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The Immigrant Experience in America (TIEIA)

Sep 28, 2026

On June 27, about twenty of us sat in a room in Alpharetta and asked each other one question all evening: are you lost in translation? Simone had run the event in her head a dozen times, the panel questions, the timing, the logistics. What she hadn't planned for was how the room would answer back.

On the panel, Dalkeith...


Sep 21, 2026

There is a difference between giving and being drained, and for a long time Simone could not tell you where one ended and the other began. In week eight of the Black Tax series, she draws the line.

She opens with the image she's returned to throughout this series, two cups, one pouring into the other, running dry...


Sep 17, 2026

You have the number now. In week seven, Simone moves from the math to the words, the actual language for the conversations that come up again and again once someone starts trying to live differently with what they've learned.

Simone is direct about the gap between knowing and doing: having the number does not...


Sep 16, 2026

Jason DeSouza, Esq. is the founder and lead trial attorney of D'Souza Injury Lawyers in San Antonio, Texas — an intentionally lean, thirty-person practice focused on oilfield, trucking, and serious-injury cases in the smaller South Texas communities that bigger firms often overlook. Born and raised in Toronto to...


Sep 7, 2026

Last week's question was whether anything was flowing back into your cup. This week, Simone gets specific about the number underneath that question, the one most of us have never actually written down in full.

Simone draws a clear line between a starting number and a real one. The Black Tax Boundary Kit gave listeners a...