Meet the Expats
Episodes
Meet Maddalena : dating as an expat
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Maddalena,an Italian relationship and dating coach now living in London, whose expat journey took her from a small town in Southern Italy to Dubl...
Meet Yolanda: from loneliness to belonging in the US
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Yolanda, a global expat who has relocated six times across the world before eventually settling in California — what started as a one-year adve...
Meet Cécile: rediscovering France
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Cécile,Founder of Haven France, a platform dedicated to helping expatriates — particularly Americans — settle in the South-West of France.In...
Meet Shannon: building her small business in Germany
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Shannon,an American expat who followed love to Germany—and ended up building a thriving small business in Baden-Württemberg.Originally from th...
Meet Josh: Community Building on the French Riviera
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Josh,Entrepreneur, community builder, and Dutch expat who turned isolation on the French Riviera into connection, and a thriving international co...
Meet Zach and Anna: making it easy for expats to move with StartAbroad
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Zach and Anna,Serial expats and founders of StartAbroad, a relocation company built from real-life experience moving abroad, sometimes with suppo...
Meet Tracey: identity shifts and finding home in your body
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Tracey,Relocation coach, somatic practitioner, and six-time expat who has turned “trying it for three months” into a life philosophy. In this...
Meet Nancy: dealing with grief abroad
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Nancy,After two decades of living abroad in Switzerland and Denmark, Nancy opens up about navigating grief as an expat — balancing a global car...
Meet Megan: learning languages and building confidence
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Megan,From starting out as an au pair in Germany to running her own language coaching business, Megan talks about how travel shaped her career, c...
Meet Dr Elefant-Yanni: the affective toll of expat life
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Dr. Elefant Yanni, a Swiss psychologist now based in Singapore, who has built a career helping expats and international couples navigate the high...
Meet Rekha: making nomad life easy for families
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Rehka,Co-founder of Boundless Life, a program that helps families live, learn, and work abroad together. From childhood trips and student exchang...
Meet Tim: reuniting with his family in Mexico
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Tim,Who met his Mexican wife at work in the US, at the time none spoke each other's language, but still they pushed through one word at the time....
Meet Tsahia: back to her studies in Paris
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Tsahia,After years of working in the healthcare sector in the US, it was time for a change: a Luxury Marketing Masters in Paris, her dream city. ...
Meet Natasha: from NYC to following her dream to live in London
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Natasha,She left Russia with her family to move to Boston, despite the US not being her dream country. After finding a contract there, and trying...
Meet Angela: questions to ask as an expat parent
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Angela,New Yorker now living in Brussels, Belgium. After a layoff as a teacher in the US, Angela decided to make her first move abroad to South K...
Meet Tu-Oanh: co-founder of Carom, or how to build your social network
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Tu-Oahn,Half French half American, she grew up between France and Tahiti where she had family, before moving off to Los Angeles living the Americ...
Meet Fiorenza: juggling multiple cultures in London
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Fiorenza,Expat in London for 14 years now, she shares her love for languages and how she is juggling her Italian and french roots while living in...
Meet Taha: when exile leads to the Dissident Club
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Taha Siddiqui,Pakistani award-winning journalist, he has been living in exile in Paris since 2018, following a kidnapping attempt. Listen to his ...
Meet Marc: Expat Experts in Athens
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Marc,Fellow Expat podcaster he has moved his life twice now, in two very different situations. In this episode he shares how he left is native Sp...
Meet Mariam: TCK and multicultural expat family
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Mariam,Pakistani, TCK and eternal expat, Mariam has lived in over 10 countries: moving alone, moving with her husband, and later moving as a mult...
Meet Sibylle: Immigrant in New York making dreams come true
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Sibylle Eschapasse,After living the island life during part of her studies, she moved to New York to start a new life and settle. In this episode...
Meet Daniella: finding roots in La Rochelle
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Daniella,Half American, half Swedish, and part Malawi, she is the definition of multi-cultural. In this episode she shares her struggle to unders...
Meet Josh & Kalie: Expats Everywhere
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Josh and Kalie,In their 20s they decided to go live abroad together, and then expat life just never stopped. They traveled from country to countr...
Meet Elena: how to learn languages with a method
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Elena,In her late teens she left Russia for a few months exchange in the US and hated it! But having met the love of her life there, she took it ...
Meet Terry: Expat adventures in Africa
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Terry,Who initially moved abroad to understand her ancestors past, she fell in love with travelling and followed her husband throughout his posti...
