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Today, we have a story about telling the Truth.

The truth about ourselves,

and truth to the question that we are asked every day.

"How are you?“

I mean behind the closed doors, after a busy day,

When we removed our makeup and look at ourselves in the mirror.

"How are you, really?"

Today, we covering Katharine's story.

Katherine is a British girl, who decided to move to France with her French boyfriend Jonathan when Brexit happened, and also found out that she was about to become a mother.

Before coming to France, Katharine was a successful designer working in a cool studio in London living in a lovely apartment. All of a sudden, she's in a country where she doesn't speak the language and doesn't have a job. 

At this moment where she's the least ready, Katharine found out that she was going to become a mother... 

This episode, we are continuing with the story of Will.

Life is all about experiences, that's what we all say. Most of the expatriates left their home country because they want to, see more, do more, experience more. For which, we are willing to trade the comfort, stability of our home town.

But Will seems to push this trade-off a lot further. He's after an exciting life, for which he seems to be willing to trade every comfort.

You will only understand the way he approaches life if you had known the Will in 2016. and the life that he left behind ... 

This episode features part 1 of a two-parter on Will, a British man, living it up in Paris.

This episode focus on Will's childhood: splitting time between two divorced parents, and spending most of the time in the wild nature because of an unsafe home environment with his alcoholic step-father.

What was Will's childhood like in his own eyes? and what would Will grow up to become?

This episode covers the story of Simona D'Isanto, and her journey of finding her dream career. 

Simona is orginally from Italy, and has been living in Paris for 10 years. 

Simona decided to become a specialist in brief psychotherapies, after 15 years working as a business development manager in multinational companies. 

How did she come to this decision? what was the biggest struggle and reward? 

Vist Simona at her blog at : https://www.versione21.com/

Xixi, a girl from the Tibetan region of China, find her way to Germany. 

Faced with the disapproval of her family, uncertainty of future, Xixi chose to be independent and to get on her own foot. 

Would her family finally accept her choice to refuse to go back to China, her hometown? 

In this Episode, Hanna talks about one of the scariest she had ever done - to produce this very podcast. 

She tells her story of overcoming fear, self-doubt and find the courage to put her little dream in action. 

It is a small story, but a powerful story of one. 

Special guest in this episode is Fay, one of Hanna's best friend, former marketer, a true life explorer. 

Much of the wisdom from this episode comes from the book Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. A book that gave me the strength to do what finally step out of my fear. 

What is the scariest thing you ever had to do?

A question that uncovers memorable stories.

For the past two weeks, Hanna asked her friends to talk about the scariest thing they have ever done.  Also, the bravest thing they ever did.

The 6 mini-stories are about:

-  first experience of being a stand-up comedian

-  making the decision to leave someone that we still love 

-  facing our vulnerabilities

-  losing a beloved one

-  facing domestic violence and finding ourselves in a toxic relationship 

In this episode, I explore the myth of courage and fear. 

Having always been a scared person growing up, my life was summaries by me struggling to overcome one fear after another.

I always wondered, who other people do it so naturally? 

Big life decisions, stressful situations, and new adventures ...  

In this episode, I contacted people who seem to have no fear, to figure out the myth.