Meet Stephen, Who takes us to France, Paris where he has been living for over 10 years. From his experience of moving he shares his tips before a move: choosing the best country knowing language will factor in making friends can take longer in some countries learn if residency or citizenship is the best for you And his parisian recommendations: ☕ Cafe Pure for a casual parisian café 🍲 The Hood for fusion food 🌳 La promenade plantée for a stroll in the city And his song is the opening music and...
Dec 07, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Meet Faiza, Pakistani serial expat. Despite having moved her family and life several times, this last move to Hong-Kong was by far the most challenging. She explains how the Covid restrictions challenged their arrival and integration into the city. She overcame these and came to love her time in Hong Kong by: making a comfortable home building strong friendships joining local activieiities like playing Majong Recommendations in Hong Kong 🍸 Argo bar in the Four Seasons for amazing views 🌮 Coa b...
Nov 23, 2022•27 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Meet Vangile, Who has been living the nomad life for years 🌎 After struggling with money trauma, she now masters her budgets and runs her own business enabling her to travel the world debt free. In this episode she explains: - how her first travels were through cruise work - how she continues her self care journey when discovering new countries - the beauty and kindness of the strangers she has met across the world She shares recommendations in Mexico: 🌮 Vegan tacos at No Mames in La Punta, Pu...
Nov 02, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Meet Fanny, Power woman, living in Indonesia. 💪 In this episode she shares how, with her husband they made the decision to settle where her career took her, even if that meant more challenges for him to integrate in the remote areas of Cameroun and Indonesia. She also opens up about their journey of creating a family and going through the process of medically assisted fertilization as an expat. Her Indonesian recommendations: 🍹 Omlandia at the River Deli Hotel 🍣 Sushi Tei for authen tic Japan...
Oct 19, 2022•33 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Meet Lena, Who left her life in Moscow to wander the world after a speed dating session. OK, it didn't quite happen like that but... she decided to move to London to start a master and after that realized she needed an international environment and went on to find a job in the Netherlands. In this episode, we discuss culture and cross-culture communications. Lena explains how she picked up parts of the dutch culture and traditions but also shared her own culture with her close ones there, and ho...
Sep 14, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Meet Jennifer, Zimbabwean, who to pursue her dance dreams left home at 17, and moved to the UK to study ballet and then travelled across the pond to find her new new home in Canada. In this episode she shares her motivations to move and travel through dance as well as how writing became a form of expression and of grief for the zimbabwean life she left some insights from her poems All forgotten now As for recommendations in Calgary, Canada: 🍹 Betty Lou's Library for some litterary cocktails 🍕 ...
Jul 13, 2022•29 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Meet Sambridhi, A young Nepalese who moved to Colorado to pursue university. After graduating she decided to find a job in the US to continue her life there, little did she know how difficult it would be when you need VISA sponsorship. In this episode she talks us through: Her culture shocks 🤯 The requirements for international postgrads to stay in the country 🌎 Her tips in Colorado 🏜️ Her expat song: Françoise Hardy Comment te dire adieu 🎤 Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for mo...
May 25, 2022•31 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Meet Christine, Podcast host of Flourish in Foreign. In this episode, she shares her journey to expat life in Spain, triggered by an intense hike across the country and gives us tips to Set your purpose Live your expat life with intention Learn how to slow down In Spain for 5 years now, her favorite places are: 🍹Bar: Bugalü Ba r - Valencia 🌮 Restaurant: Gallo Santo in Barcelona for Vegan Mexican food 🍦 Amma - Barcelona for Vegan Gelato Carte blanche: Sant Pol de Mar beach close to Barcelona A...
Apr 06, 2022•39 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Meet my friends in Italy 🇮🇹, Well mainly Nicola, he is italian, from Salerno, and has lived in Milan but now lives in Dublin, with Ann, who is Belgian but has lived in Milan, and Youma, french living in Dublin but just as in love with Italy as I am. Travelling through Italy for a month I wanted to get different perspectives on the country, in this episode we talk about culture, traditions, the food of course and the work opportunities. For some food 🍕recommendations, Ann has your back with Ri...
Jan 26, 2022•31 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Meet Florence, Serial expat for 25 years, currently living in Dubaï she recently published Expat wife Happy life, a practical book to live your best expat life. In this episode she helps us explore the questions you need to ask yourself before agreeing to move your life to a new country the questions you need to discuss with your partner the challenges you can expect And shares the reason of her book Expat wife, Happy life ! Now living in Dubaî here are her hotspots: Shimmers to enjoy great food...
