Hugo Maynard grew up in the worst part of St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, built a pharmaceutical company, won an Olympic medal, and acquired everything the world told him to want. Then he sat in his Bentley and felt nothing. His reconnection to his West Indian roots did not start on a plane back to the islands. It started with brutal honesty with himself. From that truth, his family's story — a father on a piece of plywood with $17, a mother homeless and pregnant, a bloodline stretching back to a prime minister — started to make sense.

This episode is about what happens when the life the world sold you stops working, and you finally go back to where you actually came from. Watch the full video episode on YouTube at tamigarcia.com.

Kim Lawson took a DNA test after her mother passed — hoping to find family. What she found was a Nigerian family, a Ghanaian queen mother who looked exactly like her, royal roots on both sides of her family, and a Ghanaian citizenship she earned by going to Ghana three times in five months. Her family thought she had lost her mind. The passport proved otherwise.

This episode covers the DNA test that started everything, the moment she walked into a room and saw an older version of herself, what it means to reconnect with Africa rather than reclaim it, and exactly what to do after your DNA test this week.

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His mother gave him her rice-and-beans recipe. She never gave him the measurements. He has tried to get it right ever since.

Roberto Hannibal grew up in New Jersey while spending his summers in Puerto Rico and St. Thomas. Last year, he left a full-time career in public health to become a full-time creative — including a cooking show called Flavors We Inherit, where friends teach him recipes passed down in their families while the stories, memories, and people behind every dish get told out loud before they disappear.

This is a conversation about what a family recipe actually holds. What happens to our culture when corporations package it and sell it back to us? And the one step anyone can take this week to make sure a family tradition does not go with the person who holds it.

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