What we gave up for the expat life

Interview with Angela Vitiello

Just like Liz, Angela Vitiello moved away from New York in 2010 and has lived abroad ever since. Liz and Angela chat about the NY responses to leaving NY, balancing visits back home, finding friends, and lots more. She's now married with kids and staying put in Brussels, Belgium for the foreseeable future. She runs Expat Parenting Collective and has lots of advice for folks moving abroad or already abroad. Learn more about Angela: www.expatparentingcollective.com www.instagram.com/expatparentingcollective www.linkedin.com/in/angela-vitiello-mba-ms-ed www.instagram.com/itsangelavitiello

Loneliness

If you're an expat or an immigrant, loneliness will hit you. OK really, if you're a human, loneliness will hit you at some point whether you like it or not. But what do we think of when we think of loneliness? Liz and Ryan share stories of when they've felt most lonely and their backgrounds and experiences shape them into very different perspectives on that same word.

New Year, New Country?

Welcome to Season 2! Is your New Year's resolution to move to a new country? Or to move back to your home country after living abroad? If that's your goal for this year, here are some deeper questions to ask yourself before you buy that plane ticket.

What we gave up for the expat life

New. More. Different. Expat life is full of excitement, growth and discovery. But what happens when we say goodbye to the life we used to have? We might have lived in a different world with different people while being a different person. And now we are somewhere so far away from there. Today we talk about the things we left behind in order to become expats.

Thanksgiving

Sometimes you fall in love with a holiday you weren't born celebrating. When Ryan, a South African, started dating Liz, an American, she shared her love for giving thanks and eating an insane amount of butter. Listen to Ryan's experiences with the holiday and what it has come to mean to him. Ryan and Liz also go into lots of detail about the Thanksgiving foods they love and traditions they have created in Portugal.