Meet the Expats

In this short episode of Meet Emily in Paris TRUE/FALSE I talk through a couple of scenes regarding ♥️ love & relationships in France, Paris 🇫🇷 Are the french sooo romantic? Do the french all have lovers? Do all french romantic films end tragically? Do french men really like older women? I have no answer for that one Music creditsMusique proposée par La Musique Libre Not The King - Ice Tea : h...

In this short episode of Meet Emily in Paris TRUE/FALSE I talk through a couple of scenes regarding the work culture in Paris How speaking 🇫🇷 french is so important  How we like to say 🚫 NO to every new idea What ⏰  time do we actually start working And ❤️ relationships at work... Music credits Musique proposée par La Musique Libre Not The King - Ice Tea : https://youtu.be/xYI0Rrnk1Jo   Not The...

Meet Julie, She tells us how she met the ♥️ love of her life during her Erasmus in 💃Sevilla, and made a 5 year long distance relationship between New York and London work before they eventually settled in together, back where it all started: in Sevilla! ♥️  The struggles they went through to be reunited, the VISA paperwork leading eventually to a smooth and welcome reintegration to Spain, althoug...

Meet Emily in Paris, No, Emily Cooper is not on the show! In this series of short episodes of Meet Emily in Paris🇫🇷TRUE/FALSE I review the brilliant (or not, not judging here) Netflix show, with my Parisian eye👀to debunk myths and laugh about our reality.  In his first episode talk through a couple of scenes regarding the french lifestyle and philosophy of life. This covers: 🚬The Smoking in the...

Meet Nicole,  Journalist ✍️ and author, who only a few months after meeting her partner embarked on an adventure to live in 🇨🇳 China! First Hong Kong, as a “housewife” as states her visa and then to Xian. Think remote, traditional China! She tells us all about the culture shock, how she had to learn to get around, a lot about the chinese culture, society, traditions and censorship.  Her top recomm...

Meet Martina, Born and raised in Germany🇩🇪 she caught the travel bug early on and jumped on the opportunity when her husband landed a job in Melbourne, 🇦🇺 Australia, country she had always had a link to. So they packed up in Germany and moved✈️ down under. Little did she know that looking for a job in Melbourne 🐨 was going to be so different than in Germany, starting with CVs. She tells us about...

Meet Emily, Founder of Expat Parenting Abroad . In this 10th episode 🎉 Emily, mum of two 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧  and expat coach tells how after being an expat 🌎 for 10years in Asia, following her husband to Hong Kong, India, and Taipei, where she could not always work 📚 in a traditional sense, at some point needing more in her life she came up with the idea of Expat Parenting Abroad. Through this busines...

Meet Pierre, Who, freshly married 💍, and not specifically attracted by Asia, decided  within one week to move across the world to China 🇨🇳with his wife, and ended up falling in love with this magical continent, leading the way to their next move to Vietnam 🇻🇳. In this episode he tells us about the tough beginnings arriving in Shenzhen, China, regarding work, the new management styles, food🍲, his...

Meet Bastien, French man who grew up abroad in Burkina Faso and Morocco, very early on Bastien became an expat and learned to adapt and adjust. He straight away caught the travel bug leading him to live a life of adventure around the world🌎. Moving every few years, for him the people you meet make the experience, and as long you have good friends around you, you can feel home 🏡anywhere.  After h...

Meet Stasi, As a Bulgarian woman, she grew up under ae communist regime and has since then well caught up in terms of travelling! With 16 years of living abroad, 12 of them all being over 🇩🇪Germany: Rakenburg, Koln and Frankfurt; Stasy tells us about all the german clichés,🥨 🍺and stereotypes. Are they all true? What she likes and dislikes in this country, her personal timeline to master a whole...

Meet Perrine, French woman who has now spent 7 years abroad between Switzerland and Chicago. When in need of a career change Perrine decided to go back to school and do a PHD in Switzerland. She tells us how she embraced the swiss outdoorsy lifestyle making the most of the lakes and 🏔️ mountains both in summer and winter, giving us a few hot spots along the way.  We then take a leap across the pon...

Meet Ying,  Young malasian who grew up in Singapore. When in need of some independence and an adventure, she decided to go live abroad 🌎 in Europe and in Africa for a few months. What started with a few months in Maun, Botswana turned out to be 5 years!  She takes through her radical change of life from Singapore’s skyscrapers, and Haussmannian Paris to Maun; small town where 🐂 cattle and chicke...

Meet Mado,  An Island girl who grew up in paradise between 🌴 Tahiti and Malaysia. In this episode she shares with us her expat experience in Singapore 🇸🇬, how it changed her way of approaching work, and also the move back to Paris. We start with her decision to leave Paris to move back to Asia. From the rocky beginnings, where finding a job didn’t turn out being as easy as expected to finally set...

Meet Kim,  A Dutch - Australian born in Zimbabwe who has lived in 8 countries 🌎 up to date, and who’s world tour took a different turn when the Covid- 19 pandemic broke out.  She tells us how it was moving every two years as a child, the cries when it came to leaving friends but also the richness ♥️of discovering new cultures, foods and most importantly how you become adaptable to change and embr...

Meet Carly, Australian young woman who’s Erasmus in Madrid led to living and working in NYC 🗽 for 3 years. She tells us how she kept up with the city vibrant and fast paced, eventually finding balance and building strong relationships. Finally we discuss knowing when the time has come to leave and start from scratch all over again, in Dublin! ☘️ As top tips for New York, more specifically William...

Meet Marieke, French girl who moved to Dublin almost five years ago, as she tells us her first impressions of Ireland, a country she had set foot in before and how she improved her english, learned to master the irish idioms and eventually made Dublin her home. we discuss recognizing different accents and mention this video by Foil Arms and Hog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3gyQLgr8m8 She also...