Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers

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Perfect Strangers episodes

  • I connect with people heart to heart
    Lea left the Yvory Coast to study in Paris. She then moved to Kazakstan and realized she was the only black woman in Astana. She shares her "weapons" to feel welcomed and at ease everywhere and how she learned to use emotional intelligence as she moved and worked in different places.
    25 min
  • Roots are fondamental. A look at Italian communities in the US

    Paolo Battaglia shares with us what he learned about migration. How and why do communities stay connected to their roots through generations? Is the migrants' experience universal? What is "italianism"? Learn more with this seasoned historian.

    Paolo Battaglia's book : Italian American Country: Finding Italy in small-town America

    25 min
  • Home is where you are loved

     How do you find home when you move every 2 to 4 years? How do you live with your multiple identities when you are of mixed heritage? Why is differentness a richness and not a threat? Hala's personal story and her expertise as a therapist enlightens us.

    Hala's Book: Bridge Between Worlds, a Lebanese-Arab-American Woman's Journey

    I also recommend Amin Maalouf's book: In the Name of Identity

    31 min
  • We are moving! How do we tell the kids?

    Pascale Brady is Founder and CEO of The Challenge Coach

    She does Life and Business Coaching in these areas:
    - Challenge coaching in life and at work through transitions or in relationships
    - Expatriate and international coaching,
    - Parent coaching

    She also is a certified Parent Educator

    She teaches PEP classes and workshops on  practical parenting skills geared to each stage of a child's development, whether you're looking for new parenting techniques or faced with serious parenting concerns.

    30 min
  • Why do we love? Make friendships?What have our genes to do with that?

    We all can see our cultural differences but what about what we have in common? In his book, Nicholas Christakis explains how our genes are encoded with core elements that help us build good societies. Love and friendship are two of these essential features that you find across every human community. To learn more listen to this episode or read the book.

    Review of Nicholas Christakis book : Blueprint, the evolutionnary origins of a good society.

    12 min
  • 17 years old Juliette is ready to jump
    17 years old Juliette is about to take a gap year. She will travel on two continents, work and improve her language skills, discover herself. Why did she decide not to go straight to college? Have some of her friends made the same decision? Where will she go? What does she hope for? it's all in her interview.
    23 min
  • Amanda, expert on chinese language and culture

    Amanda has a long expat experience and shares with us how she manages to feel at home in every country and how kindness goes a long way. She teaches her chinese culture and language to children and gives us advices on how to pass on our own culture and language to our children. She also shares a few insights on her job as consultant for professionals who go to China or Taiwan.

    27 min
  • Bonnie adventurous life began when she was 16
    Bonnie experienced cultural differences for the first time when she was a 16 year old exchange student. Austria after WWII was very different from New-York and it was only the beginning of rich life experiences abroad. She worked in different countries, languages, jobs, married three times and now looks back on her life with a smile.
    35 min

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Do you feel the call of the outside world? What is "home" for you? Is there a place where you belong ? In this podcast you will hear stories of people who moved. Expats, migrants, refugees, everyone…