Explore every episode of the podcast Geopats Abroad
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| Fitting in, standing out and striving with Stephanie Fuccio: S11E4 | 21 Apr 2022 | 00:42:04 | |
Questions about family can be triggering if the experience was not ideal. This is one of the reasons that Steph's talked about her family in tiny drips here and there but not in depth. But it felt disingenuous to ask other expats to open up about their early family life growing up with immigrant parents without diving into these experiences herself. So to help with this tabled turned interview, Melissa was kind enough to hop in and guide the conversation. Original publication date: August 29, 2022 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Expats can go home with Georges: S11E1 | 10 Mar 2022 | 00:46:28 | |
Have your immigrant parents ever visited you in any of your expat places? Georges' parents have and it shifted how he understood their struggles moving from Greece to Canada. We cover a lot more ground on his parents' immigrant story and how it has both positively and negatively influenced his own expat experience. Original publication date: July 28, 2022 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Albanian, Serbian & Turkish Languages with Educator, Author & Advocate Elizabeth Gowing: S7E6 | 27 May 2021 | 00:47:12 | |
Language can be a lens into culture, a way to share our experiences and a tool to help others. These are some of the aspects of language that we discuss with guest Elizabeth Gowing. She worked in primary education in inner London before moving to the Balkans in 2006. From then until very recently she split her time between Kosovo, Albania and the UK. During her time in the Balkans she immersed herself in many of the languages used there and shares the cultural insights that she learned. One of these experiences while she was in Kosovo was co-founding the http://theideaspartnership.org/wp/ (Ideas Partnership) non-profit. She is also the owner of the https://www.facebook.com/sapuneKS (Sapune social enterprise), offering employment to village and minority community women and support to the education of their children. Elizabeth is also an author of five travel bookshttps: www.elizabethgowing.com/my-books and has translated two books from Albanian. Original publication date: March 5, 2021 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Language Research in Nepal with the Folks from the Big & White Podcast: S7E5 | 13 May 2021 | 00:26:44 | |
If you've ever wondered what it's like to live and do linguistic research in Kathmandu, Nepal, this episode is for you! Big & White, their podcasting nicknames, are two American Linguists who, until very recently were living in Nepal and creating a rather hilarious audio account of their daily lives on their podcast (the https://bigwhitepodcast.libsyn.com/website (Big & White podcast). Their connection and how they bounce off each other is so much fun to listen to. This is the main reason I became a fan of The Big & White Podcast in the first place and definitely why I asked to interview them for the show. This episode is a part of a podcast pair. How apt. Original publication date: February 9, 2021 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Big and White: Two American Linguists Living & Podcasting in Nepal: S9E3 | 04 Nov 2021 | 01:05:00 | |
If you've ever wondered what it's like to live, work, and podcast in Kathmandu, Nepal, this episode are for you! Big & White, their podcasting nicknames, are two American Linguists who, until very recently were living in Nepal and creating a rather hilarious audio account of their daily lives. Their episodes covered much of what expat podcasts cover like food, weather, language, and cultural differences but there is an extra kick to their podcast. Their connection and how they bounce off each other is so much fun to listen to. This is the main reason I became a fan of The Big & White Podcast in the first place and definitely why I asked to interview them for the show. Don't worry, we also talk about podcasting bits like technology, social media, podcast learning curve, editing, audience feedback, Nepali podcasts, guests, and advice for new Podcasters also. But this conversation is a bit more free-flowing than some of the other Geopats Podcasting episodes because we dipped into some of their content topics too like their visual stickoutness in Nepal (thus the name of the podcast), weight lifting and so much more. And since they are Linguists that were doing field work all over Nepal, there is an episode coming on Geopats Language podcast with that geeking out aspect as well. Original publication date: January 19, 2021 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| The Language of Music with Damon Castillo: S10E5 | 10 Feb 2022 | 00:34:50 | |
This episode is really special for me. Last month for NaPodPoMo I had the extreme pleasure of chatting with Damon Castillo for this episode. Yes, THE Damon Castillo of the Mess of Me album that we've been using for the past 2 years in all of the Geopats Podcast Network shows. We talk about the longevity of the Damon Castillo Band, his geopatness, my favorite song on the Mess of Me Album (Saint Cecilia), his recording studio in San Luis Obispo, what music he listens to and some creative struggles. In short, we cover the elements that make up the language of music, lovely, lovely music. Original publication date: December 24, 2020 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Language Learning Panel: International Podcast Day LIVE session Sept 2020: S7E4 | 29 Apr 2021 | 00:55:03 | |
On September 30, 2020 I was thrilled to lead a language learning Podcasters panel for International Podcast Day. You can watch the video of this panel on YouTube, https://youtu.be/hR8fr0Hapo0, OR you can listen to this on this episode. Thank you to Dave and Steve, the geniuses behind IPD, for holding yet another amazing year's sessions of Podcasters from around the world. And for allowing us to use the audio versions of our panel on our podcasts. Since you are language lovers, you may want to check out the other IPD sessions on YouTube IN other languages.
