Geopats Abroad

By Stephanie Fuccio, Long term serial expat

Join Stephanie Fuccio, a serial expat of 20+ years, to explore nuances of countries and cultures around the world. Through candid conversations with fellow internationals, she explores daily life c

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The podcast currently has 233 episodes available.

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August 09, 2018 A Nigerian's First Year in The United States: S1E8
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In this episode we chat with Expat Mo from the More Sibyl Podcast. She describes this show as “a podcast about culture and cultural nomads designed for Blacks and Asians and those who love them.” Mo is a Nigerian-born, US-educated, Korean-speaking, Struggling Intellectual.

I enjoyed chatting with Mo so much about her Facebook posts from her first year in the U.S. Her reflections on her own posts and the discussion that ensued really got me thinking about what we take for granted when we grow up in a culture AND what we expect others to accept readily when they enter the same culture as an adult. Mo’s honesty, hilarious sense of humor and compassion for others is very inspiring.
Mo's podcast: https://www.mosibyl.com/
Original publication date: March 19, 2018

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1h 32min
July 26, 2018 Seeing Hangzhou, China Through the Eyes of a Young Writer: S1E7
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This week we expat chat with Hannah Lund, who is magnetic, funny and thinky. Her geographic trajectory includes her home state of Minnesota and a quiet town in Iowa in the U.S., Paris, France and Hangzhou, China. In 2012 it was a mystical story involving a character called Madame White Snake, set in Hangzhou, which was the inspiration for this move to China but Hannah soon found out there were so many more unexpected surprises that would come from this experience.
Original publication date: November 26, 2018
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1h 40min
July 12, 2018 From Finland to China & Back Blogging with Pia of Pian Shanghai 上海 : S1E6
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Pia and her family just recently left Shanghai, China after living here for two years. I have met some active expats in my life but Pia takes the cake on really living life the fullest. She explored China, worked and volunteered locally, all while raising two intelligent and worldly daughters. How did moving to the U.S. a few years ago help her to make this transition to living in China? Come have a listen to the answer to that question and more as we explore a blog of hers from this time period.
Pia's blog: https://pianshanghai.blogspot.com/
Original publication date: October 30, 2018
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1h 3min
June 28, 2018 Political Disappointment Via A Familial Letter With American Expat Jennifer: S1E5
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Many of us are promised things growing up in a certain culture and often those promises are never actualized. Jennifer is an American who had been to over 70 countries before moving to China to teach at an international school but that did not stop this home country disappointment from kicking in. In this episode she reads a poem that she wrote a bit after her first year in China to her father about these cultural promises. And as we often do in Expat Rewind, we spend quite a while unpacking what this poem and the frustration in it means to her now, what has changed since she wrote it and so much more.
Original publication date: October 15, 2018
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1h 7min
June 19, 2018 Reaching Back to 1st Year Expat Shanghai, China Via a Blog with Shannon Martin of Two Who Travel (2 of 2)
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Did you blog your way through your first experiences in a new place? Shannon Martin does this. She is an American who has lived in Shanghai, China for 6 years. In this two part interview she shares her first impressions of China via a blog post she wrote in 2012 with her current life in Shanghai. Shannon brings up many nuanced aspects of daily life in Shanghai that often get overlooked like personal space differences, cartoon patterned bed sheets, books, quiet places and more.
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37min
June 14, 2018 First China culture shocks for an American expat: S1E4
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Did you blog your way through your first experiences in a new place? Shannon Martin did when she first moved to China in the early 2000's and you're going to find her observations from then AND now hilarious. Here's a side of China you rarely hear about.
Original publication date: June 18, 2018
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59min
May 31, 2018 Pet culture shock in China? S1E3
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The first year in a new country is always the hardest. Evan did what I did, he took to writing a blog to sort out the think through what he was seeing, experiencing and feeling. In this conversation we revisit an early blog post of his from when he first arrived in China. We chat about dogs, language and so many more nuanced aspects of Chinese (and American) culture.
Original publication date: June 1, 2018
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33min
May 18, 2018 Is reading Chinese fiction easy?
Phil's journey learning Mandarin Chinese is nothing less than impressive. But he is humble and shares not only his experiences but very practical tips and resources that he has found along the way. Phil and I initially did this interview for the Changing Scripts YouTube channel but it felt like too long of an experience for a video. It felt like a podcast. So here we are.
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1h 45min
May 17, 2018 What was it like to move from China to Scotland for this writer? S1E2
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Do you have a spiritual home? Xing Zhao does. He's a Chinese Writer, Translator and former international student in Edinburgh, Scotland. Xing shares with us a blog post, Kapa Zhou, that he wrote during his first year studying in Scotland. He goes on to reflect on how his memories of that time period and how they are not fully represented in the blog entry. Xing also shared a post he wrote on the Chinese language version of this blog as advice to other international students. As someone who has taught international students both in Asia and in my passport country of the U.S, this was interesting insight to get first hand indeed.

Xing’s website: https://kapazhao.com/
Original publication date: May 14, 2018
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30min
May 14, 2018Reflections: Revisiting Edinburgh, Scotland via a blog post with Xing, Kapa Zhou
This week we expat chat with Xing Zhao, a Chinese Writer, Translator and former expat in Edinburgh, Scotland. Xing shares with us a blog post, Kapa Zhou, that he wrote during his first year studying in Scotland. He goes on to reflect on how his memories of that time period and how they are not fully represented in the blog entry. Xing also shared a post he wrote on the Chinese language version of this blog as advice to other international students. As someone who has taught international students both in Asia and in my passport country of the U.S, this was interesting insight to get first hand indeed.
A special thank you goes out to Rebeca Kanthor, who introduced Xing and I.

Xing’s Info:
Website: https://kapazhao.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kapazhao/

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FAQs about Geopats Abroad:

How many episodes does Geopats Abroad have?

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