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Send us Fan Mail We're off to South America again! Today, we're travelling to Huaraz, the hiking capital of Peru. Ami, a student from the UK, takes us to her favourite spots and talks us through some interesting food and drinks she encountered during her stay. Some points of interest mentioned: Café Andino Wool shop “Los Gemelos” (Ami and I are both avid knitters) Shopping tips: https://...

Send us Fan Mail I have something very different for you today.  This episode is just a little outburst that needed to find an audience - I'm working on new projects, but while I don't have a finite home for them yet, this podcast is my temporary host. For comments, please find me on Instagram! I absolutely welcome feedback, especially at this work-in-progress stage. 

Send us Fan Mail Today we're travelling to the Silver City! Catriona Turner, author of "Nest - a Memoir of Home on the Move", former guest on this podcast and recent repatriate to Scotland, takes us around her beautiful hometown of Aberdeen. If you haven't read it yet, Catriona's book Nest - A Memoir of Home on the Move is widely available everywhere and a really good read...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever felt lonely in your expat adventure? My guest today is Sarah, a German in London, who used her own loneliness to establish a business as a "Loneliness Coach". Friendships, and how to make friends and keep them, is our overall topic, but of course we also talk a lot about cultural differences, especially between the UK and Germany. Sarah mentions Brooke Cast...

Send us Fan Mail Heute geht's auf die Insel! Mein Gast ist Vanessa, eine Engländerin, die lange in Österreich gelebt hat und seit 10 Jahren wieder in ihrer alten Heimat Hertfordshire lebt. Vanessa arbeitet als interkulturelle Trainerin und Sprachlehrerin, und natürlich sprechen wir ausgiebig über das Sprachenlernen und die Unterschiede zwischen Englisch und Deutsch. Außerdem geht’s ums Umzieh...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is a true ATCK - an adult third culture kid. Third Culture Kids are people who were raised in a culture other than their parents' or the culture of their country of nationality, and also live in a different environment during a significant part of their child development years. Shakti is also the author of Colours of a Cultural Chameleon: "Where are you fr...

Send us Fan Mail For my very first Destination Special, we're travelling to South America! Nikki Palazzo, born in the US and a former expat in Germany, is showing off the city she's called home for the last 18 months: Asunción, the capital of Paraguay.  Join us on our virtual weekend through this colourful and friendly city and find out where to eat, drink cocktails and watch the sunset....

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Sabine, a fellow German transplant in New Jersey, who's lived in the US since 2010. Her story is truly harrowing and amazing at the same time: Sabine talks about how a life-altering emergency made her expat journey take a 180, and how her life has changed since then. We talk about how an emergency situation like this affects your family in and outside of you...

Send us Fan Mail Today's guest is a true nomad - Iliana, a Living Abroad Strategist, writer and scientist, born and raised in Bulgaria, and currently living in Chicago. Iliana left life behind the Iron Curtain for adventure in the US just before the millennium and has since lived in five countries on three continents. We talk about the transience of life, making friends all over the world, wh...

Send us Fan Mail Und weiter geht's mit den deutschen Folgen! Mein heutiger Gast ist Susann Reiner, alias Madame Süsette, Vintage-Liebhaberin und Geschäftsfrau mit Herz. Susann ist ursprünglich aus Thüringen, und floh mit ihrem damaligen Mann kurz vor der Wende in den Westen, wo sie sich in der Nähe von Stuttgart niederließen. Susann war ausgebildete Krankenschwester, bevor sie ihren Beruf an...

Send us Fan Mail We're heading to Rotterdam today. My guest is Sicilian Rossella Davi, who's lived in the Netherlands on and off for the last 12 years. While we talk a lot about how national stereotypes aren't always applicable, we also can't escape them, and have a good laugh at Dutch minimalism vs. Italian drama, amongst other culture shocks.  Find Rossella on Instagram , or...

