Our episode today features Annie’s multicultural lifestyle and her vision of work-life balance. Being half Egyptian and half Japanese and studying at UCL in London, Annie shared how she has been navigating her life across different cultures and maintaining a balanced life with work and beyond. Living in London – one of the most culturally diverse cities – can be fascinating, and it also makes us wonder how to be culturally sensible to people from all different backgrounds when we might not necessarily be familiar with different social expectations associated with all different cultures. For people moving across cultures, Annie suggested that the first thing is always to be open and listen to people’s life experiences as a way to learn what is respectful for them to do, and give everyone’s freedom to set their own limitations on what they are comfortable doing. When talked about work-life balance, it seemed that different cultures could have different conceptualizations. Living in the fast-paced world, Annie voiced out the importance of being kind and taking care of ourselves, ‘sometimes, you have to try to treat yourself the way that you’ll treat a friend who came to you with the same problems.’

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