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Unbecoming
by Stefanie Baranowski
A visionary expat learning and growing through personal adventure and critically thinking and analyzing life and all its experiences and adventures.
Episodes
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Meeting Friends as an Expat
It takes some time when you move to another city to meet new people you connect with who you can call your friends. There is a level of loneliness at first that you have to go through that grows you to become more grounded in yourself. Meeting friends as an expat is not easy at first and requires...
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How to Ground Yourself in Times of Stress
Stress is inevitable in our lives as humans. Stress can be good in situations to help motivate us and then sometimes stress can cause adverse affects that has the ability to affect our daily life in negative ways. Over the years I have built up the knowledge and the tools for grounding myself...
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Love and Jewelry
The energy you cultivate in yourself is the energy you share outwards. When you cultivate love within yourself, thats the energy you have to share with others. When I reflect back on the day of love that just past, I think about the most meaningful moments of love in my life and how I remember...
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Why Did I Name My Podcast Unbecoming
A name is really important for setting the stage for how you want your audience to relate to your words. It was important that I chose a name that would reflect myself, what my content was going to include and the way I wanted to brand myself online. I'm no marketing guru, nor do I have a…
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"7 Jobs! Stefanie, You Have 7 Jobs!"
Curious how I do it? I also had to sit back and really think about how I do it. Join me in this weeks podcast as I dive into multitasking at it's finest and the foundational approach I use to be able to still have energy, spirit and motivation to accomplish all the things.
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Live to Learn
My family would say I have made school a career. I can't argue with that statement. My curiosity and heart has led me to live a purposeful life. Don't worry, I have stumbled upon some failures along the way but that only taught me how to pivot and find new meaning in something that was more in...
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I Bought a Mercedes Benz, Now What
A car is an extension of your identity. It represents who you are both internally but also externally to the outside world. Growing up around cars, I very much adopted a inner race car drive persona. Having a nice car that represented who I am is so important to me. A car represents freedom but...
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Returning Home After Living The Expat Journey
After living abroad for a year and living the expat journey, you realize that when you go back home, you are not going back home to the person you were before you left. You are going back home a new person. I very much felt different and the internal process of transitioning to go back home was…
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One Heart in Two Places
2023 was my best year yet. As I reflect back on my year, I really think about what 2023 really meant to me and how it has shaped the person I am today moving into 2024.
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Selfridges
A girl can dream of couture and all the luxury materials, the proud look of the displays and the the sparkle and the glamour that lights up your soul and makes you walk with confidence in the direction of your dreams. A girl can dream... or can she envision and make it a reality. I did exactly…
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Salsa!
A girls night out wouldn't be complete without some dancing. The last weekend I spent in London was a memorable one that made me realize that I did in fact have a community and a group of friends that I would have forever. I had developed meaningful friendships and shared both laughter and tears...
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Unexpected Romance
Sometimes the best romantic stories are the ones that catch you off guard. The serendipity moments of being in the right place and right time with the most open heart to your environmental experiences. You never know who you are going to meet along your journey and you certainly can't predict…
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Holding Space for Healing
The healing journey isn't always what it seems. It can be messy and bring up all sorts of emotions. If we got to hard on the healing activities and regret to give ourselves space, we might find ourselves not necessarily healing but just creating more trauma. Holding space for yourself to...
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Pivotal Moment
When things don't happen as we anticipate, we have two options. We can either get frustrated and upset or we can find the learning curve and come from a solution based mindset. I look at my journey in London as just that, a big learning curve. I had a preconceived view in my mind as to what my…
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Navigating the London and Europe Transport System
Join me as I explain how the London transportation system works and how I felt about traveling via public transportation in relationship to me growing up having a vehicle to drive in, in Canada. I dive into explaining the difference between the transportation system in London, versus Europe…
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London Schools
Listen in as I tell my personal perspective and experience working in the London primary school system and how it relates to politics, culture and personal and career growth. I talk about my experience teaching and the differences between the UK curriculum and the Canadian curriculum and my...
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Pineapple Dance
This weeks episode I talk about my first dance experience at Pinapple Dance studio in London England and how it re-inspired my soul. I express my thoughts and feelings about following your heart and how I have always followed my heart on the decisions I have made in life and thats what's led me…
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When your Best Friend is a Dog
Tune in as I share about my experience navigating on how to handle not being able to transport my dog over to the UK and my stories as I reminisce about the story about how I got my dog.
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Warsaw - Identity and Me
Join me as I uncover just how much identity means to me and the cool experience of coming home to myself within Warsaw. It was always on my list of places to go in the world, to go to Poland. I had grown up in a family that was very cultured and embraced our Polish roots with my grandfather being...
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One Year in London
Join me in reflecting on my one year anniversary in London, United Kingdom
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Birthday Cupcakes
Birthdays to me where never about me. I always saw them as a community activity. A way for friends to all get together and have a good time. In my early 20's there were plenty of times where I would arrange big birthday parties, show up for maybe an hour and then escape my own birthday. In the...
