House of Peregrine: The Global Life Podcast

Move abroad and everything shifts — your roles, your routines, your sense of self. And sometimes, without noticing, you and your partner start relating like teammates in logistics instead of lovers in the same story.

Mickelle sits down with Wiebke Anton — relationship coach, mediator, and author of The Relationship Reboot — for a grounded, practical conversation on staying close through the pressures of globally mo...

Some of moving abroad photographs beautifully; the rest lives underneath, the grief, the pressure to make it worth it, the way one parent's stress becomes the emotional weather of the whole home. Mickelle welcomes back Dr. Katja Aegerter - psychologist, researcher, and self-described serial expatriate - whose work names what globally mobile families rarely say aloud.

Across nearly ten countries and two third culture kids of her own,...

What does it really take to feel at home somewhere new,  long after the passports and paperwork are sorted?

In this episode, Mickelle sits down with Yolanda Reshemah, storyteller and host of The Places We Call Home, for a tender, honest conversation about the inner life of moving abroad. Born in the Caribbean, raised in England, shaped by years in France and now settled in Northern California, Yolanda has relocated six times an...

We're taught that children are sponges, that if you move abroad, they'll simply absorb the new language and everything will be fine. Maria "Mimi" Potvin, linguist and founder of Growing Up Multilingual, is here with a fuller, more honest story.

Mimi joins Mickelle to talk about the part of multilingual life no one prepares you for: not how children gain a language, but what happens when a home language quietly begins to slip away&nb...

When does moving abroad stop feeling like something to prove and start feeling like home? For Claire Naughton, that answer is still unfolding. Eight years into life in France,  a path that wound through New Zealand, South America, and a chance meeting in Peru,  she joins Mickelle to talk about building a business, and a self, in a country that isn't quite yours.

Claire calls herself a "freestyling marketer," helping intern...

Part of the House of Peregrine Summer Series,  shorter clips drawn from our favourite episodes, for those in-between moments when you want wisdom without the full sit-down.

In this clip, depth psychotherapist and author Vanessa Bennett, of The Motherhood Myth and the Cheaper Than Therapy podcast, unpacks one of the most quietly corrosive patterns in our relationships: codependence. Her definition is disarmingly simple,  "i...

Part of the House of Peregrine Summer Series, shorter clips drawn from our favourite episodes, for those in-between moments when you want wisdom without the full sit-down.

In this clip, Move to Europe visa expert Travis Drews -  founder of the Global Citizen Hub - dismantles the biggest myth about moving abroad: that you need a corporate transfer or a backpacker's freedom to do it. The truth is there are far more legal routes t...

Part of the House of Peregrine Summer Series,  shorter clips drawn from our favourite episodes, for those in-between moments when you want wisdom without the full sit-down.

In this clip, House of Peregrine founder Mickelle Weber shares the heart of her TEDx talk, the story of a single moment in a minivan that changed everything she thought she knew about fairness, family, and financial safety. What began as unexplained anger be...

Part of the House of Peregrine Summer Series - shorter clips drawn from our favourite episodes, for those in-between moments when you want wisdom without the full sit-down.

In this clip, parenting coach Maria Bordallo, known to her clients as Mama Maria, explores a truth that catches so many people who've built a life abroad off guard: everything feels fine until you go home. Because your nervous system speaks the native tongue of t...

Part of the House of Peregrine Summer Series — shorter clips drawn from our favourite episodes, for those in-between moments when you want wisdom without the full sit-down.

In this clip, financial strategist Alex Ingrim, founder of Liberty Atlantic, unpacks a deceptively simple idea: your "financial backpack" — everything you carry from one country to the next, and how it changes the moment you cross a border. Mickelle a...

Part of the House of Peregrine Summer Series — shorter clips drawn from our favourite episodes, for those in-between moments when you want wisdom without the full sit-down.

In this clip, Third Culture Kid turned therapist and writer Dr. Rachel Cason explores what it means to grow up between worlds — and the quiet, lifelong work of making sense of who we become. Mickelle and Rachel unpack why so many globally shaped peopl...

Part of the House of Peregrine Summer Series,  shorter clips drawn from our favourite episodes, for those in-between moments when you want wisdom without the full sit-down.

In this clip, international divorce lawyer and mediator Magali van Maanen reveals a truth that catches most cross-border couples completely off guard: when you build a life abroad, the rules you assumed would protect you may not apply at all. Mickelle and Ma...

What does burnout actually feel like in your body and why does our culture keep getting it so wrong? This is one of our favourite House of Peregrine episodes, brought to you as part of our Summer Series - shorter clips from the conversations we keep coming back to. Mickelle sits down with somatic empowerment coach Alicia Ingruber for a conversation that is equal parts science and soul. Alicia rebuilt her life after a two-year burno...

Sam Frearson Tubito returns to House of Peregrine for a deeply reflective conversation on home, identity, motherhood, and the beautiful complexity of a life lived across borders. In Episode 52, Mickelle and Sam explored what it means to create stability inside movement. This time, Sam returns with her memoir, Beneath a Borrowed Sky: A Woman’s Search for the True Meaning of Home, a tender and honest account of belonging, famil...

Melissa Parks, Ph.D. joins Mickelle for a conversation about what life abroad really asks of us, beneath the logistics, beneath the highlight reel. Melissa shares how a devastating breakup in Spain became a turning point: not just the loss of a partner, but a “compound grief” that included home, visa security, community, and identity. Together, they name what so many Peregrines feel but rarely articulate: when you live ...

Michel Bauwens—founder of the P2P Foundation—joins Mickelle Weber for a wide-angle, grounded conversation on what happens when the systems we inherited (market vs. state) stop matching the world we’re living in. Michel argues we’re in a civilizational transition accelerated by the internet’s ability to enable “translocal self-organization”: people coordinating, building, and sharing value a...

In this episode, Mickelle sits down with Jewel Mondros of Jewel Mondros, Energetic Consultant, intuitive healer, and frequency guide to explore what happens when you can feel you’re changing, but can’t quite name it yet. Jewel shares her own peregrine path, years living across Europe, learning tarot while feeling untethered abroad, and ultimately channeling her work (and her oracle deck) during a liminal season before m...

In this episode, Mickelle sits down with Ana Herrero-Wallace of Ada Invest, former US‑licensed equities trader, investor, and author of Still Thinking? Act. - to talk about building wealth with calm confidence, especially when your life (and residency) spans multiple countries.

Ana shares her Peregrine path from Madrid to the US, Budapest, London, and eventually Amsterdam and how moving to a partner’s home country can require ...

In this episode of the House of Peregrine Podcast, we’re talking about one of the most tender realities of international life: loving your people well when they live an ocean away. Host Mickelle sits down with Helen Ellis, M.A., New Zealand–based researcher, author, and anthropologist, and founder of DistanceFamilies.com—a longtime practitioner of distance parenting and grandparenting with family spread across the...