Believe it or not, it can be just as hard to adjust back into your home country when you return as it is to adjust to a whole new country. In this episode, we discuss “reverse culture shock” what is it? How has it affected us? How on earth can you prepare for that? Link to DoS study: https://2009-2017.state.gov/m/fsi/tc/c56075.htm

We are back! After months of being back on home soil, we are back to give you the low down on leaving the comforts of au pair life and adjusting into “normal” life back home. It’s been a rollercoaster of a journey!

One of the most stressful parts of the end of your Au Pair term is packing your life into suitcases! It seems an impossible task, but believe us, it’s not! We chat about our experience packing 2 years into 2 suitcases and give you some tips to try and make things a little easier!

In this episode we are joined by our friend Cat. She au paired in America and then jetted off to The Netherlands to continue her au pair journey. We wanted to interview Cat as her post America Au Pair life is different than a lot of Au Pairs. She’s experienced so many different cultures, hello’s and goodbyes in short amounts of time. We hope you enjoy learning about Cat’s story. Follow Cat on Instagram @catarinads_07

This weeks episode we get into the nitty gritty after life business: career prep! If you’re planning on looking for a job after your au pair term, this episode is for you! With help from Steph’s host mom, who is a career coach, we compiled a whole bunch of tips and tricks to help you smash job searching! From where the best places to look for jobs are to creating an outstanding resume. Let’s get to job hunting!

In the second episode of the afterlife mini-series is featuring our good friend Graham Cargle who has been through many Au Pair experiences and said many goodbyes (some might say he’s an expert on the matter haha!) We discuss the reali-tea of ending the au pair experience and going back to your home country. Sometimes it can be difficult to process and scary to go back to your home country after living in this au pair bubble. This episode was recorded quite a while ago but we hope you enjoyed it and we will be back for episode 3 in two weeks time! Make sure you follow Graham on instagram @global.graham , thank you for coming on this week Graham!

It’s here!!! Episode one of the 10 part Au Pair Tea afterlife series. In this episode we discuss how we are dealing with the upcoming departure from the USA, what are current plans are for our return and what we’re looking forward to when we get home. We hope you enjoy this mini series! Make sure you follow us on instagram to keep up to date with all things afterlife @aupairtea

We come to you this week with some of our season 3 bloopers…. as you all know, we are not professionals and more times than not that really shows! LOL it can sometimes take us a while to get into the actual recording…enjoy some laughs.

It’s Au Pair Tea’s 2nd birthday!!! How have we been doing this for 2 years?! We have loved every second of building this community and we are so thankful to everyone that follows us, sends up messages and listens to our podcast. In this episode we have a little reminisce on our last 2 years doing Au Pair Tea. We also announce a very special series that we will be launching in July 2022! We hope you continue to enjoy the content we create and thank you so much for the past 2 years. Happy birthday Au Pair Tea!!!! 🎈

This week we chat to you about the 3 top agencies that send Au Pairs to the USA. We give the basic information to help you get an idea of what each agency has to offer so you can take the steps to join one of them and become an Au Pair in the USA!