Original publication date: October 13, 2020 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| A Japanese American in Japan on Language: Ken Hirano S10E4 | 27 Jan 2022 | 00:42:20 | |
Ken Hirano was born in Japan but his family moved to the U.S. before he started school. He returned to Japan to live a few times in his life, and now is one of them. He moved back to Tokyo about a year ago and recently (wrote a post on LinkedIn) on this geographic anniversary about his cultural and language identity. And that is what we are digging into today. This identity path took us through how he feels in different languages, why he feels more simple and defenseless in Japanese than English, how Japanese locals versus expats in Japan treat his Japanese & Americanness and where he is the most comfortable. Spoiler: none of these issues have a clearly defined answer and that is what made this nuanced discussion with Ken so interesting to have. Original publication date: September 28, 2020 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| One Year Later, "Schadenfreude, A Love Story..." With The Author, Rebecca Schuman: S6E9 | 07 Jan 2021 | 00:42:35 | |
One year ago today Nicole from the Expat Cast, former guest and guest Host Tatjana and I discussed the book Schadenfreude, a Love Story: Me, the Germans and 20 Years of Attempted Transformations, Unfortunate Miscommunications, and Humiliating Situations That Only They Have Words for in an episode. After I moved to Berlin, Germany I posted a photo of my neighborhood and Tatjana reminded me that this street was mentioned in the book. I decided tor reread the book and also reached out to the Author to see if we could ask her some questions. We are so thrilled that she said yes. This episode is the conversation that I had with Rebecca about her book, with prerecorded questions from Nicole and Tatjana, of course. Original publication date: July 27, 2020 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Dark Coffee and Fresh Crema with Canadian Expat in China Erin Garnhum: S8E4 | 19 Aug 2021 | 00:42:48 | |
Erin and I met in Vietnam many years ago, the place where both of our coffee obsession hit a peak, so it only made sense to have her on the podcast. In this episode we dive into her coffee explorations in Australia, many countries in Asia, Italy and Canada. Original publication date: July 24, 2020 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Expat Isolation & Music with James Errington, Centuries of Sound Podcast: S5E10 | 23 Jul 2020 | 00:24:56 | |
Has music ever soothed your soul and made you feel connected again? Yes, me too. And it sounds like the same happened to James when he was an expat for well over a decade. He is back in his home country now so his perspective on his time in the Czech Republic and China are especially poignant. As is the origin story for his intensely researched and impressively sounding podcast, the Centuries of Sound. Original publication date: July 18, 2020 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Becoming American together: immigrant parent stories: S11E3 | 07 Apr 2022 | 00:39:16 | |
Have you ever wondered why your immigrant parent(s) didn't prepare you for being a global citizen? Original publication date: August 27, 2022 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| German Language Ponderings with Steph from Transcontinental Overload: S7E3 | 15 Apr 2021 | 00:44:21 | |
In this episode, Steph Cook of Transcontinental Overload is kind enough to ponder 3 aspects of German that strike me (Geopats Steph) as strange. Her insights and humo(u)r about these differences is a sheer delight. You will never hear the German language in the same way again. Original publication date: July 17, 2020 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Austria, Costa Rica, Czech Republic and Germany Coffee Explorations with Travis Dow of Podcastnik Productions: S8E3 | 05 Aug 2021 | 00:42:39 | |
Travis lived in Germany and the Czech Republic for 20 years and podcasts about history on podcastnik.com. After talking about alchemy and witches as a ghost-tour guide in Prague, he teamed up with Pete Collman to figure out podcasting as a medium to tell stories from history. Travis has a long and complicatedly long adoration with coffee that started in his childhood upbringing in Germany. Now, he now lives in Oregon, where he partakes in specialty and 7-11 coffee. Original publication date: June 19, 2020 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Talking Banana Yoshimoto's "Kitchen" with Book Nerd Tokyo Yuki Tejima and Guest Host Tatjana: S6E8 | 24 Dec 2020 | 01:02:50 | |
