The Move Abroad Coach Podcast
You didn’t start your business to stay stuck in the same city, the same routine, and the same life you’ve outgrown. You built it for freedom — and now you’re ready to take that freedom overseas. The Move Abroad Coach Podcast is your space for real, unfiltered conversations about building a business and a life you love overseas. Hosted by Richelle Gamlam, founder of Move Abroad Coach who has been living abroad for twelve years, this show blends strategy, mindset, and identity work to help you create a step-by-step freedom plan and finally make your move. Here, we don’t do generic how-to lists or heavily edited episodes. Instead, Richelle shares the coaching, stories, and practical frameworks that help coaches, freelancers, and entrepreneurs move abroad with confidence and alignment. If you’re craving deeper conversations, personalized insight, and the real behind-the-scenes of creating a freedom life, you’ll feel right at home. Come learn how to build a business that supports your freedom, create a concrete plan you can actually implement, and step into the version of you who lives a life you don’t need a vacation from.
The Move Abroad Coach Podcast
#134 Our First Month in Spain: Festival Madness, House Hunting, and Internet Woes
We’ve officially survived our first month in Spain — and it’s been a ride. From arriving in the middle of August (rookie mistake!) to diving straight into Feria festivities, navigating house hunting, and dealing with Spanish red tape, it feels like we’ve lived a year in just a few weeks.
In this episode, Chris and I share our first impressions of life in Spain: what we love, what’s been hard, and whether we think we made the right move. Spoiler: it’s complicated.
We cover:
- Landing during festival season and what that was like
- The chaos of house hunting in August (and what it takes to actually sign a lease here)
- Settling into a new home with a few… surprises left behind
- Navigating childcare, babysitters, and daycare in Spain
- Internet, phones, and banking struggles (hello, NIE paperwork)
- Grocery shopping, clothing sizes, and the quirks of Spanish shopping habits
- Healthcare wins, from pediatricians to vaccines
- Making friends, going to meetups, and getting invited to birthday parties
We wrap up with some fun rapid-fire takes: our favorite moment so far, the lowest low, and our biggest “WTF?!” moment since moving.
It’s been messy, exciting, and sometimes overwhelming — but we’re starting to feel like this is home.
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Love this Episode? What to Listen to Next:
- #128 We Moved To Spain: The Journey From Georgia To Malaga
- #132 Moving Abroad Alone, With a Partner, or With Kids: Which Is Actually Harder?
- #119 Valencia, Málaga, or Chania? We Made Our Choice (and We’re Spilling Everything)
- #104 My Biggest Move Abroad Disaster: I Moved to Tanzania… and Hated It