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The Places We Call Home podcast

Yolanda Reshemah

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Frequency: 1 episode/77d. Total Eps: 76

A podcast for any woman seeking practical support and life-transforming stories of rebuilding identity, finding belonging, and creating a meaningful life in a new country.

Host Yolanda Reshemah explores the real inner work of moving abroad — the loneliness, the loss of professional footing, the homesickness, the cultural adjustment, and the invisible labor women perform to hold their families steady while navigating their own becoming. Through personal stories, practical tools, and conversations with women around the world, this show helps you make sense of who you are now and who you’re becoming.

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, isolated, or permanently on duty after immigrating, this podcast is your room — a place to feel seen, share your story, and feel less lonely.

For and by: migrant women, immigrant women, expat women, trailing spouses, global families, women rebuilding identity abroad.

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#75. Why You Don’t Feel Like Yourself Abroad: How to Reclaim Your Identity

Saturday, September 5, 2026 • Duration 08:09

When you migrate, you enter environments that reinterpret you.

In this solo episode, Yolanda Reshemah breaks down why so many immigrant women, expat women suddenly feel unfamiliar to themselves after moving abroad, and how identity distortion happens long before you realize it.

From credential devaluation to accent bias to being misread in rooms where people don’t yet understand your history. Yolanda explains the emotional and psychological impact of being seen through someone else’s lens.

Drawing from her conversation with Assistant Professor Neisha Terry Young and her own six international relocations, Yolanda shows how identity disruption is a predictable response to being repositioned by new systems, cultures, and assumptions. She offers two practical tools to help you reclaim your sense of self:

• A Narrative Audit to separate who you are from who others decide you are
• A Belonging Anchor to stabilize your identity while you rebuild confidence and community.

If you’ve been feeling disoriented, diminished, or disconnected from your old self, this episode gives you grounded, emotionally honest guidance to reclaim your identity and rebuild belonging from the inside out.

Reclaim who you are — before the world decides for you.

identity distortion; identity disruption; immigrant women; expat identity; belonging abroad; confidence loss; competence grief; misrecognition; credential devaluation; accent bias; narrative audit; belonging anchor; migration identity; emotional resilience; immigrant experience USA; expat life; rebuilding identity; Yolanda Reshemah

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#74. Reclaiming Your Worth — Finding Yourself Again After Migration

Thursday, August 27, 2026 • Duration 19:51

A conversation about rebuilding identity, reclaiming your worth after migration.

Educator and scholar Neisha Terry shares the deeply personal journey of navigating identity after migrating to the United States. She speaks openly about having her Jamaican teaching credentials reduced to “nothing,” being questioned about her legitimacy, and the emotional weight of constantly proving herself in spaces that weren’t built with her in mind.

She speaks candidly about the exhaustion of becoming, the discipline of returning to being, and the moment she decided to stop shrinking herself and stand firmly in her truth. she acknowledges that self‑definition alone doesn’t erase structural barriers or the exhaustion of proving yourself. Belonging requires both inner clarity and external change.

Her story is a reminder that that every woman navigating a new country, a new culture, or a new version of herself deserves to feel seen, valid, and whole.

A grounded conversation on identity, worth, and the courage to define yourself on your own terms.

immigrant women, expat identity, belonging after migration, Jamaican educator, women entrepreneurs, move abroad, study abroad, live abroad, homesickness, isolation, credential evaluation experience, women in academia, mental wellness, courage, resilience, women of color in academia, self‑definition, authenticity, cultural transition, reclaiming worth, migration identity, Neisha Terry Young, The Places We Call Home podcast

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#73. Why Going Back Home Never Happens for Immigrant Women—The Myth of Living the Dream in the USA

Wednesday, August 19, 2026 • Duration 21:10

A conversation on identity, home, and why going back never truly happens for immigrant women.

In this episode, I continue my conversation with Dr. Neisha Terry Young, Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University, about what it really means to build a life between geographies. We talk about the emotional weight of being an unconnected immigrant, the freedom she misses from her childhood in Jamaica, and the realities of raising Black boys in America.

Neisha shares how a recent health crisis brought the ache of distance sharply into focus — “I wish I were still at home,” she says — and we explore why going back home never truly happens once migration reshapes your identity, your relationships, and your sense of belonging.

