House of Peregrine

Move abroad and everything shifts — your roles, your routines, your sense of self. And sometimes, without noticing, you and your partner start relating like teammates in logistics instead of lovers in the same story. Mickelle sits down with Wiebke Anton — relationship coach, mediator, and author of The Relationship Reboot — for a grounded, practical conversation on staying close through the pressures of globally mobile life. Less theory, more real life: what to do when you're in survival mode and still want to feel connected. In this episode: Why international life works like a pressure cooker, amplifying whatever's already there How disconnection hides in plain sight once you've become "perfect life managers" The marker questions that tell a rough patch from a structural problem Inviting a reluctant partner in through seduction, not threat Revisiting boundaries and "couple culture" when a move reshapes your finances and roles A Marie Kondo approach to the rituals you've quietly outgrown For more on this episode and all the links: https://www.houseofperegrine.com/podcast/ep-099 House of Peregrine is the network for International life, made by and for people living abroad. Get started with a FREE account today to unlock exclusive content, connections, and opportunities: houseofperegrine.com/auth/signup Join a global circle of thinkers, creators, and doers. We host events, build products, publish guides, run a podcast, offer rewards and curated products — all within a vibrant ecosystem of experts and businesses to support your life abroad. Subscribe: houseofperegrine.com/subscribe Join our WhatsApp Group: HOP Community Explore Memberships: houseofperegrine.com/memberships Install the App: houseofperegrine.com/install Follow us for daily inspiration and updates: Instagram: @houseofperegrinepodcast YouTube: @HouseofPeregrineofficial LinkedIn:@company/house-of-peregrine TikTok: @houseofperegrinepodcast

Some of moving abroad photographs beautifully; the rest lives underneath, the grief, the pressure to make it worth it, the way one parent's stress becomes the emotional weather of the whole home. Mickelle welcomes back Dr. Katja Aegerter - psychologist, researcher, and self-described serial expatriate - whose work names what globally mobile families rarely say aloud. Across nearly ten countries and two third culture kids of her own, Katja has spent years studying how transition stress moves through a family system and published the research to prove it. She and Mickelle explore the quiet architecture of a life across borders: why the accompanying spouse so often holds everyone steady, why belonging asks more of us than logistics, and how to move toward a place rather than away from an old one. In this episode: How stress ripples through the whole family system, consciously or not The overlooked value of the accompanying spouse, and the cost of cutting support Moving toward something, not away from something How much you truly want to integrate and why it matters Knowing your own rhythm, introvert or extrovert, and honoring it Turning lived experience into research that makes families visible For more about Katja and this episode, go to https://www.houseofperegrine.com/podcast/ep-098 House of Peregrine is the network for International life, made by and for people living abroad. Get started with a FREE account today to unlock exclusive content, connections, and opportunities: houseofperegrine.com/auth/signup Join a global circle of thinkers, creators, and doers. We host events, build products, publish guides, run a podcast, offer rewards and curated products — all within a vibrant ecosystem of experts and businesses to support your life abroad. Subscribe: houseofperegrine.com/subscribe Join our WhatsApp Group: HOP Community Explore Memberships: houseofperegrine.com/memberships Install the App: houseofperegrine.com/install Follow us for daily inspiration and updates: Instagram: @houseofperegrinepodcast YouTube: @HouseofPeregrineofficial LinkedIn:@company/house-of-peregrine TikTok: @houseofperegrinepodcast

What does it really take to feel at home somewhere new, long after the passports and paperwork are sorted? In this episode, Mickelle sits down with Yolanda Reshemah, storyteller and host of The Places We Call Home, for a tender, honest conversation about the inner life of moving abroad. Born in the Caribbean, raised in England, shaped by years in France and now settled in Northern California, Yolanda has relocated six times and she speaks to the quiet work no relocation package prepares you for. Together they explore what it means to "feed your soul" in a new place, why living near people like you is never a promise of belonging, and how identity shifts, sometimes without our permission, when we build a life across cultures. In this episode: Why the psychological move matters as much as the legal one "Feed your soul": knowing the sounds, people and rhythms you need Building community with intention, not by chance The identity you can't pack and choosing who you become Vulnerability, power and protecting yourself abroad Wisdom to carry: change your scales, or find a new pond The Places We Call Home is part of the House of Peregrine network. All links can be found at houseofperegrine.com/podcast/ep-097 House of Peregrine is the network for International life, made by and for people living abroad. Get started with a FREE account today to unlock exclusive content, connections, and opportunities: houseofperegrine.com/auth/signup Join a global circle of thinkers, creators, and doers. We host events, build products, publish guides, run a podcast, offer rewards and curated products — all within a vibrant ecosystem of experts and businesses to support your life abroad. Subscribe: houseofperegrine.com/subscribe Join our WhatsApp Group: HOP Community Explore Memberships: houseofperegrine.com/memberships Install the App: houseofperegrine.com/install Follow us for daily inspiration and updates: Instagram: @houseofperegrinepodcast YouTube: @HouseofPeregrineofficial LinkedIn:@company/house-of-peregrine TikTok: @houseofperegrinepodcast

