❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Has creating your podcast ever stressed you out? April shares how she found herself overwhelmed by spending hours editing every episode, agonizing over details, and struggling to keep up with her publication schedule. By working with S…

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Are you someone who talks to process ideas? This conversation explores how voice messages, especially on platforms like WhatsApp, can be a powerful coaching tool. They can provide timely feedback to help podcasters refine their skills …

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph You probably have a vision for what you’d love your listeners to do after they listen to your podcast episode—maybe it’s subscribing to your newsletter, sharing the episode with a friend, or another simple, meaningful action. But if yo…

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Storytelling is like cooking. Certain elements need to go into the experience at different times for things to taste good. This is true in creating podcast episode and in our social media posts about these episodes. Here's how I helped…

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph What if your social media posts could attract new listeners while deepening connections with your current audience and fellow creators? In this episode of Podcast to Connect, the hosts break down strategies to engage three key groups—n…

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Are you getting the most out of your business podcast? In celebration of International Podcast Day, I've asked 7 solo business owners what the impact and surprises have been for their podcast. From bookkeepers to coaches, .Net speciali…

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Making sure your podcast’s online presence is consistent is key to attracting and keeping the right audience. In this episode, I walk April through an Online Presence Audit for her Door Key (history) Podcast, checking out platforms lik…

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Yes, yes, it's our voices but let's zoom out more than that. A podcast is a small piece of a wonderful network of online tentacles that help us find people for our business and/or community. The audio is one part of this and so are the…

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph We're focusing on audience growth with a peak into a very special new program. I'll be joined by April from Door Key Podcast to look at how a podcast is so much more than meets the eye. Here's an overview of the season that starts this…

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Metadata is the text attached to your audio as well as near it when it’s published. Making sure your metadata is there AND accurate is a simple way to increase your podcast’s chances of getting found when listeners go digging around fo…

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph The best way to learn how to do something well is to give it to someone who is lazy. The thing is, an ambitious person can make any quick task super long and complicated. We do NOT want that. You want to do quick, effective things that…

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Is audience growth really your biggest podcast goal OR is there a bigger networking desire nestled in your podcast outreach? For me it’s the latter and that’s why I love connecting over content conversations. In this episode I’ll show …

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Hey, I’ll admit it, I’m socially awkward. And this is the very reason I can share with you ways to be less so online, cause I’ve worked through my awkwardness there. Don’t ask me about IRL situations, lol. 🍉 Don't forget to enter our F…

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph How much attention do you pay to your existing listeners in your episodes, show notes and on social media? Yup, don't feel bad, most of us are driven to grow our podcast by talking to new listeners but we need to rebalance things, righ…

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph When someone does something nice for you, you thank them, right? Sometimes you do it in public so many people can know the good work they do. Well, this simple gesture can be done online as well. Not in a gross, manipulative way but in…

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Posting on social media is easy enough but do you go back to these posts to see what notifications you missed? to engage with your followers that likes, shared, and maybe commented on your post? Wah ha ha, this is something most people…

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph You talk to your family, friends and boss different, right? It's the same on social media to be honest. One new episode post just isn't enough to cover the 3 groups that could help you grow you podcast. This episode covers who the 3 gr…

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph So far this season, we've focused on the super happy, positive side of podcasting with a connection focus. It would be irresponsible of me to finish the season off without some pain. Specifically creative pain. Guest K.O. was gracious …

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Putting your voice, ideas, message and story out into the world in a podcast can share you, your personality and your work (even if it's a community or passion project, it's still work!) give people time to get to know, like and trust …

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph True or false: to be a respected podcaster, you must always be serious on the mic? F a l s e And if you don't believe it, have a listen to what James Cridland has to say about it. Because in podcasting MANY people listen to him and he'…

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Who are you podcast committed to: your listeners OR your guests? This is the central focus our guest, Katarina, is posing to us in this podcast connections forward conversation. And if you say BOTH: well, you may get a talking to. lol.…

