Amanda is passionate about helping expats, particularly trailing spouses, figure out what the heck their new identity is now that they’ve packed up and and jumped on a plane. Not only are you now in unfamiliar surroundings, but quite often you can find yourself in unfamiliar shoes, trying to figure out how to navigate your […]

Jodie grew up in New Zealand and came to Shanghai eight years ago via London. She and her husband, Joe (nicknamed ‘Fish’), and kids left a fantastic set up as expats in London to leap into the great unknown of China and are now embracing this life with all its opportunities and challenges. Tune in […]

Ron is Ally’s incredible husband and is very much the backbone of everything she does. He has been in Shanghai over 6 years and is passionate about his faith, family, food, music and fitness. Listen in as Ron walks listeners through his journey to China and shares some of the wisdom he’s gathered along the […]

When opportunity presented itself to trained midwife, Alison Nantz, she took a leap of faith. Alison has spent almost half of her life in Asia and actually met her husband, Josh, when they were kids growing up in Taiwan. They’ve been married and living in Shanghai for four years now. Ali works as a doula and lactation […]

Lolly is from the UK she is the mother of 4 grown children. Over the past 19 years she has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Qatar, Dubai, Singapore, Malaysia and now China. Although her main career in the UK was that of a Hotel General Manager, Lolly has been privileged to work across […]

Heather is a nomad at heart, who loves adventure. From the time she was a small child she dreamt of traveling the world. What she didn’t know was she’d get to see the world by living abroad. In the past 16 years she has moved 13 times between five different countries. A passionate advocate of […]

Evelyn was raised in Taiwan and spent 6 years in the US. She has been in China for 14 years with her husband Gary and two sons Andrew who is attending college in the US and Bryan who is a junior at Western Academy of Beijing. She has been a full-time mother since the birth […]

Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Victoria has been married 20 years, lived in 6 countries has 3 children and one 3-legged cat! Victoria lived in Shanghai for a number of years and just recently moved to Shenzhen with her husband’s work. They’ve sort of done and experienced it all in China and continuing […]