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Two Fat Expats Kirsty Rice and Nikki Moffitt
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Kirsty Rice and Nikki Moffit have over twenty years of expat life experience having lived in ten countries (and given birth in six of those). Libya, Jakarta, Hong Kong, the US, Kuala Lumpur...the list goes on. They answer the curly questions on expat life and throw in the ocassional expat interview to get an insight into expat life.
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Expats – The Series
This week we discuss Expats the television series based in Hong Kong. The series is adapted from the novel The Expatriates written by Janice Y.K. Lee.
Nikki is 6 months in with her repatriation and has a very honest chat about being friendless and miserable.
Our favourite things:
Tiny Beautiful Things
American Fiction
Past Lives
Taylor Swift The Eras Tour
One Day
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How much money will I need?
What is a good salary in Doha? London? Jakarta? We’ve all seen the questions based on how much money you need to make to survive, today we have a new question. What’s been the biggest cost you didn’t foresee when you moved? What did you forget to factor in?
We also talk about the grieving expat. Going through grief when no-one understands the enormity of your loss. How do we cope with losing expat friends when we’ve moved on to a new location?
Favourite things:
Kirsty:
We talk Robbie Williams, Last Stop Larrimah, and Glen Maxwell’s iconic cricket innings.
Nikki:
Bosch Legacy – Season 2, Hard Fork (podcast), and a little story about lost in translation
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The Trailing Spouse is Dead
The Trailing Spouse is dead – this week on the podcast we talk about why the “Accompanying Spouse” has arrived. I mean the Accompanying Spouse was always a better term wasn’t it? We all walk side by side don’t we? Sidenote – the term Trailing Spouse will no longer be used in the Two Fat Expats Facebook Group with Accompanying Spouse being the preferred term.
We’re also talking Posh and Becks and how no matter how much money you have or how many football teams you own you’re still going to lay awake at night thinking of schools, finding a hairdresser, finding new friends and feeling like a fish out of water.
We also discuss dealing with strong opinions on your host country from people who’ve never lived there. Has social media made it worse?
Kirsty’s three favourite things:
Somewhere in Queens (Movie)
Blackberry (Movie – Amazon Prime)
The Morning Wars/The Morning Show – Season 3
Nikki’s three favourite things:
Nikki also loved Beckham
Silo (television – apple tv)
Getting a giggle from the silent walking trend aka walking -
Should I go home?
This week on the podcast we answer a question from the Fatterati’s “Should I go home?” We also discuss the complications of re-acquainting yourself with old friends after repatriation.
Kirsty’s three favourite things:
Exposed (podcast)
Deadloch (television)
Travis and Taylor and everything EVERYTHING about them
Ange Postecoglou and The Tottenham Spurs
Nikki’s three favourite things:
Sex Education Season Four (television)
The Newsreader Season Two (television)
Wilderness (television)
What are you watching and listening to? Are Travis and Taylor the content you didn’t know you needed? What do you think of the social media trend “Taylor put Travis on the map”. How’s life where you are? Link in the comments. -
Repatriation – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Cry
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Nikki has repatriated and she’s yet to make a new friend BUT it’s not all bad because she’s living in paradise AND she’s discovered her new favourite drink (a gin mule).
This week on the podcast we’re talking repatriation, the good, the bad and the ugly cry.
Kirsty’s three favourite things:
The Girlfriends (Podcast)
What’s love got to do with it (film)
Matidlas (Disney + Doco)
And I know I said three favourite things but I had to mention Wham! (Doco)
Nikki’s favourite three things:
Scamanda (Podcast)
You (television)
The Summer I turned Pretty (television) -
When do you spill the beans that you’re moving? Long term postings or always on the move which one are you?
This was Nikki’s very last podcast before she repatriated.
Klantrecensies
A podcast for international understanding
I’ve followed this podcast for years now, from the very first beginnings as I was already a big fan of Kirsty Rice’s blog ‘4 kids, 20 suitcases and a beagle’. Since I missed hearing my own Aussie friend’s voice so much after she returned to Melbourne, I was hooked from the get go. But not only Kirsty’s and at the time Sarah’s, later also Nikki’s voices draw me in, they literally went and talked about everything life as an expat and repat have to offer: the good, the bad, and the ugly, and they and their personal lives are so much like their listeners’, and to listen to them is a bit of a refuge, during one of the many pick up drives, waits, doing housework or walking dogs, planning our days. They are smart, fun and thoughtful, and come across as very strong women, and of course one of our international school sports trips took me and Nikki to the same NECIS tournament so I got to meet her in person, so I know they’re REAL, which is something you find out easily enough when you listen to them talking. You’re not just listening, you and other listeners get the chance to be part of the conversation, either through interviews, online comments and with their Facebook live sessions. Their Facebook group is the most important resource for those needing information on how to expat/repatriate in all of its forms, and the community is an amazing hive of knowledge and experience.
Fantastic!
Listening to this podcast and belonging to the facebook group has been a fantastic experience. I have been an expat for a long time, in four different countries and my husband and I are raising three similarly rootless children. The sense of community that these ladies have created, it’s truly special. I recommend it for anyone living away from ‘home’, anyone who is related to anyone living as an ‘expat’ (mothers and mothers in law all over the world, I’m looking at you!) and anyone who knows anyone who has even moved to the next suburb. That just about covers everyone. I am a huge fan. Keep it up x