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In Between
by Veronika ZV
Where foreigners meet foreigners in a foreign country and share lifestyles, curiosities, ideas, beliefs, stigmas, taboos, cultural traits and anything worth the chat! The world is our home and it is up to us to explore it as we wish to, even though it meaning we will be away from family and friends for some time, and more often, extended periods of time. Loneliness can creep in like a close friend, and we find ourselves lost in the middle of the unfamiliar. This is a safe space to build community and bring people from different places together with a common goal, connection and belonging.
Episodes
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Jaeda Khalilifar– “I see a bright future for the world.”
Meet Jaeda, her beautiful smile and high energy caught my attention since the first time we met! She is a first generation Canadian, being half Persian half Filipino! With a background in literature and languages combined with her adventurous personality, the idea of having a teaching job abroad...
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Solo - Finding Friends, Food and Familiarity
What’s up guys! Moving to a new country can be exciting, but it can also feel overwhelming. In this episode, we'll talk about practical ways to settle in faster by focusing on three key areas: building friendships, finding foods you enjoy, and creating a sense of familiarity in your new...
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Anabela Milakov - “Your mindset changes when you go out”
Meet Anabela, the third Serbian I know after Stevan and Novak Djockovic! Haha She captivated me right away with her positive energy and beautiful smile. Coming from a small town in Serbia, China has definitely been quite the adventure for Anabela. Her first idea of China was when her older sister...
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Solo - Getting Used To Saying Goodbye
What’s up guys! Have you ever found yourself in a position of meeting nice people, creating new friendships, perhaps even becoming best friends, just to find out that either you will move away or they will. You feel like you wasted all that time building a strong connection and now it is the end....
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Rich Newman– “If you want to change your reality, change your environment.”
Meet Rich, a funny and free spirit guy with one of the most unique and interesting backgrounds I’ve heard. Being born in Guam, a small island that belongs to the United States, his formative years were spent in different places and learning that the world is free for anyone courageous enough to…
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Solo - How To Learn A New Language Without Feeling Overwhelmed
What's up guys! If you are someone who has been dwelling into learning a second language, or maybe even a third, forth and fifth, who knows! This episode is for you. Learning a language is a process like any other, like learning any type of new skill. It might seem daring and challenging in the...
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Maria Margo – “A good morning girl.”
Meet Maria, with an energetic and loving spirit; her chat with me brightened up my day! It was her love for dancing that brought her to China for the first time, but it was her ability to persevere through challenges and trust in herself that kept her here! From dance teacher to English teacher…
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Solo - "Becoming Comfortable With The Unknown"
What’s up guys! I cannot believe this is episode 50 of the podcast! I guess I’ve been doing it for quite some time now! Well anyways, today’s solo episode is all about being comfortable not knowing what will happen, not having a complete plan or simply being okay with the idea that life will…
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Acylina Barros – “É preciso saber viver.”
Meet Acylina, a lovely Brazilian woman with whom I had the pleasure of sitting down and get to know in a deep level. She came to China by destiny and our meeting was a blow of fresh air, insightful, inspirational and blissful. She came with the mindset of growing and learning from this ancient...
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Solo - “The Biggest Mistakes Expats Make — and How to Avoid Them”
What’s up guys! Today’s solo episode is all about most common mistakes expats make when relocating overseas and how to avoid them, helping you settle in faster, build a better life abroad, and get the most out of your international experience. We cannot expect life to feel like a permanent...
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Solo - “Living On The Opposite Side Of The World.”