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Making a podcast is one thing but how do we get listeners to talk back to us? David from Beyond The Thesis joined me to chat about how he's set up places for them to engage and what if it's working. We also chat about who he's like to …

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Getting a big picture overview of the podcasting space isn't something we think about when we first start putting our voice, our stories, our message out into the world. But it's important to know a bit about what's going on and where …

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Listening to Rebecca Weber's podcast episode on the vulnerability in not just writing a book but in sharing that she was writing one. And it made me think of you all: business owners and community leaders that may be uncomfortable with…

❤️ Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Is your podcast part of your marketing plan? Did that question surprise you? Because podcasts are so personal and genuine sounding, we tend to forget that they are a form of marketing. Not always, but for you, the solo business owner o…

Have your immigrant parents ever visited you in any of your expat places? Georges' parents have and it shifted how he understood their struggles moving from Greece to Canada. We cover a lot more ground on his parents' immigrant story and how it has both positively and negatively influenced his own expat experience. 🤸🏽Music from Damon Castillo (earl…

Have you ever wondered why your immigrant parent(s) didn't prepare you for being a global citizen? Chelsea thought this when she was struggling in her first expat place. Over time she began to understand the distinct difference between her mother's immigrant experience and her expat one. In this conversation, we unpack the lasting impression that C…

How much do our immigrant parents impact our adult expat experiences? This is what we're exploring in this conversation with return guest Alison. Alison and I dig into growing up with two unequal cultures in one household, the racial struggles she's seen in many countries during her years living outside of her passport country of the U.S. and her c…

Language podcaster Craig is from the UK but has been podcasting in Spain for many years. Alternatively business podcaster Pilar has the opposite geographical podcasting experience being from Spain and podcasting from the UK for a long time. And yet they found each other and created a podcast about the scene in Spain some years ago. In this conversa…

This episode is about half of a conversation that Matthew Boyle of Legendary Language Learner YouTube channel and I had about language teaching, content creation and the intersection between the two. 🤸🏽Music from Damon Castillo (earlier episodes): https://www.damoncastillo.com/ and Key Frame Audio (more recent eps) :https://keyframeaudio.com/ Top 3…

Yuki and I sat down to have this conversation far too long ago. Life has been crazy and, to be honest, I even stopped drinking coffee for awhile. So it felt weird publishing this episode during that time. But things feel a little more frothy these days, so here it is! And here SHE is:) Yuki has sought out, enjoyed and brewed coffee in many location…

In December 2019 my dear friend Shannon Martin and I sat down and recorded an episode about The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. We were so intrigued with the book that we wanted to repeat the process with the more autobiographical version of the book, A Moveable Feast. And then we both left China and you know what happened. We did record this f…

Can social media ground us and make us feel more at peace in this crazy world? This conversation with Tania from Swahili Secrets will present an answer to this question that is not common but very refreshing. Tania was born in Kenya and moved around a lot. Her geographical footprint includes 4 other African countries, Thailand, Austria and Germany.…

Can learning a new language unlock part of your personality? This is something I've wondered my entire language play experience. And I've been asking guests flavors of this question more and more lately. How Kyle and Diane answer this question is really going to tickle your funny bone and get you thinking about this too. They are two Americans who …

Language can be a lens into culture, a way to share our experiences and a tool to help others. These are some of the aspects of language that we discuss with guest Elizabeth Gowing. She worked in primary education in inner London before moving to the Balkans in 2006. From then until very recently she split her time between Kosovo, Albania and the U…

If you've ever wondered what it's like to live and do linguistic research in Kathmandu, Nepal, this episode is for you! Big & White, their podcasting nicknames, are two American Linguists who, until very recently were living in Nepal and creating a rather hilarious audio account of their daily lives on their podcast (the https://bigwhitepodcast.lib…

If you've ever wondered what it's like to live, work, and podcast in Kathmandu, Nepal, this episode are for you! Big & White, their podcasting nicknames, are two American Linguists who, until very recently were living in Nepal and creating a rather hilarious audio account of their daily lives. Their episodes covered much of what expat podcasts cove…

