The Finding Blyss Podcast

Lys Kooistra - Mehou-Loko

Welcome to The Finding Blyss Podcast, also known as Thoughts From Between Places, a space for people who live between cultures and continents and want more intelligent storytelling about the world we live in, particularly looking at the ways the West views the ‘Rest of World’. Each episode brings together personal journeys, global perspectives, and insights that offer the other side of the stories we’re told, which I call ‘alternarratives’. This isn’t another “travel” or “culture” podcast. It’s a show for the globally curious.

Episodes

  1. 08/17/2025

    Episode 2: Home in heritage

    In the second episode, we explore the ways the diaspora creates home in heritage and how that creates new forms of hybrid belonging.

    22 min

  2. 07/30/2025

    Episode 1 - Not all those who are lost are wandering

    Summer travel is often romanticized. But what about the kind of travel that doesn’t end? In this opening episode, host Lys explores what it means to live away from where you were born and the quiet, often invisible strength it takes to remake a life elsewhere. From aesthetic escapes to acts of survival, we draw a line between vacation and migration, wanderlust and diaspora. Through personal reflection and cultural critique, this episode invites you to see migration not as loss but as layered, resilient design. Topics explored: - The emotional labor of living abroad - Travel vs. migration: who gets to move freely? - Diaspora as adaptation, not absence - Loneliness, performance, and the cost of a “better life” This episode is for the quiet border crossers. The cultural shapeshifters. The ones building home where none existed. You are not lost, you are layered. #TheFindingBlyssPodcast

    24 min
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Welcome to The Finding Blyss Podcast, also known as Thoughts From Between Places, a space for people who live between cultures and continents and want more intelligent storytelling about the world we live in, particularly looking at the ways the West views the ‘Rest of World’. Each episode brings together personal journeys, global perspectives, and insights that offer the other side of the stories we’re told, which I call ‘alternarratives’. This isn’t another “travel” or “culture” podcast. It’s a show for the globally curious.

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  • Creator
    Lys Kooistra - Mehou-Loko
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Lys Kooistra - Mehou-Loko
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    The Finding Blyss Podcast