The Expat Pod

Title: The Expat Pod: Wiebke Uhlendorf

Subtitle: Leaving the German system to be a Nomad

Episode Number: 29

Release Date: [15/01/2024]

Duration: [00:40:31]

Welcome to The Expat Pod, the podcast where we explore the ins and outs of living abroad, embracing new cultures, and navigating life as an expat. I'm your host, James Doran, and today, we're diving into the story of Wiebke and how she left Germany and the systems there in order to pursue a dream of living in the jungle. This episode shows all about how she got to each of these places.

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Title: The Expat Pod: Lace Flowers

Subtitle: : Leaving the UK for a South American Adventure

Episode Number: 28

Release Date: [07/01/2024]

Duration: [00:55:12]

Welcome to The Expat Pod, the podcast where we explore the ins and outs of living abroad, embracing new cultures, and navigating life as an expat. I'm your host, James Doran, and today, we're diving into the life of Lace Flowers, a British person who left the UK with her young family as a single mother to explore South America, after manifesting her move the year before.

Lace has navigated Mexico, Guatemala, Dominican Republic and is now living in Colombia, where she's been able to manage her online business inspiring women to set up online work as virtual assistance, and previously working in Crypto teaching to help build confidence in the new financial markets.

Join our chat exploring the world of international food, dating, understanding tourist visa requirements, the language and a couple of healthcare run-ins.

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Quick Fire Questions: Lace Flowers Chats About Leaving the UK to Live in South America and Living Life Globally

Living Abroad Lightning Round:

00:00. What is your favourite place you've lived?

01:00. What is your favourite international food?

02:00. What is your favourite international tradition?

03:00. What is your favourite thing about living abroad?

04:00. What is your best homesickness remedy? 

05:00. What is the hardest thing about living abroad?

06:00. What is the best phrase you've learnt whilst living abroad?

07:00. What is the best way to make friends abroad? 

08:00. What is the best thing to do in your new city?

09:00. What is your best expat life hack?

About Lace Flowers:

Lace is a remote business owner, who has worked supporting women's education in crypto markets, and has worked in virtual assistance. She now offers support to other people to help them on the journey to working for themselves.

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Welcome to another instalment of the Quick Fire Questions derivative of the podcast. In this shorter format, I ask my quest a handful of questions to which they share a quick answer in order to hopefully inspire some future expats to follow in their footsteps or at the very least be entertained by some of the great answers!

This week I am joined by Marie who is a Brit living in Peru.

Come join us to hear her take on the matters at hand!

Title: The Expat Pod: Marie JohnstonSubtitle: A Retreat to PeruEpisode Number: 27Release Date: [17/12/2023]Duration: [00:58:24]Welcome to The Expat Pod, the podcast where we explore the ins and outs of living abroad, embracing new cultures, and navigating life as an expat. I'm your host, James Doran, and today, we're diving into leaving the UK for a sense of wanderlust, Marie found herself in Peru where she eventually started a new life. She shares all about her relationships with Peruvian people, bringing up a son whilst living there, the differences in culture within Peru from the cities to the countryside, and her comparison of UK life and her new one in Peru. Marie runs retreats in Peru and South America taking her guests on some incredible journeys, and using San Pedro to help people in their lives.

Welcome to another instalment of the shorter quick-fire questions variant of the podcast. This week I am joined by Francesco who shared his full story earlier in the week so go check it out if you're interested in hearing more about his experiences.

In this episode, I ask the following questions to get an idea of the guest's experiences and highlight just how vast a life abroad can be:

Favourite thing about living abroad?

Favourite international food?

Favourite tradition?

Homesickness remedy?

Expat life hack?

If you'd like to know more go check out our socials!

Title: The Expat Pod: Francesco Baldini

Subtitle: An Italian in Ireland

Episode Number: 26

Release Date: [10/12/2023]

Duration: [00:52:09]

Welcome to The Expat Pod, the podcast where we explore the ins and outs of living abroad, embracing new cultures, and navigating life as an expat. I'm your host, James Doran, and today, we're diving into leaving an italian upbringing to explore. Francesco initially took a working travel visa to move to Toronto in Canada, making use of connections he already had in that city.

He then moved to Ireland where he feels is the city which moulded the man he is today, meeting his wife and having a family, making some amazing friends, and enjoying some pints of Guinness.

Now Francesco is living in Chester in the north-west of England!

Join us for the stories he tells!

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Welcome to the first of the quick-fire questions podcasts my first guest to participate in this is Grant Simon, an American who's lived in Colombia, Canada and the UK!

Here I ask him some key questions in a new bid to add more value to the podcast look for the QFQ in the title to find more of these episodes.

Title: The Expat Pod: Grant Simon

Subtitle: Talking Visa extensions

Episode Number: 25

Release Date: [03/12/2023]

Duration: [01:05:04]

Welcome to The Expat Pod, the podcast where we explore the ins and outs of living abroad, embracing new cultures, and navigating life as an expat. I'm your host, James Doran, and today, we're diving into an incredible journey from the USA to Columbia, Canada and The UK for Grant. He shares about his upbringing in a french speaking school in the US which came in handy when learning languages and especially living in parts of french speaking Canada.

Grant travelled to the UK to complete a master's program and started his own company working on SEO.

You can find Grant's on linkedin with the link below:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/grantsimon1/

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Title: The Expat Pod: Lucy Jeon

Subtitle: Leaving Korea to grow a career

Episode Number: 24

Release Date: [26/11/2023]

Duration: [01:13:50]

Welcome to The Expat Pod, the podcast where we explore the ins and outs of living abroad, embracing new cultures, and navigating life as an expat. I'm your host, James Doran, and today, we're diving into leaving South Korea for studies in Sweden, working in Singapore, The Netherlands and Canada! We talk all about the different cultures and working environments, bonding on our struggles with learning Swedish, and excitement for future travel.

Lucy runs Hey Globally... go and check it out!

https://www.heyglobally.com/

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