Equipped with a law degree, an internship from the BBC White City in TV script writing and film production, plus certification as an ESL teacher, and still only in her 20s, Zoe Popham headed for Thailand for adventure, and to teach English. Serendipitously, she knew an English guy working in Bangkok on a film and he invited her to work with him. The realization that there was international production work in Thailand, led to a job opportunity with an Indian-Thai production company that made TV c...
Nov 24, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 17
In this episode, I have a kitchen-table style conversation with German-born, wise elder, Ingrid Bloser Martins. Ingrid is my neighbor in Estoril, Portugal, and she is someone I've come to know over the years as a woman whose diverse cultural experiences have afforded her a unique perspective. Our conversation focuses primarily on her insights into Japanese culture, as Japan is the longest posting her Portuguese husband was assigned as a diplomat, and it's where they lived in the Shibuya center o...
Nov 04, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 16
With a BA from Sotheby's Institute of Art and an MA in Dutch Baroque Art from London's Courtauld Institute of Art, in 2013, Mariska Beekenkamp-Wladimiroff founded, Art Historical London , offering art lectures, courses, tours, travel and events from London. Over the years, she expanded to events in New York and Amsterdam, and in March, 2020, due to Covid and the cancelation of her in-person lectures and tours, Mariska quickly up-skilled, taking her programming online and worldwide – a marvelous ...
Oct 21, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Originally from New York City, Berne Weiss moved from California to Central Europe following the 1989 Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. An activist, Berne is also a Quaker, working for peace and social justice. Now in her late 70s, her stories of coming of age during the cultural revolution of the '60s, and eventually relocating to Hungary, where she lived and worked through the country's transition from communism to a 'sort of democracy' are a fascinating reflection on a slice of history tha...
Oct 06, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 14
I first heard Aparna Aurora speak on a Women in Business panel at the annual Lisbon Web Summit , Europe's most influential tech event, which will be live once again November 1-4, 2021. Aparna talked to a largely millennial and female audience about growing Chutnify , her Indian restaurant from its inception as a street-food concept in 2014 in Berlin, to locations in Portugal, including Lisbon, Porto, and more recently Cascais. In this podcast episode, she talks of her restlessness and moving cou...
Sep 22, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Sandhya is one of the women whose story appears in my book, Women Who Walk. She talks of a happy childhood growing up in the immigrant Indian community of Mozambique, where she was born. When Mozambique gained independence from Portugal in the mid-70s, escalating civil unrest caused her parents to abandon the comfortable life they’d built, and return to Gujarat in the north west of India to start over. Three years later, when she was 10, the family migrated again this time to Lisbon, Portugal in...
Sep 09, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 12
It's the middle of August and the height of summer in Europe, and in Portugal, where I live, that means everyone heads to the beach and life slows down. So today I thought I'd record a solo show and reflect back on the past three months and the evolution of the podcast to date, and that would be the first 10 episodes.
Aug 13, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Marie-Pierre Nicoletti grew up in a small town in the French Alps, in a bicultural French and Italian family. After graduating college with a BA in both Applied Foreign Language for International Business in English and Italian, and Italian Language and Civilization, she moved to Paris to attend fashion school. Upon graduating, she worked for the fashion house of Yohji Yamamoto as a trilingual marketing assistant and brand manager. In late 1990, she traveled to the US for a six-month sabbatical ...
Jul 28, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Yasmin Abdel-Hak was born and raised in Denmark. Her father is Egyptian. Her mother Danish. For several generations the migratory paths on both sides of her family have stretched from the Middle East to Scandinavia, the US and Europe. Her Danish childhood was somewhat unconventional as her father is Muslim and her maternal grandfather, who was in the resistance movement during World War II, is a communist and staunch atheist. In contrast, Yasmin attended a private Christian school for girls in C...
Jul 21, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 9
In the early '70s, Diana left Chicago, relocating permanently to London, where she graduated from the University of London's School of Oriental and African studies. Her postgraduate research focused on Islamic studies. Following positions at the University of Bath, and within the University of London, she was appointed Director of Education at the British Council in Hong Kong. She lectured at various educational institutions throughout China and East Asia, and during this time developed an inter...
Jul 07, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Originally from Australia, Jodie and her wife Natalie have been traveling as full-time international house-and-pet sitters since early 2013. They've enjoyed 95% free accommodation all over the world thanks to their back-to-back housesits. With no home base and no residency anywhere, they travel with all they possess, which is less than 50 pounds each, enabling a sense of freedom with the minimalist lifestyle they now relish. Jodie, and Nat's website is InternationalHousesitting.com...
Jun 23, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Asia-Pacific Travel & Lifestyle writer, Samantha Coomber, talks about working in Vietnam and Indonesia for the past 19 years living the "Anthony Bourdain experience from a woman's perspective." Samantha left London in 1998, since then she's been a full-time freelance travel and lifestyle writer, based in Asia Pacific, including three years in Sydney, Australia followed by five years in Hanoi and five years in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, eight years in Bali, Indonesia, relocating back to Ho Ch...
Jun 09, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Joia Lewis was born in Portugal to American missionary parents during the Salazar dictatorship. Ten years later, her family moved back to the US. After studying violin at Boston Conservatory, she continued college in Massachusetts, and at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow, Russia, graduating with degrees in Russian Language and Literature, and Soviet and East European studies. Looking for a way to continue study in both the humanities and the sciences, led to a Ph.D. In the Philosophy of Science f...
May 26, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 5
.Andrea Barton is an electrical engineer, turned career consultant, turned writer. She's lived in the U.K. and spent 12 years with her husband and two sons living in Nigeria, the United States and Qatar before we repatriating to Melbourne Australia, where she's from. As a result of her years and experiences abroad, Andrea has compiled and edited two anthologies on the expatriate experience. She's also written nine stage productions tackling social themes. In Nigeria by request, she wrote about c...
Apr 26, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Carolyn McCarthy is originally from Boston. She has lived for the past 15 years in Chile, 12 hours south of Santiago in a rural area, where she's based herself as a writer, authoring 50-plus travel guides for Lonely Planet focusing on the Americas. A fluent Spanish speaker and skilled at tough travel, Carolyn has explored the Amazon basin via dugout canoe, and solo hiked Patagonia for Lonely Planet's Trekking in the Patagonia Andes. She has documented life in some of the most remote corners of L...
Apr 22, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Originally from the Netherlands, Anouk Cleven has lived in Lisbon since 2017. Anouk and her husband Mark, moved to Portugal from Brazil, where for seven years they ran a foundation, a social and educational center that Anouk founded, and which delivered English classes, computer courses, work training preparation, sport, and music classes, and healthy nutrition support to children aged 6 to 15 from vulnerable situations. Prior to Brazil, Anouk and Mark worked for three years for Voluntary Servic...
Apr 20, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 2
In this solo Episode, writer and host of Women Who Walk, Louise Ross, talks about how this podcast came to be and what she hopes to offer listeners, such as conversations with women doing extraordinary things, independent women travelers, inspiring women who for a myriad of reasons left their countries of origin, sometimes making multiple international moves, for work, for adventure, for love, for freedom.
Apr 19, 2021•18 min•Season 1Ep. 1
