Geopats Abroad : Chats with expats, immigrants, and locals

Every day in November I'm hosting 10-minute lives to share practical podcast editing tips for business podcasters. We'll cover nuances of podcast editing from filler words and silences to some more traditional issues like echo and loudness levels.

THIS LIVE EPISODE: Tip #2

As a business person, you might be traveling to an unfamiliar guest office space or stuck in an unfamiliar and echo horrible hotel room with high ceilings or too many windows. There are things you can have ready to prepare for this echo moment. Here are a few ideas.   

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Producer, Host, Editor: Stephanie Fuccio: https://www.stephfuccio.com/contact.html

Geopats YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/GeopatsPodcast

This podcast was created with (affiliate links):

• Streamyard for recording, going live, and distributing FULL videos to LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube: https://streamyard.com?pal=5673660346007552
• Buzzsprout for podcast hosting: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1907332
• Acon Digital's DeVerberate to reduce echo: https://a.paddle.com/v2/click/11427/147398?link=3691
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You know I love listening to other expat podcasts. Well, my client, Amanda Bates of The Black Expat, has an incredible podcast called The Global Chatter, which is:
"a conversational podcast on international mobility, identity, race, career, and more. Each episode takes a deeper dive on issues related to the expatriate experience, especially as it relates to Black and Brown people."

This is an episode swap with The Global Chatter. Hurrah!

JK Hobson is Amanda's guest. They talk about his wild career trajectory to places in the world (Puerto Rico, New York City, Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City, etc) and of course, identity and race experiences that he's noticed and experienced along the way.  Oh, and lot's of musical references because he is a musician and Amanda loves music!

Their conversation is intense, funny and insightful. And it's here to make your ears happy. Let me know what you think. I'm @stephfuccio on the socials.

For more of The Global Chatter go here: https://theblackexpat.com/

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Making our morning cup is not only a ritual and often an energy requirement but it's a sound experience. That's why I'm so glad that Audio Engineer Jason Sheesley agreed to join us for this playful coffee chat. We explore U.S. and Europe coffee and coffee culture, his peak coffee experience, and take a look at his kitchen coffee setup. And more!

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Shankar is a Writer, Podcaster and he claims to be a newbie to coffee. However, after having this conversation with him and hearing his coffee experiences in his home country of India, I beg to differ. I think he is a bonafide coffee fanatic and a discriminating one at that. We chat about his first coffee experience, coffee culture in Northern versus Southern India and why he intentionally does not use a coffee grinder at home. In between the laughter, Shankar teaches us about the growing coffee culture in India, especially in his current city of Bangalore, the I.T. capital of the country AND where his brother (hi Vishnu!) and he spend a lot of time in coffee shops researching their Writer & Geek Podcast. 

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Can growing up with an immigrant parent change the way you experience life abroad as an adult? Chelsea grew up in Tennessee with a German mother, then built an expat life in Asia, giving her a new perspective on what immigrant parents pass on to their children.

Listen for:

• How children of immigrants can experience expat life
• How assimilation affects heritage language and cultural identity
• What culture shock reveals about adapting abroad
• How living abroad can change how adult children understand immigrant parents
• Why some Americans choose long-term expat life
• How third-culture kids develop identity across cultures

How Can Growing Up as the Child of an Immigrant Shape Expat Life?

Growing up with an immigrant parent can make life abroad feel possible because another country is already part of family life. In this Geopats Abroad conversation, Chelsea describes growing up in Clarksville, Tennessee, with an American father and a German mother from Aachen. Her family traveled to Germany about every two years, often staying for a month, making international travel and cultural differences familiar before Chelsea became an expat.

After graduating with a history degree in 2010, Chelsea started questioning whether restaurant work or a conventional desk job suited her. Teaching English abroad let her test a teaching career while seeing more of the world. Chelsea moved to Nanjing, China, in 2011, beginning a decade abroad. Her immigrant-family background didn’t prepare her for every challenge, but it made living outside the United States feel imaginable.

How Can Living Abroad Change the Way Adult Children Understand Immigrant Parents and Assimilation?

Living abroad can make an immigrant parent’s culture shock easier to understand because the adult child finally experiences being the outsider. In Geopats Abroad, Chelsea explains that her German mother moved to the United States without speaking English and focused on assimilation. She eventually chose English rather than German as the family language, although German food such as schnitzel, Jäger sauce, cucumber salad, and goulash remained part of Chelsea’s childhood.

Chelsea’s perspective changed when her mother visited her in China. Chelsea could speak enough Chinese to manage daily life, and people in her neighborhood knew her. Watching her mother become the confused newcomer helped Chelsea reinterpret childhood conflicts about why their family did things differently. Chelsea realized that she and her mother had once been learning how to be American at the same time, only at different ages. Expat life gave Chelsea a new understanding of assimilation, culture shock, and what her mother had navigated while raising children in the United States.

How Do Expat Parents Raise Third-Culture Kids Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures?

Expat parents can raise third-culture kids by making room for several languages, cultures, and identities at once. In this Geopats Abroad conversation, Chelsea had moved from Shanghai to Bangkok for a three-year international-school contract. Her 18-month-old daughter had been born in China and was beginning life in Thailand.

Chelsea is American with German family roots, while her husband is from Cameroon, a French-speaking country. They were considering teaching their daughter French, but Chelsea didn’t want to prescribe one cultural identity. She wants her daughter to keep what feels meaningful from the cultures around her and communicate comfortably with people from different backgrounds. Chelsea’s immigrant-family history and expat life shape how she approaches raising a third-culture child across countries.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Tennessee | Clarksville | Aachen | Germany | Nanjing | China | Shanghai | Bangkok | Thailand | Cameroon | immigrant parents | children of immigrants | assimilation | heritage language | cultural identity | culture shock | expat life | living abroad | third-culture kids

Original publication date: August 27, 2022

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How much do our immigrant parents impact our adult expat experiences? This is what we're exploring in this conversation with return guest Alison. 

Alison and I dig into growing up with two unequal cultures in one household,  the racial struggles she's seen in many countries during her years living outside of her passport country of the U.S. and her coming to terms with the differences between her mother's immigrant experience and her own expat life. 

Original publication date: August 26, 2022

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Questions about family can be triggering if the experience was not ideal. This is one of the reasons that Steph's talked about her family in tiny drips here and there but not in depth. But it felt disingenuous to ask other expats to open up about their early family life growing up with immigrant parents without diving into these experiences herself. So to help with this tabled turned interview, Melissa was kind enough to hop in and guide the conversation.

Melissa's podcast: Tired In My Twenties: https://tiredtwenties.substack.com/

Original publication date: August 29, 2022

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Have your immigrant parents ever visited you in any of your expat places? Georges' parents have and it shifted how he understood their struggles moving from Greece to Canada. We cover a lot more ground on his parents' immigrant story and how it has both positively and negatively influenced his own expat experience. 

Original publication date: July 28, 2022

 🌍 Tools & resources for living, traveling, and working abroad: https://geopatsabroad.substack.com/p/living-abroad-resources

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