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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 also a leadership coach.

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 get an international teaching job, touching on the application and hiring process; his current course load; as well as how teaching and working abroad is a great lifestyle choice, allowing for many travel opportunities and the time and space to pursue other hobbies and interests.

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 South Korea, Saudi Arabia and most recently Singapore.Alexandra Paucescu is a Romanian diplomat's wife, currently posted in Berlin. We discuss the answers to all these questions and more.

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 you're the spouse of a diplomat? Alexandra Paucescu is a Romanian diplomat's wife, currently posted in Berlin. We discuss the answers to all these questions and more.

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.

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 family to North America and be the one to travel while they stayed home. He tells us how he kept his children rooted in their Canadian and German heritage, and we begin to explore the difference between an expat and an immigrant.

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 lived outside her "home" country, Canada, for over 20 years now. In this, part 1 of our conversation, we talk about her family's time in Corfu, Greece and Cascais, Portugal, and how a sense of adventure has made every and any expat "problem" manageable.

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 inner wisdom and combined her different passions, namely art, curation and promoting African culture. And thus, Art Kelen was born.

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 City, and then move again, this time to Istanbul. Find out how her business, The StyleIST, started and how it has evolved.

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 her inspiring story with us.

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 long time.