The Listen Podcast

Our guests for our first interview of Season 2 are Olga and Pavan Gulati, who in 2014 launched Juno Health & Wellness in San Francisco. Their goal is to promote integrative wellness using a holistic approach through educational courses and retreats. They provide their clients with specific tools they can use to create and maintain…

For today’s special Thanksgiving Day episode, we’re turning the tables. Kate will be discussing the American traditions surrounding this holiday, as well as her many memories of family, food and fall – as an American among family in the US, and as an ex-pat living abroad.

This week we’ve got something very special planned for you, and that interview will be available on Thanksgiving Day. We hope you’ll check it out!!

The Silver Lining – When mothering abroad, it isn’t only about getting one’s point across and getting things done one’s own way. Our Season 3 guests also learned to appreciate certain Spanish ways of life, especially when it comes to their children. Raising children abroad has the obvious benefit that they will grow up bilingual…

More Cultural Clashes – It’s hard to fight old traditions, especially if they are as deeply-rooted as toros (bullfights) in Spain. No one knows better about this than our guest from episode two: Sue, a British animal-lover raising her children in Spain. Needless to say, she is completely against bullfighting and sometimes struggles when transmitting these values…

Dealing with Cultural Clashes – Season 1 kicks off with Agnieszka, a Polish mother who is raising her two young daughters in Cuenca, a small city in the heart of Spain. As a mother living in a foreign country, there were some topics that Agnieszka had to look at from a fresh point of view. “We…