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Crossing The Pond
by 2024 Crossing the Pond Podcast created and hosted by Gary Adair
Welcome to Crossing The Pond Podcast, hosted by Gary Adair, who ventured to the US in 2003 with a plan to stay for just three months, only to find himself still there 20 plus years later. This podcast offers a candid look at the personal challenges and triumphs that come with major life transitions. Gary and his guests share their unique experiences of navigating the literal and metaphorical ponds of life. Whether that means relocating to a new country, rebounding from health challenges, embarking on career changes, or overcoming personal obstacles.www.crossingthepondpodcast.com
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#104.5 - The Monday Mood - 10/12 - 'Speak Up, Look Up, Look Around'
Ever kept quiet about what you’re carrying because everyone’s got their own battles? This week Gary talks about the guilt of leaning on people, and why it isn’t your call to decide whether someone wants to listen. Put it to them. If you feel strong enough to speak, speak. Plus: why you should…
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#104 - Grassroots - Shaun Burke 🏴
Shaun Burke started out in hotel management with football just a hobby. Until an advert for a coaching job in America changed the whole direction of his life. His time in the US taught him how to coach players how to people from a completely different football culture and the idea this could...
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#103 - Dreaming - Bethany Payet 🏴
Bethany Payet was head of the art department in a UK school, saying yes to everything until she was close to burning out completely. In 2025 she handed in her notice, spent one summer testing whether she could make it as an artist, and then left the UK with her partner Matt to travel for 8 months...
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BONUS: CTP meets...'Never Did It'
This time Gary is on the other side of the mic. Joining Brad Garoon and Jake Ziegler on the Never Did It Podcast to talk about two British films from the 80s:Withnail and I and The Long Good Friday. One is a boozy, bleak and brilliantly funny story of two out-of-work actors fleeing London for a...
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#102.5 - The Monday Mood - 9/21 - 'One Foot in Front of the Other'
This week on The Monday Mood, Gary talks through two conversations that stuck with him, both with people fighting something hard with no way around it. From there, a look at fortitude, why "how are you" so often gets an answer nobody means, and what he's started calling life therapy, the plain,...
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#102 - United - Ross Burbeary 🏴
We welcome back a previous CTP guest, Ross Burbeary, to the show this week. Co-founder of the 'Prostate United' challenge back in 2018. A month-long challenge born out of personal loss that's since grown into one of the biggest grassroots fundraisers in English football. Eight years on, with…
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#101 - Fortitude - Matt Evans 🏴
This week's guest was born in Wales, deliberately, so he could one day pull on a red shirt and play rugby for his country. That's the first decision someone else ever made for him. Everything after that has been his own. Matt Evans first caught the bug for the US during a summer project as an...
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#100.5 - The Monday Mood - 8/31 - 'Unpacking the Suitcase'
3 weeks back from the UK and still catching up with himself, Gary opens this week's Monday Mood with the whiplash of coming home twice. Why the people who seem to hold everyone else together are so often the ones who need it most, the male loneliness numbers that don't get talked about enough…
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#100 - Memories - Marysue Moses 🇺🇸
Gary's guest this week is Marysue Moses, a dementia educator, consultant, and former memory care coordinator who’s spent years helping caregivers and professionals create richer, more human connections with people living with dementia. Long before any of that, she was a theatre kid, trained in...
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#99 - Socials - Katie Hoang 🏴
She built a home for other people before she'd fully found one herself. Leeds → London → six years in Ho Chi Minh City → New Jersey, starting again from scratch. No easy Brit community waiting for her when she landed, so she built one. That's Brits of NJ. This week on Crossing the Pond, I sit…
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#98.5 - The Monday Mood - 8/10 - 'Observations from Blighty'
This week’s Monday Mood reflects on a two-week trip back to England.-Starting with the 18-year-old choosing a Pinewood internship over the ‘traditional’ path everyone expected. -Sweating through a summer I was absolutely not prepared for. 20 odd years and the people who kept the thread alive...