Welcome to the bookish world of Japan. Guest Host Tatjana from Craving Expat Life chats with Yuki fromBook Nerd Tokyo about Japanese books, specifically Banana Yoshimoto’s “Kitchen” in this conversation. They explore Yuki’s life between Japan and the USA as well as Tatjana’s discovery of Japanese literature, translations, and stereotypes. Original publication date: May 29, 2020 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Linguist, Author & Jazz Musician David Moser Chats About The Intersection Of Music And Language: S2E14 | 11 Apr 2019 | 00:45:12 | |
How much overlap is there between music and language? Sinologist, Linguist, Jazz Pianist & returning Geopat Podcast Guest, David Moser, joins us again for a dive into this question. Original publication date: March 13, 2020 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Melissa and David From The Strong Sense Of Place Podcast Share Their Love Of Books, Travel & Laughter: S9E2 | 21 Oct 2021 | 00:51:02 | |
David Humphreys and Melissa Joulwan are the hosts of Strong Sense of Place, a podcast and web site dedicated to literary travel and books with vivid settings. In each episode of their show, they explore one destination and talk about what makes that place different from everywhere else on earth. Then they recommend books set in that destination and talk to a special guest. Original publication date: March 6, 2020 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Marielle From Agnep Heritage Farms Shares Her Love Of Coffee In Melboune, Berlin & more: S8E2 | 22 Jul 2021 | 00:34:47 | |
Marielle is a Data Scientist in Berlin. She is also a long-distance coffee farmer because her family started a coffee farm in our ancestral home in the Philippines (in Mankayan, Benguet). They practice organic and sustainable Agroforestry and they hope to one day export their coffee through a transparent supply chain. Original publication date: February 29, 2020 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Czechia book culture with Strong Sense of Place: S6E7 | 10 Dec 2020 | 00:16:10 | |
Do you read about a place before traveling there? Yup, so do we. By we I mean Mel and Dave, two American expats living in Prague, Czech Republic and Creators of the Sense of Place Podcast. Oh, and myself. In a few podcast episodes Mel and Dave have already perfected the art of diving deep into a place via books and the people who love them. Original publication date: February 21, 2020 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Language Talk with Yunus Emre Karasakal: Brazilian Jiujitsu Instructor in Shanghai, China: S2E13 | 21 Mar 2019 | 00:15:40 | |
This week due to an evil head cold I have something different for you. This mini language episode includes:-a personal German language update (get ready to cringe) and-an unpublished language snippet from a previous interview with Yunus from September 2019. Original publication date: February 14, 2020 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Languages, Voices & Sound with Chinese PhD Researcher Phoebe: S3E6 | 15 Aug 2019 | 01:39:55 | |
How sound sensitive are you? Our guest today, Phoebe, grew up with Mandarin Chinese but has learned a myriad of languages including English, Finnish, German & more. But her sound talent goes far beyond languages into sound and voice research in her current PhD life in Ireland. She is currently researching the connection between recorded voices and listeners’ emotional responses to them. This sensitivity and Phoebe’s general curiosity touch every aspect of language that we discuss in this conversation. Original publication date: December 27, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| The Sun Also Rises With Two Expats in Shanghai, China: Shannon Martin & Stephanie Fuccio: S6E6 | 26 Nov 2020 | 01:16:26 | |
Years ago an expat friend of mine made a comparison with the Lost Generation in Paris in the 1920’s and Western expats in Asia in the early 2000’s and I have never forgotten it. Shannon Martin returns to the Geopats Podcast for a dive into Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” book about his slice of the Lost Generation so that we can dig into this expat generation comparison with about 100 years time difference between them. We will be following up with a conversation about Hemingway’s more autobiographical version of “The Sun Also Rises”, “A Moveable Feast” in 2020, when both of us will possibly be living in Western Europe. Original publication date: December 13, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Did growing up with two home cultures prepare Alison Maciejewski expat life? S11E2 | 24 Mar 2022 | 00:44:24 | |
