Podcast

EPISODE 23 March 23, 2022   Parisian-born Isabelle is a marine scientist, and a classically trained homeopath. She’s also one of the women I interviewed back in 2018 for my book, Women Who Walk: How 20 Women From 16 Countries Came to Live in Portugal. Since then, she has moved from Portugal to Spain, and

EPISODE 22 March 9, 2022   Montse Oliver was born in the late ’60s in a town near Barcelona where she says, “I had a standard suburban childhood without any international glimpse whatsoever.” By the late ’80s she was juggling a career in finance, two small children, and when her husband’s job relocated to the

EPISODE 21 February 23, 2022   Originally from Glasgow, Scotland, Doreen Cumberford has been an expat for over 40 years. She has moved 37 times living in eight countries on four continents – plus the country moves she and her husband have made more recently as international housesitters! She worked for the British Foreign and

EPISODE 20 February 9, 2022   Sally Cronin was born in the UK in the early ’50s, but from the tender age of 18 months, she began what has been a lifelong nomadic existence living in eight countries, including Sri Lanka, Malta, South Africa, the US, Belgium and Spain before settling in 2016 with her

EPISODE 19 December 22, 2021   In 1985, Jill Henry joined the Australian Federal Police and over the next 15 years, while based in Sydney, her work involved general crime, drug seizures and fraud cases. Dissatisfied with ‘plain clothes’ policing, she applied for overseas peacekeeping roles and was offered a post in East Timor with

EPISODE 18 December 8, 2021   Born in 1983 in the tiny country of Moldova, which at the time was still a part of the Soviet Union, Inna was in primary school when in 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed. Because she attended a school where classes were taught in a number of languages, she went

EPISODE 17 November 24, 2021   Equipped with a law degree, an internship from the BBC White City in TV script writing and film production, plus certification as an ESL teacher, and still only in her 20s, Zoe Popham headed for Thailand for adventure, and to teach English. Serendipitously, she knew an English guy working

EPISODE 16 November 4, 2021   In this episode, I have a kitchen-table style conversation with German-born, wise elder, Ingrid Bloser Martins. Ingrid is my neighbor in Estoril, Portugal, and she is someone I’ve come to know over the years as a woman whose diverse cultural experiences have afforded her a unique perspective. Our conversation

EPISODE 15 October 21, 2021   With a BA from Sotheby’s Institute of Art and an MA in Dutch Baroque Art from London’s Courtauld Institute of Art, in 2013, Mariska Beekenkamp-Wladimiroff founded, Art Historical London, offering art lectures, courses, tours, travel and events from London. Over the years, she expanded to events in New York

EPISODE 14 October 6, 2021   Originally from New York City, Berne Weiss moved from California to Central Europe following the 1989 Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. An activist, Berne is also a Quaker, working for peace and social justice. Now in her late 70s, her stories of coming of age during the cultural revolution of

EPISODE 13 September 23, 2021   I first heard Aparna Aurora speak on a Women in Business panel at the annual Lisbon Web Summit, Europe’s most influential tech event, which will be live once again November 1-4, 2021. Aparna talked to a largely millennial and female audience about growing Chutnify, her Indian restaurant from its inception as

EPISODE 12 September 9, 2021   Sandhya is one of the women whose story appears in my book, Women Who Walk. She talks of a happy childhood growing up in the immigrant Indian community of Mozambique, where she was born. When Mozambique gained independence from Portugal in the mid-70s, escalating civil unrest caused her parents