What happens when you tell everyone you are uprooting your family to move to a country they have never heard of and every single person tells you not to go? Tasneem Damji, academic and career coach and mother of two, did exactly that in 2011 when she left Canada for Tajikistan with her toddler son. The reasons people gave her not to go were endless. But what no one could have predicted was what this decision would teach her, her son, and eventually the families she now coaches.

In this episode, Tasneem shares the moment a seven-year-old taught her a life lesson she still carries today, how a simple essay handout she forgot about changed the trajectory of lives a decade later, and why the gap year her now-17-year-old is about to take brings everything full circle.

What does it really look like to raise children who choose their own p ...