A Bird's Eye View of Survival | Teresa talks to Victoria Wisniewski Otero

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In 1999 Typhoon York tore through Hong Kong and the resulting devastation inspired Teresa's newspaper column about the force of Mother Nature and the nature of forced displacement.

The conversation with guest Victoria Wisniewski Otero, Founder and CEO of RESOLVE Foundation, takes a similar journey, opening with an imagined conversation between the birds outside Teresa's window as they relocate from a tree felled by the typhoon, to the joys of open water swimming. From challenges of managing immigration, to memories of a childhood constantly uprooted, and the extraordinary epiphany of a 16 year old that changed the direction of the rest of her life.

There is much to inspire in this episode, not the least of which is the work that RESOLVE is doing to realize Victoria's vision of Hong Kong as a place where everyone belongs and upholds inclusion.

Victoria is a proud mother to four kids under four, and despite residing in a busy place known for skyscrapers, lives in a peaceful rural village by the sea. The day before this episode was recorded, a typhoon blew the tree in front of Victoria's house down.

Learn more about RESOLVE: https://www.resolvehk.org/

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