How much do our immigrant parents impact our adult expat experiences? This is what we're exploring in this conversation with return guest Alison. Original publication date: August 26, 2022 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Mandarin Chinese History with David Moser, Author of "A Billion Voices": S2E12 | 07 Mar 2019 | 00:48:16 | |
Can the making of a language be a riveting story? Original publication date: December 6, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| From Struggling With Languages to Becoming The Lead Interpreter of the Beijing Olympics: Ryan Shuken: S2E11 | 21 Feb 2019 | 00:48:30 | |
Have you ever had to create your own path to succeed at something? That is exactly what Venture Capitalist did to become fluent in Mandarin Chinese. In fact, he was so successful at it that he ended up being the Lead Interpreter for the Beijing Olympics in 2008 in China. This is a 2 part interview about his amazing language learning story. Ryan Shuken: https://twitter.com/Rshuken Original publication date: November 17, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Peak European Coffee Experiences with Ana of Las Saboritas, the Prague Culinary Twitter Account: S8E1 | 08 Jul 2021 | 00:40:38 | |
Ana Blackstad has experienced coffee culture in so many different places that I ran out of ink during our chat yesterday. Okay, I might be exaggerating a bit but seriously, Ana moved to Prague, Czech Republic only 3 years ago but she has made the caffeinated most out of her time there by exploring both local Prague cafes (many of which are listed down below) and those in neighboring countries like Italy, Greece, the UK, Norway, Finland and Turkey. Her love of this beany goodness comes through loud and clear. Ohhhhh, just wait until you reach the part where she describes the best latte she ever had. She speaks of “peak coffee experiences” and the “theatricality” of cafes so eloquently that I think we should all adopt this vocabulary to share the coffee goodness going forward. Who’s with me on this idea? Original publication date: October 25, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| “Language is the center of everything I do.” Linguist David Moser: S2E10 | 07 Feb 2019 | 00:43:53 | |
David’s Twitter bio says that he is a Sinologist, Linguist, Jazz Pianist and Author of "A Billion Voices: China's Search for a Common Language" but what it does not say (most likely due to understandable platform space constraints) is the thread of curiosity that permeates everything he does. That curiosity is infectious and one of the reasons why we are pleased to say that he has agreed to become a repeat guest on the Changing Scripts part of the Geopats Podcast. We need time and space to dig into the linguistic, psychological and motivational topics that we started to cover in this conversation and we are super pleased that he is willing and able to do so. Original publication date: October 4, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| What's it like for this South African to live in Germany long term? S5E9 | 09 Jul 2020 | 00:30:08 | |
“...they say that it gives them a perspective of Germany from outsiders eyes. That was a surprise for me.” Shaun, Host of Expat Life Germany The Germany Experience (formerly Expat Life Germany) is one of those podcasts that you listen to as you are doing something else (for me I was cleaning the apartment) and then find yourself stopping, grabbing a drink and sitting down to listen. Why? Because the authentic, thinky conversations that Host Shaun has with his guests are so calm and intriguing that you want to give them your full attention. This is exactly why I had to reach out to Shaun and ask him to join us on this new Expat Podcasters show. Original publication date: September 30, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Rwanda, China & the U.S. Internet With Former American Expat Keturah Kendrick, Author of "No Thanks": S5E8 | 25 Jun 2020 | 00:59:41 | |
"I actually believe that China is about 15 times more advanced in the usefulness (with social media) than the United States." Keturah Kendrick. Keturah’s online activities changes a lot when she moved to China, but not in ways that you think. Keturah is an intelligent, articulate and delightful person to talk to. I met her at a Podcast Creators meeting in Shanghai, China a few months ago and knew instantly that she needed to be on this podcast for y'all to meet. Her honesty on her online activities pre and post moving to China is really interesting. Keturah is now back in New York City in the U.S. doing her book tour for "No Thanks" and suffering through the adjustments of not using WeChat and the other mobile conveniences in China that she aptly describes in this conversation. Original publication date: September 27, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Podcasting Culture in Germany With American Expat Nicole of the Expat Cast: S9E1 | 07 Oct 2021 | 00:20:45 | |