We're taught that children are sponges, that if you move abroad, they'll simply absorb the new language and everything will be fine. Maria "Mimi" Potvin, linguist and founder of Growing Up Multilingual, is here with a fuller, more honest story. Mimi joins Mickelle to talk about the part of multilingual life no one prepares you for: not how children gain a language, but what happens when a home language quietly begins to slip away and what that costs a family over time. Drawing on her research and her own life across Bulgaria, Germany, and the Netherlands, she reframes language as identity, belonging, and emotional connection rather than vocabulary. It's a tender, clear-eyed conversation about raising confident multilingual children without turning your home into a classroom and about coming home to the languages inside yourself. In this episode: The number one myth parents believe about raising multilingual kids Why "translation is not transmission," and how language is emotion Communicative vs. academic language, and the two "backpacks" a child carries How a home language becomes a child's one constant through every move Why Mimi says, quietly, "I survived because of language" Heritage language as a homecoming, for the child and the parent Find Mimi at growingupmultilingual.com, on Instagram @growingup_multilingual, and on Substack at Multilingual-ish. For more about this episode, visit https://www.houseofperegrine.com/podcast/ep-096 House of Peregrine is the network for International life, made by and for people living abroad. Get started with a FREE account today to unlock exclusive content, connections, and opportunities: houseofperegrine.com/auth/signup Join a global circle of thinkers, creators, and doers. We host events, build products, publish guides, run a podcast, offer rewards and curated products — all within a vibrant ecosystem of experts and businesses to support your life abroad. Subscribe: houseofperegrine.com/subscribe Join our WhatsApp Group: HOP Community Explore Memberships: houseofperegrine.com/memberships Install the App: houseofperegrine.com/install Follow us for daily inspiration and updates: Instagram: @houseofperegrinepodcast YouTube: @HouseofPeregrineofficial LinkedIn:@company/house-of-peregrine TikTok: @houseofperegrinepodcast

When does moving abroad stop feeling like something to prove and start feeling like home? For Claire Naughton, that answer is still unfolding. Eight years into life in France, a path that wound through New Zealand, South America, and a chance meeting in Peru, she joins Mickelle to talk about building a business, and a self, in a country that isn't quite yours. Claire calls herself a "freestyling marketer," helping international service-business owners stay visible without losing their soul. The conversation moves from marketing into something deeper: the quiet ache of never fully belonging, the impermanence woven through expat life, and why your intuition matters most when it feels furthest away. In this episode: Why comparison hits harder when you're building in a foreign country What "freestyling" marketing really means and why writing still wins Using AI without flattening your voice or your humanity Belonging, acceptance, and the myth of "arriving" in France Moving abroad for love: you marry the person, and the country Bringing your whole self, motherhood included, to the work Connect with Claire — her travel blog The Millennial Abroad, plus Instagram and LinkedIn — all linked at https://www.houseofperegrine.com/podcast/ep-095. House of Peregrine is the network for International life, made by and for people living abroad. Get started with a FREE account today to unlock exclusive content, connections, and opportunities: houseofperegrine.com/auth/signup Join a global circle of thinkers, creators, and doers. We host events, build products, publish guides, run a podcast, offer rewards and curated products — all within a vibrant ecosystem of experts and businesses to support your life abroad. Subscribe: houseofperegrine.com/subscribe Join our WhatsApp Group: HOP Community Explore Memberships: houseofperegrine.com/memberships Install the App: houseofperegrine.com/install Follow us for daily inspiration and updates: Instagram: @houseofperegrinepodcast YouTube: @HouseofPeregrineofficial LinkedIn:@company/house-of-peregrine TikTok: @houseofperegrinepodcast