to live with.
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When I first sat in a meeting where everyone spoke German, I couldn’t understand a single word, and I had one year to change that.

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This piece speaks of chairs, rooms, and ceilings, places where women and minorities have not been given access. I’d love to hear your experiences in the comments.
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Invisible in Plain Sight: The Emotional Cost for Women at Work The unseen toll of being overlooked in rooms where decisions are made

Being “invisible in plain sight” at work isn’t about age—it’s about power.

Emanuela’s piece for Code Like A Girl shows how women are sidelined in decision-making spaces, and what it costs us.
Worth the read: Invisible in Plain Sight

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How many times have you heard a joke about your origin or accent and felt unable to respond, or that your reaction wasn’t seen as legitimate?

Haha, super funny! Languages can be so tricky sometimes.

Have you ever been judged for your accent?
I have. Living abroad showed me how much bias hides in everyday language.
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Definitely Cultural awarness! But also empathy and adaptability!

Readings for Languages Lovers Stories, books, and voices for those who live between words and worlds

Some of us have embraced new languages while living abroad, as a doorway into another culture. For others, languages feel like new friends we meet along the road of life. For some, languages have become both a life and a career.
I'm a languages lover!
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Travel cultivates soft skills no job can teach: adaptability, curiosity, empathy. Why don’t we value this more in CVs?
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Navigating in-between without sweing the other shore...

How to Leverage Multilingual Skills in the Workplace Multilingualism is Your Hidden Superpower

Expats, what was your first culture shock? Mine was the AZERTY keyboard in France — typing auqntu physics instead of quantum physics 😅

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Photo of Paris by night with Montmatre on the background

Living abroad teaches you to notice the small details, they often tell the biggest stories.

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Home isn’t just walls and a roof. For me, it’s the place I want to come back to when the outside world just sucks. What makes your home feel like home?
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Hello Bluesky 👋 I’m Emanuela, long-term expat, polyglot, storyteller. I write about living abroad, identity, and inclusion. Curious to meet fellow bridge-builders between cultures 🌍
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Just heard the final cut of my first podcast. Pure emotion.
After a tough year, I chose to trust my creativity , to write, to speak out.
I put my values out there, sharing what makes me come alive.
It’s a direction.
It’s finding myself again, after a long road.

Trust your voice.
#Growthmindset

Mid-year Cost of Living Index .
Paris may surprise you: the bill isn’t as steep as many imagine compared to other European capitals.
•Rent for a 4-room apartment: +35%
•Public transport ticket: +35%
•McDonald’s menu: even higher
#costoflivingcrisis
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Befriending Your Shadow Carrying roots and stories into the light

We often think that hiding what we consider imperfections will make us easier to love and accept. But the parts we push away don’t disappear, they wait for us in the shadows, ready to be claimed as allies, or to return as our worst enemies
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In Inclusion Room I write about the realities of crossing borders in life and work: the subtle biases we face, the small stories that shape how we feel at home (or not), and the ways diversity of gender, culture, and perspective shapes both our workplaces and our daily lives.
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If you are a Code Like A Girl writer on Medium or Substack, send us a note here, and we will add you to our writers starter pack.

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Graphic with the message I can’t control what they do, but I can control how I act. Let them laugh at a marketing campaign that perpetuates negative stereotypes. Let me say “I can’t be the only one finding this inappropriate, right?” There's a drawing of a person raising their hand by a mic mounted on a conference room table. Credit to Mel Robbins and “The Let Them Theory” Along the bottom is the @BetterAllies handle and credit to @ninalimpi for the drawing.

I can’t control what they do, but I can control how I act.

Let them laugh at a marketing campaign that perpetuates negative stereotypes. Let me say “I can’t be the only one finding this inappropriate, right?”

More on this topic in my upcoming “5 Ally Actions” newsletter betterallies.com/subscribe

Hi! Happy to see you here 😊 I’d love to be included in the starter pack.

A retreat for your nervous system:
the sound of waves, the salty air, and endless ice cream.
#Growthmindset #Selfimprovement #Storytellers

2 empty chairs in front of the sea

Empty chairs on the beach,
were they left for lovers, or friends? Had they been there since the start of the season, since this morning, or 5 minutes? left as a quiet act of trust in a routine that becomes the most powerful form of grounding?
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Emanuela B (@emanuelab) Fragments from the sea 🐚 #1: I hadn’t been home in three years. When the flight landed, I felt both overwhelmed and whole at the same time. Sometimes, in order to adapt to new places, we convince ...

After 3 years away, I landed home overwhelmed yet whole. Adapting by hiding roots pushing back what shaped us to fit people expectations erodes the self. When the plane landed, I promised to carry all of this with me and keep it into the light.
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Living abroad is like a dopamine shot—with side effects. One of them: an addiction to novelty!
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Interesting reading! I confirm that actually acting on theatre improved a lot my practice as trainer.