What do you do as an expat when your life goal is to collect and share experiences and information? You start a podcast! And that is exactly what American expat in Germany Nicole Palazzo did just after her first year in Freiburg, Germany. We recorded this mini episode on the new Podbean Live app, which was in Beta version. There were some technical issues but we pushed through and I think there is so much useful and interesting information in Nicole's audio story. In fact, she is going to come back and in the future and update us on her expat podcasting life and adventures. Hurrah. Original publication date: September 26, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Internet Habits with Yunus Emre Karasakal: Brazilian Jiujitsu Instructor and Douyin Content Creator: S5E7 | 11 Jun 2020 | 02:00:33 | |
In this episode I am pleased to welcome Yunus Emre Karasakal, a Turkish expat in Shanghai, China. Yunus is a Brazilian JiuJitsu (BJJ) Instructor here in Shanghai as well as an Abu Dhabi World Pro Masters Champion (Brown Belt) and an IBJJF Asian Open Champion (Brown and Black Belt). Yes, for the language geeks, he gives BJJ instruction in English and Chinese and yes, we chatted about him coming on the Changing Scripts show soon, don’t worry. Yunus is the first expat I’ve talked to that spends more time on his host country’s social media platforms than the ones he used before moving abroad. The platform he uses the most is the very popular Chinese video app, Douyin, which has an outside of China app spin off called Tiktok. He brings BJJ to a funny level on this current platform. If you don’t have Douyin, don’t worry, you can still see some of his videos on Instagram. Original publication date: September 13, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| What was rural China like in the early 20th century? S6E5 | 12 Nov 2020 | 01:20:27 | |
In this podcast episode, I am honored to talk with Tina Kanagaratnam about the book The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. Tina is a Bookish Expat with both strong literary and historical knowledge of China. I have been to a number of bookish events in Shanghai where Tina has joined in to provide some historic context to the texts that we were discussing. Every time I have blown away by how knowledgeable, insightful and personable she is. Tina is one of those people that balances intelligence, perspective and humor perfectly. Original publication date: August 23, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| "My Experience Is Where I am From" Ting, Third Culture Kid Onlineness: S5E6 | 28 May 2020 | 01:36:22 | |
In this podcast episode, I chat with Ting, a Third Culture Adult who is currently interviewing fellow TCKs and TCAs about their experiences. I first heard about her project when I went to a TCK event in Shanghai earlier this year. During this event Ting shared her experiences living in China, Singapore, the U.S. and Hong Kong- all before she graduated from college. She had, as many geopats do, a complex mix of conflicting emotions and experiences connected to this multicultural identity. More on her story in a moment. Original publication date: August 16, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Early podcasting in Spain and the UK with Pilar Orti and Craig Wealand: S9E4 | 18 Nov 2021 | 00:37:20 | |
Language podcaster Craig is from the UK but has been podcasting in Spain for many years. Alternatively business podcaster Pilar has the opposite geographical podcasting experience being from Spain and podcasting from the UK for a long time. And yet they found each other and created a podcast about the scene in Spain some years ago. In this conversation with Craig and Pilar we dig into what they learned about podcasting in these two countries, how the space has changed since their podcast was live and how indy podcasting differs from business podcasting. These two folks are knowledgeable and are tapped into the space in a passion led way so there's a lot to learn from them. Let's get to it! Original publication date: July 22, 2022 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| How did Thom of Thomreads on Instagram learn Chinese? S2E9 | 24 Jan 2019 | 01:04:49 | |
