Podcast

Expat-ish: Life Between Cultures

Personal Journals, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

Moving abroad changes your address. What happens to everything else?

Expat-ish is a podcast about living abroad, identity, and belonging, especially for women discovering that reinvention rarely follows the itinerary. Producer and host Janice Diaz in Italy and co-host Trice Turner in the UK share honest conversations about the lives we build between cultures.

From friendships and marriage to language mishaps, food traditions, and being American abroad, we explore what changes, what follows us, and what starts to feel like home. Expect humor, cultural friction, occasional disagreements, and stories that go beyond the honeymoon phase of expat life.

Whether you’re planning a move, years into life overseas, or finding that “Where are you from?” needs a longer answer, pull up a seat.

A podcast from The Otherhood. Explore episodes and share your story at expat-ish.com.

Episodes
1
Typical length
11 min
On air since
2026
Latest episode
1 week ago

Episodes

1 episode, newest first

  1. Welcome to Expat-ish: The In-Between Is the Point

    Season 1, Episode 1

    Show notes

    You can love the life you chose and still miss the one you left.

    In the first episode of Expat-ish, Janice Diaz and Trice Turner introduce the conversation behind the show: what happens to your identity, relationships, and sense of belonging after you move abroad?

    We talk about the pressure to perform happiness because you chose this life, the loneliness that can coexist with gratitude, and the strange experience of becoming a beginner again. We also explain why Expat-ish exists, who it is for, and why reinvention deserves more honesty than a before-and-after photo.

    Whether you're living overseas or finding your way through another kind of life change, this is a place to be complicated, unfinished, and understood.

    In this episode:
    • Life abroad beyond the honeymoon phase
    • Identity, cultural displacement, and the search for belonging
    • Missing a place you left on purpose
    • Why gratitude cannot replace community
    • What to expect from Expat-ish and The Otherhood

    Produced and hosted by Janice Diaz, with co-host Trice Turner.
    A podcast from The Otherhood.
    Explore the show: https://expat-ish.com/

    11 min