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Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Anna Roberts from the UK. Anna is an expat and mindset coach who has made it her mission to help other people who are living abroad to have the best possible experience. Her path of becoming an expat coach was a result of her own experience of living in France for 10 years and knowing how difficult it can be. In this episode, Anna shar...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Rebecca Bergemann from Germany. Rebecca has quite a few different experiences with living abroad and traveling around. She has been exploring Southeast Asia and spent time with her dad in the Philippines but also lived for some years in Brazil before finding her sense of home in Portugal.  In this episode, we chat with Rebecca from Ger...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Bianca Kotzen from South Africa. Bianca and I met a few weeks ago in Bali and have started talking about her incredible decision to build a life over there. She has now been living there for around 3 months and is still trying to figure out how her life is going to look like. In this episode, Bianca candidly shares her reasons for leav...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Simone Kronsteiner from Austria. Moni is currently traveling the world and found the time to share some of her amazing adventures with us. She already spent a year abroad after her bachelors degree but could never really stop thinking about going out into the world again to explore more. In this episode, we dive into her incredible exp...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Angelo Minelli from Italy. Angelo moved to New Zealand to explore new opportunities with his passion for wine. Angelo is a wine specialist and was able to take on new responsibilities and learn new skills on a global level. In this episode, we sit down with a seasoned Italian wine expert who has spent his life immersed in the world of...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Reneel Singh from New Zealand who has very strong connections to his Fiji-Indian roots. That's why he decided to create an amazing, high quality song for and with his Fiji-Indian community and for the world!!! The song Jungli is out now for everyone to enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sekpc4k3j8o https://www.instagram.com/re...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Shalini Guleria from India. Shalini was born in India and moved to New Zealand with her family when she was 8 years old. She is very passionate about chemical and biological engineering and has done her PhD in cancer research in Melbourne, Australia. Her goal is it to ignite the interest of science in children and is doing so with her...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Jing Zhang from China. Jing had some experience in traveling around before she made the big move to New Zealand with her partner Adam in 2015. She is now packing her life together again to make the next big move to Australia.  This episode dives into a very personal, emotional, and vulnerable story from Jing's childhood, highlight...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Rory Mitchell from New Zealand. In late 2021 Rory decided to pack his bag and move to Germany during the covid-19 pandemic. He is now living there happily ever after. In this episode, Rory provides valuable insights into his life as an expat in Germany. His dream of living abroad began when he went to Latvia as an exchange student in h...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Grace Chua from Singapore. Grace spent her early childhood in Singapore before moving to New Zealand with her parents when she was 9 years old. She then went back and forth from New Zealand to Singapore and vise versa. Grace spent an equal amount of time in both countries and is able to call both her home. Hi everyone, In this episode,...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, I'd like to share a brief reflection on the theme of community and belonging. Did you know that the absence of a sense of belonging can evoke feelings similar to physical pain? Conversely, experiencing a sense of belonging can foster happiness and a feeling of security. Growing up in a tight-knit community, leaving my home sparked a journey to fit in an...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Maike Baessler from Germany. After finishing high school in 2009, Maike decided to take a gap year abroad before starting University. She went to Long Island, close to New York City, as an au pair through the agency " Cultural Care Au Pair " where she learned a lot about new cultures, childcare and she was able to improve her...

Click here to get in touch Hi Everyone, Please welcome with me Smit Banker from India. Smit was born and raised in India and decided to move abroad to continue his studies. He came to New Zealand in 2018 and stayed here ever since. In this episode we will talk about a very sensitive topic: Arranged marriage! Disclaimer: There are still a lot of forced arranged marriages out there and I do not supp...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Adrienne Jansen from New Zealand. Adrienne is a creative writing teacher, tutor, editor and writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She also has been a writer for the famous Te Papa museum in Wellington for over 10 years. A big part of her work was teaching English to non-native English speaker and she worked closely with immigrants...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Daniel Gerardo Ytterdahl (Denial RC) from Norway. Daniel grew up in Norway as a son of a Filipina mother and a Norwegian father. He spent most of his childhood and teenage years in Norway before he made the move to the Philippines in 2012. Still living in the Philippines, he is now making a name for himself as Denial RC, a talented sol...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Richard Woolford from the UK. Rich started his journey in 2015 where he travelled to most Asian countries before he visited New Zealand and Australia. He went back home for a visit (and a longer stay during covid) and continued his full-time travels until the end of 2023. And where he went after leaving New Zealand he will tell us in t...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Doreen Ignacio-Abrigo from the Philippines. Doreen moved to New Zealand as a teenager after her dad spent three years in this country due to work. The whole family moved over and joined him in 2009. Now, Doreen has settled down and has started her own little family with having her little boy Joseph. She also started a little business w...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, I thought it would be great to start this year with a proper introduction of myself by sharing my journey of moving overseas and living abroad. My awesome friend James helped me to make this episode special with his skill of being a photographer and vlogger. Please check him out!!! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoTRF3253ujqVMQqjVqgtmg https://jameselam.co...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!! I was interested in New Years traditions of other people, cultures and countries. So I asked some of YOU to tell me a little bit more about how you celebrate the new year. I sneaked in my own traditions as well but I haven't really been celebrating it in this way since I am in New Zealand. Please enjoy a little co...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Coral Remiro from Spain. Coral has left Spain to live in London for 8 years where she also met her partner. As she wanted a career change from interior design to a more environmental job, like growing vegetables, they thought Australia and New Zealand would be good places to start this journey.  They spent 1 year in Australia before th...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Chandini Kumar from Kerala which is in South India. Cha came to New Zealand in March 2020, just 2.5 weeks before the major lockdown due to the outbreak of Covid19. Cha did her studies in aqua culture at the NMIT (Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology) in Nelson, on the South Island of New Zealand and is now living up on the North...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Richard Brown from South Africa. Richard was born and raised in South Africa by British parents before they moved to New Zealand in 1998. He studied law and has a great knowledge about legal topics like immigration, property and estate. Today, we might get an insight of the life of an immigration lawyer of New Zealand. Richi is talking...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Ana Johann from Brazil. Ana and her husband moved to New Zealand in 2017 and have now two beautiful children which were born and will be raised in Aotearoa, the "land of the long white cloud".  Ana is an aspiring personal stylist who studied fashion design in Brazil and is now helping people all over the world to find their c...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Neena Nandigam. Neena was born in Oman, a country in the Middle East and lived there with her family until she was 8 years old. Her parents are originally from India and made the decision to move to Oman to then make another big move to New Zealand. Neena is living in New Zealand ever since. In this episode Neena is talking about the g...

Click here to get in touch Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Karam Wadia from Iraq. Karam left his country with his parents and his two older siblings in 1998 to move to Jordan. In 2004 the family then decided to move to New Zealand to hopefully mind there new home. Does the Iraq war has something to do with their decision to leave their home country? We will find out in this episode. We are tal...