Not From Here Esha Thaper

Not only did I get to talk to Sarah about being Australian-Lebanese, but I also got to speak to her about the Druze religion, an off-shoot of Islam that's difficult to research. There's not much about it even on the internet, so I'm sure you'll get something out of this educational, humorous and wonderfully warm conversation.

Sport as a gateway to belonging in Australia is just one of the topics I discuss with Bruce Djite, a former Australian association football (soccer) player, who's now the CEO at the Committee for Adelaide.

Before I spoke to Huda Al Sultan, I had never had an indepth conversation with anyone from Saudi Arabia before. What made this chat even more memorable was Huda's openness about her culture, the circumstances surrounding her marriage, and her appearance on MasterChef Australia as the first ever Saudi contestant.

The way you feel about death often depends on your dominant culture. In this episode, I chat to Holly Rankin Smith, who works at the Groundswell Project, an organisation that aims to increase death literacy in Australia. Ironically, I felt so alive after this conversation, where we talk about how Australians deal with death, what we can learn from other cultures, and how we can learn to talk more openly about the only certainty in life.

Aside from stereotypes, Brazil and Brazilians don't feature much in the Australian media. In this episode, Lyssandro and Clovis enlighten me about Brazilian politics, social dynamics, and why, if you have a Brazilian friend, you shouldn't be upset with them when they're late to a social event.

I chat to Christian who talks about the emasculating Asian male stereotypes that popular western media propagates - and how hard it is to date in Australia when you have to cross mental hurdles that people have constructed without even realising it.