Two Fat Expats

Hello and welcome to Two Fat Expats. Episode 9 and Kirsty and Sarah are discussing the ugly expat…and we don’t mean looks! Once again the Mawuna Koutonin article made an appearance, this time in The Guardian. Kirsty and Sarah believe that everyone who lives and works overseas as a non-permanent resident should be called an expatriate regardless of race, colour or socioeconomic status. What are the bad stereotypes of an ugly.. Read More

In this episode Kirsty and Sarah discuss having babies and infertility in the expat world. Sarah and Kirsty come from different ends of the spectrum with Kirsty giving birth to 4 babies in different countries while Sarah has struggled with infertility issues and miscarriages. The first article we discussed was this one from the Wall Street Journal. A common theme among many expats giving birth and undergoing fertility treatment is.. Read More

We investigated expat guilt this week. From the moment we think about leaving a little bit of guilt sneaks in. No matter how excited, how terrified, there’s an inkling. The guilt of disrupting others lives, whether it’s as simple as moving the family dog, or as complicated as the school age child. If you’re in your 20’s (and you’re ten foot tall and bullet proof with all the time in the.. Read More

Again, we’d like to thank everyone who has listened, reviewed and rated our podcast series. A big shout out to David from the ABC Sunshine Coast in Australia. Dave gave us a great review on his radio show and we are eternally grateful..we owe you a beer Dave! You can hear Dave’s fabulous review here. To find out more about ABC radio click here. In this episode, we spoke about.. Read More

Thanks for tuning in for another episode of Two Fat Expats. We’re a little bit worried that the first few seconds are a little bit shaky, but we just couldn’t resist the opera singing. I know, you’d expect more from women our age! Here’s the show notes for episode four. The first post we talked about “The Expat Cycle” was a blog post written by Kirsty on her personal blog 4.. Read More

Thank you so so much for coming back to see us. We’re hoping we’re going to get better and better at this as we go along, so thanks for sticking with us while we work out which buttons to push! Here’s the show notes for episode three. The first article we talked about was this one on Silicon Africa written by Mawuna Koutonin. Kirsty’s favourite podcasts which are all on iTunes are: This.. Read More