Meet the Expats Meet the Expats

Meet Fred,



TCK and former expat, after traveling the world for work, staying in hotels and short term rentals, he settles back in Paris and enters the real estate industry: this is the premises of Coco. 

In this episode he shares how he founded  Coco Living with the wish of reinventing life in the city of Paris. Coco offers furnished apartment rentals, access to co-working spaces and events to create meaningful connections between internationals. Socialize with like-minded entrepreneurs and creatives in Paris!



Try his favorite places

🥩 Le Dauphin



💃 Bonnie for a  full night out with the best views of Paris



The expat song Puisque tu pars , Jean-Jaques Goldman



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Meet Dian,



Dian was a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where she contributed to the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize–winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 🌱

After her early retirement, she decided to live the adventure abroad with her husband as english teachers. Little did they know they would end up in Thailand teaching kindergarten children! 🐥



In this episode, she shares how she approached life abroad at 60, adjusted to an entirely new work environment, to say the least, and navigated her life back in the US a year later, publishing her memoir: Kindergarten at 60  📗



Her recommendations are:


Adam cafe for refreshing drinks and AC
Paii restaurant in Bangkok 

🎵 And her mediation song breathing in, breathing out  

Meet Susan,



Irish expat in France for decades, Susan tells us how a love story turned her vacation in Paris into a lifetime in France ❤️ Having spent the different stages of her life abroad, she shares how she went from party Susan to motherhood and how that impacted her social life but also how drinking became a form of self-care. She gives us practical tips to be aware of our drinking habits, especially when abroad in cultures that put drinking at the center of social interactions and how to find both yourself and the tribe that fits you.



Paris recommendations:

- Au petit fer à cheval traditional café restaurant in the center of the Marais

- Le paon qui boit: sober drinks store



Song: Me too  by Megan Trainor



Find Susan at: https://www.sharpsensecoaching.com/ 

Meet Giulia,



Italian young woman, who after a first experience in India and in Colombia, decided Italy would not be for the rest of her life. So with her husband, they planned their escape together, and landed on the US early this year.

In this episode, Giulia shares how for once in her life she has no plan and is letting herself live and adapt, her culture shocks and how she is growing in this new culture.



Follow her adventures on her Youtube Channel The Unplaned Project  and try her recommendations

- Restaurant Palo for Spanish food

- Groceries: Wholefoods for organic food and Trader Joe for international



Her song sang by her husband Iris  



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Meet Gal and Mayan 🍉

Two sisters who grew up in constant change back and forth between Israel and France and embraced this change early on, making it a part of their lifestyle and live by the motto: see everything as an opportunity, make things happen! 💪

After multiple moves throughout their adult life, they are now both settled in Paris, and running Smoozitive together, helping women live their best life abroad.





Recommendations

🍺 Pub Saint Germain  

🍕 Pasta fresco to get a ta ste of Italy 

🍃 île de la Cité for a meditative walk

Song: Look for the good by Jason Mraz 



To learn more about them check out their website  

Meet Andrea,



From Northern Ireland, at the early age of 21, without knowing anything about the UAE, she flew off to become an air hostess at Emirates ✈️ from there, she kept on traveling and living in new countries in the UAE, but also in the US with a husband and child this time, in Australia, Japan. She is now recently back in the UK, much closer to home, but perhaps this is the most challenging move. We discover that the challenges can sometimes be things that we don't necessarily think about at first, like just having to drive everywhere can block your independence.



Close to Cambridge, she shares her recommendations:

🍺 The Punter Pub 

🍔 Honest burger  

🧘‍♀️ Banatyne gym for  yoga and bodypump



and her song, Desert Rose  by Sting to dream of the Dubaî deserts