The Ikea Episodes

Hello from the other side… 👀 The Ikea Girls are back!!! ✨  Get your ears and your mind ready for our first episode of 2026: an episode full of motivation, inspiration, and… joie de vivre!  For our long-awaited return, we had the pleasure of welcoming our friend Claire for an enthusiastic conversation about her life journey and how she followed her dreams as a one-of-a-kind Zumba instructor, soci...

A new episode, a new IKEA-date 🛋️✨ And guess what... this time, we are not alone!!! Please join us into welcoming Micaela, our very first guest on The Ikea Episodes! Micaela is a dear friend of ours and it was such an honour to have her inaugurate this new chapter of the podcast. We sat down to talk about languages, accents and life as a polyglot. We hope that this episode will speak to all expat...

Oh, how we've MISSED our Ikea family!  Season 2 is finally here and we hope you are ready for it 😍 Tune in for an upgraded version of your beloved Ikea Episodes: new logo, new jingle, new segment... and many more surprises to come! This month, as we meet around a smoothie (homemade, not from IKEA!), we are finally showing you our true faces. One's a good girl: sweet, well-behaved and a slight peo...

✨ Episode 10 is HERE! ✨  And it’s not just any episode… it’s the grand finale of Season One!  For our big 10th, we went on a journey to where it all began — the first ever IKEA, the IKEA Museum, and spent the night at the only IKEA Hotel. 🛏️ Yes, it was iconic. Yes, we cried. Yes, we recorded in bed!  We’re wrapping up this chapter with full hearts and hilarious memories. Thank you for riding wi...

Welcome back to The Ikea Episodes!  For episode 9, one of our dear listeners asked us: "What is your favourite place?". Simple question, you might say... But don't get fooled: the Ikea girls had a lot more to talk about than the IKEA cafeteria! So tune in for this month's in-depth conversation, where we take you on a mental journey around the places that shaped us and where we find shelter in this...

Hi and welcome back to The Ikea Episodes! February is finally here and we could not miss the opportunity to turn up the heat in this episode. Get ready for another juicy, fun and deep conversation at the IKEA cafeteria... but not only: the Ikea Girls are going on a mini-adventure again for this special episode and there are plenty of laughs along the way. Disclaimer: if adult bedroom activities an...

Happy New Year, Ikea besties!  New year, new flatpacks to assemble a.k.a. new goals, new dreams... and new Ikea Episodes!! 😉🛋  We (your favourite Ikea girls) are SO excited for this year and hope it brings you joy, passion, and lots and lots of self-love. This month’s episode is all about it saying goodbye to 2024, welcoming 2025, and navigating all the life assembly instructions that come with i...

Merry Christmas to all our Ikea Episodes family!  No, this month's episode is NOT a Christmas special, although the theme is quite a festive one...  This time we met at IKEA to talk about: music! And more particularly traditional music, as suggested this month's lovely contributor, our dear friend Towhid. As Towhid said, traditional music is "a bridge between cultures. We don't need to get a visa...

Hello and welcome to The Ikea Episodes!  We are Djamila and Sarah (also known as the Ikea Girls) and we are back this month for quite a special episode... This time we are trying something new and taking you on a little adventure with us. Follow us on our journey to Ikea, live from the metro and then walking our way to the most Swedish place in Copenhagen, where we are meeting for our usual coffee...

Hello and welcome back to The Ikea Episodes!  We are Djamila and Sarah (also known as the Ikea Girls!) and we are back this month for another cozy chat in Ikea Copenhagen, where we share anecdotes and life lessons between two laughs.  This month's talk is about friendship... as adults. Good friends, bad friends, lost friends and new friends... How to make friends and how to keep them? We discuss i...

Hi and welcome back to the Ikea Episodes!  We are Djamila and Sarah, two friends who love to meet up in Ikea and chat about life and its challenges. Our podcast is a little insight into our thoughts and feelings, a casual conversation which happens to be set among sofas and Swedish meatballs.  We are finally back from our break… and oh là là, we have stories to tell! In episode 3, we ask ourselves...

Hi and welcome back to the Ikea Episodes!  We are Djamila and Sarah, two friends who love to meet up in Ikea and chat about life and its challenges. Our podcast is a little insight into our thoughts and feelings, a casual conversation which happens to be set among sofas and Swedish meatballs.  In this episode, we talk about what we call the "forbidden fruit": something (or someone) you want but yo...

Welcome to the first ever episode of our first podcast!  We are Djamila and Sarah, two international friends living in Copenhagen. In the Ikea Episodes, we are taking you on our monthly Ikea-date where we talk about life and its challenges, while finding our way out of a maze of furniture. We hope that by sharing our thoughts and doubts, we will make you reflect, relax and feel less alone in this...