Meet Jessica: building and maintaining relationships as an expat
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Jessica,Life and career coach, Jessica is an expat living in Dubaï. After several years spent in Spain, in the hospitality industry, she met her...
Meet Carlos: battling depression with a new life in Germany
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Carlos Baker,Artist, and author, he shares his atypical life starting with a life changing childhood. We then move on to his struggle with depres...
Meet Lucy: making her way to Canada
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Lucy Jeon, Korean young woman, expat podcaster and founder of HeyGlobally. Early on, she knew deep down she wanted to live in North America, Kor...
Meet Robert: a 70s' nomad settles for life in Japan
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Robert Norris, A conscientious Vietnam war objector and author of The Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don't Rise: Pentimento Memories of Mom and...
Meet Ann Marie: giving back in San Miguel de Allende
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Ann Marie, American expat living in San Miguel de Allende, Ann Marie left on a sabbatical to test living there with her husband, years later the...
Meet the Lovers: expats go dating
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet the lovers, In this special episode, we talk about love ❤️ and dating abroad. I interviewed 3 expats Laurie, David and Sangra at a Pitch D...
Meet Philippe & Anne-Mathilde: Couple in Miami
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Philippe & Anne-Mathilde, In this episode the french couple shares their surprises, challenges, discoveries and adventures along their first...
Meet Nicole: music in Malagà
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Nicole,An american young woman living in Malaga, Spain for the past few years. In this episode, she shares her love for latin culture and how she...
Meet Mike: expat taxes
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Mike,Former expat, he has lived across the globe, and now back in Michigan is CEO of Greenback Expat Tax Services.In this special episode, he sha...
Meet Laurel: finding her place through the library volunteers
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Laurel, Childrens author now based in Germany for over 10 years, she shares her arrival in the small city of Bonn and how she made her place in ...
Meet Fred: from Expat life to Coco Living
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Fred,TCK and former expat, after traveling the world for work, staying in hotels and short term rentals, he settles back in Paris and enters the ...
Meet Dian: from nobel prize to kindergarden teacher in Thailand at 60
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Dian, Dian was a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where she contributed to the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize–...
Meet Susan: finding your sober tribe
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Susan, Irish expat in France for decades, Susan tells us how a love story turned her vacation in Paris into a lifetime in France ❤️ Having s...
Meet Giulia: living her almost unplanned project in the US
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Giulia, Italian young woman, who after a first experience in India and in Colombia, decided Italy would not be for the rest of her life. So with...
Meet Gal and Maayan: sisters embracing change!
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Gal and Mayan 🍉Two sisters who grew up in constant change back and forth between Israel and France and embraced this change early on, making i...
Meet Andrea: flying her wings across the world
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Andrea, From Northern Ireland, at the early age of 21, without knowing anything about the UAE, she flew off to become an air hostess at Emirates...
Meet Mikkel: an expat building a new type of schools
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Mikkel, He has been travelling the world non stop for 20 years and an expat all over the globe. In this episode he shares how he trasnforme...
Meet Pauline: THE podcast host and TCK
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Pauline,Third Culture Kid and host of this podcast. This week I'm in the 🔥 hot seat and talk through my childhood as a french girl in Ireland ...
Meet Stephen: citizenship vs residency to live your life abroad
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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:...
Meet Faiza: anchoring friendships in Hong Kong
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 challengi...
Meet Vangile: learning to budget to live the nomad life
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 busi...
Meet Fanny: Power woman with a trailing husband
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Meet Lena: infusing the dutch with her culture
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
Meet Jennifer: Zimbabwean ballet teacher
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Meet Sam: the struggle to find work in the USA
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 lif...
Meet Christine: moving with intention and purpose
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ac...
Meet the Italians: Italy in three words
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Meet Florence: Expat Wife, Happy Life!
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Meet Nifer: European and Mutlicultural
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Meet Raul: Digital Nomad
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Meet Karissa: Battle of the Cultures Quebec vs United States
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Meet Marcie: Em's awful good fortune
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Meet Heather: passionate for the Middle East
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Meet Linda: Serial repatriate
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Meet Kyle: moving to Paris on his terms
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Meet Sondre: building a safety net for digital nomads
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Sondre, Co-founder of SafetyWing, Sondre studied in Norway and started working as a policy advisor for the government. After getting frustrated...
Meet Ann: moving to Nepal with voluntary work
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 tell...
