Women Who Walk
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Women Who Walk
Unpacking the journeys of impressive, intrepid women who’ve made multiple international moves for work, for adventure, for love, for freedom.
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Closing a Chapter: Reflections, Revelations, & Farewell to Women Who Walk Podcast [Ep 48]
In this final episode of Women Who Walk, I bid farewell to podcasting (for now). Throughout the three seasons and 48 episodes, I’ve had the honor of i...
Pilgrimage: JF Penn, British Writer & Traveler, on Solo-Hiking Three Ancient Way Walks [Ep 47]
Jo Francis Penn is English, currently living in Bath. As an 11-year-old, she lived in Malawi, Africa; in her teens she lived for a short period in Isr...
Four International Moves: US-Australian Photographer, Joyce Agee, on The Newcomer Experience [46]
Joyce Agee is originally from the US. Currently she lives a couple of hours southeast of the Australian city of Melbourne. Her childhood was peripatet...
Black & Brown Global Mobility with Cameroonian-American Podcaster, Amanda Bates [Ep 45]
Founder of The Black Expat and The Global Chatter Podcast, American Amanda Bates, talks about her cross-cultural experiences growing up in an immigran...
How living in Kyrgyzstan Inspired German Wiebke Anton to Co-create the Expat Couples Summit [Ep 44]
Wiebke Anton is German – from a city that was formerly part of the communist state of East Germany. She’s a PhD in Political Science and her dissertat...
Multicultural-Multilingual-Mixed-Race Jaia Sowden: Moving Countries as a Generational Legacy [Ep 43]
British-Italian-Brazilian, @JaiaSowden, references three generations of her family moving countries as a "tradition," even proposing that moving count...
International Mobility: Saying Goodbye & Confronting Loss, with host Louise Ross [Ep 42]
International mobility is in many ways a privileged one. Yet there is a price to pay and that is the sadness and grief that comes with having to say g...
Country-Hopping Gen X'er, Tabitha Sowden, on Straddling Cultures [Ep 41]
Tabitha Sowden's story of country hopping is reminiscent of today’s Gen Z digital nomads. But Tabitha’s a Gen X’er, born in 1966, and as a young adult...
Tanzania, The Gambia, Angola, Mozambique, Italy, Malawi, Myanmar, Bangladesh: Liz Shick's 27 Years Abroad [Ep 40]
Originally from Massachusetts, Elizabeth (Liz) Shick began her international journey as a young college student when in the mid 1980s, majoring in Afr...
India to Australia & 4 Continents Thereafter: Rosemary Gillan on Immigrant Life & Relocating as a Hotelier's Wife [Ep 39]
Rosemary Gillan grew up in India in the 1960s. A child of mixed-race parents, she was called “Anglo-Indian.” At 13, her family immigrated to Australia...
Female Agency: Danish-Egyptian, Yasmin Abdel-Hak, in Conversation with Host, Australian, Louise Ross [Ep 38]
In this last episode of Season 2 and 2022, my guest from Episode 9, Danish-Egyptian, Yasmin Abdel-Hak, starts by interviewing me, Australian, Louise R...
Saskatchewan Adventurer, Landis Wyatt: Living & Working in Liberia, West Africa for 15 years [Ep 37]
Landis Wyatt is from the 'bread basket' province of Saskatchewan, Canada. Though she considers herself conservative and somewhat cautious, as an avid...
UK, Australia, S. Africa, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Portugal: Georgia Marnham’s Journey of Healing with Iyengar Yoga [Ep 36]
British-Australian, Georgia Marnham, is an Iyengar yoga instructor whose story is full of twists and turns and fateful events that caused her to make...
Belgium, Czech Republic, Nepal, Portugal: Suzanne Vanden Schrieck, Cranial Sacral Therapist [Ep 35]
My guest in this episode is Belgian, Suzanne Vanden Schrieck. I met Suzanne the summer of 2015 at a social gathering of international women in Lisbon...
Practising Acupuncture in the US, France & Portugal, Hayley Enright Navigates Cultural Differences [Ep 34]
Hayley Enright grew up in Florida in the US where she graduated from university with degrees in French and German. But in her mid-twenties, living in...
Parisian, Elodie Ribeiro, Practices Podiatry in Dubai, Istanbul, Mauritius, Vietnam & Portugal [Ep 33]
Elodie Ribeiro is a podiatrist and reflexologist, now based in Portugal. Elodie is second generation French of Portuguese heritage, her grandparents h...
Scotland to Asia to Portugal, Gillian Harrison Finds her Life’s Work & the Community she Envisioned [Ep 32]
Gillian Harrison is Scottish, now living in Portugal. She moved here in 2018 from Hong Kong, where she and her husband and children had lived for 6 ye...
Anglo-Brazilian, Alexandra Clark: Being Bicultural & Developing a Holistic Health Practice in the US [Ep 31]
Anglo-Brazilian Alexandra Clark was born and raised in Rio in a neighborhood on the iconic Copacabana beach, later living near Ipanema beach, made fam...
Third Culture Kid Specialist, Tanya Crossman, on The Impact of Growing Up Overseas in the 21st Century [Ep 30]
In this interview, my guest, Tanya Crossman, talks about her own experiences as a TCK relocating from Australia, her country of origin, to the US as a...
Korean, Sa-Eun Park, on Growing Up in Saudi Arabia, Austria, & Identifying as "AsianAlien" [Ep 29]
Sa-Eun Park was two-years-old when her family moved from South Korea to Saudi Arabia, where there were work opportunities for her parents, both of who...
