The Expat Cast

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The ExpatCast is the podcast where expats share stories about fitting in, standing out, and every mishap on their journey to feeling at home abroad.

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August 16, 2018 Gap Year Abroad with Izzy
Season 1, Episode 7. Instead of heading to college straight after high school, 19-year-old Izzy decided to take a gap year and head to Germany with the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX), specifically the Vocational Youth Exchange.
CBYX is a nearly fully-funded year-long program that brings American teens to Germany for a year of immersion into German culture and language. While staying with host families, teens work a variety of internships in fields that interest them so that they can learn more about what they want out of their upcoming college years and future career.
Izzy has fully embraced this opportunity to learn about herself and the world. Her German has become flawless, she's made incredible contacts both socially and professionally, and she's taken on some tough life problems, like learning to choose what's best for yourself instead of what pleases those around you, deciding between country life and city life, and managing familial relationships as an adult, rather than a kid.

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August 16, 2018 Gap Year Abroad with Izzy
Season 1, Episode 7. Instead of heading to college straight after high school, 19-year-old Izzy decided to take a gap year and head to Germany with the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX), specifically the Vocational Youth Exchange. CBYX is a nearly fully-funded year-long program that brings American teens to Germany for a year of immersion into German culture and language. While staying with host families, teens work a variety of internships in fields that interest them so that they can learn more about what they want out of their upcoming college years and future career. Izzy has fully embraced this opportunity to learn about herself and the world. Her German has become flawless, she's made incredible contacts both socially and professionally, and she's taken on some tough life problems, like learning to choose what's best for yourself instead of what pleases those around you, deciding between country life and city life, and managing familial relationships as an adult, rather than a kid. Izzy has leaned into all these challenges and was able to head back to the States at the end of the program with a wider worldview, a stronger sense of self, clear career aspirations, and, yeah, a fair share of culture shock. This episode is full of details about the program as well as insights into tough topics relatable to all expats.

RESOURCES
CBYX runs programs for high schoolers, recent high school graduates, and recent college graduates. http://www.usagermanyscholarship.org/about
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36min
August 09, 2018 Newlyweds Abroad, Part 2, with Danielle
Season 1, Episode 6. In part 2 of a 2-part series, The Expat Cast sits down with wife-and-husband duo, Danielle Tirado Green and Alex Green Tirado. The couple moved to Germany just months after marrying.
For Danielle, the move was inspired by her love for post-war French cinema. Her desire to complement her close relationship with French language and culture with knowledge of German language and culture led her to seek out work teaching English abroad in western Germany. Over the year the newlywed couple has spent in Germany, they've hopped from Air B&B to Air B&B and apartment to apartment, yet always landed with a sense of gratitude and optimism.
Now as they prepare to move to England, Danielle reminisces on how the cost of living and strong social support systems in Germany have her thinking about returning in a few years. We reflect on what it is like to be an American living abroad in the Trump presidency, feminism abroad, and the need for community and togetherness in an increasingly tribalist time.

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35min
August 09, 2018 Newlyweds Abroad, Part 2, with Danielle
Season 1, Episode 6. In part 2 of a 2-part series, The Expat Cast sits down with wife-and-husband duo, Danielle Tirado Green and Alex Green Tirado. The couple moved to Germany just months after marrying. For Danielle, the move was inspired by her love for post-war French cinema. Her desire to complement her close relationship with French language and culture with knowledge of German language and culture led her to seek out work teaching English abroad in western Germany. Over the year the newlywed couple has spent in Germany, they've hopped from Air B&B to Air B&B and apartment to apartment, yet always landed with a sense of gratitude and optimism. Now as they prepare to move to England, Danielle reminisces on how the cost of living and strong social support systems in Germany have her thinking about returning in a few years. We reflect on what it is like to be an American living abroad in the Trump presidency, feminism abroad, and the need for community and togetherness in an increasingly tribalist time.

RESOURCES
Danielle's writing can be found in Junto: https://juntomagazine.com/issues/volume-2-issue-4/stripped/
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35min
August 02, 2018 Newlyweds Abroad, Part 1, with Alex
Season 1, Episode 5. In part 1 of a 2-part series, The Expat Cast sits down with wife-and-husband duo, Danielle Tirado Green and Alex Green Tirado. The couple moved to Germany just months after marrying.
For Alex, Germany was country of residence number 5. When Danielle said she wanted to move to Europe after graduating, it was an easy thing for Alex's nomadic heart to say yes to.
Their adventure kicked off with job hunting woes, language barriers, and, in Alex's case, a broken foot. Alex talks us through how they got through the tough first few months as a married couple abroad, their plans for graduate school in England, and what the future holds for the couple as they pursue a lifetime of expat adventures.

