In this episode, you are going to learn the other side of the story, what it feels like to being a daughter of foreigners! My special guest is Dana Taylor who was born in England but from Jamaican parents.

Dana told me what it feels like being raised in the UK but in a household with a different culture. However, in an attempt to protect her from prejudice for speaking with an accent or eating things too different, her mum didn’t teach her the Jamaican language Patois and used to cook for her mostly British dishes with only occasional curry goat.

At 15 Dana decided to learn her parents native language by asking her grandma to teach her. It proves that later in life, some children will still want to learn their parents mother tongue.

Dana demystifies the view that Jamaicans are laid back. With both parents being super hard working people, she learnt to appreciate their efforts but also to ignore the parts she didn’t like in order to create her own business. Dana used all her heritage knowledge in positivity and herbs plus a lot of studying in order to become a Motivational, Healing and strategy coach.

So if you would like to find out more about Dana, who is by the way, currently single, and with lots of funny stories to share, press play now or download the episode to fill your commute and happy listening!

Show notes:

https://www.danataylors.com/

Instagram @thedanashow

In this episode, I talk to Almudena Viéitez, co-founder of Bilingual Beats, the language company which teaches children Spanish through music. This incredible lady who has only been in London for seven years, managed to develop a successful formula for her business as well as having two boys in between!

Almudena tells me how she raises her children in a bilingual environment whilst incorporating a few British habits. She also shared how she had a dramatic but still happy delivery of her first child, something she believes would had been completely different in Spain.

I also mentioned in this episode how I did the famous Camino de Santiago de Compostela in the North of Spain. It was life changing experience! So press play to hear what was the best thing I got out of it!

For more info on Bilingual Beats, please check it out on https://www.bilingualbeatsonline.com/ 

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In this episode, you learn the successful story of this lovely Danish mum who loves to eat pickled herring so much that she even decided to give the same name to her PR agency. Trine is proof that a foreigner with sharp English can go a long way in the industry.  

You will also find out how she met her partner at an X Factor audition, what she misses from Copenhagen (which includes a very popular bag of sweets) and why it is important for her to continue teaching her children her mother tongue even though everyone in her family speaks English. 

For more info on Trine Hansen's PR agency, head to www.pickledherringpr.com 

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In this week's episode I finally get to speak to this super busy German who is either working hard or having lots of fun with her family or friends. Verena tells us what is like to be a working mum in Finance and why she finds it important to always find time to have fun with her friends, which includes one week in Greece away from her son! She also explains how persevering in speaking 100% in German to her son, regardless of whom she is in front of, has paid off in order to get him fluent in her native language. 

If you want to check out Verena's glamorous life style, visit her instagram @twinkie20000

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Our 6th episode has Danielle, the amazing Australian who moved to London when she was 21-years-old. In her 14 years in London, Dan tell us how she worked for the Queen, how she met her now husband who is Russian and decided to make a humbling decision in order to protect their sons from prejudice. 

She also tells how she managed to loose 20kg (3 stones) after having three children! Her journey has been very inspiring and documented on Instagram. Head over to her page to learn more about it https://instagram.com/tweedledeedee?igshid=xjhh8lmxkunl

In our fifth episode, Dina Maktabi, the amazing founder of the fabulous website Kensington Mums, joined me on Zoom direct from Beirut to tell us her story. Her love for London started when she moved here as a child. DIna also tells us about how she had the brilliant idea to create a platform to help other mums and much more. Unfortunately the Lebanese mum was in Beirut during the horrible explosion which devastated most of the city. Thankfully she and her family were safe. She gave us an emotional interview of what she is doing now in order to help other who weren't so lucky. 

To find out more about Kensington Mums and how to donate and support Lebanon, go to www.kensingtonmums.co.uk 

In this episode, Vanessa, from the South East region in Brazil and who moved to London nearly 10 years ago, tell us everything about how she met her husband, what she does to keep her culture alive with her kids and how she had the idea to create the Instagram account MiniLondoners. 

On our third episode, I invited the lovely Severine Menen, a French who has been living in London for 20 years! We chatted about her first job in Finance to a complete career change in order to become a Nutritional Therapist. We also spoke about her impression on English men which led her to marrying a French to how she felt when she had to swear the oath of allegiance in order to get her British citizenship. Severine also tells us how she taught her son to enjoy all sorts of food, including chicken liver! Spoiler alert: he never had a fish finger! So put your head phones on and find out why. 

If you want to become a client of this amazing woman, head to www.severinemenem.com  

What happens when you move to the UK as a dentist? Gina from Mexico tells us what she had to do so she can now even own her own dentistry, how having a child minder who also spoke Spanish benefited her and how she overcame missing her children first steps. 

If you are interested in having one of best dentists of London, check out https://www.bishopsgatedental.co.uk/ 

In this episode, Eve talks to her Namibian friend Uta about her childhood, the reason that motivated her to leave her country, marrying a Geordie, what she is trying to teach her daughters, living in one of the most "pure English" neighbourhoods of London and why she values self-care. At the end of the show, there is also a quick funny story about a Swed and her English partner.