In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Gerri Detweiler. Gerri is no stranger to traveling. She traveled to Canada, Japan, and Haiti through various exchange and outreach programs all before leaving high school. As this was before the Internet became widely available, the resulting culture shock enabled Gerri to fully immerse herself in these diverse cultures and develop a passion for travel. With her daughter moving on to further her studies in Norway, Gerri and her...
Jun 09, 2022•33 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Maxwell Lee. Maxwell, a native of Northeast Florida, spent much of his earlier years pursuing his musical career. He met his wife while traveling in the US and they have since had two beautiful children together. Maxwell and his wife soon ventured into real estate investing and started flipping houses, rehabilitating properties, and investing in long-term holds. Over time, real estate became the financial foundation to fuel the...
May 27, 2022•37 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Paul Kennedy. Paul’s expat journey began after vacationing in Greece with friends. This 10-day sailing vacation became the starting point of Paul’s travels around the world. Despite not fully grasping the importance of visas when he began his journey, his no-stress beliefs helped him to navigate the otherwise chaotic setbacks that are typical with travel. Gifted with an innate knack for identifying opportunities when they prese...
May 13, 2022•41 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Andrew Venture. Leaving his native New Zealand for Australia at 17, Andrew is no stranger to making bold moves when it comes to travel. After completing university, he led an illustrious corporate career in the engineering field for 18 years. With his employer's restructuring on the horizon, Andrew once again made the bold move to set off on a new adventure. Leveraging his team management and other corporate skills, Andrew is a...
Apr 28, 2022•39 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Katheen Lo. Born in Southern California, Kathleen's earliest experience of being an expat was at the tender age of five when her family moved to Manila, Philippines. After university, Kathleen returned to the San Francisco Bay Area where she worked in product design. Following the footsteps of her family, Kathleen and her husband made the bold move to become entrepreneurs, quitting their jobs to focus on their business. After a...
Apr 14, 2022•38 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Anne Claessen. Anne had always thought she would become a lawyer, but after finishing her schooling, she realized it wasn't the path that she wanted to follow. She traveled full-time for two years while trying to figure out what she wanted to do with her career and eventually discovered the world of podcast management. She started as a freelancer and then moved to the agency model with her business The Podcast Babes. When the p...
Mar 31, 2022•43 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Ülane Vilumets. Ülane is from Estonia and created her first company in the country when she was 23 years old. She was building her Baltic tours and travel platform businesses for several years before the pandemic hit and she had to think about what she wanted to do next. With her love for international travel and meeting people from around the world, it was a perfect fit for her to start working for the Estonian government to p...
Mar 17, 2022•39 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Al Elliott. Al and his wife Leanne were living comfortably in Manchester, England but couldn't shake the feeling that they wanted to see more of the world. Al's work could be done all online while Leanne's employer ultimately agreed to letting her continue to do her job remotely, so they set off for Spain in 2013. Once they knew Brexit was coming in 2021, they decided to leave Spain in 2017 to become digital nomads with the goa...
Mar 04, 2022•55 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Travis King. Travis followed the standard life path to grad school in the US until he was 27 years old when he realized he had never made a decision for his life, only for his resume. He soon bought a one-way ticket to South America and traveled around the world for over 9 years. Though the pandemic changed his travel plans, he has been living in Mexico with his partner, building businesses, and taking on new projects over the ...
Feb 17, 2022•49 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Peter Kersting. Peter had many experiences with foreign students in his formative years growing up in Napa Valley in California, which made him interested in experiencing life outside of the United States. He studied abroad in the Netherlands for a semester during university and learned a lot from the experience. Hoping to go abroad again after graduating from university, Peter applied for many positions in his industry in many...
Feb 03, 2022•1 hr 3 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Dinasha Cellura. After building an impressive career in Silicon Valley, Dinasha and her husband realized that they weren't quite ready to settle down yet. Before long, her husband received an offer of a job transfer to Tokyo, Japan, so Dinasha followed along, unsure if she would be able to continue her career. Despite the concerns of the other trailing spouses that she knew, Dinasha persevered in her job search and found a posi...
Jan 20, 2022•50 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Daniel de Biasi. Much to the surprise of his friends and family, Daniel left his stable job in Italy when he was 27 years old to search for adventure. He got a Working Holiday visa and hopped on a plane to New Zealand before he could even speak English! After attending a language school and acquiring a few IT certificates, he found a job in Christchurch and lived there for 4 years. Once he felt his life was becoming too comfort...
Dec 02, 2021•1 hr 1 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Spencer Coon. Spencer immediately took to the Spanish language when he started taking classes in school in the United States, and his passion for it blossomed during his university study abroad experiences in Spain and Argentina. He knew that he wanted to build a career in South America, so upon graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, he leveraged his Spanish skills and finance background to get his first job as an i...
Nov 19, 2021•56 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Georgia Knapp. Georgia had the lucky opportunity to grow up in a military family that moved her to many countries around the world (including Cuba!) while she was young. She finished her childhood in the southern part of the United States before going to Scotland to study abroad in her university days. A few years later, fresh out of a relationship, she got an itch to go abroad again and started with Thailand before moving to P...
Nov 04, 2021•54 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Stephanie Cook. Steph was born in Germany and started learning English at a young age. She left for the UK for graduate school where she met her husband, and together they moved to London to work. In 2010, they moved with their two daughters to San Francisco, California, for her husband's job. After tiring of the Silicon Valley culture, they moved to Austin, Texas in 2016. Steph wasn't too happy in Texas at first and decided to...
