Residence

Transitioning from a successful legal career to becoming a certified Travel & Life Coach and seasoned expat, Veerle shares her remarkable evolution and the challenges she faced along the way. Drawing upon her personal experiences and triumphs, she illuminates the path to finding purpose, connection, and belonging in foreign lands. Listen to her inspiring story of empowerment and growth, and learn how she helps others thrive in the face of uncertainty.

Inna had just begun building a life for herself, and for her husband, before the invasion of Ukraine brought all her dreams crashing down.

Following on from S1 | E1: 'The Arrival', the host of Residence finally lands in Oświęcim, Poland — home to the infamous concentration camps 'Auschwitz' and 'Birkenau' — where he will live and work for the foreseeable future.  

Where at first he believes he'll be met with a friendly, civil gathering with his new manager and co-teachers, his night quickly takes a turn he doesn't expect. 

As a prelude to future episodes centred around the war in Ukraine, in Episode 1 of Season 2, the host of Residence provides a brief background to the rapidly unfolding nightmare on Western Europe's doorstep. 

Tim returns to Australia from India, a barely recognisable version of himself, only to discover his biggest challenges have just begun.

After moving from his home country of Sweden to the picturesque beaches of Byron bay at a very young age, like most of Residence’s guests, Tim had no idea where he belonged.

Learning another language is an unavoidable reality for some when relocating to another country. 

But what if you kind of don't have to, but really want to? If this is the case, you'll more than likely be met with quite a few obstacles to achieving fluency, or at least a conversational level. An underestimated and overlooked challenge, however, is often the way you're thinking about it. 

In this episode I share some tips that helped me achieve a level of fluency in more than one language, whilst living abroad, and in Australia. 

In this episode I chat with TEFL-qualified, Cambridge University teacher, Adam. We discuss living in Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe, cultural miscommunication, paid-hitchhiking, smoking in public overseas, and having your passport stolen by your tyrannical boss.

A long time ago, the host of Residence received an email from the director of a school situated in a small town in the south of Poland; a town that sounded eerily familiar. 

Living there would be one challenge, getting there was another entirely.