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Kings Coronation
I open my discussion with a strong political stance on the Kings Coronation. The topic is deep and somber and I bring into perspective my own thoughts and opinions but also those from around me. I dive deep into the issues of tradition, inclusion, culture, moral code and the monarchy's stance in...
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Finding Meaning in Whitby
Join me on my adventure as I talk about my travels to Whitby, United Kingdom to explore my family history and meaning in a small town. It wouldn't be an adventure or meaningful if there wasn't some sort of hurdle or challenge on the way. It's the challenges that make us truly appreciate the…
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Tiffany's Blue Breakfast
I feel like I have an inner Holly Golightly in me. I'm always scared that someone is going to put me in a box and keep me locked down. I have an inner need to be free but I also have an inner need to feel like I belong somewhere and that I feel loved and with someone who makes me feel safe and...
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Being a Yogi in London
Finding a yoga studio to practice at in London is like finding a needle in a haystack. The yoga studios here lack the yoga vibe. You feel like there is a huge fitness culture here but the yoga philosophy and vibes are missing. Join me in this episode as I explain my journey of finding a yoga…
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Belle Bruxelles
I never thought a city could smell so good! The wafting smell of the chocolate and the waffles coming from the open doors of the shops was so magical. It instantly lifted my spirits up and brought me to the present moment in an instant. I was living, eating and breathing completely in the moment.…
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To the Moon and Back...
How do I accomplish all that I do? I get asked that question sometimes along side with all the positive vibes and messages of awe-inspiring comments. Why keep the recipe to myself when I can share it and help others accomplish their dreams and create a wave of inspiration. I set my goals with the...
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The Girls
Girls nights are for conversations about men, fashion and goals. It's a time to connect over some good food and drinks and just enjoy the feminine energy of communication and understanding. However, this girls night was so much more; it was an experience! Tune in and listen as I take you on a...
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New Year, New Me
The most empowering thing you can experience is not to eat by yourself in a restaurant (been there and done that), it's not to go to a movie by yourself (done that as well), and its most certainly not traveling by yourself (people do that on the regular all the time), but instead, try spending…
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Holiday Hooky and Spiritual Surfing
Spending time away from home during the holiday season can seem like a dream if you find yourself in stress and full of family drama but on the flip side when you know you have meaningful traditions and a whole lot of love, it can feel scary, alone and sad. Finding meaning and spiritual…
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Acting - What exactly was I learning?
January 18th 2023 I took my first acting class. I loved it! I really dived deeper into my empathy, my understanding of my emotions and other peoples emotions and how others interact with the world around them. Acting is very much about character building but character building from what you know...
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Girl, Roots are for Trees
When a woman changes her hair, she is about to change her life. A woman's hair is a reflection of how she feels internally but also what is going on externally. Have you been that woman that changes her hair after a big break up or know of a woman who has? My hair has gone through so many changes...
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Abstract Amsterdam
Amsterdam is more than just hippie vibes and hallucinogen kinds but really at its core is peace. there is a peaceful undertone to its natural beauty and ambience that completely dove me into a state of flow the entire journey. Listen in to me telling my adventurous story about my experience at…
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Covent Garden Vibes and Creative Tribes
I dive into the world of dance and find my home of creativity within myself for the first time. Creativity has always been something that brings me happiness and I routinely find myself diving into a state of flow as I work on my many creative projects. Being in London has given me more time and...
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Gripling for Grounding
In this episode I talk of my AirBnb adventures when I first moved to London and how I very much humbled myself with my very mentally, emotionally and financially challenging situation of being in and out of AirBnb's until I found my place of grounding and long term home in London.
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The Light and Love of Paris
I take a trip to Paris and discover the true light of Paris that lights me up on the inside with new inspiration. Listen as I tell my view point of the city and my Emily in Paris moment at steps away from the Eiffel Tower.
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Mind Body Crash
I dive into the awakened moment of not only understanding the human need to feel connected to others but to actually live it through first hand experience and gain the valuable wisdom of really understanding it on a new deeper layered perspective. The thought of being alone is a deep and dark…
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When Life Gives You Lemons, Pray They Are Lulu
My work experience here in London and how landing my job at Lululemon was a blessing that brought me to experience community and London from a. good space that allowed me to find the growth that I needed. When you live in your true core self, everything else falls into alignment with you but...
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The Apple Core of Change
Listen in on my deep thoughts on my work experience and how that shifted my perspective around change and understanding the world around me. I dive deeper into understanding my experience working in London in both the shock of the school system and the bougie boutique high fashion industries. A...
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Letting Go in Order to Grow
The expat life is more than just diving into the adventure. There requires a lot of preparation in order to make it happen. I talk about my process getting my ancestry visa for the UK as well as what I needed to mentally and physically prepare for to dive into the adventure. I open up about the...
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Landing in London
This episode I pull you into my thought process of what it was like to land in London on my first day and navigate my feelings of my first week. Listen in as I talk about my moments of regret and my moments of being re-inspired and validated to travel on the expat journey and really dive deep…
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A visionary expat learning and growing through personal adventure and critically thinking and analyzing life and all its experiences and adventures.
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Unbecoming is created and hosted by Stefanie Baranowski.
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