Geopats: Expat life explored

Aug 29 2022 94 ep. 68 mins 337

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If you're thinking of living outside of your passport country OR like to learn more about different cultures around the world, welcome. These are conversations that I had with other long term expats about what grounded them in their other places in the world.

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Fitting in, standing out and striving with Stephanie Fuccio

Aug 29 2022 42 mins

Questions about family can be triggering if the experience was not ideal. This is one of the reasons that Steph's talked about her family in tiny drips here and there but not in depth. But it felt disingenuous to ask other expats to open up about their early family life growing up with immigrant parents without diving into these experiences herself. So to help with this tabled turn

Expats can go home with Georges

Aug 28 2022 47 mins

Have your immigrant parents ever visited you in any of your expat places? Georges' parents have and it shifted how he understood their struggles moving from Greece to Canada. We cover a lot more ground on his parents' immigrant story and how it has both positively and negatively influenced his own expat experience. 🤸🏽Music from Damon Castillo (earlier episodes): https://www.d

Becoming American together: immigrant parent stories

Aug 27 2022 39 mins

Have you ever wondered why your immigrant parent(s) didn't prepare you for being a global citizen? Chelsea thought this when she was struggling in her first expat place. Over time she began to understand the distinct difference between her mother's immigrant experience and her expat one. In this conversation, we unpack the lasting impression that Chelsea's mom had on her expat life

Did growing up with two home cultures prepare Alison Maciejewski expat life?

Aug 26 2022 44 mins

How much do our immigrant parents impact our adult expat experiences? This is what we're exploring in this conversation with return guest Alison. Alison and I dig into growing up with two unequal cultures in one household, the racial struggles she's seen in many countries during her years living outside of her passport country of the U.S. and her coming to terms with the difference

Early podcasting in Spain and the UK with Pilar Orti and Craig Wealand

Jul 27 2022 37 mins

Language podcaster Craig is from the UK but has been podcasting in Spain for many years. Alternatively business podcaster Pilar has the opposite geographical podcasting experience being from Spain and podcasting from the UK for a long time. And yet they found each other and created a podcast about the scene in Spain some years ago. In this conversation with Craig and Pilar we dig i

Language: From Teacher To Podcaster | Legendary Interviews: Legendary Language Learner YouTube Channel

Mar 24 2022 32 mins

This episode is about half of a conversation that Matthew Boyle of Legendary Language Learner YouTube channel and I had about language teaching, content creation and the intersection between the two. 🤸🏽Music from Damon Castillo (earlier episodes): https://www.damoncastillo.com/ and Key Frame Audio (more recent eps) :https://keyframeaudio.com/ Top 3 services that have help me

Coffee: The moral dilema of foam art in Tokyo, Paris, & New York with Yuki of Book Nerds Tokyo

Feb 09 2022 52 mins

Yuki and I sat down to have this conversation far too long ago. Life has been crazy and, to be honest, I even stopped drinking coffee for awhile. So it felt weird publishing this episode during that time. But things feel a little more frothy these days, so here it is! And here SHE is:) Yuki has sought out, enjoyed and brewed coffee in many locations globally. She's more known for h

Books: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway with Shannon Martin

Jun 05 2021 58 mins

In December 2019 my dear friend Shannon Martin and I sat down and recorded an episode about The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. We were so intrigued with the book that we wanted to repeat the process with the more autobiographical version of the book, A Moveable Feast. And then we both left China and you know what happened. We did record this follow up episode in mid-2020 but l

Online: Social Media As A Home Anchor with Tania of Swahili Secrets

Apr 02 2021 55 mins

Can social media ground us and make us feel more at peace in this crazy world? This conversation with Tania from Swahili Secrets will present an answer to this question that is not common but very refreshing. Tania was born in Kenya and moved around a lot. Her geographical footprint includes 4 other African countries, Thailand, Austria and Germany. Although she calls Germany home,

Language: The languages in Albania with Diane and Kyle, former Peace Corps volunteers

Mar 21 2021 68 mins

Can learning a new language unlock part of your personality? This is something I've wondered my entire language play experience. And I've been asking guests flavors of this question more and more lately. How Kyle and Diane answer this question is really going to tickle your funny bone and get you thinking about this too. They are two Americans who went to Albanian separately to do