Jan 12, 2022•38 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Meet Nifer, Born in Spain, from a german mother and a british father, Nifer has forever been exposed to multiple cultures which have and continue to shape her unique identity. True european and eager to move every so often, we discuss: learning multiple languages as a child adapting and understanding new countires, their cultures and societies sense of belonging Now living in Paris, she shares her favorite Parisian spots 🎷Jazz bar café Laurent 🍖 Le select for nice celebration, try the duck 🚽 ...
Dec 08, 2021•48 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Meet Raul, Who started working remotely waaaay before the panedmic made it "trendy". In this episode Raul tells us how his very first internship and job were in a remote 1st company 🤯and how then when working in a startup in Chile he navigated back to the digital nomad livestyle: travelling and working is the dream! 🏝️ he now spends 6 months in Spain and 6 months travelling the world. We cover - why he chose this lifestyle with a corporate job - the must haves when digital nomad - his love for...
Sep 29, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Meet Karissa, Small town girl who after her very first french class, made up her mind to move abroad and become a french teacher! Little did she know, when she made her move later on what she was in for. 💍 In this episode Karissa talks us through all her culture shocks, from living abroad in a region where english is not the official language, to cooking 🥑 with college friends. From the differences in educational and healthcare systems to mariage and family. She tells us how she grew and shift...
Sep 15, 2021•43 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Meet Marcie, Serial expat and tag along wife, as she tells us how she followed her husband through Asia and Paris with just as many repatriations to LA as moves. ✈️ She shares how she had to reinvent hersefl and shifted from the music industry to writing ✒️ and the challenges a married couple goes through when relocating.💍 All these experiences, her expat circles experiences, and passion for writing led to Em's awful good fortune, where she explores issues of marriage and compromise, love loss ...
Aug 18, 2021•41 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Meet Heather, A Scottish woman, who decided to leave the UK to teach in the Middle East. After a few years in Doha, and Dubai she has now cummulated 14 years in the Middle East! She tells us: - the differences and various levels of conservatism from emiratee to emiratee - the yound kids passion for horse and camel racing - and her favorite aspects of the Middle East And here favorite spots in Dubaï: 🍸 Folly for drinks with a view 🍱 Marina Social for the food 🛍️ La Mer beach a rea with cafés a...
Jul 14, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Meet Linda, Serial repatriate, and serial expat she has lived in Tokyo, London Abu Dhabi and reptatriated a few times back to Chicago where she is now living. In this episode she tells us what she has learned from her different moves and what changed in her approach to every new move. Plus how she has dealt with these multiple repatriations, that she treats as a new task, what is the Reverse Culture Shock and how to deal with it . And if you are heading to Chicago, check out her recommendations:...
Jun 30, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Meet Kyle, Who moved to Paris when he was 9, and 20 years later made the move there again, on his terms. In this episode he tells us how he lived the move as a nine year old how as an adult he decided to join Paris's growing tech scene the differences he has noticed in the french startup ecosystem vs San Francisco's Sillicon Valley and how to build your network in Paris Having spent the past 3 years in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, here is his 18th arr. list of recommendations: 🍺Bar: Superc...
Jun 16, 2021•33 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Meet Sondre, Co-founder of SafetyWing , Sondre studied in Norway and started working as a policy advisor for the government. After getting frustrated with the slow pace of government change, he quit his job, and moved to Berlin to start freelancing and embraced the freedom! He first founded SuperSide (YC W16), a platform for freelance designers. It was here he discovered the lack of a safety net for online remote workers. SafetyWing was then born with the aim of building a global social safety n...
Jun 02, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Meet Ann, For whom voluntary work has always been a part of her life ♥️ and also a way to go on an adventure and start living abraod 🌎 She tells us: -how via VSO she went to Nepal fro 3 years, working in education and woman empowerment, helping out in remote schools, -and then, with her family moved to France for what was initially 2 years... and has now become 10 years. She is an emigrant as she say! - and her tips to learn the language: her favorite way being cooking with a frnech woman So if...
May 19, 2021•38 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Meet Matt, This young American with the dream of checking out every single country in the world 🌎 tells us about his solo backpacking experiences throughout Europe and Asia: flowing from ✈️ country to country meeting new people and experiencing unkown cultures. With an early passion for travel, he passed his Toefl exam to be able to exlpore the world and is now teaching english in South Korea. He tells us about the differences in curriculum and age, and of course gives us his top recommendation...
