Joshua Darryl Sussex

The Common Room is a podcast for international school educators, leaders, families, and the students and former students who’ve lived the third culture kid experience – honest conversations about building a life and career across cultures, classrooms, and continents.

Hosted by Joshua Sussex, a school leader and doctoral researcher whose own path has taken him from the UK to Egypt, China, Vietnam, and Malaysia. Episodes dig into what leadership looks like when the playbook doesn’t travel, what British-branded schools actually mean once you’re inside them, and the contracts, interviews, safeguarding practices, and relocation realities nobody warns you about until you’re living them. Other conversations turn to the third culture kid experience itself: identity, belonging, and what it’s like to be the partner who followed, the family who moved, or the child who grew up between worlds.

New episodes regularly. Where the world teaches.