Expat Empire Podcast
Wanting to live abroad but not sure how to make it a reality? Searching for your next international destination? The Expat Empire Podcast is the podcast for you! Listen to interviews with current and past expats, digital nomads, and travelers to gain the knowledge and confidence to go abroad for your first or your tenth time. Learn more at expatempire.com!
Episodes
June 9, 2022 • 33 mins
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Gerri Detweiler. Gerri is no stranger to traveling. She traveled to Canada, Japan, and Haiti through various exchange and outreach programs all before leaving high school. As this was before the Internet became widely available, the resulting culture shock enabled Gerri to fully immerse herself in these diverse cultures and develop a passion for travel.
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May 27, 2022 • 37 mins
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Maxwell Lee. Maxwell, a native of Northeast Florida, spent much of his earlier years pursuing his musical career. He met his wife while traveling in the US and they have since had two beautiful children together.
Maxwell and his wife soon ventured into real estate investing and started flipping houses, rehabilitating properties, and investing in long-term holds....
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May 13, 2022 • 40 mins
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Paul Kennedy. Paul’s expat journey began after vacationing in Greece with friends. This 10-day sailing vacation became the starting point of Paul’s travels around the world. Despite not fully grasping the importance of visas when he began his journey, his no-stress beliefs helped him to navigate the otherwise chaotic setbacks that are typical with travel.
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April 28, 2022 • 39 mins
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Andrew Venture. Leaving his native New Zealand for Australia at 17, Andrew is no stranger to making bold moves when it comes to travel. After completing university, he led an illustrious corporate career in the engineering field for 18 years. With his employer's restructuring on the horizon, Andrew once again made the bold move to set off on a new adventure.
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April 14, 2022 • 38 mins
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Katheen Lo. Born in Southern California, Kathleen's earliest experience of being an expat was at the tender age of five when her family moved to Manila, Philippines. After university, Kathleen returned to the San Francisco Bay Area where she worked in product design.
Following the footsteps of her family, Kathleen and her husband made the bold move to become ent...
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March 31, 2022 • 42 mins
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Anne Claessen. Anne had always thought she would become a lawyer, but after finishing her schooling, she realized it wasn't the path that she wanted to follow. She traveled full-time for two years while trying to figure out what she wanted to do with her career and eventually discovered the world of podcast management. She started as a freelancer and then moved to...
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March 17, 2022 • 38 mins
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Ülane Vilumets. Ülane is from Estonia and created her first company in the country when she was 23 years old. She was building her Baltic tours and travel platform businesses for several years before the pandemic hit and she had to think about what she wanted to do next. With her love for international travel and meeting people from around the world, it was a perf...
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March 4, 2022 • 54 mins
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Al Elliott. Al and his wife Leanne were living comfortably in Manchester, England but couldn't shake the feeling that they wanted to see more of the world. Al's work could be done all online while Leanne's employer ultimately agreed to letting her continue to do her job remotely, so they set off for Spain in 2013. Once they knew Brexit was coming in 2021, they dec...
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February 17, 2022 • 48 mins
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Travis King. Travis followed the standard life path to grad school in the US until he was 27 years old when he realized he had never made a decision for his life, only for his resume. He soon bought a one-way ticket to South America and traveled around the world for over 9 years. Though the pandemic changed his travel plans, he has been living in Mexico with his p...
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February 3, 2022 • 63 mins
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Peter Kersting. Peter had many experiences with foreign students in his formative years growing up in Napa Valley in California, which made him interested in experiencing life outside of the United States. He studied abroad in the Netherlands for a semester during university and learned a lot from the experience.
Hoping to go abroad again after graduating fro...
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January 20, 2022 • 49 mins
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Dinasha Cellura. After building an impressive career in Silicon Valley, Dinasha and her husband realized that they weren't quite ready to settle down yet. Before long, her husband received an offer of a job transfer to Tokyo, Japan, so Dinasha followed along, unsure if she would be able to continue her career. Despite the concerns of the other trailing spouses tha...
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December 2, 2021 • 60 mins
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Daniel de Biasi. Much to the surprise of his friends and family, Daniel left his stable job in Italy when he was 27 years old to search for adventure. He got a Working Holiday visa and hopped on a plane to New Zealand before he could even speak English! After attending a language school and acquiring a few IT certificates, he found a job in Christchurch and lived ...
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November 19, 2021 • 56 mins
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Spencer Coon. Spencer immediately took to the Spanish language when he started taking classes in school in the United States, and his passion for it blossomed during his university study abroad experiences in Spain and Argentina. He knew that he wanted to build a career in South America, so upon graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, he leveraged his S...
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November 4, 2021 • 54 mins
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Georgia Knapp. Georgia had the lucky opportunity to grow up in a military family that moved her to many countries around the world (including Cuba!) while she was young. She finished her childhood in the southern part of the United States before going to Scotland to study abroad in her university days. A few years later, fresh out of a relationship, she got an itc...
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October 21, 2021 • 61 mins
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Stephanie Cook. Steph was born in Germany and started learning English at a young age. She left for the UK for graduate school where she met her husband, and together they moved to London to work. In 2010, they moved with their two daughters to San Francisco, California, for her husband's job. After tiring of the Silicon Valley culture, they moved to Austin, Texas...
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October 7, 2021 • 32 mins
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Ana Claudia Vicente da Silva. Ana developed an interest in German culture in university while in Brazil and then joined a German company upon graduation. She worked hard in that role and eventually got the opportunity to transfer to the company's German headquarters. Though she already had a significant amount of experience with Germany regarding the work culture ...
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September 23, 2021 • 38 mins
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Francis Nayan. Francis got interested in living abroad through his university trip to Europe and eventually decided to pursue his goal of teaching English in 5 countries in 5 years. After his first year in Barcelona, he moved to Budapest, Hungary where he ultimately has chosen to live for the past 5 years. After two more years teaching English, Francis transitione...
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September 9, 2021 • 48 mins
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Eric Richard. Eric got interested in the principles of the FIRE movement (Financial Independence, Retire Early) in 2014 and reorganized his life to achieve his financial goals. He achieved leanFIRE in July 2019 by automating his savings and investments, avoiding lifestyle inflation, and utilizing travel hacking to ramp up his savings rate to over 60%! Achieving le...
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August 26, 2021 • 36 mins
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Debbie Arcangeles. Debbie got her first taste of life in another country when she moved with her family from the Philippines to New York City when she was only 8 years old. After starting to experience regular panic attacks in her dream corporate career, she eventually left that world behind to become her own boss. Following a few failures, Debbie has found great ...
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August 13, 2021 • 39 mins
In this episode of the Expat Empire Podcast, we will be hearing from Misha Yurchenko. Misha was one of the guests in an earlier episode of the show, and the last time we checked in with him, he was trying to figure out the next step in his life after leaving the recruitment business in Japan. Since then, he has started a business in career coaching and moved to the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands. He talks us through his challen...
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