Best Geopats Podcasts (2025)

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An Italian Author in China on Food Shocks, Expat Life & Writing Abroad 1:13:18

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Send us a text Love, loss,new beginnings, it's what we think of when we dream of moving abroad. But what about expat circle gossip or food culture shock moments. We rarely talk about those moments. Author Antonella does though, in her touching book, Parsley & coriander: Life in China with Italian flavor, which is set in Suzhou, China. Join us for t…

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A Kenyan's Story of Belonging Through Digital Spaces in Germany 45:48

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Send us a text Can social media ground us and make us feel more at peace in this crazy world? This conversation with Tania from Swahili Secrets will present an answer to this question that is not common but very refreshing. Tania was born in Kenya and moved around a lot. Her geographical footprint includes 4 other African countries, Thailand, Austr…

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A Brit in Sustainable Fashion Navigating Life in China 2:03:50

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Send us a text Jo, a British expat who was living in Shanghai, China. Her wisdom, insight, humour and down to earth advice to other expats about how their online and geographical selves can, should, may and might influence each other is very inspiring. Traveling Mailbox: https://travelingmailbox.com/?ref=3422 🤸🏽Music from Damon Castillo: https://ww…

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A Chinese national's multilingual experience with English, Japanese & French 1:48:06

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Send us a text Eric (his English name) grew up partly outside of Shanghai, China and then in Shanghai. He is now a Software Engineer that maneuvers through his Shanghai life in a multitude of languages including Mandarin Chinese, Shanghaiese, English, Japanese and French. Traveling Mailbox: https://travelingmailbox.com/?ref=3422 🤸🏽Music from Damon …

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A Brit in Denmark listens to music 1:02:21

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Send us a text Has a song ever carried you through a rough time in your life? That's exactly what happened to British international Karl when he moved to Denmark. Traveling Mailbox: https://travelingmailbox.com/?ref=3422 🤸🏽Music from Damon Castillo: https://www.damoncastillo.com/ and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ 🤸🏽 Need help with yo…

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A Finnish in China blogs 1:07:18

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Send us a text Can moving to the U.S. help a European expat have a smoother transition to living in China? Pia and her family just recently left Shanghai, China after living here for two years. I have met some active expats in my life but Pia takes the cake on really living life the fullest. She explored China, worked and volunteered locally, all …

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A German in Shanghai learns Chinese 1:18:33

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Send us a text Do bookworms learn languages better? In 2017 Angie was the Creator of T(h)ree of Books YouTube channel. She was also a German expat living in Shanghai, China. She had a few languages under her belt before she moved to Shanghai and started to study Mandarin Chinese. Angie decided to take the time to study Mandarin Chinese in a clas…

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An American in Shanghai, China blogs 1:03:18

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Send us a text Did you blog your way through your first experiences in a new place? Shannon Martin does this. She is an American who has lived in Shanghai, China for 6 years. In this two part interview she shares her first impressions of China via a blog post she wrote in 2012 with her current life in Shanghai. Shannon brings up many nuanced aspect…

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A New Yorker in China writes 37:42

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Send us a text The first year in a new country is always the hardest. Evan did what I did, he took to writing a blog to sort out the think through what he was seeing, experiencing and feeling. In this conversation we revisit an early blog post of his from when he first arrived in China. We chat about dogs, language and so many more nuanced aspects …

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A Chinese international student in Scotland writes 29:49

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Send us a text Do you have a spiritual home? Xing Zhao does. He's a Chinese Writer, Translator and former international student in Edinburgh, Scotland. Xing shares with us a blog post, Kapa Zhou, that he wrote during his first year studying in Scotland. He goes on to reflect on how his memories of that time period and how they are not fully represe…

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An American in South Korea writes 36:42

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Send us a text Have your expectations about a place ever gotten you into trouble? American expat Evan, also known as my husband, was kind enough to be our first guest on the podcast show back in 2017. He shared a group email that he wrote to his family and friends back home with us as well as what he thinks about his culture shock now, 20 years lat…