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#98 - Fabric - Macarena Tracey 🇨🇱
This week on Crossing the Pond, I'm joined by Macarena Tracey, who left Chile as a young girl after her father pioneered a life in the US for his family Macarena spent over twenty years in the fashion industry until recently, when she made a choice to step back from the spotlight and start a...
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#97.5 - The Monday Mood - 7/27 - 'Come for The Football, Stay for Everything Else'
In this Monday Mood, we reflect on what World Cup '26 has done to the people who travelled here for it. He talks about the England supporters who flooded the streets of New York and New Jersey in numbers he wasn't prepared for. About what seeing them did to him, someone who hasn't called England...
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#97 - Flow - Cliff Beach 🇺🇸
This week, we've got a guest whose pond took him from small-town on the east coast of the US all the way to the bright lights of LA Cliff Beach.stepped out of his comfort zone before he even knew what a comfort zone was, trading everything familiar for a shot at something bigger. Leading to a...
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#96 - Stewardship - Andrew Broadbent 🏴
This week on Crossing the Pond, we're joined by Andrew Broadbent, whose journey began in England before taking a leap of faith to the United States in the mid-1990s What started as a young coach chasing an opportunity abroad evolved into a career of leadership, as Andrew went on to become a...
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#95.5 - The Monday Mood - 7/6 - '23 Years and Counting...'
Twenty-three years in America. No cake. No big post. Just a quiet Tuesday and a number that made me stop. This week's Monday Mood is four things that all landed in the same week and somehow won't stop talking to each other in my head. *Asking for help and why it took this long to get comfortable...
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#95 - Custard - James Stuart 🏴
My guest this week is James Stuart, a guy who literally crossed the pond as a youngster when his parents brought a little piece of England to Florida in the shape of a proper English pub. From those early roots, James went on to cut his teeth in NYC's restaurant scene before helping open some of...
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#94 - Luxury - Mike Pearson 🏴
What does luxury really mean? For Mike Pearson, a man who has built a career in the world of luxury watches, the answer goes far beyond the industry. In this episode, Gary and Mike explore the quieter luxuries: supportive parents, a career that opened unexpected doors, a life shaped by travel…
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#93.5 - The Monday Mood - 6/15 - "5 Minutes with Friends"
What if the most powerful thing you did this week took just five minutes? Over the last two weeks, Pat McCarry and Regsan Watkins both said something that stopped me in my tracks. Both of them spoke about receiving messages from people they hadn't heard from in years, people telling them they'd...
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#93 - Recruiting - Regsan Watkins 🇦🇺🇿🇦
This week on Crossing the Pond, we're joined by Regsan Watkins, whose journey began in Melbourne, Australia, and led him halfway around the world to pursue the dream of playing college soccer in the United States. We explore the international recruiting process, what it takes to leave home as a...
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#92 - Attunement - Pat McCarry 🏴
We welcome Pat McCarry to the show this week. An educator, coach, and leadership mentor whose career has taken him from the classrooms of Wales and England to coaching and curriculum development roles across the globe. After training at Loughborough University, Pat has spent decades working in...
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#91.5 - The Monday Mood - 5/25 - "The First Stroke on a New Canvas"
Sometimes the most powerful place you can stand is in front of a blank canvas with nothing on it yet. This week on Monday Mood, Gary reflects on one of the most underrated feelings in the world, the clean slate. No history, no baggage, no fixed idea of what you're capable of. Just you, and the...
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#91 - Analytics - Matt Maule 🏴
This week on Crossing the Pond, we’re joined by Matt Maule. A man whose journey spans countries, careers, and plenty of air miles along the way.Raised in Reading, Berkshire, Matt’s path took him from the lecture halls of the University of Hull to a formative stint in Sweden before he made the...
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#90.5 - The Monday Mood - 5/11 "You Never Really Know"
We all have someone in our heads frozen as the person they used to be. The kid from the team. The mate from back home. The one you thought you had figured out. But people go through things you never see. One decision snowballs into another, life takes over, and the person who comes out the other...
