What does it really take to feel at home somewhere new,  long after the passports and paperwork are sorted?

In this episode, Mickelle sits down with Yolanda Reshemah, storyteller and host of The Places We Call Home, for a tender, honest conversation about the inner life of moving abroad. Born in the Caribbean, raised in England, shaped by years in France and now settled in Northern California, Yolanda has relocated six times and she speaks to the quiet work no relocation package prepares you for.

Together they explore what it means to "feed your soul" in a new place, why living near people like you is never a promise of belonging, and how identity shifts, sometimes without our permission, when we build a life across cultures.

In this episode:

• Why the psychological move matters as much as the legal one

• "Feed your soul": knowing the sounds, people and rhythms you need

• Building community with intention, not by chance

• The identity you can't pack and choosing who you become

• Vulnerability, power and protecting yourself abroad

• Wisdom to carry: change your scales, or find a new pond

The Places We Call Home is part of the House of Peregrine network. All links can be found at houseofperegrine.com/podcast/ep-097

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We're taught that children are sponges, that if you move abroad, they'll simply absorb the new language and everything will be fine. Maria "Mimi" Potvin, linguist and founder of Growing Up Multilingual, is here with a fuller, more honest story.

Mimi joins Mickelle to talk about the part of multilingual life no one prepares you for: not how children gain a language, but what happens when a home language quietly begins to slip away  and what that costs a family over time. Drawing on her research and her own life across Bulgaria, Germany, and the Netherlands, she reframes language as identity, belonging, and emotional connection rather than vocabulary.

It's a tender, clear-eyed conversation about raising confident multilingual children without turning your home into a classroom and about coming home to the languages inside yourself.

In this episode:

• The number one myth parents believe about raising multilingual kids

• Why "translation is not transmission," and how language is emotion

• Communicative vs. academic language, and the two "backpacks" a child carries

• How a home language becomes a child's one constant through every move

• Why Mimi says, quietly, "I survived because of language"

• Heritage language as a homecoming, for the child and the parent

Find Mimi at growingupmultilingual.com, on Instagram @growingup_multilingual, and on Substack at Multilingual-ish.

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When does moving abroad stop feeling like something to prove and start feeling like home? For Claire Naughton, that answer is still unfolding. Eight years into life in France,  a path that wound through New Zealand, South America, and a chance meeting in Peru,  she joins Mickelle to talk about building a business, and a self, in a country that isn't quite yours.

Claire calls herself a "freestyling marketer," helping international service-business owners stay visible without losing their soul. The conversation moves from marketing into something deeper: the quiet ache of never fully belonging, the impermanence woven through expat life, and why your intuition matters most when it feels furthest away.

In this episode:

• Why comparison hits harder when you're building in a foreign country

• What "freestyling" marketing really means and why writing still wins

• Using AI without flattening your voice or your humanity

• Belonging, acceptance, and the myth of "arriving" in France

• Moving abroad for love: you marry the person, and the country

• Bringing your whole self, motherhood included, to the work

Connect with Claire — her travel blog The Millennial Abroad, plus Instagram and LinkedIn — all linked at https://www.houseofperegrine.com/podcast/ep-095.

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Part of the House of Peregrine Summer Series,  shorter clips drawn from our favourite episodes, for those in-between moments when you want wisdom without the full sit-down.

In this clip, depth psychotherapist and author Vanessa Bennett, of The Motherhood Myth and the Cheaper Than Therapy podcast, unpacks one of the most quietly corrosive patterns in our relationships: codependence. Her definition is disarmingly simple,  "if you're good, I'm good; if you're not good, I'm not good", a sense of self located entirely outside yourself. Mickelle and Vanessa trace how we learn it, from people-pleasing and passive-aggression to the fear of abandonment underneath, and why the financial system can quietly force it, especially on women.

Then comes the turn: interdependence. Not hyper-independence, but two sovereign people relating without needing the other to change in order to feel okay. It's a reframe with real stakes for anyone building a life with a partner,  especially couples navigating the identity upheaval of moving abroad and it rests on the deepest work of all: trusting that, no matter what, you will be okay.

Connect with Vanessa Bennett at vanessabennett.com. Produced December 2025.

Listen to the full conversation: https://www.houseofperegrine.com/podcast/ep-085

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Part of the House of Peregrine Summer Series, shorter clips drawn from our favourite episodes, for those in-between moments when you want wisdom without the full sit-down.

In this clip, Move to Europe visa expert Travis Drews -  founder of the Global Citizen Hub - dismantles the biggest myth about moving abroad: that you need a corporate transfer or a backpacker's freedom to do it. The truth is there are far more legal routes than most people realise, open to you at any age and any income level. Mickelle and Travis walk through student visas, job seeker visas, and language-study routes (in France, learning French can be your visa).

The standout: while the average US student carries around $40,000 in loans, public universities in Germany are free, even for foreigners, and study programs often help you land a job, opening a pathway from student visa to residency to citizenship. Travis also shares how his Ultimate European Scholarship Database helps people turn "someday" into a real, legal life abroad.

