The Hiraeth Podcast explores the human experience of finding home through interviews with artists, writers, and others. Share your story.
EPISODES
Podcast Episode 22: Crimea Calling
In 2010, Masha and her brother inherited her grandparents' home in Crimea, the place of her birth. Last Spring, she traveled there and felt a tug to return and explore her roots. She has long felt the pull between lands and questioned her...
Podcast Episode 21: Embrace the Journey
Hear about Cynthia’s adventures as well as her advice to other expats who are trying to find friends, find jobs or find themselves.
Podcast Episode 20: Summer Wrap Up
In this episode, we talk about art, politics and plans for the future. This episode is a series of audio clips from team meetings and conversations recorded over the past six months. It is a reflection on the year so far- as we wrap up for Summer vacation. We will...
Podcast Episode 19: Stardust Magick
In this episode, I talk to Stardust Magick. Star is a transformational artist- transforming herself and others through costume and performance. She believes in radical expression and lives with an open heart and with the intention of simply spreading joy to others....
Podcast Episode 18: Knocked Up Abroad
In this episode, we talk to Lisa Ferland, author and editor of the books Knocked Up Abroad and Knocked Up Abroad Again. She talks about how her personal experiences of giving birth in America and in Sweden led to the realization that there is no one right way to...
Podcast Episode 17: The Black Expat
I had so much fun talking to Amanda Bates, founder and editor of The Black Expat. Amanda launched The Black Expat to provide voices from the Black perspective of traveling and living internationally. It is both an informative resource as well as a source of...
Podcast Episode 16: Expanding the TCK Narrative
Erin Sinogba uses her experience of growing up as a transnational Filipino TCK to expand the narrative of what it means to be a "TCK". Transnational refers to a person who is connected to more than one community across the globe, and TCK is short for third culture...
Podcast Episode 15: Landing in Portlandia
In this episode, I talk to two different women who both happen to live in Portland, Oregon. The first guest is Summer, who has been pursuing a master's degree in psychotherapy, but has continually put her career on hold as life took its course. She lived in Hong Kong...
Podcast Episode 14: Escaping FGM
Today we are sharing an episode originally aired on Shelter From the Storm. Shelter From the Storm is a homeless shelter in London which provides bed, dinner and breakfast to 43 guests every day of the year. They host a podcast which tells the stories of some of...
Podcast Episode 13: Virtual Communities
It can feel very isolating moving to a new city, let alone a new country- however with a quick search online, you're likely to find a network of others just like you. Thanks to the foresight of people like Naomi Hattaway and Emmy McCarthy- who had the vision of...
Podcast Episode 12: Kindness of Strangers
For this episode, I had the pleasure of talking to the mom of one of my good friends from high school. As a teenager, I remember hearing bits and pieces this story. So, it was truly an honor to finally sit down and hear it first hand, at length. Albeit, from opposite...
Podcast Episode 11: We Were All Yugoslavians
“At a certain point, the news became corrupt. Things weren’t making sense… You didn’t know what to believe or who to believe.” If ever someone had a sense of hiraeth, I think it would be today's guest, Kristina, whose homeland doesn't quite exist anymore....
Podcast Episode 10: Coco Sauvage
In this episode, we talk to Daniela who was born in Angola, but fled to Portugal when civil war broke out in the 70's. She talks about what it was like to come from an unrecognised country; to live without papers. She reflects on her time living in a...
Podcast Episode 9: Migrating Heritage
"If all of us tell our stories, it enriches us, and it enriches the world. It helps to really break down those walls and build the bridges that we need." - Sarah Bringhurst Familia In this episode, we are exploring the term "migrant". We will look at some of the...
Podcast Episode 8: In Search of Homeland
With childlike innocence said the girl: “I wish that snowfall were cotton So I could weave a robe for my doll.” Tears came into her red tired eyes, which brought me to a shock. I wanted to give her a reason for the cold- She interrupted me to say, "It's cold because...
Podcast Episode 7: Matatu Kitchen
In this episode, we hear from Fozia and Edwina from Matatu Kitchen, an East African supperclub based out of Bristol. We'll hear about Fozia's journey from Somalia to England, via Kuwait as well as Edwina's adventures across Kenya and Tanzania as a circus performer and...
Podcast Episode 6: Don’t Forget To Write
This episode is about saying "goodbye," but it's also about how we stay in touch. I talk to my nine year old daughter about what it was like moving to a new country and how she stays in touch with her friends. We also discuss how she identifies herself as a sort of...
Podcast Episode 5: Rendezvous in Phoenix
This week, we talk to Tony Sandoval, three-time Eisner-nominated comic writer and illustrator who recently released an autobiographical graphic novel called "Rendezvous in Phoenix" published by Magnetic Press. Tony made his way across the border to reunite with his...
Podcast Episode 4: Tijuana- Life on the Border
Welcome back and Happy New Year! As we enter this New Year, I want to reiterate our mission at Hiraeth Magazine which is to promote empathy and unity, for those seeking home, through the power of storytelling and art. In the first episode of the New Year, I wanted to...
Podcast Episode 3: Itchy Feet Families
In our third episode, we hear from two expat families that traveled abroad for the wife's work! We'll hear from Danielle, a third culture Canadian kid who grew up in Indonesia. She reflects on what home means to her now that there isn't any real tie to the place she...
