SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English Voices

Free Scoping Session with Linda "Growth is great. Until it isn't.” Growth can feel like proof that everything is finally working, until the team, systems, and follow-up underneath cannot keep up. In this episode, Linda looks at what breaks when momentum arrives before the infrastructure is ready to carry it. What You'll Learn: The Hook: Why the moment right after momentum picks up is often where t...

Got 10 Minutes? Granola Bars, Flavored Yogurt & the Biggest Health Food Scams You know what's on the label. You don't always know what's in the jar. Danna and Megan go rapid-fire on the foods the wellness world has convinced us are virtuous choices — and the reality hiding behind the packaging. Spoiler: if it has to tell you it's healthy, it probably isn't. What You'll Learn: Why granola bars...

The Expat Money Playbook is officially out today. In this launch week special, Arielle Tucker steps away from the usual guest format to share her own story and read Chapter One aloud. She covers her own path to Switzerland, how she landed in US tax compliance during the exact week FATCA hit Swiss banks, and why she wrote this book collaboratively rather than alone. Then she reads Chapter One: star...

When everyday stress keeps stacking up, even a single email can trigger anger, anxiety, or a reaction you later regret. In this guest-hosted episode, personal leadership and mental well-being coach Shefali Khokhar explains how these repeated stress responses can become chronic and contribute to burnout. Shefali introduces a practical mental fitness framework for shifting from the reactive “surviva...

Send us Fan Mail Join us on Patreon or Support the show Please connect with us: Click here to share your story and be our next guest! Check out Julia's upcoming courses Check out Christine's doula services Lilybee's store with pregnancy, birth and postpartum essentials All Swiss Birth Stories Episodes Alexandra, a footballer who moved to Bern six years ago, shares her pregnancy, birth and postpart...

One Step at a Time: Tina's First Session Tina shows up to session one lighter than her health history call — her wrist and concussion have healed, and she's cautiously excited to finally be starting. She also admits a quiet fear: that she'll overshare, a habit she trained herself out of after people once told her it was too much. Danna waves that off immediately. No eggshells here. Give her everyt...

Every American living abroad has the right to vote in federal elections, yet every cycle, a meaningful number of ballots never make it home, not from apathy, but from a form that arrived late, a lost ballot, or simply not knowing a backup option existed. Ada Shen from votefromabroad.org, who has spent over two decades helping Americans overseas register, request, and return a ballot, joins the pod...

Free Scoping Session with Linda "The System Looked Great on Paper" Your new process looked logical, clear, and complete, but your team quietly stopped using it. In this episode, Linda explains why good systems still break and the three questions that help you repair the conditions around them. What You'll Learn: The Hook: Why a well-documented process can fail within weeks of rollout. Reality Chec...

Back to Her: Coaching Through Perimenopause and Everything Else What happens when your own body keeps throwing you curveballs — burnout, single motherhood, perimenopause symptoms nobody warned you about — and coaching becomes both your business and your survival tool? Megan and Danna sit down with Vanessa Gaitlin, an IIN-trained coach (and one of Megan's earliest connections in the coaching world)...

Got 10 Minutes? Creatine Is Not Just for Gym Bros Megan's stirring creatine into her morning coffee. Danna's done a few rounds with it herself. And both of them are done letting the gym bro reputation put women off what might genuinely be one of the most useful supplements on the market. This one's a rapid-fire myth-bust — what creatine actually does, why it's suddenly showing up everywhere in the...

A YouTuber built a channel documenting American life in Germany, then leveraged it into an actual self-employment visa, and eventually German citizenship, without ever going through a traditional employer sponsor. Donnie Ashburn, a dual American-German citizen and content creator, joins the podcast to walk through his path from dependent visa to self-employment to citizenship, and what he'd tell a...

Running on Empty: Tina's Health Coaching Journey Begins We're doing it again. Last time, we opened the doors to real health coaching sessions with Joanna, and so many of you told us how much it helped to hear coaching in action — not the polished version, the real one. So we're back for with another awesome woman. Over the next several episodes, you'll hear real coaching conversations between Dann...

