What If Your Geography Is Limiting Your Potential? | Yoli Chisholm

The Thought Atlas Podcast · Sep 8, 2026 · 38m

What if the place where you were born doesn’t have to determine the limits of your future?

In this episode of Thought Atlas, Yoli Chisholm explores the idea of the “borderless self” and what happens when we begin to see mobility not simply as relocation, but as a way of pursuing opportunity, career growth, freedom, and a better life.

Yoli shares her own story of growing up across borders. Born in Lusaka, Zambia, to South African parents who had been banned from South Africa during apartheid, she grew up in Kenya before emigrating to Canada as a refugee. Her career later took her across…