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#90 - Becoming - Mason Toye 🇺🇸
Today’s guest is someone whose journey has taken him from the youth soccer to college soccer at Indiana, to being drafted into MLS with Minnesota United. Mason Toye has spent the last decade navigating the reality of professional football. the goals, the setbacks, the injuries, and the growth…
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#89.5 - The Monday Mood - 4/27
We’re introducing something new to Crossing the Pond 🎙️ On the Mondays between our guest episodes, we’ll now be sharing Monday Mood — short, relaxed reflections where we look back at the previous episode and chat about real expat moments from the week just gone. Think of it as a quick cuppa and…
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#89 - Seasoned - Graham Page 🏴
This week on Crossing the Pond, we’re joined by Graham Page. A man who made a life-changing leap at 40. With a solid career and a familiar life in the UK, Graham packed it all up and moved to New Jersey when his wife’s career opened a new door across the Atlantic. We talk about what it really…
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#88 - Reinvention - Richard Scott 🏴
Today’s guest is Richard Scott. A coach whose journey started in the framework of his hometown club, Newcastle United, before taking him across the Atlantic to the US with a short stint in Iceland for good measure, before quickly into various roles within MLS academies experiencing the game…
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#87 - Judgement - The Scary Guy 🇺🇸
**This Episode in Association with the Wigan Arts Festival 2026** This week I sit down with The Scary Guy. A man whose name alone sparks curiosity, but whose story hits far deeper than shock value. What began as a life marked by identity struggles, and destructive choices transformed into a...
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#86 - Pathways - Lee Burch 🏴
My guest this week took a stop in the US in 2004 as a part of his early coaching pathway before returning home to the UK to continue his career in football. Lee Burch has since gone onto coach and manage in every division of the women’s professional game in the UK, all the way up to his current...
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#85 - Direction - Paul Cliff 🏴
This week I'm joined by Paul Cliff, who I first met in the US in 2003 but ironically, we grew up less than 5 miles away from each other back home in England. Paul describes his early years in the UK and the direction that has taken since his return home. we talk about his faith and how it leads…
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#84 - Enthusiasm - Greg Lawley 🇺🇸
This week’s guest is Greg Lawley, whose European roots run through his family history, but whose energy and impact are very much felt right here in his fitness community, every day. Greg is a person whose enthusiasm can’t be ignored and we dig into how, after various geographical and vocational...
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#83 - Grounding - Gareth Gore 🏴
My guest this week is Gareth Gore may be a journalist and author of a critically acclaimed book but, more importantly, he’s an old friend from his working class upbringing in Wigan, to the halls of Cambridge University, then onto the sharp end of financial journalism and best-selling books, he’s...
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#82 - Revisiting - Greig Paterson 🏴
This week we check back in with Greig Paterson, 6 months on from his move to the US with his family. We do a bit more digging into Greig’s journey, including his time with Clemson Men’s Soccer in the late 90s, coaching in Melbourne 🇦🇺 after a short stint with United Soccer Academy and more of…
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#81.5 - Flashbacks - The Cast of 2025
Happy new year to everybody and welcome to the first episode of CTP for 2026! This episode ironically enough will be a look back at all of our guests for 2025. Highlights of the stories the experiences and all the lessons learned along everybody’s individual journeys. #crossingthepondpodcast...
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#81 - Traditions - Eric Hawthorn 🏴 & Michael Freeman 🇺🇸
For this week‘s episode, I took time out of a recent jaunt to Houston to talk about traditions, trips and making an effort. My guests, Eric Hawthorn, and Michael Freeman unpack their own holiday traditions from both Europe and here in the US. Recounting previous experiences and discussing the...
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#80 - Belonging - Yolanda Reshemah 🇻🇨
This week we welcome Yolanda Reshemah, creator of The Places We Call Home and Starting Over in the USA. Yolanda’s journey has taken her from her birthplace of St. Vincent and the Grenadines to England, France and now all the way to the West Coast of America. We’ll dig into her experiences of...
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#79 - Connecting - Kieran O'Boyle 🏴🇮🇪
Kieran O’Boyle story starts in Blackpool when he was scouted at a young age to play as a goalkeeper in a part of Manchester United Academy, being coached, and also playing alongside some modern-day household names. His pathway later shifted after an offer to complete his masters and play soccer…
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#78 - Service - Zach Rodriguez 🇺🇸
Zach Rodriguez shares his journey from a construction science background to becoming a U.S. Navy pilot, detailing the pivotal moments that shaped his career and personal life. He discusses a near-fatal helicopter incident that changed his perspective on risk and purpose, leading him to prioritize...