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REVISITING Geopats: Season 5 Begins 2:23

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Send us a text So much country to country movement is speeding up in 2025 so it feels like a good time to bring back the podcast. First, we're going to replay episodes and listen to your reaction. What should be next for Geopats? What do you need to hear? And then, we'll see what happens. Enjoy! 🤸🏽Music from Damon Castillo: https://www.damoncastill…

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Fitting in, standing out and striving with Stephanie Fuccio 43:02

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Send us a text Questions about family can be triggering if the experience was not ideal. This is one of the reasons that Steph's talked about her family in tiny drips here and there but not in depth. But it felt disingenuous to ask other expats to open up about their early family life growing up with immigrant parents without diving into these expe…

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Expats can go home with Georges 47:26

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Send us a text Have your immigrant parents ever visited you in any of your expat places? Georges' parents have and it shifted how he understood their struggles moving from Greece to Canada. We cover a lot more ground on his parents' immigrant story and how it has both positively and negatively influenced his own expat experience. Traveling Mailbox:…

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Becoming American together: immigrant parent stories 40:13

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Send us a text Have you ever wondered why your immigrant parent(s) didn't prepare you for being a global citizen? Chelsea thought this when she was struggling in her first expat place. Over time she began to understand the distinct difference between her mother's immigrant experience and her expat one. In this conversation, we unpack the lasting im…

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Did growing up with two home cultures prepare Alison Maciejewski expat life? 45:22

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Send us a text How much do our immigrant parents impact our adult expat experiences? This is what we're exploring in this conversation with return guest Alison. Alison and I dig into growing up with two unequal cultures in one household, the racial struggles she's seen in many countries during her years living outside of her passport country of the…

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Early podcasting in Spain and the UK with Pilar Orti and Craig Wealand 38:18

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Send us a text Language podcaster Craig is from the UK but has been podcasting in Spain for many years. Alternatively business podcaster Pilar has the opposite geographical podcasting experience being from Spain and podcasting from the UK for a long time. And yet they found each other and created a podcast about the scene in Spain some years ago. I…

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Language: From Teacher To Podcaster | Legendary Interviews: Legendary Language Learner YouTube Channel 32:44

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Send us a text This episode is about half of a conversation that Matthew Boyle of Legendary Language Learner YouTube channel and I had about language teaching, content creation and the intersection between the two. Traveling Mailbox: https://travelingmailbox.com/?ref=3422 🤸🏽Music from Damon Castillo: https://www.damoncastillo.com/ and Key Frame Aud…

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Coffee: The moral dilema of foam art in Tokyo, Paris, & New York with Yuki of Book Nerds Tokyo 53:17

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Send us a text Yuki and I sat down to have this conversation far too long ago. Life has been crazy and, to be honest, I even stopped drinking coffee for awhile. So it felt weird publishing this episode during that time. But things feel a little more frothy these days, so here it is! And here SHE is:) Yuki has sought out, enjoyed and brewed coffee i…

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Books: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway with Shannon Martin 59:21

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Send us a text In December 2019 my dear friend Shannon Martin and I sat down and recorded an episode about The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. We were so intrigued with the book that we wanted to repeat the process with the more autobiographical version of the book, A Moveable Feast. And then we both left China and you know what happened. We di…

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Online: Social Media As A Home Anchor with Tania of Swahili Secrets 56:09

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Send us a text Can social media ground us and make us feel more at peace in this crazy world? This conversation with Tania from Swahili Secrets will present an answer to this question that is not common but very refreshing. Tania was born in Kenya and moved around a lot. Her geographical footprint includes 4 other African countries, Thailand, Austr…

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Language: The languages in Albania with Diane and Kyle, former Peace Corps volunteers 1:09:09

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Send us a text Can learning a new language unlock part of your personality? This is something I've wondered my entire language play experience. And I've been asking guests flavors of this question more and more lately. How Kyle and Diane answer this question is really going to tickle your funny bone and get you thinking about this too. They are two…

