Rooted and Routed Podcast
Rooted & Routed is a podcast built on human stories and lived experience from lives shaped by global mobility.
Hosted by Sabiya Pathan Withoeck, the podcast explores identity, belonging, and the real human impact of living between cultures, countries, and systems.
Through thoughtful, unfiltered conversations, Rooted & Routed brings forward voices shaped by cross-border lives, including expats, returnees, diplomats, leaders, founders, educators, parents, and third-culture individuals.
This is not a podcast about relocation checklists or surface-level expat stories. It is a space for real conversations that help listeners make sense of what global lives demand — emotionally, structurally, and personally, and what they quietly produce in return: empathy, adaptability, judgment, and perspective.
Across episodes, the podcast examines lived experience alongside the systems and ecosystems that surround global mobility; from work, education, and leadership to policy, culture, and family life, without losing the human lens.
Rooted & Routed is for anyone navigating life between worlds, and for those building, leading, or supporting global mobility ecosystems who want a deeper understanding grounded in real lives, not abstractions.
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Rooted and Routed Podcast
Latest Episodes
The Expat Feels Home. The Local Feels Foreign. | Dieter Withoeck | #Belgium #India
What happens when the local feels like the outsider, and the foreigner feels at home?In this episode of Rooted and Routed, Sabiya sits down with Dieter Withoeck, her husband, a Belgian who has lived in India for nearly two decades, and a...
Performed Authenticity, Brave Brands & Starting Over | KETAKI TANAJI GOLATKAR, GOOD DAY PR | Pt 2
Visibility without values is just noise.Ketaki Tanaji Golatkar returns for Part 2 of our conversation on Rooted and Routed — and this time, the lens turns from identity and belonging to the work itself. After 21 years across global comm...
Indo-German DIPLOMACY to Pro KABADDI to ICC: KETAKI TANAJI GOLATKAR on Building Her Own GOOD DAY PR
Ketaki Tanaji Golatkar is a global communications leader, a DEI advocate, and the founder of GoodDay PR and Strategic Communications. She has worked across agencies in Bombay and London, led a diplomatic project on Indo-German relations, and sp...
From Expat to Repat — What Nobody Tells You | Marie Truchassou | Rooted and Routed S3 E2 Part 2
Marie Truchassou is a global mobility HR consultant, founder of My Expat Compass and Forwards International HR, and one of only two people in France to hold both the GPHR and SPHRi certifications in international HR. In Part 2 of this conversat...
Inside the Human Side of Expat Assignments in India, with Marie Truchassou | Part 1
Marie Truchassou is a global mobility HR consultant who lived and worked as an expat in India — before becoming the person advising organisations on how to do it right.French, countryside-raised, she packed up her life and moved to Indi...
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