The Listen Podcast

In 2014, Olga Gulati and Pavan Gulati founded Juno Health & Wellness in San Francisco. Olga is a psychologist, life and nutrition coach. Pavan has a background in science and today he is the creative director of Juno Health & Wellness.

After relocating to Olga’s home country of Colombia, they moved to Alicante, Spain, where they have lived for the last two years along with their young daughter.

For more on Juno Health & Wellness, visit https://www.junohealthandwellness.com/

For today’s special Thanksgiving Day episode, we’re turning the tables. Kate will be discussing the American traditions surrounding this holiday, as well as her many memories of family, food and fall – as an American among family in the US, and as an ex-pat living abroad.

This week we’ve got something very special planned for you, and that interview will be available on Thanksgiving Day. We hope you’ll check it out!!

For today’s special Thanksgiving Day episode, we’re turning the tables. Kate will be discussing the American traditions surrounding this holiday, as well as her many memories of family, food and fall – as an American among family in the US, and as an ex-pat living abroad.

Michele Franche is a native of Ottawa, Ontario. After graduating from McGill University and the Université de Montréal, she moved to Spain where she earned a further degree in English Philology. Michele currently lives in Cuenca with her twin daughters and her son.

Sue Ramiro-Ibañez is native of Newcastle upon Tyne, in England. She was working as an RSPCA Inspector investigating animal cruelty when she met her husband in 2007. She moved to Spain in 2011 with her husband and two children. Today, she is busy putting her heart and soul into a new venture: www.animalesencantados.com/

This week we’ve got something very special planned for you, and that interview will be available on Thanksgiving Day. We hope you’ll check it out!!

The Silver Lining – When mothering abroad, it isn’t only about getting one’s point across and getting things done one’s own way. Our Season 3 guests also learned to appreciate certain Spanish ways of life, especially when it comes to their children. Raising children abroad has the obvious benefit that they will grow up bilingual…

More Cultural Clashes – It’s hard to fight old traditions, especially if they are as deeply-rooted as toros (bullfights) in Spain. No one knows better about this than our guest from episode two: Sue, a British animal-lover raising her children in Spain. Needless to say, she is completely against bullfighting and sometimes struggles when transmitting these values…

Dealing with Cultural Clashes – Season 1 kicks off with Agnieszka, a Polish mother who is raising her two young daughters in Cuenca, a small city in the heart of Spain. As a mother living in a foreign country, there were some topics that Agnieszka had to look at from a fresh point of view. “We…