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Language: Albanian, Serbian & Turkish Languages with Educator, Author & Advocate Elizabeth Gowing 48:10

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Send us a text Language can be a lens into culture, a way to share our experiences and a tool to help others. These are some of the aspects of language that we discuss with guest Elizabeth Gowing. She worked in primary education in inner London before moving to the Balkans in 2006. From then until very recently she split her time between Kosovo, Al…

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Language: Language Research in Nepal with the Folks from the Big & White Podcast 27:41

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Send us a text If you've ever wondered what it's like to live and do linguistic research in Kathmandu, Nepal, this episode is for you! Big & White, their podcasting nicknames, are two American Linguists who, until very recently were living in Nepal and creating a rather hilarious audio account of their daily lives on their podcast (the https://bigw…

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Podcasting: Big and White: Two American Linguists Living & Podcasting in Nepal 1:05:58

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Send us a text If you've ever wondered what it's like to live, work, and podcast in Kathmandu, Nepal, this episode are for you! Big & White, their podcasting nicknames, are two American Linguists who, until very recently were living in Nepal and creating a rather hilarious audio account of their daily lives. Their episodes covered much of what expa…

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The Language of Music with Damon Castillo 35:47

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Send us a text This episode is really special for me. Last month for NaPodPoMo I had the extreme pleasure of chatting with Damon Castillo for this episode. Yes, THE Damon Castillo of the Mess of Me album that we've been using for the past 2 years in all of the Geopats Podcast Network shows. We talk about the longevity of the Damon Castillo Band, hi…

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Online: Patience and Balance Online: Geopats Online Return Guest,Jo of Life in Breaths 2:07:28

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Send us a text Our first guest on Geopats Online (then called Virtual Expats) in September 2018 was Joanna Czutkowna, Founder of Life in Breaths & I went shopping today. When we first met back then she was very passionate about sustainability within the fashion industry and also about redefining how we view age, beauty and the ability in how we des…

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Books: Italy and China: the geographic tug of war for Writer Antonella Moretti of Parsley and Coriander 1:23:00

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Send us a text Love, loss,new beginnings, it's what we think of when we dream of moving abroad. But what about expat circle gossip or food culture shock moments. We rarely talk about those moments. Author Antonella does though, in her touching book, Parsley & coriander: Life in China with Italian flavor, which is set in Suzhou, China. Join us for t…

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Language: International Podcast Day Language Learning Panel 57:02

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Send us a text On September 30, 2020 I was thrilled to lead a language learning Podcasters panel for International Podcast Day. You can watch the video of this panel on YouTube, https://youtu.be/hR8fr0Hapo0, OR you can listen to this on this episode. Thank you to Dave and Steve, the geniuses behind IPD, for holding yet another amazing year's sessio…

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On Being Language Seen: A Japanese American in Japan: Ken Hirano 43:18

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Send us a text In this episode we are talking to Ken Hirano, who was born in Japan but his family moved to the U.S. before he started school. He has returned to Japan to live a few times in his life, and now is one of them. He moved back to Tokyo about a year ago and recently https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kenhirano_china-culture-asianamericans-act…

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Books: One Year Later, "Schadenfreude, A Love Story..." With The Author, Rebecca Schuman 43:32

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Send us a text One year ago today Nicole from the Expat Cast, former guest and guest Host Tatjana and I discussed the book Schadenfreude, a Love Story: Me, the Germans and 20 Years of Attempted Transformations, Unfortunate Miscommunications, and Humiliating Situations That Only They Have Words for in an episode. After I moved to Berlin, Germany I p…

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Coffee: Dark Coffee and Fresh Crema with Canadian Expat in China Erin Garnhum 43:46

