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Expats Listen Podcast
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🌍 Expats Listen is a podcast for expats and immigrants talking about the real issues faced when living abroad. Hosts Ryan (a South African therapist for expats) and Liz (an American who has lived in lots of countries) come from VERY different backgrounds; they met in an airport, got married, and now find themselves navigating life in Portugal. Every Friday you'll get fresh takes, deep dives, funny stories, and more. You’ll likely hear a new perspective or two, as well.If you live abroad or are thinking of making the move, these are conversations you’ll want to hear.Insta @expatslisten
Episodes
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Interview with Angela Vitiello
Just like Liz, Angela Vitiello moved away from New York in 2010 and has lived abroad ever since. Liz and Angela chat about the NY responses to leaving NY, balancing visits back home, finding friends, and lots more. She's now married with kids and staying put in Brussels, Belgium for the…
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Loneliness
If you're an expat or an immigrant, loneliness will hit you. OK really, if you're a human, loneliness will hit you at some point whether you like it or not. But what do we think of when we think of loneliness? Liz and Ryan share stories of when they've felt most lonely and their backgrounds and...
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New Year, New Country?
Welcome to Season 2! Is your New Year's resolution to move to a new country? Or to move back to your home country after living abroad? If that's your goal for this year, here are some deeper questions to ask yourself before you buy that plane ticket.
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What we gave up for the expat life
New. More. Different. Expat life is full of excitement, growth and discovery. But what happens when we say goodbye to the life we used to have? We might have lived in a different world with different people while being a different person. And now we are somewhere so far away from there. Today we...
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Thanksgiving
Sometimes you fall in love with a holiday you weren't born celebrating. When Ryan, a South African, started dating Liz, an American, she shared her love for giving thanks and eating an insane amount of butter. Listen to Ryan's experiences with the holiday and what it has come to mean to him. Ryan...
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Opening the Expat Pandora's Box
What you don't know can't hurt you, right? Well, when you think about moving to another place, and especially when you actually make a move, you might not realize that you are opening a giant Pandora's Box where you start to notice things that you never noticed before about your home, about your...
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Expat & Immigrant Guilt
When you move abroad, you are going to feel guilty. For what you left, for who you left, for what you’re choosing and what you aren’t choosing, for dozens of different things surrounding the topic of money, for being selfish and chasing your own dreams, for not speaking the local language “well...
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Expats Everywhere: Interview with Josh & Kalie
In this conversation with Josh & Kalie of Expats Everywhere, we discuss the differences between travel in our early 20’s versus our 30’s, their decision to have a baby in the USA after living abroad for a decade, some ways of making friends in their new home of Portugal, and more. We love to chat...
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Portuguese immigration laws stirring up big feelings
Just passed in Portuguese Parliament, the path for us expats and immigrants toward citizenship in Portugal is changing. Some people are fed up with how over-immigration is impacting this country and are cheering for reform. Some are livid that these changes will have a tangible impact on their...
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Portugal versus the United Kingdom
Fresh off of a trip to the UK, we find ourselves asking, "Could we live there?". So we take a look at some different categories: food, accommodation, transport, weather, and making friends, and try to compare Portugal with the UK. Which would you choose?
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Expat Personas
Meticulous overplanners, those who throw caution to the wind and come with a dream, lovers reuniting with their loves, career chasers, where do you fit in? We fit into several of these categories ourselves, so we dive into the good, the bad, and the ugly about different expat personas. Spoiler:...
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Medical Emergencies Abroad
An appendix removal in Northern Ireland, a heart attack in Portugal, kidney stones in Australia. You never think a medical emergency will happen to you, but what do you do when it does? Fresh off of an appendectomy, Ryan and Liz share their experience with the United Kingdom’s National Health...
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Liz hates the Portuguese post office.
There are things that you know will be difficult about life abroad- being far from family and friends, language barriers, work, finding friends, visa struggles. But then there are the things that you truly cannot believe knock you down. Where is the place that Liz has been brought to tears the…
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Happy surprises in Portugal
You've heard the things we struggle with on "Don't move to Portugal unless..." (And if you haven't, go listen to that episode!) It's time to talk about some of the things that surprised us about becoming expats in Portugal in the best ways. Whenever you move to a country as an expat or an...
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What is "home"?
What is home, really? As an expat, this answer can be so complicated. If I say that home is where I live now, am I abandoning where I came from? If I say that home is where I was born, am I living in the past and not showing love to the life I have worked so hard to build here? And what about...
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(Some of) Our biggest expat mistakes
Everybody makes mistakes, but sometimes when you move abroad, what you don't know can cost you dearly. Ryan and Liz share some of the biggest expat mistakes they made, from paperwork errors that ended in tears, a job opportunity that turned into a scam, and lots more. Listener Nina shares her…
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What are you running away from?
A loaded question! But one that you should ask yourself, whether or not other people ask you. Moving away from a good job and “on the right track” life in New York, Liz was asked this question constantly in her 20’s when she chose a new path. Moving from South Africa to Europe, nobody asked Ryan...
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Visit home or go on vacation?
When you live abroad, how do you balance your vacation days? You want to visit your friends and family but you also want to rest or explore somewhere new. Doing one means less time to do the other, so it's tricky! Liz feels guilty that she left and bends over backwards to create an intricate...
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Moving to London with a single pair of shorts: Interview with Ryan Brock
Expats Listen is thrilled to announce our first interview! We are joined by another South African named Ryan, but with a very different story. After a gap year in Taiwan, Ryan Brock's partner got a job offer she couldn't refuse in London and together they made the move. What they thought would be...
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Don't move to Portugal unless......
Thinking of making the move to Portugal? You're not alone! So many folks have recently made the move or are planning it now. Stop reading articles that tell you how idyllic and perfect your life will be here. There are phenomenal things about living in Portugal, but you also need to hear some of...
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Are you an expat or an immigrant?
We know these can be loaded words! Ryan and Liz talk through what it means to be an expat, and what it means to be an immigrant, both in theory and in practice. We share some stories of how we 🇿🇦🇺🇸 are labeled and treated, and Psychologist Ryan talks through how difficult it can be to be…
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We met in an airport.
Hosts Ryan and Liz met in an airport. Yep, really. Hear the whole story of how we met in the airport in Muscat, Oman. A listener question is answered about intercultural relationships. We wrap it up with our first ever "Would you rather?" with the choices of South Africa versus the USA.
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Welcome to Expats Listen!
Our first episode! Meet hosts Ryan 🙋🏾♂️🇿🇦 and Liz 💁🏼♀️🇺🇸 and see what we have in store for this podcast, a place to be real about the ups and downs of living abroad for expats and immigrants.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
🌍 Expats Listen is a podcast for expats and immigrants talking about the real issues faced when living abroad. Hosts Ryan (a South African therapist for expats) and Liz (an American who has lived in lots of countries) come from VERY different backgrounds; they met in an airport, got married, and now find themselves navigating life in Portugal. Every Friday you'll get fresh takes, deep dives, funny stories, and more. You’ll likely hear a new perspective or two, as well.If you live abroad or are thinking of making the move, these are conversations you’ll want to hear.Insta @expatslisten
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