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Let's talk stereotypes: Why where you come from affects your experience living abroad #7

• An expat or an immigrant? 
• What are the most common stereotypes you have encountered about your place of origin?
• Positive, negative, neutral stereotypes 
• Stereotypes-free...until something bad happens
• What you need to know

Like an alien in your home country: Why going home for holidays means everything else but real holidays? #6

• Home has changed, you have changed
• Life back home goes on without you 
• About reverse culture shocks...
• Can locals relate to your experience?
• Holidays back home: set some rules

Don't become the nagging expat: Is criticism towards your guest country allowed? #5

• Pointless complaints about the weather and how things are run 
• Nobody wants to be around this nagging foreigner
• Do you have any power whatsoever to change certain things?
• How much criticism is okay and welcome?

Say goodbye to your comfort zone: The great things about living abroad #4

• Check out all episodes on Spotify and follow the Exlander podcast on Instagram...
• Leaving your comfort zone changes you
• Always appreciate those little things
• Appreciate what you have learned on the expat path

Out of sight, out of mind: Losing friends and gaining new ones when settling abroad #3

• Losing friends is inevitable
• Friends and blogs...
• Can some friendships last when you move abroad?
• And how to cope with letting certain people go? 

 

Challenges of living abroad: Coping with missing your family, struggling with languages and many more #2

• How hard is it really to be away from your family and your loved ones? And what about the corona lockdown?
• Language barrier in your life as a foreigner and that ONE word!!!
• Can locals relate to certain aspects of our expat lives? 
• Once a foreigner, always a foreigner

 

Home: Where is it and how do you define it? #1

You have two homes but just one heart. What home does it then beat for? And how do you deal with all the challenges of living abroad? I discuss that and many more in the very first episode called simply: Home