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Send us a text Erin and I met in Vietnam many years ago, the place where both of our coffee obsession hit a peak, so it only made sense to have her on the podcast. In this episode we dive into her coffee explorations in Australia, many countries in Asia, Italy and Canada. Traveling Mailbox: https://travelingmailbox.com/?ref=3422 🤸🏽Music from Damon …

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Online: Expat Isolation & Music with James Errington, Centuries of Sound Podcast 25:54

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Send us a text Has music ever soothed your soul and made you feel connected again? Yes, me too. And it sounds like the same happened to James when he was an expat for well over a decade. He is back in his home country now so his perspective on his time in the Czech Republic and China are especially poignant. As is the origin story for his intensel…

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Language: Beyond the Words: German Language Ponderings with Steph from Transcontinental Overload 45:19

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Send us a text In this episode, Steph Cook of Transcontinental Overload is kind enough to ponder 3 aspects of German that strike me (Geopats Steph) as strange. Her insights and humo(u)r about these differences is a sheer delight. You will never hear the German language in the same way again. Traveling Mailbox: https://travelingmailbox.com/?ref=3422…

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Coffee: Austria, Costa Rica, Czech Republic and Germany Coffee Explorations with Travis Dow of Podcastnik Productions 43:37

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Send us a text Travis lived in Germany and the Czech Republic for 20 years and podcasts about history on podcastnik.com. After talking about alchemy and witches as a ghost-tour guide in Prague, he teamed up with Pete Collman to figure out podcasting as a medium to tell stories from history. Travis has a long and complicatedly long adoration with co…

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Books: Talking Banana Yoshimoto's "Kitchen" with Book Nerd Tokyo Yuki Tejima and Guest Host Tatjana 1:03:48

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Send us a text Welcome to the bookish world of Japan. Guest Host Tatjana from Craving Expat Life chats with Yuki fromBook Nerd Tokyo about Japanese books, specifically Banana Yoshimoto’s “Kitchen” in this conversation. They explore Yuki’s life between Japan and the USA as well as Tatjana’s discovery of Japanese literature, translations, and stereot…

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Language: Linguist, Author & Jazz Musician David Moser Chats About The Intersection Of Music And Language 54:51

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Send us a text How much overlap is there between music and language? Sinologist, Linguist, Jazz Pianist & returning Geopat Podcast Guest, David Moser, joins us again for a dive into this question. Traveling Mailbox: https://travelingmailbox.com/?ref=3422 🤸🏽Music from Damon Castillo: https://www.damoncastillo.com/ and Key Frame Audio , https://keyfr…

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Podcasting: Melissa and David From The Strong Sense Of Place Podcast Share Their Love Of Books, Travel & Laughter 52:00

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Send us a text David Humphreys and Melissa Joulwan are the hosts of Strong Sense of Place, a podcast and web site dedicated to literary travel and books with vivid settings. In each episode of their show, they explore one destination and talk about what makes that place different from everywhere else on earth. Then they recommend books set in that …

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Coffee: Marielle From Agnep Heritage Farms Shares Her Love Of Coffee In Melboune, Berlin & Many Countries in Asia 44:07

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Send us a text Marielle is a Data Scientist in Berlin. She is also a long-distance coffee farmer because her family started a coffee farm in our ancestral home in the Philippines (in Mankayan, Benguet). They practice organic and sustainable Agroforestry and they hope to one day export their coffee through a transparent supply chain. Traveling Mailb…

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Czechia book culture with Strong Sense of Place 17:08

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Send us a text Do you read about a place before traveling there? Yup, so do we. By we I mean Mel and Dave, two American expats living in Prague, Czech Republic and Creators of the Sense of Place Podcast. Oh, and myself. In a few podcast episodes Mel and Dave have already perfected the art of diving deep into a place via books and the people who lov…

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Language Talk with Yunus Emre Karasakal: Brazilian Jiujitsu Instructor in Shanghai, China 16:37