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#77 - Fanbase - Timucin Uras 🇹🇷
Timucin Uras has built a home wherever football and friendship meet. A lifelong Fenerbahçe fan, he discovered a love for Liverpool FC during his university days in the UK, and found something familiar: passion, pride, and sense of family that any football team can create. Now, through the…
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#76 - Challenges - Chris Morgan 🏴
On this episode of Crossing the Pond, Gary reconnects with Chris Morgan, a coach and friend he first met back in 2003. After that first year on the sidelines, Chris’s journey took him around the world; from the UK to Dubai, California, Texas, and Florida, before recently settling down in Michigan...
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#75 - Journeys - Greig Paterson 🏴
Greig Paterson joins us this week, having relocated to the California from Scotland with his wife and 3 children. Greig talks about his previous roles as Head of Coach Education for both the Scottish FA (SFA) and the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), his own progressions, the progression of...
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#74.5 - Awareness - Prostate United Challenge '25
As Gary gears up for year 4 of taking part in the Prostate United Challenge, cycling 25k per day for the month of October, to raise vital funds and awareness for Prostate Cancer UK. We take a short time to reflect on last year's meeting with Ross Burbeary and Stephen Gilpin, performance leads and...
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#74 - Details - Diane Ormrod 🏴
This week we’re joined by Diane Ormrod, who first came to the U.S. from Liverpool back in 1981. After spending decades working in and around Manhattan, she followed her passion for design and co-founded French and Scouser in 2012, a home décor and antique furnishings business with a unique...
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#73 - Helping - Dave Edwards 🏴
Today we’re joined by Dave 'Ted' Edwards, whose journey began in North Wales and brought him to the U.S. through the world of youth soccer. After building a career in coaching, Dave’s path eventually led him to Northern Virginia, where he discovered a deeper calling: counseling. Now, as the…
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#72 - Erimus - Stewart Flaherty 🏴
Today we’re joined by Stewart Flaherty, a coach whose journey took him from England to the United States in pursuit of his dream of professional coaching. After realising this dream during a national championship winning stint with the Michigan Stars, Stewart has continued to evolve. Blending his...
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#71 - Clarity - Daniel Wagstaff 🏴
This week’s guest Daniel Wagstaff left the UK in 2006 to pursue life in the U.S. After finally discovering his purpose in the States, unexpected visa challenges ultimately led him to Mexico . An experience that further shaped his outlook and perspectives. Now back in the South of England, he…
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#70 - Standards - Joe Quigley 🏴
This week’s guest Joe Quigley first arrived in the US in 2008 to work in the youth sports industry. After his decision to return home to the UK in 2016 he was presented a new opportunity to own and operate his own coaching franchise in his hometown of Manchester. He opens up about early life in…
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#69 - Hosting - Mark Simpson 🏴
This week we welcome Mark Simpson, founder of Boostly. Before building one of the most recognized direct booking platforms in the short-term rental world, Mark spent several years in the U.S, coaching soccer and learning the art of leadership and teamwork firsthand. When he returned to his…
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#68 - Empowerment - Sabrina Flores 🇺🇸🇲🇽🇷🇴
It’s a pleasure to welcome Sabrina Flores to the podcast this week as she talks through her soccer journey that began and ended in NJ. She talks through her pathway through the club, college, international and professional ranks. Showcasing her relentless drive to succeed and her selfless…
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Welcome to Crossing The Pond Podcast, hosted by Gary Adair, who ventured to the US in 2003 with a plan to stay for just three months, only to find himself still there 20 plus years later. This podcast offers a candid look at the personal challenges and triumphs that come with major life transitions. Gary and his guests share their unique experiences of navigating the literal and metaphorical ponds of life. Whether that means relocating to a new country, rebounding from health challenges, embarking on career changes, or overcoming personal obstacles.www.crossingthepondpodcast.com
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