The Banana and Coconut Experience: Recent Episodes
Andrew and Shikha
Welcome to the Banana 🍌 and Coconut 🥥 Experience! In this podcast, we detail our lives as children of immigrants in Canada, sharing our life story, but more importantly, sharing the stories of the various cultures, peoples, and ideas that make up Canada. We discuss topics of diversity, inclusivity, cultural awareness, multiculturalism, but also memes, book reviews, and all sorts of fun stuff! From you favourite fobs, Shikha and Andrew 😎
In this episode, we invite our good friend, Mercedes, to educate us on important Indigenous issues (e.g. residential schools) and also her upbringing as an Indigenous person. We also discuss what she’s been up to after graduating from Dalhousie. We really hope you enjoy this podcast as much as we did!
In this episode, we discuss the importance of cultural competence and sensitivity in academia, social life, and in the hospital setting. This episode was inspired by our recent efforts in writing our med school applications, and we you enjoy! 😃
We’re back in your lives, just like that! Catch up with us in this relaxed and fun-loving podcast episode. Hope you enjoy 🤝🤙
For this episode, we are joined by the forward-thinking and inspirational Vernelle! We discuss his upbringing, how we all ended up meeting each other, his educational path, and his current goals and aspirations. Vernelle brings an important voice to the table: one that’s on the road to success, but for him, there’s more to life than just success. He strives to bring connection between the successful and soon-to-be successful: to expose triumphant people of colour to children of colour, and to show them there is a path to success for everyone. We hope you enjoy this wonderful episode.
In this episode, we talk to our amazing friend Brian. He shares us his story of coming to Canada as a young child, navigating his way into young adulthood, and living a full-filling life as an undergraduate, advocating for diversity and inclusion as the Commissioner of Clubs at Queen’s. He also talks about his obsession with John Mayer 😆🎵
In this 🔥 episode, our good pal Masa drops some mad knowledge on life and routine, and she gives us a glimpse of her life growing up having to deal with us noobs.