In this podcast episode, Steph talks with Thom Clairmont, Thomreads on Instagram, a French university student who is studying Sinology in graduate school. Sinology is the study of Chinese language, history, customs and politics. He has studied French, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Russian but it is Chinese that he is the most fascinated with. In fact, he admits to not even liking learning languages until he started learning Chinese the last two years of high school. What is it about the language that pulled Thom in and kept his attention? I’m afraid that you will have to have a listen to his language story for the details of him studying Mandarin Chinese both in Europe as well as in Asia. What I can tell you is that what Thom puts out into the world about his studies and about his reading experiences outside of Academic texts, is thoughtful, relevant and shared from a place of heartfelt enjoyment. Original publication date: August 8, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| How was Germany different in the 1990's? S6E4 | 29 Oct 2020 | 01:18:13 | |
What do you get when you have two American Expats and one German Expat talk about a book by a former American Expat living in 1990’s Former East Germany? This culturally windy episode dripping with heaps of blasted stereotypes, linguistic gems and lots of laughter. We are delighted to have Nicole Palazzo, Host of the Expat Cast Podcast on the show today. Her interview with me in February this year on the Expat Cast is a big reason why Bookish Expats exists so danke Nicole! More on the book that we talked about below, but first, let's pay some pod bills. Original publication date: July 26, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| “The Global Soul” by Pico Iyer With Two Podcasting Expats: S6E3 | 15 Oct 2020 | 01:37:35 | |
The Global Soul by Pico Iyer is a seminal geopat book. Stephanie and Summer (Steph’s Co-Host on the new podcast Creatively Complicated) dig into this book in a very big way. This is not a regular episode because Steph is not interviewing Summer about her reading story but instead they are discussing both of their reactions to this book. Summer read this book for the first time recently thanks (or no thanks, lol) to Steph’s persistent recommendation and Steph tried to reread it for the first time since she fell in love with it in 2002. Original publication date: July 5, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Did writing about moving to China impact this expat's daily life? S1E10 | 06 Sep 2018 | 01:22:32 | |
Antonella Moretti is the Author of Parsley and Coriander, a fictional book about an Italian expat community in Suzhou, China. Antonella has lived in Suzhou for many years herself and draws upon her personal expat experience for this narrative. In this episode we asked Antonella about her two bookish hats: expat reader AND expat Writer. We discuss her love of reading books about China, what led her to write this book on an expat experience in China and about the publication and translation process. Original publication date: June 28, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| A Colocated American Expat Film & TV Writer, Producer, Director and Podcaster: Brendan Davis: S5E5 | 14 May 2020 | 01:38:44 | |
In this podcast episode we chat with Brendan Davis, an American expat who has lived in China for many years. Brendan is a Film and TV Writer, Producer, Director and fellow Podcaster. His podcasts are: If I Knew You Better, Big Fish in the Middle Kingdom and How China Works. Brendan somehow has kept grounded as has been involved with some pretty spectacular creative projects globally. Okay, to be honest, he is a bit crazy, good crazy, as his website, https://www.crazyinagoodway.com admits to. The kind of crazy that you want in your life and in your earbuds. In this conversation Steph and Brendan chat about how his move to China changed what he did online, how he is splitting his time now that he has decided not to work IN China but will continue to keep a home base (and an Internet connection) here, and how he cultivated his crazy in a good way online persona while being a deep, thought provoking and may I say, wonderful human being. Original publication date: June 21, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| A Self Proclaimed Muddler of Mandarin Chinese, Angela: S2E8 | 10 Jan 2019 | 01:03:11 | |
In this episode, we chat with Angela, a Canadian who went to China for the first time in 2006, which is where she met her husband. She left China and returned, as so many expats do. Lucky for me, she came back to China in 2010 and worked at the same school teaching Academic English to students who were about to study abroad. Angela’s relationship to languages and language learning is the complete opposite to mine: before learning Mandarin Chinese she fluently learned French, Spanish and Finnish, with a strong emphasis on speaking the language. She is now a teacher in Canada and is able to help International students from China and other countries, adapt to their new learning and academic life in a small study group environment as well. Original publication date: June 10, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Writing about Swedish Cheese as an American Expat in Germany: S1E9 | 23 Aug 2018 | 01:18:39 | |