Solo - “Living On The Opposite Side Of The World.” What’s up guys! Today’s solo episode is all about what what happens when you leave everything familiar behind and move to the other side of the world! You will hear me talking about my personal experiences and thoughts on how it feels to take…
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Stevan Antonijevic – “Hou sai lei!” 好犀利
Meet Stevan, the second Serbian I know other than Novak Djokovic (tennis player), although I never met Djockovic in person haha! He is one of the many friends I’ve made through volleyball. Because of life circumstances, Stevan ended up in China, a place he at first had no interest in coming to…
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Robert Grey– “Language is one of the most valuable skills you can acquire in life”
Meet Robert, an energetic and charismatic polyglot who chose a kind of lifestyle unfathomable to many of us! His passion for languages started at the age of 18 because of the influence of a friend, and from that moment on, his life took a turn. Unlike many people I have interviewed, China came up...
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Ani – “China has given me a lot of confidence.”
Meet Ani, an exciting and lovely girl with whom I had the pleasure to sit down and get to known more about. She come to China in a very unique way, only on the basis of trust and gut feeling! Although, having been exposed to a lot of Asian cultures since a young age, the idea of coming to China…
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Danny Davis - “The journey is the destination.”
Meet Danny, a kind and full of energy young man who was looking for a big adventure in life, and China was the perfect opportunity for him to start exploring the world! Coming from a quiet and small town in the state of Maine, Danny knew he wanted to experience more and open his horizons to the…
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Yann – “Stop watching the news.”
Meet Yann, the second Yann I interview and in his words, “the best one!”. If having the same name was not a good coincidence already, they share a childhood background as well! What a small world! Yann has a very distinct and interesting background! Asia sparkled on his interest since a young…
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Carla Albano – “In Chinese they call it 缘分”
Meet Carla, a “bella” fun Italian who I had the pleasure of meeting. She studied languages in the University of Naples, with focus on Chinese language. After a short trip to China back in 2002 she already knew she wanted to come back eventually, which happened in 2005. And without planning it…
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Solo - “Things I Used to Think Were ‘Normal’ … Until I Moving to China”
What’s up guys! Today’s solo episode is all about what we think it is “normal”and are proven wrong once we are in China! I share with you a few scenarios that really called my attention in the daily life here and how my perception is very different from the locals. “I thought cash was king…” “I...
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Elen Abelova – “Be a decent human being and you will be fine here!”
Meet Elen, a beautiful and strong minded young lady who I met by mutual friends. With a background in English and Chinese languages, she had the opportunity of coming to China for the first time on an exchange program during University time and knew she wanted to go back. We chat about her first...
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Hannah & Ryan – “It was kind of a crazy miracle”
Meet the Bartons, a young, courageous and lovely couple who I had the pleasure to sit down and have a real talk of what is to move a family of 6 to China! Having arrived recently to the country, they are still on the learning curve of how the country’s systems work and how to pass from survival...
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Jenn Gunter - "He is a 292"
Meet Jenn, a sweet and courageous Canadian who decided the world would be her home! She comes from a relatively small lake town a couple hours from Toronto, which is also the place where Shanaia Twain was dicovered?! China was not the first place in Asia she adventured to, she also lived in…
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Yann Gouinguenet – “I had a snake named spageti”
Meet Yann, he called my attention right when we first met because of the fact he speaks Portuguese fluently but is not from Brazil! He is half Brazilian half French, having grown up in French Guiana. He has a very interestingly diverse background, which allow him to be comfortable enough to go…
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Sophie Bouteiller – China was a pleasant surprise
Meet Sophie, my yoga teacher here in China! She moved all the way from France with her husband and two kids to adventure in Asia. It was not the first time they moved to a different country, but China specifically was never a place they thought of moving to. Like many other people, the pandemic...
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Sefrah - "It is 10x better if... !"
Meet Sefrah, a lovely high energy young woman with whom I have a lot in common actually! She double majored in Global Studies and East Asian Languages, Literature and Cultures, which opened her options to come to this side of the world and create a life here. She shares her experience with…
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The Cultural Shock No One Talks About
What’s up guys! Are you used to having a “coffee to go” any time you want? Would you be open to try duck blood? How long you spend sitting on the toilet? From weird eating habits, clothing styles, public transportation and local rules on chewing gums, there is a lot to expand on how countries go...
