Women Abroad

For the #28 episode of Women Abroad, my guest today is Gogo Cheng.  Gogo was born in the Southern part of China. At the age of 12, she moved with her family to Hong Kong, where she currently lives and works.  She began her career working for international luxury brands and travelled extensively for her work.  In 2022, she launched her own consultancy company, Gogo Cheng Consult...

Melina Nardi is my guest today for the 27th episode of my podcast Women Abroad with me Françoise Falisse. Melina is Co-founder and Head of Strategy at Mila Branders, a company located in Valencia, Spain.  Mila Branders is a creative agency with a focus on strategic brand building for small and big brands, in all sectors. Her clients are very international.  She is also an author. Discove...

My guest today is Silvia Polvara. Born in Italy, she studied and worked in Germany and the UK. She currently lives in Luxembourg.  Each story of the women I interview explores a different facet of what it is like to live away from home.  The outside perspective you get is at the heart of an international mindset that you gradually develop throughout your time abroad.  As a child of...

The 25th episode of Women Abroad brings me to introduce Barbara Lima. Barbara is a visionary, multilingual, and multi-talented Brazilian artist and entrepreneur. She is the founder, editor-in-chief, and creative director of The Weave Magazine, a seasonal and regenerative publication. She traveled and moved to Canada, France, China, Australia, Malaysia, Costa Rica, and now Mexico for self and profe...

My host for this 24th episode is Ludovica Arvigo , an Italian student in psychology. With her, we explore what it means to develop a third culture when, like her, you grow up abroad and build your educational background outside your parents' country of origin.   The wish to take a gap year never comes by chance. It often answers a call for self-discovery out of your comfort zone. From her get...

Pour ce 23ème épisode, j’accueille Virginie André. Virginie et sa famille quittent leur Belgique natale pour embarquer pour Stockholm, en Suède. Entre le rêve longuement mûri et sa concrétisation, elle constate rapidement que le chemin à la résidence est un parcours qui peut être long et balisé d’obstacles. Partir en famille vous amène à découvrir un pays sous des angles multiples qui enrichissent...

Hello and welcome to my podcast Women Abroad with me Françoise Falisse. This interview podcast is a space for women from around the world to talk about their experiences of living and working abroad.  For my 22nd episode, I welcome Joana Silva Carreira. Joana is a Portuguese early career woman, and a singer currently living in Luxembourg. She first spent six months in Belgium and six months i...

Pour ce 21ème épisode, je suis ravie de vous présenter Racha Zahira Ammati, consultante spécialisée dans le développement de projets visant à l’autonomisation économique des femmes et l’égalité des genres. Elle est également conseillère jeunesse au bureau régional de l’ONU FEMMES pour les États arabes, et y est également active sur la plateforme Agora pour l'innovation en matière de genre. Née au...

Today I have the pleasure to host Betina Szkudlarek for my 20th episode. Betina was born and raised in Poland and she currently lives in Sydney, Australia. She is an Associate Professor , Program Director Master of Management at the University of Sydney Business School, and a specialist in intercultural relationships, inclusion, and diversity. She also works as a freelance Strategic Planning, Sust...

Today I am pleased to host Tatiana Zébazé who is now Transversal Manager in a multinational company active in the insurance sector worldwide. She was an expatriate in Lagos, and was recognised as a member of top 800 executives leaders of her group in 2018 and she still is. Tatiana is currently living in Paris. Expatriation is often chosen by those who want or need to advance their career. Progress...

I am hosting Jill Saville for this 18th episode. Jill has forged her life and professional experience between the United Kingdom where she was born and grew up, France and Luxembourg. Along her way, she has developed strong beliefs in causes worth defending. She created circles of leadership and her expertise is highly valued.  Building herself and managing her time differently were the first...

For my 17th episode of Women Abroad, I am pleased to introduce you to Diana Araújo. As a student in architecture, she first left Portugal, her native country to follow an Erasmus program in Flanders, Northern Belgium.  After some time of adjustment, she then decided to start her professional life and settle in Belgium.  With her, we will explore notions of stability, time, sustainability...

