Andrea Holm Podcast Andrea Holm

In this episode, Juan talks about some of the biggest cultural differences he experienced after moving to California from Spain with his wife and three young daughters. He talks about the work culture, the cheerleading culture, and language difficulties like pronouncing words that have an R before an L.
For anyone considering a similar intercontinental move, Juan's insights and experiences will surely be of interest to you.

He has spent over 30 years traveling the globe as a photographer, videographer and all around adventurer. He has given his version of travel the title "The paradisal irresponsibility of getting lost", and talks about how we all have our little disasters when it comes to living life. Manuel has a way of putting his passion into photos, videos and words, something that is more than evident in his chat with me today!
I hope you enjoy the chat as much as I did.

In this episode, Rabya Hassen and I chat about her move from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Minneapolis, Minnesota in the US. She speaks about the difficulty of adapting to the weather, her first experiences with US racism, creating a chosen family and the complications of going back "home". We both muse over the concept of a culture of instant gratification and how it can breed anxiety, and how sometimes convenience goes too far.

Yemen was Emily Walker's first destination but there was so much to come after that. Emily has been living abroad for over a decade, with Spain, Israel, Morocco, and Algiers added to the list of countries so far.
Here she talks about her experiences with hammams, the cultural aspect of nudity, the three-year sweet spot, and why she plans to continue working for the U.S. Embassy and experience new and interesting adventures while representing the United States.

Jenny Holm and I talk about our names, feeling boring, and cultural curiosities associated with living abroad in Russia, Lithuania, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Spain (to name a few).

In this episode, I once again sit down with Jesus Sierra to explore communication in general.
We talk about whether people even know if they are good or poor communicators. We also discuss interruptions can be a vice, and/or useful, depending on the situation. We talk about written versus spoken communication, the importance of recognizing