Au Pair Tea

Believe it or not, it can be just as hard to adjust back into your home country when you return as it is to adjust to a whole new country. In this episode, we discuss “reverse culture shock” what is it? How has it affected us? How on earth can you prepare for that? Link to DoS study: https://2009-2017.state.gov/m/fsi/tc/c56075.htm

We are back! After months of being back on home soil, we are back to give you the low down on leaving the comforts of au pair life and adjusting into “normal” life back home. It’s been a rollercoaster of a journey!

One of the most stressful parts of the end of your Au Pair term is packing your life into suitcases! It seems an impossible task, but believe us, it’s not! We chat about our experience packing 2 years into 2 suitcases and give you some tips to try and make things a little easier!

In this episode we are joined by our friend Cat. She au paired in America and then jetted off to The Netherlands to continue her au pair journey. We wanted to interview Cat as her post America Au Pair life is different than a lot of Au Pairs. She’s experienced so many different cultures, hello’s and goodbyes in short amounts of time. We hope you enjoy learning about Cat’s story. Follow Cat on Inst...

This weeks episode we get into the nitty gritty after life business: career prep! If you’re planning on looking for a job after your au pair term, this episode is for you! With help from Steph’s host mom, who is a career coach, we compiled a whole bunch of tips and tricks to help you smash job searching! From where the best places to look for jobs are to creating an outstanding resume. Let’s get t...

In the second episode of the afterlife mini-series is featuring our good friend Graham Cargle who has been through many Au Pair experiences and said many goodbyes (some might say he’s an expert on the matter haha!) We discuss the reali-tea of ending the au pair experience and going back to your home country. Sometimes it can be difficult to process and scary to go back to your home country after l...

It’s here!!! Episode one of the 10 part Au Pair Tea afterlife series. In this episode we discuss how we are dealing with the upcoming departure from the USA, what are current plans are for our return and what we’re looking forward to when we get home. We hope you enjoy this mini series! Make sure you follow us on instagram to keep up to date with all things afterlife @aupairtea

We come to you this week with some of our season 3 bloopers…. as you all know, we are not professionals and more times than not that really shows! LOL it can sometimes take us a while to get into the actual recording…enjoy some laughs.

It’s Au Pair Tea’s 2nd birthday!!! How have we been doing this for 2 years?! We have loved every second of building this community and we are so thankful to everyone that follows us, sends up messages and listens to our podcast. In this episode we have a little reminisce on our last 2 years doing Au Pair Tea. We also announce a very special series that we will be launching in July 2022! We hope yo...

This week we chat to you about the 3 top agencies that send Au Pairs to the USA. We give the basic information to help you get an idea of what each agency has to offer so you can take the steps to join one of them and become an Au Pair in the USA!

A couple of weeks ago we put up a poll with some potential episode ideas and asked which one you want the most. Much to our surprise “dating as a Au Pair” was the clear winner! So this week we delve into the dating life of Au Pairs. Is it easy to date as an Au Pair? How can we be safe dating in a new Country?

As part of this experience sometimes Au Pairs get the opportunity to join their host families on vacations. The question is: should the Au Pair work? Do they still get their weekend stipend? Is the Au Pair on vacation as well? We answer these questions and discuss expectations from Au Pairs and Host Families in regards to vacationing with the family!

We have another in-TEA-view for you this week and we were joined by T’s lovely LCC, Sally Pinon! Sally shares her experience as an LCC over the last 4 years and gives you and insight into the LCC’s side of the Au Pair program!

Make sure you head over to the BMCC Au Pair Experience instagram page (@aupairclasses) to enter their giveaway to win a FREE class worth $275!!! A lovely listener reached out to us this week after coming across a debate on an Au Pair page about what chores Au Pairs can and cannot be required to do. We are here to spill the tea on what chores you guys do and what the official rules are in regards t...

We are back with a super exciting in-TEA-view! This week we were joined by former host kid, Lauren Dunne! Lauren’s family hosted 14 au pairs from 1995-2005, yep you read that correctly! She is hear to share her experience having au pairs and how it has impacted her life in the best possible way! We hope you enjoy hearing her story as much as we did!

We were contacted by a wonderful soon-to-be host mom recently and she asked us to record an episode on what makes a good host family and how she can make her new au pair feel welcomed. We reached out to you guys and asked what makes a good host family in your opinion and how your host families helped you settle in and keep you feeling welcomed throughout your term! Thank you to everyone who reache...

What is the process for making your visa appointment? What help do Cultural Care provide? Is it as scary as i’m anticipating? This week we are here to answer these questions and more! You’ll learn all you need to know about the process to getting your visa!

Happy new year, tea sippers! We’re full swing into 2022 now (how insane?!) this week we’re giving the low down on how we spent NYE this year and our goals for 2022. We hope you have a happy, healthy and prosperous year! We can’t wait to spend it with you.

Another USA Christmas for the books. This week we chat about what we got up to during our second (and last) Christmas in America! We hope you had a good holiday period. Happy listening!

This week we are joined by Hailey Ware, who works for Cultural Care’s Extension team! We talk about everything extending and dive into credits and travelling. We hope this episode helps anyone thinking about extending! Happy listening. If you have any questions regarding extending you can email: extend@culturalcare.com and the extension team will be happy to help!

On the 10th December 2021 T left North Carolina and flew up to New York to visit Steph for a weekend! In this episode, we share what we got up to together! We ticked off a bunch of bucket list items and had an incredible time!

We have just celebrated our second Thanksgiving in the USA! This traditional American holiday is one of our favourite cultural experiences we’ve had. This episode we chat to you about how we spent our Thanksgiving this year and how we are going full force into the festive season! Happy listening!

Spooky season is over for this year and that means it’s time for us to re-cap on our Halloween adventures and give you a little insight into what this season is like in the USA! We hope you had a good Halloween!!! Until next year, gals and ghouls 👻

This week we give an in depth description of our weekly schedules, our chores and responsibilities, our free time and the rules of the program in regards to scheduling. We hope this gives you an insight to what a day can look like for an au pair. Happy listening!

We are back with our in-TEA-views!!! We are kicking off with a good one this week! We are joined by Cultural Care matching specialist, Raphael to discuss all the in’s and out’s of the matching process and the interview’s between au pair and host family! We hope this episode helped you feel at ease with your matching process and excited to find your perfect match! Happy listening!