Connect with Travis Drews at theglobalcitizenhub.com or on Instagram @theglobalcitizenhub. Produced January 2026; visa rules change, so always confirm current requirements.

Listen to the full conversation: https://www.houseofperegrine.com/podcast/ep-081

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Part of the House of Peregrine Summer Series,  shorter clips drawn from our favourite episodes, for those in-between moments when you want wisdom without the full sit-down.

In this clip, House of Peregrine founder Mickelle Weber shares the heart of her TEDx talk, the story of a single moment in a minivan that changed everything she thought she knew about fairness, family, and financial safety. What began as unexplained anger became a clear-eyed reckoning with invisible labour: the caregiving and household work that holds a family together but never shows up on a paycheck.

From a bank telling her she was "better left off the loan" to a napkin sketch of how two partners spend the same 24 hours very differently, Mickelle builds toward a bigger truth — our economy depends on household labour yet refuses to value it. As Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin put it, the world runs on women. It's a call to have the conversations about money and value before crisis, especially for couples building a life abroad.

Recorded at TEDxAmsterdamWomen (November 2024). Produced for House of Peregrine,June 2025.

Listen to the full conversation: https://www.houseofperegrine.com/podcast/ep-066

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Part of the House of Peregrine Summer Series - shorter clips drawn from our favourite episodes, for those in-between moments when you want wisdom without the full sit-down.

In this clip, parenting coach Maria Bordallo, known to her clients as Mama Maria, explores a truth that catches so many people who've built a life abroad off guard: everything feels fine until you go home. Because your nervous system speaks the native tongue of the family you grew up in, a trip back can undo months of healing in a matter of days. Mickelle and Maria unpack why this happens, and how to move through it with compassion rather than blame.

They dig into forgiving your parents without excusing the past, the danger of "false hope," the twelve-step wisdom of not going "to the hardware store for milk," and the practical boundaries that make going home survivable, from lowering expectations to capping how long you stay. It's tender, honest, and quietly freeing.

Connect with Maria Bordallo at mamamariacoach.com or on Instagram @mamamariacoach.

Listen to the full conversation: https://www.houseofperegrine.com/podcast/ep-072

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Part of the House of Peregrine Summer Series — shorter clips drawn from our favourite episodes, for those in-between moments when you want wisdom without the full sit-down.

In this clip, financial strategist Alex Ingrim, founder of Liberty Atlantic, unpacks a deceptively simple idea: your "financial backpack" — everything you carry from one country to the next, and how it changes the moment you cross a border. Mickelle and Alex explore how building a life abroad is really like building a custom life, where your country, your passport, and your finances all have to work in concert.

They dig into why trying out low-tax-impact countries can be the smartest first step, why you should run towards something rather than away from it, and the uncomfortable truth most people miss: your income is almost always taxable where you land, and your tax bill abroad may shock you. It's practical, aspirational, and exactly the kind of planning that makes a move sustainable.

Connect with Alex Ingrim at libertyatlantic.com. Produced May 2025 — tax laws change, so confirm specifics with an advisor.

Listen to the full conversation: https://www.houseofperegrine.com/podcast/ep-061

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Part of the House of Peregrine Summer Series — shorter clips drawn from our favourite episodes, for those in-between moments when you want wisdom without the full sit-down.

In this clip, Third Culture Kid turned therapist and writer Dr. Rachel Cason explores what it means to grow up between worlds — and the quiet, lifelong work of making sense of who we become. Mickelle and Rachel unpack why so many globally shaped people carry a sense of being different wherever they go, and how telling your own story, on your own terms, can turn that ache into something whole.

In this episode:

• Why introducing yourself is never simple when your identity spans multiple cultures

• The loneliness of "pruning" pieces of yourself so others can understand you

• How naming everything you hold — precisely — is what lets you truly connect with others

• Why the answer to "I don't know who I am" is often too much self, not too little

Dr. Rachel Cason is a therapist, writer, and author of Incredible Lives and The Courage to Live Them. Find her work and podcast online.

Listen to the full conversation: https://www.houseofperegrine.com/podcast/ep-060

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Part of the House of Peregrine Summer Series,  shorter clips drawn from our favourite episodes, for those in-between moments when you want wisdom without the full sit-down.

In this clip, international divorce lawyer and mediator Magali van Maanen reveals a truth that catches most cross-border couples completely off guard: when you build a life abroad, the rules you assumed would protect you may not apply at all. Mickelle and Magali explore the moment so many expat families never see coming and why understanding it early changes everything.

In this episode:

• Why your children may not be able to leave the Netherlands until you and your partner reach an agreement even if neither of you is Dutch

• How your home country's laws can quietly override a "50/50" split you assumed was fair

• The clean-break versus spousal-support clash that blindsides cross-border couples

• Why speaking to a lawyer in both countries before you decide where to file can protect your future

Produced April 2025:  laws change, so confirm specifics with a lawyer.

Magali van Maanen practises at DeBoorder Advocaten in Amsterdam,  find her full contact details at deboorderadvocaten.com.

Listen to the full conversation: https://www.houseofperegrine.com/podcast/ep-059

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