A new episode, a new IKEA-date 🛋️✨

And guess what... this time, we are not alone!!! Please join us into welcoming Micaela, our very first guest on The Ikea Episodes!

Micaela is a dear friend of ours and it was such an honour to have her inaugurate this new chapter of the podcast. We sat down to talk about languages, accents and life as a polyglot. We hope that this episode will speak to all expats & other language-nerds 🫶

As usual, let us know what you think and share your bilingual stories on Instagram @theikeaepisodes or via email at [email protected].

With love
The Ikea Girls

Oh, how we've MISSED our Ikea family! 

Season 2 is finally here and we hope you are ready for it 😍 Tune in for an upgraded version of your beloved Ikea Episodes: new logo, new jingle, new segment... and many more surprises to come!

This month, as we meet around a smoothie (homemade, not from IKEA!), we are finally showing you our true faces. One's a good girl: sweet, well-behaved and a slight people pleaser. The other's a bad b*tch: rebellious, unapologetic and a tad too stubborn. Who's who? We'll let you decide!

In the first episode of this new season, we are also launching the Ikea Girls' French class, where your professeures Djamila and Sarah will be teaching you their go-to words to add some frenchiness in your life.

As always, thank you so much for listening and please join us on the socials @theikeaepisodes to share your good girl stories... or your bad b*tch moves!

With love
The Ikea Girls

✨ Episode 10 is HERE! ✨ 

And it’s not just any episode… it’s the grand finale of Season One! 

For our big 10th, we went on a journey to where it all began — the first ever IKEA, the IKEA Museum, and spent the night at the only IKEA Hotel. 🛏️ Yes, it was iconic. Yes, we cried. Yes, we recorded in bed! 

We’re wrapping up this chapter with full hearts and hilarious memories. Thank you for riding with us through 10 episodes of chaos, meatballs, and friendship. We’re taking a little break to recharge and dream up even more magic… 

SEASON TWO drops in June! So stay subscribed, just rest up... and get ready — we’re only getting started! 


With love
The Ikea Girls

Welcome back to The Ikea Episodes! 

For episode 9, one of our dear listeners asked us: "What is your favourite place?". Simple question, you might say... But don't get fooled: the Ikea girls had a lot more to talk about than the IKEA cafeteria! So tune in for this month's in-depth conversation, where we take you on a mental journey around the places that shaped us and where we find shelter in this crazy world.

As usual, let's meet on our socials to continue the conversation: where do YOU feel most at peace? We want to hear it all! And don't forget to suggest next month's topic at [email protected] so you can be featured in our future episodes! 

With love
The Ikea Girls

Hi and welcome back to The Ikea Episodes!

February is finally here and we could not miss the opportunity to turn up the heat in this episode. Get ready for another juicy, fun and deep conversation at the IKEA cafeteria... but not only: the Ikea Girls are going on a mini-adventure again for this special episode and there are plenty of laughs along the way.

Disclaimer: if adult bedroom activities and spicy talks are not your thing, you might want to skip this episode... but for everyone else, enjoy!

Sarah & Djamila

Happy New Year, Ikea besties! 

New year, new flatpacks to assemble a.k.a. new goals, new dreams... and new Ikea Episodes!! 😉🛋 

We (your favourite Ikea girls) are SO excited for this year and hope it brings you joy, passion, and lots and lots of self-love. This month’s episode is all about it saying goodbye to 2024, welcoming 2025, and navigating all the life assembly instructions that come with it. 📦💭 

What are your resolutions? More self-love? Learning new skills? Finally organizing that BILLY bookshelf? We wanna hear it ALL! And as always, let us know what you think of the episode on our socials or at [email protected]: your feedback really helps us make our podcast extra special. 🎧✨ 

Enjoy the episode and cheers to a year full of joy, love and perfectly assembled dreams! 💙 

Sarah & Djamila

Merry Christmas to all our Ikea Episodes family! 

No, this month's episode is NOT a Christmas special, although the theme is quite a festive one... 

This time we met at IKEA to talk about: music! And more particularly traditional music, as suggested this month's lovely contributor, our dear friend Towhid. As Towhid said, traditional music is "a bridge between cultures. We don't need to get a visa to travel to their world. We need to close eyes and listen. It's enough." Beautiful, am I right? 

So tune in to hear about the music that we grew up with and the one that is still the soundtrack to our life! And let us know in the comments if you are familiar with any traditional music :) 

Sarah & Djamila

Hello and welcome to The Ikea Episodes! 

We are Djamila and Sarah (also known as the Ikea Girls) and we are back this month for quite a special episode... This time we are trying something new and taking you on a little adventure with us.

Follow us on our journey to Ikea, live from the metro and then walking our way to the most Swedish place in Copenhagen, where we are meeting for our usual coffee and chat. This month, we are discussing another challenge we all face in our almost daily life: le regard des autres (pardon our French, it means the gaze of others).

We hope that you will enjoy listening to this special "audioblog" format as much as we had fun recording it! We are so excited to hear your stories of stepping out of your comfort zone and owning your cringe: send them over at @theikeaepisodes on Instagram and Facebook or via email at [email protected].

Let us know if you would like to hear more of these light-hearted, spontaneous and slightly chaotic episodes or what topic you would like us to discuss next, and don't forget to tune in every first Sunday of the month for more stories!

S & D

Hello and welcome back to The Ikea Episodes! 

We are Djamila and Sarah (also known as the Ikea Girls!) and we are back this month for another cozy chat in Ikea Copenhagen, where we share anecdotes and life lessons between two laughs. 

This month's talk is about friendship... as adults. Good friends, bad friends, lost friends and new friends... How to make friends and how to keep them? We discuss it all while sitting in our beloved Swedish canteen. 

The topic was suggested by our friend and listener Auréline from France, who is the first person featured on the podcast (yay!!). If you also want your theme to be discussed on The Ikea Episodes, send us a text or voice message on Instagram/Facebook @theikeaepisodes or via email at [email protected]. 

Mind you, we know there is sooo much more to say on this topic, so feel free to join the discussion on our socials and let us know how you have met your most recent friends.

And remember to tune in every first Sunday of the month for more stories!

Bonne écoute :)

Hi and welcome back to the Ikea Episodes! 

We are Djamila and Sarah, two friends who love to meet up in Ikea and chat about life and its challenges. Our podcast is a little insight into our thoughts and feelings, a casual conversation which happens to be set among sofas and Swedish meatballs. 

We are finally back from our break… and oh là là, we have stories to tell! In episode 3, we ask ourselves “what to do when life gives you lemons”? We talk about dark times and finding your strength to survive them. Drowning in a pool of lemons? Here are our personal tips on how to make good “lemonade”, a.k.a how to turn around a rough period. 

It's only the beginning! Join us every first Sunday of the month for more stories. 

Take part in the discussion on Instagram or Facebook @theikeaepisodes and let us know what brings *you* joy and inspiration when everything seems to be hopeless. 

Bonne écoute :)

P.S.: You can also find the Ikea Episodes on YouTube @ The Ikea Episodes Podcast