For this 16th episode, my guest, Jessica Peart, was born in Ireland and lived in India. She currently lives in Leipzig, East Germany. She is offering us a larger perspective of the countries she lived in exploring the historical, social and economical backgrounds of these countries. Between storytelling and academic debate, Jessica is expressing her alternate voice with sincerity and conviction an...

Sofia Busquets is joining me for this 15th episode of Women Abroad. From Argentina, her native country to Mexico where she was raised, Sofia experienced what it means to be a third culture kid. From challenges to communicate in the English countryside, to connecting with others in Los Angeles.. to expressing herself through filmmaking in Rome… She tells us how women can speak their voice through f...

For my #14 episode of Women Abroad, I am pleased to host Jenny Amelia Rönnblom . Amelia is Swedish, she navigates around the globe as a First Officer on cruise ships.   From Sweden where she was born to Finland where she spent some years, she then settled for two years in the south of Belgium near Luxembourg. She has now moved to Spain. Very active, sociable and with an entrepreneurial spirit...

Today I am hosting Nathalie Gricourt. Nathalie was born in France, she studied marketing in a business school in France and then graphic design in Australia. She has been living in London for 10 years. Living and working abroad is a big change in a life and is often the start of a long transformational self-journey. It goes with its ups and downs, navigating between challenging times and joyful mo...

Hello everyone, welcome to this special episode of Women Abroad podcast! Today we celebrate the first anniversary of the podcast with nine ladies I interviewed this year. We will go around the table to answer four questions: 1) How does living abroad and immersing yourself in other cultures help you grow?  2) How do you think women (all over the world) can express their voices to contrib...

Hello everyone, today I am hosting Estefanía Martín on Women Abroad.  From Venezuela where she grew up to Tenerife where she started her university studies, she experienced a first culture shock. Same language but different culture, she had to adjust and making friends was challenging.  But as often the first step matters... once you have mentally enlarged your inner borders you become m...

For the #10 episode of Women Abroad, I am pleased to host Camila OSORIO. As a young immigrant, Camila left Colombia to first study and now work in Toronto, Canada. She is sharing what she has discovered about Canada so far, her perception of its people and the role women play in society. Immigrating is a learning process. It transcends boundaries and questions life choices beyond the limited...

For the #9 episode of Women Abroad, I am reconnecting to Luxembourg, my hosting country since the summer 2018. My guest today is Cherine Makram. Born in Egypt, Cherine has been living in Luxembourg for a couple of years.  We are discovering her expatriation life in Luxembourg through the woman, wife and mother’s eyes. Very sincerely she explains the good and challenging moments you can face w...

My guest for today is Stephani Widorini. Stephani is Indonesian and she is currently living and working as a consultant for the UN in Geneva, Switzerland.  Moving from London to Seoul and now to Geneva led her to adjust to various cultural challenges.  What she first perceived as a career disruption turned out to become a very rich professional and cultural experience as she grew more aw...

Ania Banach is my host for the #7 episode of Women Abroad podcast. Ania is Polish and she is a university teacher working as an assistant professor in linguistics. In a very introspective way, she reopens very dense pages of her life first in Northern Ireland as a PHD student then in Oman as a College teacher.   She explores different aspects of expatriation such as the freedom of movement as...

Our 6th episode of Women Abroad will give you the opportunity to get to know Haiqin HUANG. Haiqin is a young Chinese PHD engineer living in Luxembourg. She was born and brought up in the south of China where she completed her bachelor degree. Eager to live and discover Europe, she made the decision to pursue her Master’s and PHD studies first in London, then in Nantes, France, and finally in Luxem...

Women Abroad, the Podcast that invites young professional women to share their experience abroad and reveal the wonderful women behind these stories.  Our #5 episode brings us today to meet Chloe Peebles in Bogotá, Colombia. Chloe is a French-American early-career woman in international development who decided to temporarily put her career on pause to accompany her husband on a short-term mis...

Pour ce quatrième épisode de WOMEN ABROAD, Tijana MAROVIC, jeune femme d’origine serbe de Belgrade nous emmène découvrir Sao Paulo au Brésil.  Depuis toute jeune, Tijana est passionnée de langues et de cultures étrangères. De Strasbourg en France, dont elle nous partage avec enthousiasme son expérience d’étudiante à l’université où elle y étudie un Master en communication internationale,...