Meet Matt: from solo backpacking to teaching in South Korea
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Matt, This young American with the dream of checking out every single country in the world 🌎 tells us about his solo backpacking experiences t...
Meet Thomas: relocating to Hamburg, twice!
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Thomas, An englishman who moved to Hamburg twice! He first encountered Germany 🇩🇪 watching german cable TV as a teenager, and from the...
Meet Cristina: determined to move abroad, no matter what family thinks
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Cristina, Originally from Malaga in Spain 🇪🇸, she was determined to go abroad to the 🇬🇧 UK in Leeds to finish her studies and impro...
Meet Pamela: an American in Paris
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Pamela Druckerman, Journalist and bestselling author for "Bringing up Bébé", Pamela moved to Paris in 2004. In this episode, she tells us a...
Meet Cinthya: Au Pair from one end of the world to the other.
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Meet Sarah: from student to working life in London, a rollercoaster ride !
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Meet David: making his dreams of Japan come true
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Meet Dorit : from Kibbutz life to reverse culture shock
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Meet Carlos: when wine makes you a french citizen !
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 thi...
4/4 Meet Emily in Paris - Locations
05 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
Meet Lara: moving to Germany in the midst of the Covid pandemic
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
3/4 Meet Emily in Paris: Love & Relationships
28 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this short episode of Meet Emily in Paris TRUE/FALSE I talk through a couple of scenes regarding ♥️ love & relationships in France, Paris 🇫...
2/4 Meet Emily in Paris - Work
21 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this short episode of Meet Emily in Paris TRUE/FALSE I talk through a couple of scenes regarding the work culture in Paris How speaking 🇫🇷 fr...
Meet Julie: Love Story made in Sevilla
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Julie, She tells us how she met the ♥️ love of her life during her Erasmus in 💃Sevilla, and made a 5 year long distance relationship betw...
1/4 Meet Emily in Paris - Lifestyle
14 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Emily in Paris, No, Emily Cooper is not on the show! In this series of short episodes of Meet Emily in Paris🇫🇷TRUE/FALSE I review the brill...
Meet Nicole: China Blonde, newsreader's search for adventure
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Nicole, Journalist ✍️ and author, who only a few months after meeting her partner embarked on an adventure to live in 🇨🇳 China! Firs...
Meet Martina: loving Melbourne’s coffee scene
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Martina,Born and raised in Germany🇩🇪 she caught the travel bug early on and jumped on the opportunity when her husband landed a job in Melb...
Meet Emily: founder of Expat Parenting Abroad
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Emily,Founder of Expat Parenting Abroad.In this 10th episode 🎉 Emily, mum of two 👨👩👧👧 and expat coach tells how after b...
Meet Pierre: moving to China and Vietnam, embark on his Asian Tour
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Pierre, Who, freshly married 💍, and not specifically attracted by Asia, decided within one week to move across the world to China 🇨🇳wi...
Meet Bastien: pilot in the Maldives
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Bastien, French man who grew up abroad in Burkina Faso and Morocco, very early on Bastien became an expat and learned to adapt and adjust. He str...
Meet Stasy: embracing german clichés
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Stasi, As a Bulgarian woman, she grew up under ae communist regime and has since then well caught up in terms of travelling! With 16 years of liv...
Meet Perrine: moving with your family - from Switzerland to Chicago
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Perrine, French woman who has now spent 7 years abroad between Switzerland and Chicago. When in need of a career change Perrine decided to go bac...
Meet Ying: from Singapore to Safari life in Maun, Botswana
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Ying, Young malasian who grew up in Singapore. When in need of some independence and an adventure, she decided to go live abroad 🌎 in Europe...
Meet Mado: an introspective journey through Singapore
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Mado, An Island girl who grew up in paradise between 🌴 Tahiti and Malaysia. In this episode she shares with us her expat experience in Singa...
Meet Kim: when a pandemic makes you settle down in Cambodia
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Kim, A Dutch - Australian born in Zimbabwe who has lived in 8 countries 🌎 up to date, and who’s world tour took a different turn when the ...
Meet Carly: how to find balance in NYC
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Carly, Australian young woman who’s Erasmus in Madrid led to living and working in NYC 🗽 for 3 years. She tells us how she kept up with the ...
Meet Marieke: french girl in Dublin learning Irish slang
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Marieke, French girl who moved to Dublin almost five years ago, as she tells us her first impressions of Ireland, a country she had set foot in b...