In this episode we chat with Summer Rylander, an American expat who has been living in Nuremberg, Germany since 2015. Summer is a freelance food and travel writer with a fondness for cooking, reading, daydreaming, procrastinating, and taking long walks with podcasts. Her latest droolworthy publication in Culture Magazine is about Swedish cheese (yes, it’s a thing!). When Summer gets writing hungry, she also posts about food and cooking on her blog, Eat Something Go Somewhere. Summer's website: https://www.summerrylander.com/ Original publication date: June 4, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| What's it like for this German expat living in India? S6E2 | 01 Oct 2020 | 01:34:50 | |
In the podcast episode we chat with Tatjana, in her words “a German married to an Indian-Chinese - or Chinese-Indian depending on the mood of the day”. Tatjana grew up wanting to live in different countries, so she went into Hospitality in order to do so. Of course, at the same time she read voraciously. In fact, while living in Dubai, one of the six cities she has called home thus far, she met her husband. Just before she moved to India to be with him she started reading the works of Indian Author Chetan Bhagat. And thus began her bookjucation of India and Indian culture. I was fortunate enough to sit down with Tatjana in my home in Shanghai and chat about some of Chetan’s books that had an impact on her life in India. We also dig into her bookology, her favorite books and places to read them and so much more. Original publication date: May 31, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| How did this American expat (and puppeteer) learn Chinese slang? S2E7 | 27 Dec 2018 | 02:01:49 | |
Nine Years Ago Joshua Ogden-Davis left graduate school in Texas, moved to China and taught himself Chinese. He is now a Mandarin Chinese Translator, does audio and video production in multiple languages, and is a Puppeteer. In this Changing Scripts podcast episode we dig into Josh’s fuller language story, including this switch from English to Mandarin Chinese as well as his experiences with Spanish, German and English from his beforetime. Original publication: May 22, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Kelly Merks Of The Bullet Trains & Bike Lane Blog On Desiring Mundanity Online: S4E4 | 30 Apr 2020 | 01:33:47 | |
In this podcast episode we chat with Kelly Merks, a Texas expat who has lived abroad since 2011, in Japan and in the Netherlands. Her Twitter bio tells is: “A Texan full of fernweh (NOTE: “fernweh is a German word that means “ A Farsickness or Longing for Unseen Places.). Noob knitter and clay thrower. Fairy godmother of @WeAreXpats, a project of @xpatarchive: http://wearexpats.org “ @WeAreXpats is how Kelly and I first met online and connected over discussions of place, social medianess and expat life. For those of you not familiar with rocur accounts, they are rotating accounts where usually 1 person in that category (in this case, an expat) tweets for a week and then the account will rotate to another person after that. Kelly started this rocur account while she was a volunteer at the Expatriate Archive Center in The Hauge where she now is their Public Relations Manager. Outside of the EAC, Kelly also is raising a tiny human with her husband and somehow finds time to write about her geographic pondering in her blog, Bullet Trains & Bike Lanes. Original publication date: May 14, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| From Teacher To Podcaster | Legendary Language Learner YouTube Channel: S2E15 | 25 Apr 2019 | 00:31:46 | |
This episode is about half of a conversation that Matthew Boyle of Legendary Language Learner YouTube channel and I had about language teaching, content creation and the intersection between the two. Original publication date: March 24, 2022 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Cultural Flexibility In Mandarin Chinese & Finnish with Lotta: S2E16 | 09 May 2019 | 01:09:57 | |
