Listen to Karl Schieneman and Felix Broden talk to a friend of Karl's Tim Opsitnick, about his recent visit with Karl Schieneman. We will ask Tim about his experience and what his impressions were from his visit to Rio de Janeiro and Buzios, Brazil. We will also talk about strategies for maintaining long distance friendships when you are an ExPat.

Karl Schieneman and Rita Melo talk live while eating an array of fruits and drinks purchased in NYC.  We are trying to eat healthy for this meal.   Listen to our reaction to the fruits and coconut water we found in midtown Manhattan, thousands of miles away from where each of these items come from.  This is a special ExpatBytes recorded far away from our home in Buzios, Brazil.

Listen to Karl Schieneman and Felix Broden analyze a recent CNN article entitled Considering leaving the US for good? Here’s what to think about before you move abroad By Blane Bachelor, CNN. Technical there are lots of good tips here. But is this all you should consider? Is the list longer or is it in fact much shorter? Listen to our two perspectives recorded live from Buzios, Brazil.

Felix and I thought it would be fun to review an article written by a journalist offering advice on how to move abroad to see if we agree with what they wrote based on our experiences. I think it should be a fun show as we illuminate why reading about barriers to moving abroad might miss the point a little bit. Our goal is to simply the process for people considering moving abroad based on our experiences living in Buzios, Brazil.

Listen to Karl Schieneman and Felix Broden talk about their experiences as ExPats in Buzios, Brazil. Argentina neighbors Brazil and many Argentines come to work in Buzios at pousadas and restaurants in the area. Having worked with so many Argentines, Rita and I decided to visit Argentina for a week. What a great trip. Skiing in Bariloche at Cerra Catedral and walking through plazas and parks in Buenos Aires seeing so many great neighborhoods. This show will explore the advantages Argentina offers to ExPats who live in Brazil to explore deeper.

Listen to Karl Schieneman and Felix Broden talk about how they have dealt with one of the largest issues of being an ExPat. Namely how to keep the friends you leave behind as friends when you now live in a new country. Let's face it, making friends as we get older is harder to do for everyone. So what happens when you move maybe thousands of miles away to your friendships? Our special guest James Naylor is a therapist and an expatriate currently living in Brasilia. Listen as we share strategies to minimize this issue and also how each of us have dealt with this problem. I should add that each of us strongly believe in the ExPat lifestyle and journey so this issue has not derailed us from a positive experience. But it is a real issue. And I for one hope that each of my friends listens to this show to better understand at least how I feel about this issue.

Listen as Karl Schieneman reaches back into his former life as a legal technologist expert to interview esteemed Scientist Herb Roitblatt how to use new search tools like ChatGPT to bridge language and cultural barriers most expatriates face in their new homeland. We will discuss how these tools work and why expatriates can likely trust the results they find using these tools to find answers to questions which traditional search engine searches might barely scratch the surface to uncover. Listen to Karl Schieneman and Felix Broden on this show as we discuss how we are living our expatriate lives in Buzios, Brazil. There will of course be a few legal war stories told between Dr. Roitblatt and Karl Schieneman as 10 years ago in 2013, we were two members of the legal team who gained judicial approval to use technology to search for documents in the seminal "predictive coding case", Global Aerospace v. Landow Aviation. This should be an interesting, informative and nostalgic show to listen to.

Listen to ExPat's Karl Schieneman and Felix Broden interview German ExPats Hans Peter Kraft and Rolf Geissinger as we talk about what it is like getting used to being married to a Brazilian. There are cultural differences and this could be a very funny show, which hopefully does not end in divorce for anyone. I also did promise the Brazilian wives the opportunity to talk about their ExPat husbands and anything they had to get used to.

Listen to us interview Ricardo Blasi, an Expat in Brazil who moved to Buzios from Argentina in 1989 to start the pousada Baia do Joao with his wife. In 2019 Karl Schieneman purchased Baia do Joao with Rita Cunto and renovated it before renaming it Baia do Joao Eco Pousada. Ricardo is a very colorful person with lots of stories. He is also our first Argentinian expat to be interviewed on our show and perhaps, the first Argentinian expat to move to Buzios. Listen to our show to find out.

Listen to Karl Schieneman and Felix Broden speak with Samuel Zapata, a Columbian expat living in Buzios on the topic of how you can reinvent yourself in a new country and explore passions which you maybe were not exploring in your former country. Being an Expat can be seen in many ways as a second chance in life if approached with a view towards making a new beginning. This does not mean deleting your past life or ignoring it. But taken at its extreme, it can result in a better "you". Listen to how three expats from different countries, accomplished this in Buzios, Brazil.