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  • ABOUT ME
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Redefining Abundance: A Thirteen-year Journey

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It’s Me, Not You: The Mindfulness Habit That Has Made Me Happier and Nicer

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Forest street after snowfall

The Snowstorm: How a Scarf in a Snowstorm Warmed More than Just Our Bodies

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Episode 13: Becoming British

Can living in a foreign country change your personality? Can cultural misunderstandings be avoided?Fiorenza Rossini is French and Turkish, grew up in Italy, and now lives in the UK. She is…
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Episode 12: The International Teacher – An American in Dubai

Is teaching abroad a good way to travel? Andy LaRaia is an American high school English teacher currently working in Dubai. Before that, he taught in Istanbul for 9 years. We discuss how to…
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How to Eat Loquat, or Japanese Plums in Turkey

It happened again! My husband came home with a LARGE quantity of something … leaving me to figure out how not to let it go to waste! What will I do with all these loquats? This fruit of…
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Episode 11: Teaching Internationally – From ESL to K-12 International School

How do you become an international teacher? Is teaching a good way to travel? Should you teach ESL or work in an international school as a home-country certified teacher?Josh has worked in…
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Episode 10: Not Just a Diplomatic Spouse – A Romanian in Berlin

How do you find "home" when you move every few years? How do you make friends in a new place? How do you maintain long distance friendships? What is the diplomatic life like? Especially if…
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Episode 9: The Cultural Chameleon – Ethnicity & Cultural Identity

What happens when a first-generation American goes abroad? Asra Ghori and I talk about her years in Istanbul, Turkey as an expat, and how the experience shifted her identity as a South Asian.
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Canning Tomatoes in Turkey

What to do with your summer tomatoes? I can a small batch of tomatoes from my garden in southern Turkey and show you how I capture this abundance for the winter.
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Episode 8: The Career Expat – From Montreal to Venezuela, Germany to D.C.

Is the expat life for everyone? Alexander Keyserlingk and I talk about his first expat posting with Price Waterhouse in Venezuela and later Germany, and why he decided to return with his…
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Episode 6&7: A Sense of Adventure – a Canadian in Portugal & Keeping Your (Canadian) Expat Kids Rooted – a Canadian Leaves Portugal

What do you do when nothing about your foreign posting turns out as planned? If you're Ginnelle Elliott, you embrace unexpected housing and schooling situations as challenges. Ginnelle has…
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Episode 5: Promoting African Art in Istanbul

When Daffa Konaté's husband was posted to Istanbul, she knew she didn't want to stop working. She may have left a career in Paris, but her entrepreneurial spirit took over. She listened to her…
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Episode 3&4: Starting A Business in Turkey & Raising Bicultural (American-Turkish) Kids in Turkey

Not only did Chrissy Güleç start her dream business, but she did it while living in a foreign country! Chrissy and I talk about how she came to leave the American Midwest, move to New York…
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Episode 2: Family Gap Year in Spain

Can you imagine just packing up your home, pulling your kids out of school, saying goodbye to the city you call home, and moving overseas? Lisa Kisch has done just that, and now she's sharing…
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Episode 1: Redefining Home – A Chilean-Canadian Finds Home in Turkey

When does a foreign country become "home?" Mauricio Araya and I discuss how one's definition of "home" changes when living abroad, especially when you've been living in your host country for a…
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Redefining Abundance: A Thirteen-year Journey

The flat of plump purple fruit stares at me from its inclined position on the familiar shelves of Harvest Wagon in Toronto’s tony Rosedale neighbourhood. It wasn’t there yesterday and seems to…
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It’s Me, Not You: The Mindfulness Habit That Has Made Me Happier and Nicer

My next door neighbour stands in his doorway with a proud grin on his face while my two youngest sons put on their shoes. I’ve come to take them home, where their older brother, their father…
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The Snowstorm: How a Scarf in a Snowstorm Warmed More than Just Our Bodies

The winter storm caught us completely off guard. We’d taken the York Region Transit and then the subway into Toronto the day before and had spent the night at my brother’s house. It had been…
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