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Rooted and Routed Podcast
Rooted & Routed is a podcast built on human stories and lived experience from lives shaped by global mobility.
Hosted by Sabiya Pathan Withoeck, the podcast explores identity, belonging, and the real human impact of living between cultures, countries, and systems.
Through thoughtful, unfiltered conversations, Rooted & Routed brings forward voices shaped by cross-border lives, including expats, returnees, diplomats, leaders, founders, educators, parents, and third-culture individuals.
This is not a podcast about relocation checklists or surface-level expat stories. It is a space for real conversations that help listeners make sense of what global lives demand — emotionally, structurally, and personally, and what they quietly produce in return: empathy, adaptability, judgment, and perspective.
Across episodes, the podcast examines lived experience alongside the systems and ecosystems that surround global mobility; from work, education, and leadership to policy, culture, and family life, without losing the human lens.
Rooted & Routed is for anyone navigating life between worlds, and for those building, leading, or supporting global mobility ecosystems who want a deeper understanding grounded in real lives, not abstractions.
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Rooted and Routed Podcast
Bindi Basan: The Leadership Advantage They Don’t Teach in Business School
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What happens when your cultural heritage comes from one country, but your upbringing and worldview are shaped by another, and then you return to that ancestral culture as an expat?
In this episode, Sabiya welcomes Bindi Basan, a British-born transformation leader with Punjabi roots, whose global career has taken her from Yorkshire to Mumbai, Dubai, Singapore, and beyond.
Together, they explore the subtle and surprising layers of of identity, leadership, cultural nuance, and unconscious learning.
Key themes explored in this part:
- Navigating leadership as a Third Culture Kid
- What it’s like to be an expat in the country your grandparents called "home"
- Holding onto inherited culture while the homeland evolves
- Language, identity, and the subconscious cultural code-switching
- Hidden blind spots of global leaders and cross-cultural teams
- How intuition and lived experience shape cultural sensitivity
- The reality of being misidentified, and misunderstood, across geographies
- Social etiquette from Japan, to India, and the power of adaptation
- When intuition meets experience: sensing unspoken tensions in diverse teams
Subscribe for Part 2, where we dive deeper into leading with authenticity, resilience, and creative expression.
Rooted and Routed is a global mobility and cross-cultural storytelling podcast hosted by Sabiya Pathan Withoeck. New episodes every week.
Follow the show:
Instagram: @rootedandrouted
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Website: https://www.rootedandrouted.com
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LinkedIn: Sabiya Pathan Withoeck
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info@rootedandrouted.com
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