Perfect Strangers

Being kind is not enough

To understand why it is hard to get along we have to look at how human evolution developped our capacity to cooperate specifically inside groups and how our intuitions guide our decisions and our behavior. In this episode you will find a short summary of the book The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt and his hypotheses on why it is hard to get along.

Why is it hard to get along?

Hella shares witht us why it made sense to create her own business. The learning curve can be steep but it allowed her to build a bridge between her roots in Tunisia and the US in which she arrived when she was 10.

If you don't know where you are going you may well end up there

Lea left the Yvory Coast to study in Paris. She then moved to Kazakstan and realized she was the only black woman in Astana. She shares her "weapons" to feel welcomed and at ease everywhere and how she learned to use emotional intelligence as she moved and worked in different places.

I connect with people heart to heart

Paolo Battaglia's book : Italian American Country: Finding Italy in small-town America

Back to the roots. Now I understand

Danny works four jobs and lives with a rabbit and a cockatiel. Life can be lonely but at 62 he knows what is REALLY important.

All you need is love... and a rabbit

Unlike many of us, David chooses carefully the places he moves to. It all began with his childhood's dream to live in Japan. Berlin and Porto followed. His podcast "Expat Empire" gives tips about moving through expats stories.

I made it to Tokyo. How David's childhood dream became real.

Hala's Book: Bridge Between Worlds, a Lebanese-Arab-American Woman's JourneyI also recommend Amin Maalouf's book: In the Name of Identity 

Home is where you are loved

Pascale Brady is Founder and CEO of The Challenge CoachShe does Life and Business Coaching in these areas:- Challenge coaching in life and at work through transitions or in relationships- Expatriate and international coaching,- Parent coachingShe also is a certified Parent EducatorShe teaches PEP classes and workshops on  practical parenting skills geared to each stage of a child's development, whether you're looking for new parenting techniques or faced with serious parenting concerns.

We are moving! How do we tell the kids?

Review of Nicholas Christakis book : Blueprint, the evolutionnary origins of a good society.

Why do we love? Make friendships?What have our genes to do with that?

17 years old Juliette is about to take a gap year. She will travel on two continents, work and improve her language skills, discover herself. Why did she decide not to go straight to college? Have some of her friends made the same decision? Where will she go? What does she hope for? it's all in her interview.

17 years old Juliette is ready to jump

Amanda has a long expat experience and shares with us how she manages to feel at home in every country and how kindness goes a long way. She teaches her chinese culture and language to children and gives us advices on how to pass on our own culture and language to our children. She also shares a few insights on her job as consultant for professionals who go to China or Taiwan.

Amanda is an expert on chinese language and culture and long time expat

Bonnie experienced cultural differences for the first time when she was a 16 year old exchange student. Austria after WWII was very different from New-York and it was only the beginning of rich life experiences abroad. She worked in different countries, languages, jobs, married three times and now looks back on her life with a smile.

Bonnie adventurous life began when she was 16

Rene fleed from Guatemala with his parents when he was a toddler. They were refugees in Canada and entered illegally in the US. His father was later caught by immigration services and sent to prison. He speaks about his experience in the US as a Latino.

Rene is a Latino who arrived illegally to the US when he was very young.

My dad became an orphan when he was 10, began to work when he was 13 and met American tourists through his job in an hotel in Florence, Italy. The more he learned the more he wanted to move to the United States. Listen to his journey to get there and his love for cultural diversity.

My dad American Dream

Have you ever wondered where you belong? Did you struggle to fit in at some point in your life? Do you feel the call of the outside world? In this podcast you will hear stories of people who moved to a different place. Expats, migrants, refugees, everyone has his own story but by sharing it we discover how much we have in common and how deeply human we are.

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Perfect Strangers

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