Living & Working Abroad, German, Kate von Knobloch, Identified 4 Types of Thriving Female Expats [Ep 28]
Kate is a mid-30s millennial from Germany, a self-professed ambitious career woman. She studied in the UK and Spain, relocating to Taiwan and then the...
French adoptee, Florence Chabert d’Hieres, Discusses her Origin Story, Country Moves, Work & Family [Ep 27]
Born in Sri Lanka in 1984, Florence Chabert d’Hieres grew up in a loving family in Lyon, France with her adoptive parents, an Italian mother and Frenc...
Growing up in India & China, Romanian, Ana Ghiban, Reconnects with her Roots via Fieldwork in Transylvania [Ep 26]
Ana Ghiban was born in 1998 in Bucharest, Romania, where her parents worked in the textile industry. When she was nine, the family relocated to Delhi,...
Recognizing Women's Courage & Resilience During & After War with host, Louise Ross [Ep 24]
As I reflect on the current crisis in the Ukraine, I'm reminded of eight women I interviewed for my book, Women Who Walk because eight of those 20 wom...
Homeopathy in Tanzania, Beekeeping in Virginia, US: French Scientist Isabelle Metairon's Volunteer Work [Ep 23]
Parisian-born Isabelle is a marine scientist, and a classically trained homeopath. She's also one of the women I interviewed back in 2018 for my book,...
How Moving Country-to-Country Inspired Spaniard Montse Oliver’s Career as a Painter & Artrepreneur [Ep 22]
Montse Oliver was born in the late ’60s in a town near Barcelona where she says, “I had a standard suburban childhood without any international glimps...
Life in The Travel Lane: 8 Countries, 4 Continents & 37 Moves with Doreen Cumberford [Ep 21]
Originally from Glasgow, Scotland, Doreen Cumberford has been an expat for over 40 years. She has moved 37 times living in eight countries on four con...
Eight Country Moves: Sally Cronin Discusses her Nomadic Life & How it Impacted her Weight & Informed her Writing [Ep 20]
Sally Cronin was born in the UK in the early '50s, but from the tender age of 18 months, she began what has been a lifelong nomadic existence living i...
East Timor, Jordan, Outback Australia: On Mission with UN Peacekeeper, Jill Henry [Ep 19]
In 1985, Jill Henry joined the Australian Federal Police and over the next 15 years, while based in Sydney, her work involved general crime, drug seiz...
Eastern Europe to Sth Africa, Dubai, & the UK, with Moldovan Writer, Inna Rothmann [Ep 18]
Born in 1983 in the tiny country of Moldova, which at the time was still a part of the Soviet Union, Inna was in primary school when in 1991 the Sovie...
Behind the Scenes in Bangkok, Thailand with TV & Film Producer, South-Londoner, Zoe Popham [Ep 17]
Equipped with a law degree, an internship from the BBC White City in TV script writing and film production, plus certification as an ESL teacher, and...
German by Birth, Portuguese by Marriage: Octogenarian, Ingrid Bloser Martins, Recognized in Japan as a Woman of Distinction [Ep 16]
In this episode, I have a kitchen-table style conversation with German-born, wise elder, Ingrid Bloser Martins. Ingrid is my neighbor in Estoril, Port...
Amsterdam, London, New York: The Evolution of Art Historical London with Dutch founder, Mariska Beekenkamp-Wladimiroff [Ep 15]
With a BA from Sotheby's Institute of Art and an MA in Dutch Baroque Art from London's Courtauld Institute of Art, in 2013, Mariska Beekenkamp-Wladimi...
California to Central Europe with Social Justice & Peace Activist, Septuagenarian, Berne Weiss [Ep 14]
Originally from New York City, Berne Weiss moved from California to Central Europe following the 1989 Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. An activist...
Indian Restaurateur, Aparna Aurora, on Restlessness & Moving Countries while Juggling Family & Building Chutnify [Ep 13]
I first heard Aparna Aurora speak on a Women in Business panel at the annual Lisbon Web Summit, Europe's most influential tech event, which will be li...
Born in Africa, Raised in Europe, Indian at heart: Sandhya Acevinkumar talks of Bollywood Weddings, Vitiligo, & Selfless Work [Ep 12]
Sandhya is one of the women whose story appears in my book, Women Who Walk. She talks of a happy childhood growing up in the immigrant Indian communit...
Women Who Walk Celebrates 3 Months & 10 Episodes with Host, Louise Ross [Episode 11]
It's the middle of August and the height of summer in Europe, and in Portugal, where I live, that means everyone heads to the beach and life slows dow...
Growing an International Bilingual Preschool in Boulder, Colorado with French-Italian Entrepreneur, Marie-Pierre Nicoletti [Episode 10]
Marie-Pierre Nicoletti grew up in a small town in the French Alps, in a bicultural French and Italian family. After graduating college with a BA in bo...
Copenhagen to Lisbon with Danish-Egyptian Human Rights Lawyer & Middle East Expert, Yasmin Abdel-Hak [Episode 9]
Yasmin Abdel-Hak was born and raised in Denmark. Her father is Egyptian. Her mother Danish. For several generations the migratory paths on both sides...
Exploring Central Asia and The Silk Road with 40-year UK Resident, Chicagoan, Diana Driscoll [Episode 8]
In the early '70s, Diana left Chicago, relocating permanently to London, where she graduated from the University of London's School of Oriental and Af...