Apr 28, 2021•40 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Meet Thomas, An englishman who moved to Hamburg twice! He first encountered Germany 🇩🇪 watching german cable TV as a teenager, and from there went off to work in Hamburg a first time. After a few years back in the 🇬🇧 UK, he started to miss the German rules that initially bugged him and went back to Hamburg, this time relocating with 🎮 InnoGames , Germany’s leading developer and publisher of mobile and online games. He tells us: How he approached his move differently the 2nd time, How learni...
Apr 14, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Meet Cristina, Originally from Malaga in Spain 🇪🇸, she was determined to go abroad to the 🇬🇧 UK in Leeds to finish her studies and improve her english, this despite her family not supporting her in this choice. And so, while still studying and living at her parents, having never left home, she took on a loan to make her move happen and enjoy good conditions there without having the stress of making ends meet. Looking back, five years later, she tells us how the Leeds accent is one of its own...
Mar 31, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Meet Pamela Druckerman, Journalist and bestselling author for "Bringing up Bébé", Pamela moved to Paris in 2004. In this episode, she tells us about her initial fears of this snobby and cold city, in some aspects, versus the romantic place fantacised by most americans who see Paris as their escape city. We discuss the parenting differences she noticed with the US, from food to sleep and social benefits. And with "Paris by phone", her debut picture book with Benjamin Chaud, Pamela takes us throug...
Mar 17, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Meet Cinthya, A french 🇫🇷 young woman currently living in Brighton who went abroad for the first time as an aupair when she was 19 years old. In this episode she tells us how to become an Au Pair , the requirements, how to make sure you will be in good hands and the benefits of this type of abroad experience: great when you have little savings and want minimum stress in organising your leave! Check out www.aupairworld.com which she used for both her trips in the USA and Australia. Whe then cha...
Mar 03, 2021•41 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Meet Sarah, Originally from San Diego, she fell in love in with the UK 🇬🇧 literally and decided to stay after her degree and having met the love of her life. Little did she know the struggle it would be to go from being an american student in the UK to being able to work in the UK. In this episode she shares How she obtained a working Visa for the UK How she socialised, built a strong professional network and ajusted her communication style to fit local culture Launched her own business in Lon...
Feb 10, 2021•46 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Meet David, As the founder of Expat Empire, he is focused on inspiring people to move abroad and showing them how to do it. In this episode he tells us how his passion for Japan started at a very young age, and how he made his dream of living there, come true. 🌟 From finding a job, to navigating the unique work culture; from exploring the changing streets of the city to finding the best curry in town David takes us on an in depth tour of Tokyo, and even wrote a book: A passport to working in Ja...
Jan 27, 2021•48 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Meet Dorit, Author of Sand and steel: a memoir of longing and fidning home. She tells us how she left the US during her college years to find a life she could relate to in Israel. First by serving in the military and then joining a Kibbutz where she founded a family. She tells us all about the community life within a Kibbutz, how they have evolved today and dives into what helped her deal with the reverse culture shock she experienced when she and her family made the difficult decision to move b...
Jan 13, 2021•45 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Meet Carlos A bolivian wine 🍇 lover who moved to France to study and work in the wine industry, liked it so much he became a french citizen. In this episode Carlos takes us to Marseille, in the south of France. He shares his integration process with the long apéros, the local codes, and how eventually, he decided to apply for french citizenship and make Marseille his new home. His top recommendations are 🍹 Coktail bar Gaspard https://www.facebook.com/bargaspard/ 🐠 Restaurant Ouréa https://www...
Dec 16, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 15
In this short and final episode of Meet Emily in Paris TRUE/FALSE I talk you through the different locations we see in the show. EP 1 Her taxi ride from the airport takes her by the Eiffel Toweer --> Rue de Rivoli --> Concorde --> Arc de triomphe --> Opera --> her appartment in the 5th 🌳 The parc she runs in is Jardin du Luxembourg She meets Fabien at Café Flore ☕ EP 7 The corporate party with Brooklyn is at Le musée des arts forains and the clubbing afterwards takes place at Bus...
Dec 05, 2020•12 min
Meet Lara, Who joined her boyfriend in Chicago gor a year before ✈️ moving to Heidenheim, Germany 🥨 in the midst of the pandemic to be closer to their families. In this episode, we cover : the struggles of moving during a pandemic, how to find a job in Germany 🇩🇪 cultural differences She then takes us on a tour of the region sharing a few recommendations Restaurants: 🍣 Kokono, nice asian restaurant for sushi- https://www.google.com/search?q=kokono%20heidenheim 🍕 La Strada, italian restauran...
Dec 02, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 14