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Send us a text This week due to an evil head cold I have something different for you. This mini language episode includes:-a personal German language update (get ready to cringe)and-an unpublished language snippet from a previous interview with Yunus from September 2019 🤸🏽Music from Damon Castillo: https://www.damoncastillo.com/ and Key Frame Audio…

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Languages, Voices & Sound with Chinese PhD Researcher Phoebe 1:40:52

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Send us a text How sound sensitive are you? Our guest today, Phoebe, grew up with Mandarin Chinese but has learned a myriad of languages including English, Finnish, German & more. But her sound talent goes far beyond languages into sound and voice research in her current PhD life in Ireland. She is currently researching the connection between recor…

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Books: The Sun Also Rises With Two Expats in Shanghai, China: Shannon Martin & Stephanie Fuccio 1:17:24

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Send us a text Years ago an expat friend of mine made a comparison with the Lost Generation in Paris in the 1920’s and Western expats in Asia in the early 2000’s and I have never forgotten it. Shannon Martin returns to the Geopats Podcast for a dive into Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” book about his slice of the Lost Generation so that we…

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Language: Mandarin Chinese History with David Moser, Author of "A Billion Voices" 49:14

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Send us a text Can the making of a language be a riveting story? Yes, yes, and according to Sinologist, Linguist, Jazz Pianist & returning David Moser has thoughts on this idea. Traveling Mailbox: https://travelingmailbox.com/?ref=3422 🤸🏽Music from Damon Castillo: https://www.damoncastillo.com/ and Key Frame Audio , https://keyframeaudio.com/ 🤸🏽 Ne…

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From Struggling With Languages to Becoming The Lead Interpreter of the Beijing Olympics: Ryan Shuken 49:27

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Send us a text Have you ever had to create your own path to succeed at something? That is exactly what Venture Capitalist https://twitter.com/Rshuken (Ryan Shuken) did to become fluent in Mandarin Chinese. In fact, he was so successful at it that he ended up being the Lead Interpreter for the Beijing Olympics in 2008 in China. This is a 2 part inte…

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Peak European Coffee Experiences with Ana of Las Saboritas, the Prague Culinary Twitter Account 41:36

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Send us a text Ana Blackstad has experienced coffee culture in so many different places that I ran out of ink during our chat yesterday. Okay, I might be exaggerating a bit but seriously, Ana moved to Prague, Czech Republic only 3 years ago but she has made the caffeinated most out of her time there by exploring both local Prague cafes (many of whi…

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“Language is the center of everything I do.” Linguist David Moser 44:51

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Send us a text “Language is the center of everything I do.” -https://120226949-447684682532113263.preview.editmysite.com/geopats/episode/update/id/%20https:/twitter.com/david__moser (David Moser). David’s Twitter bio says that he is a Sinologist, Linguist, Jazz Pianist and Author of "A Billion Voices: China's Search for a Common Language" but what …

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What's it like for this South African to live in Germany long term? 31:06

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Send us a text “...they say that it gives them a perspective of Germany from outsiders eyes. That was a surprise for me.” Shaun, Host of Expat Life Germany The Germany Experience (formerly Expat Life Germany) is one of those podcasts that you listen to as you are doing something else (for me I was cleaning the apartment) and then find yourself stop…

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Rwanda, China & the U.S. Internet With Former American Expat Keturah Kendrick, Author of "No Thanks" 1:00:39

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Send us a text "I actually believe that China is about 15 times more advanced in the usefulness (with social media) than the United States." Keturah Kendrick. Keturah’s online activities changes a lot when she moved to China, but not in ways that you think. Keturah is an intelligent, articulate and delightful person to talk to. I met her at a Podca…

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Podcasting: Podcasting Culture in Germany With American Expat Nicole of the Expat Cast 21:43

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Send us a text What do you do as an expat when your life goal is to collect and share experiences and information? You start a podcast! And that is exactly what American expat in Germany Nicole Palazzo did just after her first year in Freiburg, Germany. We recorded this mini episode on the new Podbean Live app, which was in Beta version. There were…