E27 Part 2 | She Lost Her Roots at 9. A Sourdough Starter Gave Them Back.

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of 2. If you have not listened to Part 1 yet, start there. This conversation picks up right where we left off. In Part 1, Sheyla shared how she arrived in Memphis at 9 years old carrying two languages and spent years quietly setting them both down. In Part 2, she talks about what it looks like to find your way back. This half of the conversation is about reclaiming. How she started looking into Indonesian history and realized she had never truly learned it. How sourdough bread became a way back to something she could not yet name. How running Breadcrumb, her micro bakery in Birmingham, Alabama, turned into more than a side project. How teaching herself Korean through K-pop over two years was never really about Korean at all. How belonging does not always look like fluency, and how making something with your hands can be its own form of coming home. There is a moment in this episode where I ask Sheyla what she would tell that 9 year old girl who landed in Memphis scared and alone carrying two languages. Her answer stayed with me. This is a conversation about finding your way back to yourself on your own terms, in your own time, in whatever language feels most like home that day. If this one resonated, send it to someone who knows what it feels like to be from more than one place and still searching for where they fully belong. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and everywhere you stream, or watch Part 2 right here on YouTube. #fromwheretohere #birminghamalabama #bilingualpodcast ---------- 🔗 LINKS & CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST Get in Touch: - Instagram: @bread.crumb.bham Resources: - The Jakarta Method book ---------- 🏆 You can help From Where to Here win a Signal Award Voting is open until October 15th and takes 30 seconds. If this show has ever made you feel a little less alone, cast your vote at https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting#/ (Can't find the show? Search "From Where to Here" in the search bar) 📩 Let’s stay connected. Join my email list list for thoughtful reflections, resources, and behind-the-scenes moments I only share there. ✨ Get My Latest Free Resource Do you live between cultures, languages, or versions of yourself? Take the free In-Between Index quiz and find out exactly where you land. → quiz.fromwheretoherepod.com 🎧 Subscribe & Follow Follow From Where to Here on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen so you don’t miss a conversation. 📱 More language & culture, daily. Find me on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook @fromwheretoherepod 🤎 If this episode meant something to you… Leave a review or share it with someone who’d love it too.