This week I'm sharing a conversation that I recorded back in April with Beatrice Zhang, one of my "First Year Friends." What's a "First Year Friend?" Listen in and I'll explain. Then, Beatrice and I talk about her journey from a small town outside of Guangzhou to her jet-setting life traveling around the world as a flight attendant, and her eventual landing in Seattle. Finally, Beatrice gives me yet another way to think of what "home" can mean, leaving me to ponder: Am I a Bostonian, a Beijinger, or both? And is that even possible?

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With the launch of Migration Media last week it only made sense for my chief collaborator in this crazy scheme, Brendan Davis, to sit down so that we could take a deep dive into his migration story. What drives a guy from the American Deep South to strike out on a career in music, film and television in LA, and then ultimately follow those passions to China? The seeds may have been planted early on with an upbringing that featured lots of migration within the US, followed by a chance encounter in his teens with some Asian philosophy texts. The journey that followed has brought him to Beijing where is busy trying to find ways to bridge the cultural divide between East and West.

Brendan Davis' interview on the "Fei's World" podcast: https://www.feisworld.com/blog/brendan-davis

Brendan Davis' interview of me on his podcast, "Big Fish In the Middle Kingdom": https://www.crazyinagoodway.com/home/2017/12/6/mike-shaw

Brendan on Twitter: @VeritasInLux

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We kick off the Migratory Patterns podcast with the most important expat in my life: my amazing wife, Alisa Rutherford-Fortunati! Far from an act of nepotism, I used this interview to have a long-overdue deep dive into what motivated her to leave home, drive across the US alone, move to New Zealand and eventually end up in Beijing... where she married me! Alisa's story is awesome and she spins a great yarn. So sit back and enjoy her tale of searching for a place to call home; its a journey that many international migrants are on.

Hear all f the details about how I began my own journey to the #ExpatLife, as well as the full story of how Alisa and I met on Episode #29 of the Big Fish In the Middle Kingdom podcast: http://bigfishmiddlekingdom.libsyn.com/029-from-boston-to-beijing-mike-shaw

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