This episode is really special for me. Last month for NaPodPoMo I had the extreme pleasure of chatting with Damon Castillo for this episode. Yes, THE Damon Castillo of the Mess of Me album that we've been using for the past 2 years in all of the Geopats Podcast Network shows. We talk about the longevity of the Damon Castillo Band, his geopatness, m…

Our first guest on Geopats Online (then called Virtual Expats) in September 2018 was Joanna Czutkowna, Founder of Life in Breaths & I went shopping today. When we first met back then she was very passionate about sustainability within the fashion industry and also about redefining how we view age, beauty and the ability in how we design. Even thoug…

On September 30, 2020 I was thrilled to lead a language learning Podcasters panel for International Podcast Day. You can watch the video of this panel on YouTube, https://youtu.be/hR8fr0Hapo0, OR you can listen to this on this episode. Thank you to Dave and Steve, the geniuses behind IPD, for holding yet another amazing year's sessions of Podcaster…

In this episode we are talking to Ken Hirano, who was born in Japan but his family moved to the U.S. before he started school. He has returned to Japan to live a few times in his life, and now is one of them. He moved back to Tokyo about a year ago and recently https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kenhirano_china-culture-asianamericans-activity-670716254…

One year ago today Nicole from the Expat Cast, former guest and guest Host Tatjana and I discussed the book Schadenfreude, a Love Story: Me, the Germans and 20 Years of Attempted Transformations, Unfortunate Miscommunications, and Humiliating Situations That Only They Have Words for in an episode. After I moved to Berlin, Germany I posted a photo o…

Erin and I met in Vietnam many years ago, the place where both of our coffee obsession hit a peak, so it only made sense to have her on the podcast. In this episode we dive into her coffee explorations in Australia, many countries in Asia, Italy and Canada. 🤸🏽Music from Damon Castillo (earlier episodes): https://www.damoncastillo.com/ and Key Frame…

​Has music ever soothed your soul and made you feel connected again? Yes, me too. And it sounds like the same happened to James when he was an expat for well over a decade. He is back in his home country now so his perspective on his time in the Czech Republic and China are especially poignant. As is the origin story for his intensely researched an…

In this episode, Steph Cook of Transcontinental Overload is kind enough to ponder 3 aspects of German that strike me (Geopats Steph) as strange. Her insights and humo(u)r about these differences is a sheer delight. You will never hear the German language in the same way again. 🤸🏽Music from Damon Castillo (earlier episodes): https://www.damoncastill…

Travis lived in Germany and the Czech Republic for 20 years and podcasts about history on podcastnik.com. After talking about alchemy and witches as a ghost-tour guide in Prague, he teamed up with Pete Collman to figure out podcasting as a medium to tell stories from history. Travis has a long and complicatedly long adoration with coffee that start…

Welcome to the bookish world of Japan. Guest Host Tatjana from Craving Expat Life chats with Yuki fromBook Nerd Tokyo about Japanese books, specifically Banana Yoshimoto’s “Kitchen” in this conversation. They explore Yuki’s life between Japan and the USA as well as Tatjana’s discovery of Japanese literature, translations, and stereotypes. 🤸🏽Music f…

How much overlap is there between music and language? Sinologist, Linguist, Jazz Pianist & returning Geopat Podcast Guest, David Moser, joins us again for a dive into this question. 🤸🏽Music from Damon Castillo (earlier episodes): https://www.damoncastillo.com/ and Key Frame Audio (more recent eps) :https://keyframeaudio.com/ Top 3 services that hav…

David Humphreys and Melissa Joulwan are the hosts of Strong Sense of Place, a podcast and web site dedicated to literary travel and books with vivid settings. In each episode of their show, they explore one destination and talk about what makes that place different from everywhere else on earth. Then they recommend books set in that destination and…

Marielle is a Data Scientist in Berlin. She is also a long-distance coffee farmer because her family started a coffee farm in our ancestral home in the Philippines (in Mankayan, Benguet). They practice organic and sustainable Agroforestry and they hope to one day export their coffee through a transparent supply chain. 🤸🏽Music from Damon Castillo (e…