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
92 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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39:16
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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46:28
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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37:20
The Language of Music with Damon Castillo: S9E5
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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Season 9
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Episode 5
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34:50
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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52:19
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
Big and White: Two American Linguists Living & Podcasting in Nepal: S8E3
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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Season 8
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Episode 3
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1:05:00
Melissa and David From The Strong Sense Of Place Podcast Share Their Love Of Books, Travel & Laughter: S8E2
David Humphreys and Melissa Joulwan are the hosts of Strong Sense of Place, a podcast and web site dedicated to literary travel and books with vivid settings. In each episode of their show, they explore one destination and talk about what makes...
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Season 8
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Episode 2
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51:02
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
Coffee: Dark Coffee and Fresh Crema with Canadian Expat in China Erin Garnhum: S7E4
Erin and I met in Vietnam many years ago, the place where both of our coffee obsession hit a peak, so it only made sense to have her on the podcast. In this episode we dive into her coffee explorations in Australia, many countries in Asia, Ital...
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Season 7
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Episode 4
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42:48
Austria, Costa Rica, Czech Republic and Germany Coffee Explorations with Travis Dow of Podcastnik Productions: S7E3
Travis lived in Germany and the Czech Republic for 20 years and podcasts about history on podcastnik.com. After talking about alchemy and witches as a ghost-tour guide in Prague, he teamed up with Pete Collman to figure out podcasting as a medi...
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42:39
Marielle From Agnep Heritage Farms Shares Her Love Of Coffee In Melboune, Berlin & more: S7E2
Marielle is a Data Scientist in Berlin. She is also a long-distance coffee farmer because her family started a coffee farm in our ancestral home in the Philippines (in Mankayan, Benguet). The...
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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34:47
Peak European Coffee Experiences with Ana of Las Saboritas, the Prague Culinary Twitter Account: S7E1
Ana Blackstad has experienced coffee culture in so many different places that I ran out of ink during our chat yesterday. Okay, I might be exaggerating a bit but ...
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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40:38
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
Language Learning Panel: International Podcast Day LIVE session Sept 2020: S6E5
On September 30, 2020 I was thrilled to lead a language learning Podcasters panel for International Podcast Day. You can watch the video of this panel on YouTube, https://youtu.be/hR8fr0Hapo0, OR you c...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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55:03
German Language Ponderings with Steph from Transcontinental Overload: S6E4
In this episode, Steph Cook of Transcontinental Overload is kind enough to ponder 3 aspects of German that strike me (Geopats Steph) as strange. Her insights and humo(u)r about these differences is a sheer delight. You will never hear the Germa...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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44:21
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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1:53:43
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
A Japanese American in Japan on Language: Ken Hirano S9E4
Ken Hirano was born in Japan but his family moved to the U.S. before he started school. He returned to Japan to live a few times in his life, and now is one of them. He moved back to Tokyo about a year ago and recently (
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Season 8
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Episode 4
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42:20