Home As Hopeful Resilience

Welcome to Halos of Home, my podcast where I, Serena Izmirlian, explore what home is to friends in their twenties and thirties while we’re both exploring Armenia for a short time. I find it beautiful that humans are tasked with creating a home for themselves, and that this changes with time so I have dedicated time to exploring this with friends.

Episode eleven involves my friend Romeo Azizian from Los Angeles. He is a software engineer and within the last month, created the comedy club HahaHayastan which promotes English standup comedy in Armenia. 

During our chat he ponders what wellbeing means to him, what lies behind his desire for financial stability, and we discuss our differing perspectives on whether everything happens for a reason. Romeo summarises towards the end of the interview one big lesson he's learnt over the years which is to maintain hope and resilience through it all. 

My aim is that all you listeners will consider what home means to you currently and how it has evolved, so ponder this while listening to Romeo's ideas.