In this episode we chat with Lotta, a Finnish college student who lived in Shanghai, China between High School and University. During part of that time she took intensive Chinese language courses. Lotta has continued with her Chinese language learning even after returning to Finland by using TV shows and other media until she can take more language classes at her university. Original publication date: May 7, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Hao Wu, Director of People's Republic Of Desire On His Own Virtual Habits Binationally: S5E3 | 16 Apr 2020 | 00:45:36 | |
In this podcast episode we chat with China-United States Binational Documentarian Hao Wu about how his movement between these two countries has affected what he has done online, both in personal and professional capacities. Hao grew up in China and has had healthy movement from China to the U.S. and back in his adult life. Although he is currently based in New York City, he admits that he is most interested in stories about China. One of these China focused projects, People’s Republic of Desire, is about the Chinese live streaming platform YY and specifically about two popular Hosts on the platform. This documentary was screened in Shanghai, where I am currently living, earlier this year. Shannon Martin of Podbean and our local Host of the Podcast Brunch Club was there as well. In fact, during the screening and for days after the event, Shannon and I exchanged ideas, questions and ponderings about the documentary. We are very grateful that Hao was kind enough to agree to an interview so we could ask him about when the Internet became an integral part of his daily life, how creating a documentary about the trials and tribulations of live streaming for years affected his own online activities and the how his online tasks change, even now, when he flies from the U.S. to China and vice versa. Note: Hao’s latest project, All In My Family, about his alternative family journey from within a traditional Chinese family structure, is on Netflix May 3rd, 2019. Original publication date: April 20, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| 'Working With The Thais' with Podcasting Futurist Evo Terra: S6E1 | 17 Sep 2020 | 00:57:14 | |
In the podcast episode we chat with Evo Terra . Some of you might remember him from season 2 of the Bangkok Podcast with Co-Host Greg Jorgensen, However, Evo’s podcast history goes back much farther than this. In fact, one of his podcasts was the 40th podcast of all time (there are rumored to be about 700,000ish podcasts listed in Apple Podcasts right now) and he wrote the first Podcasting for Dummies books. We recorded this interview about the time of his one year reverse culture shock anniversary (exexpatsary?) returning to the U.S. after living in Bangkok, Thailand for a few years. He selected the book, Working With The Thais to talk about. Original publication date: April 23, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| Expat in China? Here’s How Life Abroad Can Reshape Your Online World: S5E2 | 02 Apr 2020 | 01:25:00 | |
In this podcast episode we chat with long term China Expat Andy Curtain about his geographical movement from Melbourne, Australia to Shanghai, China and what effect it had on his online activities/presence. Even though he was online quite early in Australia with IRC and ICQ, he admits that most of his current online activities have been utility based, focusing on his stand up comedy promotions and community building. As a fellow Content Creator (and Influencer, lol), I find it very interesting that the making of his podcast, Stuck in the Middle, helps him process his own comedic material. There is so much to say about Andy, the deep impression he has made on the stand up comedy scene in China and his own business savvy that has impacted how I think of my own creative endeavors on and offline in the short time since this interview took place. But for now I will just say thank you Andy for coming on the show and sharing your story. Original publication date: April 9, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||
| How did this expat not expat coexist in Australia and China? S5E1 | 19 Mar 2020 | 01:39:07 | |
In the Podcast episode, we talked to Tanya Crossman, author of Misunderstood The Impact of Growing Up Overseas in the 21st Century about her experiences learning and using Mandarin Chinese since she was a teenager. Tanya has a deep connection both to Chinese culture and language but her language story does not stop there. Original publication date: April 1, 2019 Top 3 services that have help me while living in different countries: Affiliate links so I'll get a small commission. 🔥Chase Sapphire Credit Card: annual fee, NO currency conversion fee. Used this in many countries globally. -------------------- 🤸🏽Music from and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ | |||