Women Abroad
31 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 months ago -Women Abroad, The Podcast that invites young professional women in an international context to share their experiences abroad and reveal the wonderful women behind these stories.
My name’s Françoise Falisse, I am an intercultural trainer and coach.
I meet young women who are studying abroad or starting their careers abroad, and hear from them about their discoveries, culture shock, and the personal and professional challenges they face.
What surprises, amuses, even fascinates them ? How does their experience open up new perspectives and reveal new things about themselves ?
If you are curious about living and working internationally, this podcast will inspire you to consider new horizons.
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#28 Gogo CHENG in Hong Kong
July 12, 2023 13:20 - 46 minutes - 64.8 MBFor the #28 episode of Women Abroad, my guest today is Gogo Cheng. Gogo was born in the Southern part of China. At the age of 12, she moved with her family to Hong Kong, where she currently lives and works. She began her career working for international luxury brands and travelled extensively for her work. In 2022, she launched her own consultancy company, Gogo Cheng Consulting Limited, an international luxury and customer loyalty consultancy. She puts her expertise at the service of...
#27 Melina NARDI in Spain
June 06, 2023 15:04 - 45 minutes - 64.1 MBMelina Nardi is my guest today for the 27th episode of my podcast Women Abroad with me Françoise Falisse. Melina is Co-founder and Head of Strategy at Mila Branders, a company located in Valencia, Spain. Mila Branders is a creative agency with a focus on strategic brand building for small and big brands, in all sectors. Her clients are very international. She is also an author. Discover her book: “A Zest for Happiness” Melina is an explorer and an engaged woman. Before settling in Spa...
#26 SILVIA POLVARA in Luxembourg
April 07, 2023 20:43 - 44 minutes - 62.8 MBMy guest today is Silvia Polvara. Born in Italy, she studied and worked in Germany and the UK. She currently lives in Luxembourg. Each story of the women I interview explores a different facet of what it is like to live away from home. The outside perspective you get is at the heart of an international mindset that you gradually develop throughout your time abroad. As a child of a third culture, Silvia was also raised outside her native country. Luxembourg City, nestled in the heart of...
#25 BARBARA LIMA in Mexico: From Brazil to her regenerative journey around the world
February 26, 2023 15:33 - 1 hour - 86.5 MBThe 25th episode of Women Abroad brings me to introduce Barbara Lima. Barbara is a visionary, multilingual, and multi-talented Brazilian artist and entrepreneur. She is the founder, editor-in-chief, and creative director of The Weave Magazine, a seasonal and regenerative publication. She traveled and moved to Canada, France, China, Australia, Malaysia, Costa Rica, and now Mexico for self and professional development. Barbara calls herself a nomad, grounded, aligned with herself, and moving ...
#24 Ludovica ARVIGO in Central and South America
December 23, 2022 10:35 - 45 minutes - 63.7 MBMy host for this 24th episode is Ludovica Arvigo, an Italian student in psychology. With her, we explore what it means to develop a third culture when, like her, you grow up abroad and build your educational background outside your parents' country of origin. The wish to take a gap year never comes by chance. It often answers a call for self-discovery out of your comfort zone. From her getting prepared for her four-month trip in Central and South America, Ludovica’s episode is an ode to t...
#23 Virginie André en Suède
October 18, 2022 20:43 - 40 minutes - 57.2 MBPour ce 23ème épisode, j’accueille Virginie André. Virginie et sa famille quittent leur Belgique natale pour embarquer pour Stockholm, en Suède. Entre le rêve longuement mûri et sa concrétisation, elle constate rapidement que le chemin à la résidence est un parcours qui peut être long et balisé d’obstacles. Partir en famille vous amène à découvrir un pays sous des angles multiples qui enrichissent votre expérience de l’étranger. La qualité des préparatifs, notamment les démarches admin...
#22 JOANA SILVA CARREIRA in Luxembourg
August 30, 2022 16:23 - 42 minutes - 59.3 MBHello and welcome to my podcast Women Abroad with me Françoise Falisse. This interview podcast is a space for women from around the world to talk about their experiences of living and working abroad. For my 22nd episode, I welcome Joana Silva Carreira. Joana is a Portuguese early career woman, and a singer currently living in Luxembourg. She first spent six months in Belgium and six months in the US. Her outgoing personality and open-minded worldview have made it easy for her to adapt ab...
#21 RACHA ZAHIRA AMMATI à Ottawa
July 05, 2022 17:08 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MBPour ce 21ème épisode, je suis ravie de vous présenter Racha Zahira Ammati, consultante spécialisée dans le développement de projets visant à l’autonomisation économique des femmes et l’égalité des genres. Elle est également conseillère jeunesse au bureau régional de l’ONU FEMMES pour les États arabes, et y est également active sur la plateforme Agora pour l'innovation en matière de genre. Née au Maroc, elle réside actuellement à Ottawa au Canada. Au fil de ses multiples expatriations, e...
#20 Betina Szkudlarek in Sydney, Australia
April 29, 2022 21:09 - 46 minutes - 64.4 MBToday I have the pleasure to host Betina Szkudlarek for my 20th episode. Betina was born and raised in Poland and she currently lives in Sydney, Australia. She is an Associate Professor, Program Director Master of Management at the University of Sydney Business School, and a specialist in intercultural relationships, inclusion, and diversity. She also works as a freelance Strategic Planning, Sustainability, and Growth Consultant for the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations. Being expose...
#19 TATIANA ZÉBAZÉ in Nigeria
March 11, 2022 10:53 - 39 minutes - 55.1 MBToday I am pleased to host Tatiana Zébazé who is now Transversal Manager in a multinational company active in the insurance sector worldwide. She was an expatriate in Lagos, and was recognised as a member of top 800 executives leaders of her group in 2018 and she still is. Tatiana is currently living in Paris. Expatriation is often chosen by those who want or need to advance their career. Progressing in your professional life also has a price to pay when you decide to move alone. And havin...
#18 Jill SAVILLE in France and Luxembourg
February 09, 2022 21:50 - 43 minutes - 59.6 MBI am hosting Jill Saville for this 18th episode. Jill has forged her life and professional experience between the United Kingdom where she was born and grew up, France and Luxembourg. Along her way, she has developed strong beliefs in causes worth defending. She created circles of leadership and her expertise is highly valued. Building herself and managing her time differently were the first lessons she had to learn upon arriving in France. Then, making new connections and thinking about h...
#17 Diana Araújo in Belgium
January 05, 2022 11:08 - 51 minutes - 72.1 MBFor my 17th episode of Women Abroad, I am pleased to introduce you to Diana Araújo. As a student in architecture, she first left Portugal, her native country to follow an Erasmus program in Flanders, Northern Belgium. After some time of adjustment, she then decided to start her professional life and settle in Belgium. With her, we will explore notions of stability, time, sustainability, or double personality and the comparisons she makes between Belgian and Portuguese culture. Hosted o...
#16 Jessica Peart - From Ireland to India and Germany
December 01, 2021 16:05 - 54 minutes - 75.6 MBFor this 16th episode, my guest, Jessica Peart, was born in Ireland and lived in India. She currently lives in Leipzig, East Germany. She is offering us a larger perspective of the countries she lived in exploring the historical, social and economical backgrounds of these countries. Between storytelling and academic debate, Jessica is expressing her alternate voice with sincerity and conviction and explains her choices as an immigrant. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...
#15 Episode Sofia Busquets, from Mexico to filmmaking in Rome
September 30, 2021 16:03 - 41 minutes - 58.5 MBSofia Busquets is joining me for this 15th episode of Women Abroad. From Argentina, her native country to Mexico where she was raised, Sofia experienced what it means to be a third culture kid. From challenges to communicate in the English countryside, to connecting with others in Los Angeles.. to expressing herself through filmmaking in Rome… She tells us how women can speak their voice through films and how their talents are slowly better represented in the film industry. Future belong...
#14 Episode - Jenny Amelia Rönnblom around the globe
August 27, 2021 19:11 - 37 minutes - 53 MBFor my #14 episode of Women Abroad, I am pleased to host Jenny Amelia Rönnblom. Amelia is Swedish, she navigates around the globe as a First Officer on cruise ships. From Sweden where she was born to Finland where she spent some years, she then settled for two years in the south of Belgium near Luxembourg. She has now moved to Spain. Very active, sociable and with an entrepreneurial spirit, she created a Luxembourg chapter for the volunteer powered global and local community called Girl G...
#13 Episode - Nathalie Gricourt in London
July 26, 2021 15:06 - 39 minutes - 57.9 MBToday I am hosting Nathalie Gricourt. Nathalie was born in France, she studied marketing in a business school in France and then graphic design in Australia. She has been living in London for 10 years. Living and working abroad is a big change in a life and is often the start of a long transformational self-journey. It goes with its ups and downs, navigating between challenging times and joyful moments. Many doors can lead to Entrepreneurship and an international experience reveals unkno...
#12 - Anniversary special Episode
June 30, 2021 20:25 - 44 minutes - 62.9 MBHello everyone, welcome to this special episode of Women Abroad podcast! Today we celebrate the first anniversary of the podcast with nine ladies I interviewed this year. We will go around the table to answer four questions: 1) How does living abroad and immersing yourself in other cultures help you grow? 2) How do you think women (all over the world) can express their voices to contribute to a more united world? 3) How can your experiences be a source of motivation or inspiration for ot...
#11 Estefanía Martín - From Venezuela to Tenerife, to Rome & Antwerp
May 27, 2021 11:57 - 43 minutes - 61.1 MBHello everyone, today I am hosting Estefanía Martín on Women Abroad. From Venezuela where she grew up to Tenerife where she started her university studies, she experienced a first culture shock. Same language but different culture, she had to adjust and making friends was challenging. But as often the first step matters... once you have mentally enlarged your inner borders you become more ready to view and accept others as they are, different from you. As her story unfolds, she feels mor...
#10 Episode - Camila OSORIO in Canada
April 27, 2021 15:33 - 38 minutes - 53.4 MBFor the #10 episode of Women Abroad, I am pleased to host Camila OSORIO. As a young immigrant, Camila left Colombia to first study and now work in Toronto, Canada. She is sharing what she has discovered about Canada so far, her perception of its people and the role women play in society. Immigrating is a learning process. It transcends boundaries and questions life choices beyond the limited time frame of studies or an expatriation mission. What is the value of building relationship...
#9 Episode - Cherine MAKRAM in Luxembourg
March 31, 2021 12:28 - 35 minutes - 50.4 MBFor the #9 episode of Women Abroad, I am reconnecting to Luxembourg, my hosting country since the summer 2018. My guest today is Cherine Makram. Born in Egypt, Cherine has been living in Luxembourg for a couple of years. We are discovering her expatriation life in Luxembourg through the woman, wife and mother’s eyes. Very sincerely she explains the good and challenging moments you can face when living abroad. However amazing opportunities can also arise for those who accept to open thei...
#8 Episode Stephani WIDORINI in Switzerland
February 26, 2021 10:57 - 49 minutes - 71.8 MBMy guest for today is Stephani Widorini. Stephani is Indonesian and she is currently living and working as a consultant for the UN in Geneva, Switzerland. Moving from London to Seoul and now to Geneva led her to adjust to various cultural challenges. What she first perceived as a career disruption turned out to become a very rich professional and cultural experience as she grew more aware of her environment. Mental and cultural agility have also allowed her to better accept the unknown...
#7 Episode Ania Łazuka-Banach in Northern Ireland & Oman
January 29, 2021 14:43 - 39 minutes - 58.5 MBAnia Banach is my host for the #7 episode of Women Abroad podcast. Ania is Polish and she is a university teacher working as an assistant professor in linguistics. In a very introspective way, she reopens very dense pages of her life first in Northern Ireland as a PHD student then in Oman as a College teacher. She explores different aspects of expatriation such as the freedom of movement as a woman abroad, the importance of the religious environment in our cultural adjustment abroad and ...
#6 Episode Haiqin HUANG in Luxembourg
December 27, 2020 22:09 - 31 minutes - 45.1 MBOur 6th episode of Women Abroad will give you the opportunity to get to know Haiqin HUANG. Haiqin is a young Chinese PHD engineer living in Luxembourg. She was born and brought up in the south of China where she completed her bachelor degree. Eager to live and discover Europe, she made the decision to pursue her Master’s and PHD studies first in London, then in Nantes, France, and finally in Luxembourg. Haiqin is now following a two-year MBA program at the Luxembourg School of Business to...
#5 Episode Chloe PEEBLES in Colombia
November 30, 2020 20:44 - 47 minutes - 69.6 MBWomen Abroad, the Podcast that invites young professional women to share their experience abroad and reveal the wonderful women behind these stories. Our #5 episode brings us today to meet Chloe Peebles in Bogotá, Colombia. Chloe is a French-American early-career woman in international development who decided to temporarily put her career on pause to accompany her husband on a short-term mission in Colombia. Very enthusiastically Chloe tells us how her exposure to living abroad since she...
#4 Episode Tijana MAROVIC au Brésil
October 28, 2020 20:48 - 45 minutes - 66.9 MBPour ce quatrième épisode de WOMEN ABROAD, Tijana MAROVIC, jeune femme d’origine serbe de Belgrade nous emmène découvrir Sao Paulo au Brésil. Depuis toute jeune, Tijana est passionnée de langues et de cultures étrangères. De Strasbourg en France, dont elle nous partage avec enthousiasme son expérience d’étudiante à l’université où elle y étudie un Master en communication internationale, elle s’envole ensuite pour un premier emploi vers Sao Paulo, au Brésil où elle découvre les joies et les...
#3 Episode Arya Rajurkar in Canada
September 25, 2020 09:51 - 41 minutes - 60.8 MBFor our third episode of WOMEN ABROAD we are crossing the Atlantic Ocean and are stopping over in Montreal, Canada. Arya Rajurkar is studying business with a major in finance and a minor in marketing at the university of Concordia. I met Arya when I was living in Nigeria, she was then studying her IB in the same school as one of my daughters. Between dream and reality, she explains to us in a very spontaneous way how she adjusted to life in Canada, her major challenges as a foreign student...
#3 Episode Arya RAJURKAR in Canada
September 25, 2020 09:51 - 41 minutes - 60.8 MBFor our third episode of WOMEN ABROAD we are crossing the Atlantic Ocean and are stopping over in Montreal, Canada. Arya Rajurkar is studying business with a major in finance and a minor in marketing at the university of Concordia. I met Arya when I was living in Nigeria, she was then studying her IB in the same school as one of my daughters. Between dream and reality, she explains to us in a very spontaneous way how she adjusted to life in Canada, her major challenges as a foreign student...
#2 Episode Axelle SALVAGE au Luxembourg
August 20, 2020 10:09 - 35 minutes - 53.2 MBPour notre deuxième épisode de WOMEN ABROAD, nous recevons Axelle Salvage, jeune manager française qui vit actuellement au Luxembourg. Axelle a d’abord effectué une licence de géographie à Reims suivie d’une première année de Master en géopolitique. A l’université de Strasbourg, elle y poursuit un Master 1 et 2 en relations internationales, avec l’option Management de cluster et réseaux territoriaux pour ensuite bifurquer vers la spécialité Intelligence économique et gestion du développeme...
#1 episode Vladiana APETROAIE in Belgium
July 22, 2020 14:22 - 37 minutes - 55 MBToday for our first episode of Women Abroad, we are hosting Vladiana Apetroaie, a young Romanian who has been working as website Administrator and E-Learning Developer at the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium since early 2019. After her bachelor degree in European studies she obtained from the university of Bucharest, Romania, she spent four years in Leuven, Belgium where she got a Master in Anthropology/Migration and Minorities followed by a University Certificate in social sciences ...
#1 episode
July 22, 2020 14:22 - 37 minutes - 55 MBToday for our first episode of Women Abroad, we are hosting Vladiana Apetroaie, a young Romanian who has been working as website Administrator and E-Learning Developer at the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium since early 2019. After her bachelor degree in European studies she obtained from the university of Bucharest, Romania, she spent four years in Leuven, Belgium where she got a Master in Anthropology/Migration and Minorities followed by a University Certificate in social sciences ...
Women Abroad
June 29, 2020 21:53 - 49 minutes - 67.4 MBWomen Abroad, The Podcast that invites young professional women to share their experience abroad and reveal the wonderful women behind these stories. My name’s Françoise Falisse, I am an intercultural trainer and coach, I have lived and worked as an expatriate for more than 11 years in Egypt, Morocco and Nigeria (twice) and I currently live in Luxembourg. I meet young women who are studying or starting their careers abroad, and hear from them about their discoveries, culture shock, and t...