Innlendingar

In this episode, we spoke to the lovely, sunny Jewells who is the host of the All Things Iceland Podcast and Youtube page. We talked about her journey towards finding home in Iceland, grappling with the Icelandic language, staring matches in Árbær, and much, much more.

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In this episode, we discuss what microaggressions are, how they can hurt, and what we can do to avoid them.

In this episode, we spoke to our dear friend Safa about her formative childhood years in Tunisia, what brought her here to Iceland, and how she continuously strives to develop an entrepreneurial mindset in the context of her two incredibly innovative businesses that she is building here in Iceland.

Winter can be a challenging time of year here in Iceland so we decided to share some of the things we are very much looking forward to during the coming winter season.

In this episode, we spoke to Jordan Tyler who is originally from the USA and has been living in Iceland on and off since 2015. We spoke about physical and mental strength, how it gets harder and harder to say goodbye to family living at home, and the constant challenge of achieving a sense of belonging as an innlendingur living in Iceland.

In this episode, we speak to Arthie Bellot, a geologist and master in renewable energy who is originally from Dominica. He told us about his childhood in a tropical paradise, a natural disaster that destroyed his home and changed his life, as well as his experience living, studying, and working in Iceland.

In this episode, we get honest and a little bit vulnerable about our experience of cultivating a sense of belonging in a new place and we share some tips and tricks about how to make the people around you, whoever they are, feel welcomed and valued.

This is part two of Sayed's unbelievable story in which he goes over his experience since arriving in Iceland as a refugee, his time in Iceland's refugee camps, and his interactions with Icelandic policy-makers and politicians.... and it is probably fair to say that it has not been all sunshine and rainbows. I think this episode will be very eye-opening for us all.

In this episode, we share the first of two parts of Sayed's story. Originally from Afghanistan, Sayed was forced to flee his homeland as Taliban forces grew stronger and stronger in his region of the country. He tells the unbelievable story of how he tried twice to flee the country - a story filled with inconceivable violence as well as moments of great beauty and goodness. His journey from Afghanistan to Europe shaped who is is as a person today, and we were honoured to be able to receive him.

In this episode, we spoke to Kathryn Gunnarsson who is one of the founders of Geko, a rapidly growing and highly innovative recruitment agency in Iceland that has received three nominations for the Nordic Start-Up awards. Originally from the UK, Kathryn moved to Iceland in 2016 with her Icelandic husband and young family without knowing a single person and, in the face of a devastating personal trauma, has been able to build a thriving business and a gorgeous family and we had the pleasure of being to pick her brains and find out how.