Have you ever gone back to a place that you struggled being in the first time? Would you ever? Our guest in this episode is my dear friend Miicher and she did just that. The first time we chatted in December 2018 on Geopats Reflections we were both living in Shanghai, China. If I am honest, we were both ready to leave. However, after returning to Florida, USA, she had a change of mind and went back to China this Fall. I don't want to spoil what led her to this decision, what she's doing there or any other juicy details because she tells her story way better than I ever could. So have a listen to Miicher fill us in on what's happened for her over the past 2 years AND what she thinks of her 2018 China expat self in this reflective conversation. 

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​This is a replay from our Geopats NaPodPoMo, National Podcast Posting Month, from November 2020. You can listen to all of the episodes from last month here: https://www.stephfuccio.com/napodpomo OR by searching for "Geopats NaPodPoMo" on your podcast app.
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This episode is really special for me. Last month for NaPodPoMo I had the extreme pleasure of chatting with Damon Castillo for this episode. Yes, THE Damon Castillo of the Mess of Me album that we've been using for the past 2 years in all of the Geopats Podcast Network shows. We talk about the longevity of the Damon Castillo Band, his geopatness, my favorite song on the Mess of Me Album (Saint Cecilia), his recording studio in San Luis Obispo, what music he listens to and some creative struggles. 
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This is a replay from our Geopats NaPodPoMo, National Podcast Posting Month, from November 2020. You can listen to all of the episodes from last month here: https://www.stephfuccio.com/napodpomo OR by searching for "Geopats NaPodPoMo" on your podcast app. 

Get ready for a double reflection in today's episode! Repeat Guest from a number of the Geopats Podcast Network podcasts, Shannon Martin, reflects back on her Geopats Reflections episode from June 2018. In that conversation, she read some blog posts from when she first moved to Shanghai, China. Now, in late 2020, Shannon shares her current geographic location (it's changed twice since China!) and her thoughts on that original episode/conversation we had when we were both in Shanghai in 2018.
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Would love to hear from you! Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn  & you can even leave a voice message on Speakpipe.

​This is a replay from our Geopats NaPodPoMo, National Podcast Posting Month, from November 2020. You can listen to all of the episodes from last month here: https://www.stephfuccio.com/napodpomo OR by searching for "Geopats NaPodPoMo" on your podcast app.
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​In this episode we chat with Expat Mo from the More Sibyl Podcast. She describes this show as “a podcast about culture and cultural nomads designed for Blacks and Asians and those who love them.” Mo is a Nigerian-born, US-educated, Korean-speaking, Struggling Intellectual.

This week we expat chat with first time expat, Miicher, a Florida, US native who decided it was time for a change. Miicher is a teacher, an actor, a mom and a natural storyteller, which explains why her Facebook China Chronicles , where she has been sharing her experiences in Shanghai, China, have become such a hit. Usually in Expat Rewind we chat with expats after their first year but we thought it would be fun to do a preview episode with Miicher during her first year and then reflect back on this episode after she reaches that milestone. She arrived in Shanghai in August 2018 so look out for the second part of this interview in August 2019. ​

This week we expat chat with Hannah Lund, who is magnetic, funny and thinky. Her geographic trajectory includes her home state of Minnesota and a quiet town in Iowa in the U.S., Paris, France and Hangzhou, China. In 2012 it was a mystical story involving a character called Madame White Snake, set in Hangzhou, which was the inspiration for this move to China but Hannah soon found out there were so many more unexpected surprises that would come from this experience. After 6 years in Hangzhou she moved up to Shanghai, which seemed like an apt time to look back at that first year in China in this podcast episode. She uses her short story, “In Search of White Snake”, from the May 2018 edition of Concrete, The Shanghai Literary Review’s revered publication.

​Originally from the UK, Karl discusses how he found himself in Denmark, the experiences of his first year and how music helped him to feel at home in his adopted country. He chose The National’s “Trouble Will Find Me” album from 2013 as a jumping off point to discuss the ups and downs of his transition into expat life in Denmark. In the interview Karl briefly mentions his current studies and internship at Sleeknote,which “helps small e-commerce shops and big online retails engage website visitors—without hurting the user experience” and he wanted to share this Sleeknote scholarship with all of you. Thank you for spreading the word about this wonderful opportunity.

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Pia and her family just recently left Shanghai, China after living here for two years. I have met some active expats in my life but Pia takes the cake on really living life the fullest. She explored China, worked and volunteered locally, all while raising two intelligent and worldly daughters. How did moving to the U.S. a few years ago help her to make this transition to living in China? Come have a listen to the answer to that question and more as we explore a blog of hers from this time period.  ​

Many of us are promised things growing up in a certain culture and often those promises are never actualized. Jennifer is an American who had been to over 70 countries before moving to China to teach at an international school but that did not stop this home country disappointment from kicking in. In this episode she reads a poem that she wrote a bit after her first year in China to her father about these cultural promises. And as we often do in Expat Rewind, we spend quite a while unpacking what this poem and the frustration in it means to her now, what has changed since she wrote it and so much more.

Ex-chef and perpetual expat Alison takes us through her Instagram feed from her first year in Thailand: freedom, an explosion of her senses and moments of cultural pause are audio enclosed, proceed with caution and contemplation. ​