Oct 21, 2021•1 hr 1 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Ana Claudia Vicente da Silva. Ana developed an interest in German culture in university while in Brazil and then joined a German company upon graduation. She worked hard in that role and eventually got the opportunity to transfer to the company's German headquarters. Though she already had a significant amount of experience with Germany regarding the work culture and language, she still had many challenges to overcome in her ad...
Oct 07, 2021•32 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Francis Nayan. Francis got interested in living abroad through his university trip to Europe and eventually decided to pursue his goal of teaching English in 5 countries in 5 years. After his first year in Barcelona, he moved to Budapest, Hungary where he ultimately has chosen to live for the past 5 years. After two more years teaching English, Francis transitioned his career into freelance copywriting and has successfully scal...
Sep 23, 2021•38 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Eric Richard. Eric got interested in the principles of the FIRE movement (Financial Independence, Retire Early) in 2014 and reorganized his life to achieve his financial goals. He achieved leanFIRE in July 2019 by automating his savings and investments, avoiding lifestyle inflation, and utilizing travel hacking to ramp up his savings rate to over 60%! Achieving leanFIRE gave him the confidence to leave his corporate job behind ...
Sep 09, 2021•48 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Debbie Arcangeles. Debbie got her first taste of life in another country when she moved with her family from the Philippines to New York City when she was only 8 years old. After starting to experience regular panic attacks in her dream corporate career, she eventually left that world behind to become her own boss. Following a few failures, Debbie has found great success with her podcast The Offbeat Life where she interviews ot...
Aug 26, 2021•37 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Misha Yurchenko. Misha was one of the guests in an earlier episode of the show, and the last time we checked in with him, he was trying to figure out the next step in his life after leaving the recruitment business in Japan. Since then, he has started a business in career coaching and moved to the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands. He talks us through his challenging experiences of building a new company in a new country in th...
Aug 13, 2021•40 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Kate Dahl. After growing up in a more conservative religious community in Michigan, Kate was ready to experience a totally different way of life in Europe. She moved to Flensburg, Germany for graduate school and then to Denmark to be with her husband. Following 4.5 years of difficulties adapting to the Danish technology startup scene, Kate has started Career Denmark to help foreigners better showcase their values and skillsets ...
Jul 29, 2021•1 hr 9 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Edu Santos. Edu learned English at an American school in Brazil while growing up and decided to turn his passion for the language into a career as an English teacher. After working in Brazil and traveling through many countries over several years, he decided to leave Brazil and teach English in China to experience something totally new. He lived in Qingdao, Nanchang, and Fuzhou in China across 5 years before getting stuck at ho...
Jul 15, 2021•55 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Andrew Klint. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Andrew started traveling at 18 years old and never stopped. He pursued an opportunity to work in Hamburg, Germany through his employer and had an unforgettable two years in Europe. Andrew shares all the ins and outs of finding, applying for, and making the most of international transfers in the corporate world, so take notes if you want to leverage your job in another co...
Jul 02, 2021•51 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Thomas Morris. Thomas was born and raised in Texas and left the US for South Korea after graduating from university. After a few years in Korea, he moved to Romania for several months before painfully readjusting to life back in the US. He then moved to Prague to be with his partner where he experienced life as a digital remote employee and eventually decided to join a local Czech company. Hear his stories of living in three ve...
Jun 17, 2021•53 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Peter Gorman. Peter got bitten by the travel bug at a young age but had his first experience living outside the US through a university study abroad program in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Following an unsuccessful attempt at going to graduate school in Prague, he settled down into his life back in the US and became a restaurant chef. At the end of 2019, he had just started a great new relationship with a woman from Turkey, but they...
Jun 03, 2021•55 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Josh Guerrero. Growing up in a town of only 1,100 in population, Josh got bit by the travel bug during his first international travel experience to Japan. Following that trip, he began to look for more opportunities to get abroad. This led him to move to The Gambia, West Africa, where he lived for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer. Living with a culture that was entirely different from his own left him feeling even more curi...
May 20, 2021•57 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Jeff Hall. After deciding to take on the Chinese language as a new personal challenge, Jeff soon took the leap to move to China to restart his undergraduate studies. Through the ups and downs of daily life in China, relationships, friendships, and his eventual return to the US, Jeff discovered more about himself and had the once-in-a-lifetime abroad experience he was searching for. His story is one of considerable adversity and...
May 06, 2021•1 hr 30 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Jess Drucker. Following a study abroad experience in Costa Rica, Jess moved to Guatemala for two years, then Germany for three years, the UK for four years, and then spent 4 more years as a digital nomad before moving back to the US. She walks us through how she made it to each of these countries and imparts some tips and advice on how you can follow in her footsteps. In this episode, you will learn: ✔ How to elongate your time...
Apr 22, 2021•1 hr 17 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Matt Wilson. Matt is Co-founder and CEO of the travel company for people ages 21-35 Under30Experiences, and author of The Millennial Travel Guidebook. In addition to traveling around the world to lead tours for his business, Matt started going to Costa Rica in 2012 and lived in the town of Quepos until 2019. Matt hosts yoga and fitness retreats in his free time and his personal mission is to help people live more adventurous li...
Apr 08, 2021•48 min
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Tiffany Parks. Tiffany is an author, travel writer, podcaster, and tour guide. She has called Rome home since 2004, and her debut novel, LA Times bestseller Midnight in the Piazza, is a Middle Grade art mystery set in contemporary Rome, published by HarperCollins in 2018. Tiffany is the co-creator and co-host of The Bittersweet Life, a podcast that explores the rewards and challenges of the expat experience. In this episode, yo...
Mar 28, 2021•47 min