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Francis Du - Intercultural Relationships
Intercultural dating can go both ways, it can be amazing and life changing as well as scary and tricky to navigate if you don’t have the right mindset. I sit with Francis another time to chat all things related to having a partner from the other side of the world! We chat cultural habits…
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SOLO - East x West
What’s up guys! Today’s solo episode is all about what makes the East and West countries so unique and distinct from each other. There are way too many differences to mention that would not all fit in one single episode, so I just chat about a few of the ones that stood out to me throughout the...
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SOLO - 6 Things I've Learned
Happy 2026 everyone! We are not done with the podcast! I just decided to take a bit of a break while I was enjoying some much needed quality time at home with my family in Brazil! Sometimes we need to reset, change the environment and most importantly, focus on what is right in front of us, which...
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Francis Du – “It lacks flavor”
Meet Francis, my partner in life and who introduced me to the Eastern world 7 years ago. Now I brought him to the podcast to chat about his views, perceptions and opinions about Brazil! Francis has a very international background, having lived in the United States since a young child and…
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SOLO - Meet Me!
What’s up guys! Today’s solo episode is about me, and all it means for me to be a foreigner in the world and in Asia. After having interviewed many guests in regard to living abroad and specifically on this side of the world, I thought it would be interesting to ask myself the same type of...
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Sandro Serratine – “I don’t need to understand everything, I have to accept”
Meet Sandro, another Brazilian brother that I was fortunate to have been put in contact with though another fellow Brazilian who came on the podcast a few weeks ago. This is another proof that “word of mouth” really works! Sandro is originally from Presidente Venceslau, in São Paulo state, but he...
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Pierre Arnaud– “I feel like I witnessed history quite often”
Meet Pierre, an adventurous and risk taker mechanical engineer with a distinctly unique background. Half French, half Polish, Pierre grew up in an international environment since the age of three years old when his family moved to Japan, then Poland, then Cyprus. That was the beginning of his...
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Rafaela Rebello – “It is one of the only places in the world in which you can really challenge yourself and see where is your limit.”
Meet Rafa, a fellow Southern Brazilian who I had the pleasure to meet through one of the many expat groups here in China. Like many of us foreigners here, China was not in her plans, but life opportunities opened to her the doors to Asia. Her journey of living abroad started when she did an...
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Gavin Martin – “I can never show my face there again.”
Meet Gavin, another fellow volleyball player with whom I have a lot of friends in common! He’s been living in China a little bit longer than me. After graduating university in the UK and getting a job he hated, he decided to quit and go backpacking with a friend to discover this side of the…
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Junko – “When you come back to a place, the language comes back to you”
Meet Junko (AKA Tamura), born in the city of Osaka and raised in Tokio, Japan. Her international exposure to the world started when she went to study abroad in Australia, and from there, she never stopped traveling! She opens up about how mesmerizing was her first experience of going abroad and...
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Nikolaos Papagiannopoulos – “I always like to keep the positives from one place to another”
Meet Nikolas, one of the many people in China I have met “by accident”, a fortunate coincidence of us heading to the same event! Nikos is Shenzhen’s youngest blood, having arrived in the city a bit over a month to pursue his postdoctoral research position in Marine science at one of many...
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SOLO - How to create a "village" in a foreign country.
What’s up guys! Today’s solo episode is in the topic of “creating a village” where you live, which is something I have struggled with in the past and eventually found the best ways to do so. As I speak in the episode, having a community is not a WANT, it is a NEED, from my point of view. If you…
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Kinga Nieroda – “I miss white cheese”
Meet Kinga (AKA Kanusa), named after a Hungarian princess who married a Polish king! Not only her name origin has an interesting story background, but her nationality is also unusual. She was born in Poland, to Polish parents but her great-grandfather was actually born in the United States and…
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Anne Imig – It’s a lifelong learning process
Meet Anne, a bright and beautiful young lady fromGermany, who is doing big things here in China! After graduating from her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Munich, and traveling around Europe, she felt a desire to explore other parts of the world and have a new adventure! That’s when China came...
