Geopats Abroad
Join Stephanie Fuccio, a serial expat of 20+ years, to explore nuances of countries and cultures around the world. Through candid conversations with fellow internationals, she explores daily life culture and norms in places where her guests (and herself) are not from in an attempt to understand where they are living and the lovely people around them.
Episodes
93 episodes
Becoming American together: immigrant parent stories
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 bet...
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Did growing up with two home cultures prepare Alison Maciejewski expat life?
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 rac...
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44:24
Expats can go home with Georges
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...
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Early podcasting in Spain and the UK with Pilar Orti and Craig Wealand
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. ...
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The moral dilema of coffee foam art in Tokyo, Paris, & New York with Yuki of Book Nerds Tokyo
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...
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Music To Help Feel At Home In Denmark With British Expat Karl: S9E2
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. original publication date: November 12, 2018
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Season 9
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Episode 2
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1:10:27
Capturing images in a year of Hong Kong adjustment with Photographer Thomas Sandfield: S9E1
Can you imagine taking 35,000 photos in one year? Photographer Thomas Sandfield did this his first year in Hong Kong. Join us on this Expat Rewind show for a flashback to this first year as an expat for Thomas and all the flicker fun he had.
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Season 9
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Episode 1
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1:44:19
Podcasting Culture in Germany With American Expat Nicole of the Expat Cast: S8E1
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 re...
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Season 8
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Episode 1
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20:45
How relevant is A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway with two long term expats
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 o...
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58:23
Social Media As A Home Anchor with Tania of Swahili Secrets
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...
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55:11
Identity & Translation with Writer, Translator, Global Linguistic Soul Jeremy Tiang: S6E3
As a writer and playright, words are what Jeremy Tiang uses to share his ideas about the world and all of its ambiguity. In his prose he addresses issues of identity, culture, and the boundaries of what we think these ...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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2:07:25
Languages in Albania with Diane and Kyle, former Peace Corps volunteers
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 t...
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Episode 40
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1:08:11
Cantonese Feels Like Home for Liv In The Shoe: S6E2
Liv is in an interesting language experience right now. She grew in New York City using Cantonese with her Southern Chinese mother and some Mandarin Chinese with her Taiwanese father. She then picked up Spanish and English in her diverse NYC en...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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1:33:46
Albanian, Serbian & Turkish Languages with Educator, Author & Advocate Elizabeth Gowing
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 m...
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Episode 39
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47:12
Language Research in Nepal with the Folks from the Big & White Podcast
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 cr...
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Episode 37
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26:44
Big and White: Two American Linguists Living & Podcasting in Nepal
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 cre...
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Alison Maciejewski On Food, Technology & Microfinance Explorations Online: S9E3
Alison Maciejewski made me think long and hard about food photos in our shifting expat lives. How does our wanderlust come through online? But the conversation is not all serious, we have some fun comparing emoji options on Line (in Thail...
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Season 9
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Episode 3
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1:17:54
The Language of Music with Damon Castillo
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 th...
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Episode 35
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34:50
Patience and Balance Online: Geopats Online Return Guest,Jo of Life in Breaths
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 f...
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2:06:30
Italy and China: the geographic tug of war for Writer Antonella Moretti of Parsley and Coriander
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 &...
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1:22:02
What was rural China like in the early 20th century? S5E5
In this podcast episode, I am honored to talk with Tina Kanagaratnam about the book The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. Tina is a Bookish Expat with both strong literary and historical knowledge of China. I have been to a number of bookis...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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1:20:27
How was Germany different in the 1990's? S5E4
What do you get when you have two American Expats and one German Expat talk about a book by a former American Expat living in 1990’s Former East Germany? This culturally windy episode dripping with heaps of blasted stereotypes, linguistic gems ...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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1:18:13
“The Global Soul” by Pico Iyer With Two Podcasting Expats: S5E3
The Global Soul by Pico Iyer is a seminal geopat book. Stephanie and Summer (Steph’s Co-Host on the new podcast Creatively Complicated) dig into this book in a very bi...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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