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33min
August 02, 2018 Newlyweds Abroad, Part 1, with Alex
Season 1, Episode 5. In part 1 of a 2-part series, The Expat Cast sits down with wife-and-husband duo, Danielle Tirado Green and Alex Green Tirado. The couple moved to Germany just months after marrying. For Alex, Germany was country of residence number 5. He grew up in the United States, then spent two years in the Canary Islands and Jamaica as a Mormon missionary. He completed college in Utah, then moved to the Philippines for an internship in microfinance. He and Danielle started dating upon his return to the States, and when she said she wanted to move to Europe after graduating, it was an easy thing for Alex's nomadic heart to say yes to. The couple married, packed their bags, and boarded a flight to Frankfurt, with only vague ideas of where they'd live, how they'd earn money, or what life would bring. Their adventure kicked off with job hunting woes, language barriers, and, in Alex's case, a broken foot. Alex talks us through how they got through the tough first few months as a married couple abroad, their plans for graduate school in England, and what the future holds for the couple as they pursue a lifetime of expat adventures.
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33min
July 26, 2018Fulbright Program with Dane
Season 1, Episode 4. Fulbright Scholar Dane tells us all about his experience in the English Teaching Assistant program. Dane originally heard of Freiburg through friends in college who studied abroad via Academic Year Freiburg, and then again when he was living in Madison, Wisconsin, Freiburg's US sister city. When he applied to Fulbright, he hoped to be placed in the state of Baden-Württemburg, specifically in Freiburg.
As luck would have it, his application was accepted and he was off to the Black Forest for a year of assistant teaching in middle school English classes. He talks us through what the application process was like, what preparations Fulbright provides ETA scholars, and what the job is like now that he's here and settled.
RESOURCES
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program
Academic Year Freiburg
Madison Freiburg Sister City Committee
Pädigogischer Austauschdienst (Site also available in English

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36min
July 26, 2018 Fulbright Program with Dane
Season 1, Episode 4. Fulbright Scholar Dane tells us all about his experience in the English Teaching Assistant program. Dane originally heard of Freiburg through friends in college who studied abroad via Academic Year Freiburg, and then again when he was living in Madison, Wisconsin, Freiburg's US sister city. When he applied to Fulbright, he hoped to be placed in the state of Baden-Württemburg, specifically in Freiburg. As luck would have it, his application was accepted and he was off to the Black Forest for a year of assistant teaching in middle school English classes. He talks us through what the application process was like, what preparations Fulbright provides ETA scholars, and what the job is like now that he's here and settled. Do scholars need to be fluent in German to do Fulbright there? How livable is the pay? Is it OK to giggle at the nuances between American and British English while teaching? Dane talks about all that and more in this episode.

RESOURCES
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program, which is the focus of the episode. https://us.fulbrightonline.org/about/types-of-awards/english-teaching-assistant-awards
Academic Year Freiburg, the exchange program that sends college students to Freiburg for one year, which Dane mentions early on. http://www.ayf.uni-freiburg.de/
Madison Freiburg Sister City Committee, the organization that promotes the relationship between Madison, Wisconsin and Freiburg, Germany. http://madisonfreiburg.org/
Pädigogischer Austauschdienst, the organization that works independently and with Fulbright to facilitate teaching assistant exchanges in Germany, through whom Dane will be doing a second year of assistant teaching in Dresden. (Site also available in English) https://www.kmk-pad.org/
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36min
July 08, 2018Teaching English Abroad with Ashley
Season 1, Episode 3. We sit down with Ashley Matthäus, who moved to Germany without knowing German and without teaching experience. She was able to start her career as an English as a Foreign Language teacher at language schools that don't require previous experience, then work her way up to the higher paying language schools before becoming the head of the adult language courses at one of the schools.
Ashley shares tips, tricks, and lessons learned along the way, and she also shares how she became fluent in German without formal language courses.
RESOURCES
Freiberufliche Visum, or Freelance Visa, info for Berlin (Requirements will be similar across Germany)
InLingua and Berlitz, two nation-wide language schools who will hire native speaker teachers without previous experience
Learning German online: Rosetta Stone, Busuu, Duo Lingo

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Instagram @theexpatcast
Twitter @theexpatcast
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37min
July 08, 2018 Teaching English Abroad with Ashley
Season 1, Episode 3. We sit down with Ashley Matthäus, who moved to Germany without knowing German and without teaching experience. She was able to start her career as an English as a Foreign Language teacher at language schools that don't require previous experience, then work her way up to the higher paying language schools before becoming the head of the adult language courses at one of the schools. Ashley shares tips, tricks, and lessons learned along the way, and she also shares how she became fluent in German without formal language courses.

RESOURCES
Freiberufliche Visum, or Freelance Visa, info for Berlin (Requirements will be similar across Germany). https://service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/305249/en/
InLingua and Berlitz, two nation-wide language schools who will hire native speaker teachers without previous experience. https://www.inlingua.com/ and http://www.berlitz.com/
Learning German online: Rosetta Stone, Busuu, Duo Lingo.
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37min

FAQs about The Expat Cast:

How many episodes does The Expat Cast have?

The podcast currently has 214 episodes available.