Craft a Path Podcast

Vince is an American Expat who makes a living:

1. Teaching English
2. Training LLMs
3. Doing Stand Up Comedy

In this episode we talk about how he got started in each of his three jobs, expat life, and how all of these are affected by the times.

Check out Vince's comedy on IG

Mathias is a Belgian expat who runs one of Prague's oldest coworking spaces. In this episode, he walks us through Locus Workspace, talks about what it's really like to run a physical community business, and shares his advice for anyone thinking about starting a coworking space: start with people, not a place.

We cover:

• What it's like to buy a business during a pandemic
• The daily reality of running a coworking space (yes, including fixing toilets)
• How Locus builds community with 11+ events per week
• Why charging for a free event actually increased attendance
• His advice for anyone thinking about starting a coworking space
• The future of remote work and neighborhood workspaces

🔗 Locus Workspace: https://locusworkspace.com

📍 Vinohrady, Prague

What if the best career path isn’t planned at all?

In this episode, Eva shares how studying languages in Spain led her to unexpected opportunities across Europe and Canada, including landing a role as a tour coordinator for international school trips and building community in a coworking space.

We talk about the value of experimentation early in your career, the reality of working holiday visas, the perks and pressures of planning travel for hundreds of students, and how AI is beginning to reshape knowledge work.

Eva’s story is a reminder that meaningful careers are often built step-by-step, not through perfectly mapped plans, but through curiosity, adaptability, and the willingness to try something new.

Topics covered:

• Why your first job doesn’t define your future
• Working abroad and building an international career

• What it’s really like planning trips for schools

• Remote work, flexibility, and lifestyle design
• AI’s impact on hourly work
• The power of coworking communities

Jakub is good with numbers, a skill that he parlayed into a career as a banking consultant. In this episode we talk about work culture in Prague vs. London, a 4 day work week, and, of course, the daily life of someone in the role.

Brady is a DevOps engineer at a VPN company in Prague, but his path started in restaurant kitchens in Omaha, Nebraska. In this episode of Craft a Path, he walks us through how a tech support gig and a self-taught AWS education turned into a career managing deployments across the globe. We get into what DevOps actually is (and how it differs from regular software engineering), what happens when you accidentally break production and trigger 45 minutes of alerts, how AI is reshaping the role of the engineer, and why moving to Europe completely changed his perspective on work, money, and life.

Sections:

• Intro / warming up
• What Brady does and how he got into tech
• From restaurant work to tech support to freelance coding
• Software engineering vs. DevOps explained
• The two week sprint: planning, firefighting, and documentation
• Strategic vs. tactical work
• A day in the life in Prague
• Remote work vs. return to office
• Perks of the job
• Challenges: people, complexity, and breaking production
• AI in software engineering and how it's changing the role
• The future of the developer role
• Advice for getting into the industry now
• Life as an expat, European salaries, and rethinking what matters

We all have that never-ending list, the car inspection, the address change, the trip to the authorities that eats up half your day. The founder of DIDIT saw that problem and built a solution: a service that simply does it for you. In this episode, we talk about what running a business in New York taught him about the value of time, why Czech bureaucracy is ripe for disruption, and how DIDIT grew from a simple idea into a go-to lifeline for hundreds of people in the Czech Republic expats and locals alike. If you've ever said "I just don't feel like dealing with this," this conversation is for you.

Learn more at https://didit.cz/

Personal Finance coach and host of the Sustainable Savings Podcast Michael Joseph joins the show to talk about the power of prioritizing the things that matter most to you. Mike and I discuss his path from unemployed college grad, to founder of Sustainable Savings, and the things he's prioritized along the way. 

Fed up with politicians? Desperate for change? Andrea Hoffmannova once felt  the same way. But rather than turning to social media to complain, she  became involved in the efforts to create positive change. In this conversation, Andrea casts a demystifying light into the lives of  politicians, so as to remind us that we’re all humans the same. And that  by starting small, at a local level, you too can influence a nation.  You’re listening to the Craft a Path Podcast, with today’s guest Andrea  Hoffmannova, on her Path to Politics.