We also talk about accents, self‑expression, and the challenge of being understood in spaces where your language and culture are not the norm. Neisha reflects on the moment she realized her Jamaican Creole couldn’t be heard in the way she intended, and how that shifted her understanding of voice, confidence, and becoming.

This episode is for anyone navigating life across borders — emotionally, culturally, or physically — and for anyone who has ever wondered why “living the dream” doesn’t always feel like the dream at all.

A conversation about identity, home, and the truth behind "living the dream".

immigrant women; expat women; move abroad; homesickness; loneliness; Jamaican diaspora; belonging; identity; home; migration; American Dream; accents; Black motherhood; diaspora stories

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#72. Immigrant or Expat? Neisha Young on Naming Ourselves. Pt.1

Wednesday, August 12, 2026 • Duration 17:09

Jamaican scholar and assistant professor Nisha Terry Young joins me for a grounded conversation about identity, belonging, and the labels we inherit when we move to the United States. We explore the difference between immigrant and expat—and how those words quietly shape the way women migrants are seen, judged, and expected to perform competence in their new lives.

Nisha shares how her identity as a Jamaican woman fuels her work, and how her decision to pursue a PhD became a direct response to the limiting narratives placed on immigrants in American schools. We talk about the quiet pressure migrant women feel to prove their value, the fatigue of constant adaptation, and the emotional cost of rebuilding identity in spaces where anti‑immigrant and anti‑Black narratives still sit in the background of everyday life.

She also takes us home to Jamaica—its mountains, riverbanks, wood‑fire cooking, music, and mangoes—and reminds us how home stays alive through taste, sound, and small rituals that steady us when loneliness creeps in or when the grief of the old self shows up unexpectedly.

This episode is for any woman navigating competence loss, language shame, identity whiplash, and the slow, uneven work of belonging in a new country.

Part two continues next week.

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#71. The Hidden Rulebook of Your New Country — What Every Migrant Woman Should Know

Friday, July 24, 2026 • Duration 12:42

Five practical tools every migrant woman can use to stop feeling lost

Ever felt overwhelmed after moving abroad? This episode gives you the missing manual. Host Yolanda Reshemah breaks down two essential skills every immigrant, expat, and migrant woman needs:

Learning the hidden rulebook of your new culture and;
Using curiosity and optimism as practical survival tools.

You’ll walk away with five clear, actionable strategies to help you feel more grounded, more capable, and more at home in the place you’re rebuilding your life.

As the woman who has relocated six times, host Yolanda shares her tools learned the hard way ... through life, not from books and theories.

She first moved at age 10, then as a teen, a young professional, a wife and most recently as a mother.

On Wednesdays guest conversations bring you lived experiences from a community of women who know where you are and how you feel.

If this episode gives you something real, follow the show and share it with one woman who needs this today.

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#70. Bubblegum, Barbie and Becoming American. Pt.2 Yuliya Patsay

Sunday, July 19, 2026 • Duration 32:45

My expectation was that we were going to buy me a Barbie ... jeans, and bubble gum!

This conversation with writer and storyteller Yuliya Patasy is an unusual exploration of what it means to arrive somewhere new — physically, emotionally, culturally, and generationally.

Yuliya immigrated to San Francisco as a child, landing in a converted garage apartment packed with grandparents, great‑grandparents, aunts, uncles, and the weight of her parents’ hopes. Her early memories of life in a country that no longer exists are vivid: “I’ll never forget what it was like to live with 12 people in an apartment [ in the Soviet] sharing a bathroom.”

She shares the pressure her parents felt to “turn things around quickly,” the loss of professional identity, and the disorientation of entering a system where the rules — social, cultural, bureaucratic — were entirely different. She also speaks candidly about the humor and heartbreak of childhood expectations, like the moment she realized Barbie was not life‑size: “I was like, this? No. I hate this.”

We talk about belonging, language loss, and the tension between honoring the culture you came from and raising children who are fully rooted in the place you now call home. Yuliya reflects on her memoir, which began as a simple recipe collection and became a deeper excavation of family, memory, and identity. And she offers grounded wisdom for families stepping off a plane today, carrying their hopes in a suitcase: “There are good people everywhere… building relationships is really the path to feeling at home.”