Welcome to another coaching series where we do a coaching debrief after a real coaching session. Let's meet Tina - this is her Health History. Chapters: 00:00 Welcome and Goals 00:51 Why Coaching Now 06:58 Mom Guilt and Stress 08:07 Sleep and Gut Deep Dive 16:43 Holistic Plan and Wrap Up Mentioned in this episode: Missed an episode? Don't worry, we have you covered. Check out the link below to the...

A valid, properly signed power of attorney still isn't a guarantee a bank will honor it. Beth Pinsker found that out the hard way while managing her mother's care and finances from several states away, an experience she turned into "My Mother's Money: A Guide to Financial Caregiving." Beth, a CFP and award-winning journalist, joins the podcast to walk through what financial caregiving actually loo...

"Why do founders get stuck researching instead of launching?" Sometimes the work that looks productive is actually protecting you from finding out whether something will work. In this episode, Linda looks at the founder who is not overwhelmed by too many decisions, but stuck because they keep waiting until they feel completely sure. What You'll Learn: The Hook: Why some founders stay busy refining...

Got 10 Minutes? Why Europeans Are Losing It Over American Grocery Stores The World Cup brought a wave of Europeans into US grocery stores — and the internet lost it over package sizes. "We only shop once a month," the Americans said. "Then how is your fresh food still good?" the Europeans replied. Megan went down the comment-section rabbit hole and immediately needed Danna. What follows is a genui...

France can tax an American's retirement income at zero. It can also be one of the least forgiving countries in the world to die in. Both are true, and most families only learn the second half after they've already moved. Vincent Berthier de Bortoli, a French tax attorney and STEP member whose clients are now almost entirely American, joins the podcast to explain how the US-France tax treaty actual...

Pricing sustainable products brings up a question I hear constantly: what do you do when there's nothing out there to compare your price to? That's the first problem. The second is what happens once you put the price in front of a customer — some are ready to pay it, others push back, and some tell you straight out it should cost less because it's sustainable. In this episode I go through why pric...

Send us Fan Mail Join us on Patreon or Support the show Please connect with us: Click here to share your story and be our next guest! Check out Julia's upcoming courses Check out Christine's doula services Lilybee's store with pregnancy, birth and postpartum essentials All Swiss Birth Stories Episodes Matrescence is the profound physical, emotional, and psychological transition of becoming a mothe...

"Your Bloods Look Normal" Is Not a Diagnosis: Patient Advocacy & Perimenopause ft. Belinda Balscheit Listener Amanda was so passionate about today's guest, she sent a voice message to make sure we booked her. She was right. Belinda Balscheit is a two-time cancer survivor, women's health advocate, and patient advocacy powerhouse based in Basel — and this conversation is one of the most importan...

Can a 529 plan actually pay for university outside the United States? Some foreign schools qualify for tax-free withdrawals. Most do not, and most families do not find out which is true for them until they are already trying to spend the money. Kaitlin Krozel, CPA and founder of Krozel Capital, joins the podcast to walk through how 529 plans work for American families abroad, what qualifies as an...

Free Scoping Session with Linda “We Thought We Had a Communication Problem” When the same team problems keep coming back, it is easy to blame communication. But often the real issue is missing structure: unclear ownership, fuzzy decision-making, low trust, and constantly shifting priorities. What You'll Learn: The Hook: Why adding more meetings, messages, or tools rarely fixes the real problem und...

Got 10 Minutes? Grains at the Base? Thanks, Lobbying. Megan found a Dr. Jason Fung video called "The Food Pyramid Lie: Why We Got Fat" and immediately needed to talk about it. So here we are. The food pyramid you grew up with — the one that told you to build your entire diet on a mountain of bread and grains — was not based on science. It was based on lobbying. And the Swiss one? Also a little sus...

Send us Fan Mail Join us on Patreon or Support the show Please connect with us: Click here to share your story and be our next guest! Check out Julia's upcoming courses Check out Christine's doula services Lilybee's store with pregnancy, birth and postpartum essentials All Swiss Birth Stories Episodes Anna, a Swiss mom living in Zurich, shares two very different birth stories of her two daughters....

Americans living in Singapore sit inside one of the most favorable tax environments for Roth conversions anywhere in the world. No capital gains tax, no dividend tax, and the conversion itself isn't taxed locally. Most are not using it, and most of their advisors do not even know it is available. Anne-Marie Regal founder of Avrio Wealth, built one of the first dual-licensed MAS and SEC fiduciary p...