Send us Fan Mail Meine erste Folge auf Deutsch! Mein heutiger Gast ist Monique Menesi - vielleicht bereits bekannt durch ihren Muttersprache-Podcast , oder ihren Unternehmer-Podcast zum Business-Aufbau. Monique ist erfolgreiche Unternehmerin, Auswandererin und Coach mit mehr als 30 Jahren Erfahrung. Wie sie selbst das Auswandern mit ihrer Familie meistert (Dubai, Katar, Schweiz und USA) und was si...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is "The Culture Guy" - Christian Höferle, founder, president and CEO of The Culture Mastery, a coaching, mentoring and consulting company based in Atlanta, Georgia.   Our conversation starts with Christian's early life in small-town Bavaria (incidentally, the exact same area and time period I grew up in),  his experience as a 17-year-old exchange stud...

Send us Fan Mail Today's guest is, without a doubt, the most global person I've had the pleasure of talking to! She is none other than two-times author, writer, speaker, economist, language enthusiast and passionate expat, Mariam Navaid Ottimofiore. To say that today's episode is a love letter to learning languages is an understatement, and you will find so much wisdom in Mariam&apo...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is for all the aspiring writers out there and, of course, their equally important enthusiastic readers! My guest is Catriona Turner, a seasoned expat and newly published author. Her memoir, "Nest - a Memoir of Home on the Move" is widely available. We chat about Catriona's expat journey,  taking her from Scotland to France, Uganda, Congo and Den...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is an education warrior: Brantley Turner-Bradley, East Asia Education Director for Dwight Schools . Born in Brooklyn, NY, Brantley spent 25 years of her life in China and is raising three TCKs with her husband. We spoke in June, while Brantley and her family were in the US; they are currently embarking on a new venture in Hanoi, Vietnam. We cover a whole range of su...

Send us Fan Mail Today's guest is Katherine, who was a guest on my podcast two years ago, an expat coach, writer, and locational astrologer.  Using my own journey as an example, we're traveling the world looking at some of the places I've lived in or visited, and how the date, place and time of my birth are determining how I react to different places in the world. If you're int...

Send us Fan Mail We're going really deep today!   My guests are American family and sex therapists Julia & Jeremiah, who currently live in Utrecht, The Netherlands. They are the founders of "Sexvangelicals - the sex education the church didn't want you to have", and co-host the Sexvangelicals Podcast. Sex! Religion! Politics! We talk about it all in this episode. Our topics...

Send us Fan Mail Hey, it's me, I'm still here! Just a little update from yours truly. The sound isn't very good as I recorded this in the car, but at least it's a little sign of life! In a nutshell: I'm spending more time writing these days than on the podcast, but it's still going. :-) Please leave feedback and suggestions, contact me if you want to be on my podcast...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Chase, an American currently based in Spain and Germany.   Chase works as Head of Remote at Doist , a pioneer of distributed work that specializes in productivity software. He is responsible for developing and executing the company's remote work strategy. Having worked remotely for over 12 years, as one of Doist’s 100 employees in 35 countries, he has a whol...

Send us Fan Mail In our second conversation, Lea and I jump right back in and pick up a few subjects we mentioned in Episode 48. This time we dig even further into our expat minds, and Lea takes me deep into Jewish cultural history and how it's shaped the collective psyche.  We also talk about how our own experiences have not only shaped us, but also keep influencing our immediate families, a...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is the first of two parts - I'm talking to Lea Misan, London-based author, psychotherapist and coach, as well as trauma counsellor. She's the executive director of UK charity Act for Change, and has worked extensively with expats. We talk about everything from what it's like to grow up with multiple languages, moving countries at a young age and...

Send us Fan Mail We're venturing east today, to Japan! My guest is Taro, a Kyoto based photographer, who grew up in California, but decided to explore his heritage and moved to Japan in his twenties. We talk about what it's like to be a foreigner in a country that's strange and familiar at the same time, the intricacies of Japanese rules of behaviour, drinking culture, and why there...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is another Texas girl! I do love my Texans, and Kaci is no exception. Originally from Houston, and in need of a new direction in life, she decided to try her luck at a job posting in Rome. Fast forward a few years, and her home is now a small town in Tuscany. Honestly, Kaci's story reads like a film script, and I truly hope someone can take it to the silver scr...

Send us Fan Mail Today's guest has made me miss not only one, but two places! Alex Katte, originally from Houston, TX, lives near Munich with her German husband and new baby son. We discuss the weird similarities between Bavarian and Texan cultures, the joys of driving without a speed limit, and the special charm of traditional clothing. Of course we also delve into the cultural differences,...