Growing Up Australian, Building a Life in New York, and Who I’m Still Becoming

Note 2 Self · Sep 17, 2026 · 47m

In this episode of Note 2 Self, Saskia is reintroducing herself in this get to know me episode. But getting to know someone is never just a list of facts. It is the contradictions, detours, and dreams that keep changing shape.

Saskia shares what it was like growing up in Australia, from being born near the Daintree rainforest next to a crocodile-infested river to watching Sex and the City at fourteen and deciding that New York would one day be home. Nearly ten years after arriving with two suitcases and not knowing a single person, she reflects on the city that stripped away the performance…