Meet the Expats

Meet Umberto : his American Dream in New York

Meet Umberto, Born and raised in Italy, he grew up with a picture of his grand father in Brooklyn, and that became his life goal. Travelling to New York, he started networking in the airport, while waiting in line to board the plane, little did he k...

Meet Salina : a life built around community in Madrid

Meet Selena, an American expat who moved from Texas to Madrid at just 24, despite never having visited the city before. Eight years later, Selena is still living in Spain and has gone through quite the expat journey, from teaching English and learning...

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Meet Urmi: From Italy to Montreal, Finding Home Across Cultures

Meet with Urmi, an Italian with Bengali roots who grew up in Italy, spent time in the UK, and has now been living in Montreal, Canada for the past decade. Urmi is a Third Culture Kid, and her story is one of navigating different identities. Growing up...

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Meet Dennison: Life Beyond the Golden Visa

Meet Denison Smith, an American novelist who recently traded the wide-open landscapes of New Mexico for the rolling countryside of Portugal’s Alentejo region. In this episode, Denison shares the story behind her move from the United States to Portug...

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Meet Amanda: from nomadic lifestyle to settled down in Copenhagen

Meet Amanda, Who at the age of 17 started a nomadic lifestyle, bartending across 10 different countries, seizing every opportunity, before settling down with her family in Copenhagen. Amanda shares her reverse culture shock when moving back to the U...

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Meet Maddalena : dating as an expat

Meet Maddalena, an Italian relationship and dating coach now living in London, whose expat journey took her from a small town in Southern Italy to Dublin, Rome, and eventually London. In this episode, Maddalena shares how living abroad transformed n...

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Meet Yolanda: from loneliness to belonging in the US

Meet Yolanda, a global expat who has relocated six times across the world before eventually settling in California — what started as a one-year adventure turned into 16 years, two children, and a deep journey of rebuilding home from scratch. In this...

Meet Cécile: rediscovering France

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Meet Shannon: building her small business in Germany

Meet Shannon, an American expat who followed love to Germany—and ended up building a thriving small business in Baden-Württemberg. Originally from the San Francisco area, Shannon moved to Germany for what was meant to be a temporary chapter. Fourteen...

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Meet Josh: Community Building on the French Riviera

Meet Josh, Entrepreneur, community builder, and Dutch expat who turned isolation on the French Riviera into connection, and a thriving international community. Joshua moved to the South of France in 2018 with his wife, chasing a better quality of li...

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Meet Zach and Anna: making it easy for expats to move with StartAbroad

Meet Zach and Anna, Serial expats and founders of StartAbroad (https://startabroad.com/aff/meettheexpats/), a relocation company built from real-life experience moving abroad, sometimes with support, sometimes completely on their own. From the Domin...

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Meet Tracey: identity shifts and finding home in your body

Meet Tracey, Relocation coach, somatic practitioner, and six-time expat who has turned “trying it for three months” into a life philosophy. In this episode, we explore what it really means to build home within yourself—especially when life (and iden...

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Meet Nancy: dealing with grief abroad

Meet Nancy, After two decades of living abroad in Switzerland and Denmark, Nancy opens up about navigating grief as an expat — balancing a global career in biotech with the heartbreak of losing loved ones from afar. She shares how returning to the U...

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Meet Megan: learning languages and building confidence

Meet Megan, From starting out as an au pair in Germany to running her own language coaching business, Megan talks about how travel shaped her career, changed her mindset, her top tips for learning languages, and why confidence is the secret to better...

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Meet Dr Elefant-Yanni: the affective toll of expat life

Meet Dr. Elefant Yanni, a Swiss psychologist now based in Singapore, who has built a career helping expats and international couples navigate the highs and lows of life abroad. From her first move to Canada, then Korea, and now Singapore, Dr. Yanni sh...

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Meet Rekha: making nomad life easy for families

Meet Rehka, Co-founder of Boundless Life (https://www.boundless.life/), a program that helps families live, learn, and work abroad together. From childhood trips and student exchanges to creating a whole new way of schooling on the road, Rekha share...

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Meet Tim: reuniting with his family in Mexico

Meet Tim, Who met his Mexican wife at work in the US, at the time none spoke each other's language, but still they pushed through one word at the time. His wife, who already had children back in Mexico, had to go back to take care of them, and that'...

Meet Tsahia: back to her studies in Paris

Meet Tsahia, After years of working in the healthcare sector in the US, it was time for a change: a Luxury Marketing Masters in Paris, her dream city. In this episode Tsahia shares her culture shocks regarding life in Paris and differences in the ed...

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Meet Natasha: from NYC to following her dream to live in London

Meet Natasha, She left Russia with her family to move to Boston, despite the US not being her dream country. After finding a contract there, and trying to fit in to the culture, she moved on her own to New York, where she discovered a vibrant and bu...

Meet Angela: questions to ask as an expat parent

Meet Angela, New Yorker now living in Brussels, Belgium. After a layoff as a teacher in the US, Angela decided to make her first move abroad to South Korea. As South Korea did not "feel like real life", as in she did not see herself settling there f...