If you want more tools, stories, and honest conversations about building a life abroad, follow the show. Each episode gives you something real you can use and someone real you can relate to.

#69. Feeling Lonely After Moving Abroad? Here's How to Lighten the Emotional Load

Thursday, July 16, 2026 • Duration 09:24

Moving abroad can look exciting from the outside — but inside, many immigrant and expat women carry a silent truth: loneliness, identity loss, homesickness, and the pressure to hold everything together.

In this solo episode, I talk honestly about the emotional work women do when they uproot their lives, often without a title, paycheck, or community to hold them.

I share the tools that helped me feel lighter - dealing with one big emotion at a time, rebuilding identity in small steps, and giving yourself permission to "faff around" and be un-serious in a life that often feels heavy.

If you've ever felt invisible, overwhelmed, or permanently on duty after moving abroad, this episode officially reminds you that you're not the only one living through the immigrant experience: the opportunities, challenges and being heard. You're allowed to feel good and have some levity. Often.

Leave a comment. Share your rituals for adding lightness in your life

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#68. Bubblegum, Barbie and Becoming American. Pt.1 Yuliya Patsay

Friday, July 10, 2026 • Duration 39:00

I’ll never forget what it was like to live with 12 people in a Soviet apartment sharing a bathroom.

Writer and storyteller Yuliya Patsay joins us to explore the emotional work of immigration, belonging, and identity — from her childhood arrival in San Francisco as a refugee from what was then the USSR, to the life she’s built today.

She shares the reality of childhood immigration — the disorienting impact of an abundance of resources, diversity, culture shock, and the courage it takes to rebuild your identity when you don't understand the language, rituals and experience.

We talk about the pressure her parents felt to “turn things around quickly,” the loss of professional identity, and of entering a system where the rules — social, cultural, bureaucratic — were entirely different. She also speaks candidly about the humor and heartbreak of childhood expectations, like the moment she realized Barbie was not life‑size: “I was like, this? No. I hate this.”

Her story resonates with immigrant women, expat families, and anyone who has ever called another country home.

Follow the show for more stories about migration, identity, and belonging — and the quiet, powerful work of creating a life in a new country.

Yulia (rhymes with Goo-lia) Patsay is a writer and comedian navigating American life with Soviet programming. She is the author of the memoir Until the Last Pickle and creator of the Substack Buckle Up Bubelah.

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#68. 3 Lessons Every Migrant Woman Needs to Hear When Starting Over Feels Impossible

Wednesday, July 8, 2026 • Duration 05:11

Practical guidance for migrant women rebuilding life in the USA.

This episode shares three practical lessons for migrant women who are working hard to build a new life in the United States.

These lessons come from my conversation with Janet Xu in episode #67, who moved from China with $300 in her pocket and rebuilt her life through persistence, community, and a clear sense of identity.

You’ll get three takeaways that help you stay grounded during the hardest parts of relocation:

Stay rooted in who you are.
Keep your heritage, your goals, and your ambition close. They help you stay steady while you adjust to a new country.

Don't mute your voice, you accent and your culture.
Your background is a strength. It supports you as you find your place and build confidence.
Expect hard work — inside and out.
The external work matters, but so does the internal work: managing loneliness, homesickness, and pressure.

Hear what’s possible when you stay committed to your path and trust your judgment.

Share your takeaway with guests and host: email: guest@theplaceswecallhome.com.

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#67. The Truth About Success, Friendship, and Starting Over in a New Country

Wednesday, July 1, 2026 • Duration 42:15

A blueprint for migrant women eager to turn obstacles into opportunities.

Most women exploring life abroad feel overwhelmed by cultural shifts, language barriers, and the fear of losing themselves—until you hear Janet Zhu’s story.

Janet shares raw, live stories of her journey—from the initial excitement, loneliness and identity shifts to creating a life that honors both her Chinese heritage and American dreams.

What you get:

Hear how embracing your culture fuels your confidence,
How to cultivate community through service, and
Why financial independence is crucial for women abroad.
Her journey reminds you that success is about achievement and also about being at peace with who you are—regardless of where you came from.

Listen now, share it with women who need a little reminder, and follow the show for more real conversations about life abroad.

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