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Daiana Mardanova – “Back home is China.”
Meet Daiana, an outgoing and sweet “fake” Brazilian Imet during mandarin class. Even though she is Russian, she is married with a Brazilian and speaks Portuguese almost as a native! A fun fact about her husband is that he is from the same place as me in Brazil, in the very south, and I actually...
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Tom Bailey – “We work with and through other people to get the success you deserve”
Meet Tom, an incredibly kind and wise man with a very distinctive background. From dropping out of school and being an engineer at 23 years old, he knew inside of him he always wanted to become a teacher. He then, at the age of 29, pursued university to make his dream come true, which eventually...
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Elvira Ibragimova – “It all happened because of dancing!”
Meet Ellie, an incredibly talented woman with a very interesting and inspiring background. She was born in Russia but her parents are both from Kyrgzstan, but it was in China that she ended up finding her true purpose. She studied architecture in Russia and that was the beginning of her journey...
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Simon Ainsley – “You walk with a purpose and good things will come to you”
Meet Simon, a very enthusiastic and friendly guy from Felixtowe, which is the biggest container port town in England. I’ve had the chance to meet him over one of the many group chats I am a part of here in China. I started the conversation by asking him what were his thoughts on so many British...
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Nicole Anthea Davis – I found myself in China
Meet Nicole, one of the first girlfriends I’ve had in China and one of my favorite South African in town! In searching for a new adventure to take on, her and her husband decided to come to China, where they’ve been for six years and counting! After living in Chengdu for two years before moving…
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Anna Mękarska – “Let’s get rid of the 1:30 hour lunch break”
Meet Anna, a very sweet and smart blondie from “the middle of Europe”, can you guess which country she is originally from? Her interest in linguistics opened her curiosity to the Chinese language, in which she has a very unique perspective on. And it was because of this curiosity that she…
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Bruna Malacrida - It started with a Simple Plan (pun intended)
Meet Bruna, who after living in China for ten years has decided it was time to leave and start a new life chapter. She is a translator, majored in French with a minor in Italian translation and knew since a young age that she was destined to explore the world. This mindset is exactly what had...
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SOLO - Does my accent define me?
Hello everyone! I have decided to record solo episodes every time I feel there is some specific topic that I would like to throw out there for discussion! As we all know, there are a lot of subjects in life that we don’t get to share thoughts on or even think too much far into, and I believe they...
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Julia Liu - Language is your tool, use it wisely.
Meet Julia Liu, a very good friend of mine here in China that has an extremely unique and interesting background! Starting with her mother, who has at least four different bloods running through her veins, Julia herself is a mixed baby, having Chineseroots as well! She shares her incredible…
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Jonnise Hazuka - You must do THIS if you come to China for the first time!
Meet Jonnise, a vibrant and spirited American girl from the “Mall of America”, can you guess what state she is from? Wechat all about how Disney, yes Disney, has brought her to China and how 14 months became 7 years of living here! We expand on her journey of making local friends and how a...
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Kauê Cardoso - Don't be afraid to explore the world.
Meet Kauê, an open minded and adventurous fellow Brazilian who cannot decide where is home for him. From having a very mixed cultural background and moving extensively growing up he ended up coming to China at the age of 20 because of ajob opportunity that came his way with three specific...
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Where foreigners meet foreigners in a foreign country and share lifestyles, curiosities, ideas, beliefs, stigmas, taboos, cultural traits and anything worth the chat! The world is our home and it is up to us to explore it as we wish to, even though it meaning we will be away from family and friends for some time, and more often, extended periods of time. Loneliness can creep in like a close friend, and we find ourselves lost in the middle of the unfamiliar. This is a safe space to build community and bring people from different places together with a common goal, connection and belonging.
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Veronika ZV
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