Have you ever felt like a foreigner in the country you were born and grew up in? I definitely have, many times! And, I still feel that way very often when I’m in Ecuador, my country of origin.

This is a common experience for many expats, immigrants, and people with multicultural family backgrounds and intercultural lives. And it is not an easy one to navigate!

I invited my friend and Embodiment and Empowerment Coach, Monica Stevanovic, to chat with me about what it was like for her to grow up in the United States as the daughter of European immigrants learning Polish instead of English as her first language. 

We also chat about:

• Monica’s mom’s story on how she came to the United States from Poland not knowing English and became a physician in less than one year

• The transformational journey that took her from electrical engineering to embodiment coaching

• What embodiment means and what it might feel like 

• Some of the tools that can help us experience embodiment and let our true essence shine

• Kundalini yoga and ecstatic dance

• Overcoming our own mind blocks to allow our creativity (we all have it in us!) to flow and express itself freely

• Monica’s journey with music and creating her own songs

• Monica’s favorite untranslatable words in Polish :)

Ready? Let’s go! Vamos! C’est parti!

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Connect with Monica Stevanovic:

Follow and reach out to Monica to find out more about her 1:1 coaching services!

Email: monica.stevanovic@gmail.com 

Instagram: @harmonic.hearts

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Email: coachkaterinasalas@gmail.com

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¿Sueñas con ser bilingüe o te interesa vivir en otras culturas pero te da miedo o te parece algo muy difícil de alcanzar? ¿Sientes frustración o desmotivación porque te es difícil aprender y hablar bien inglés o algún otro idioma extranjero?

En nuestro primer episodio en español con una invitada especial, conversamos con Jolie Avant, quien ama los idiomas y las culturas extranjeras, trabaja como Profesora Bilingüe en los Estados Unidos, y es mamá de dos niñas biculturales y bilingües. Jolie nos cuenta sobre las decisiones, las herramientas y el tipo de mentalidad que le permitieron embarcarse en una aventura intercultural en el extranjero, convertirse en una inmigrante colombiana orgullosamente bilingüe y bicultural, y cumplir varios de sus sueños amando y viviendo en dos idiomas y dos culturas diferentes.

Hoy hablaremos sobre:

• El curso de inglés que cambió la trayectoria de su vida y el programa de intercambio intercultural que le abrió la puerta a otro mundo (U.S. Department of State Au Pair Program)
• El choque lingüístico que sintió al llegar a los Estados Unidos y darse cuenta de que a pesar de conocer muy bien el inglés en su cabeza, le costaba entender, hablar y conectarse con la gente local y participar activamente en la comunidad
• Las claves para salir de nuestra zona de confort y superar los desafíos lingüísticos, las dudas, la frustración, el miedo, y la vergüenza que surgen en el camino hacia el bilingüismo 
• Los sueños personales y profesionales que ha logrado cumplir en sus 15 años viviendo en Estados Unidos gracias a su amor por el español y el inglés
• Dos tradiciones culturales únicas de Colombia y Estados Unidos que le ayudan a nutrir su identidad bicultural y transmitirla a su familia

Lista/o para una dosis de inspiración y motivación? Necesitas un empujoncito para tomar ese paso que cambiará tu vida y te ayudará a seguir avanzando en tu propia aventura con el bilingüismo? Vamos! Let’s go! C’est parti!

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Conéctate con Jolie Avant

Email: Jolieavant@gmail.com

Instagram: Jolie Andrea | Hablando Entre Nosotras

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Escucha Hablando Entre Nosotras, el podcast de Jolie Avant

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Aprende más sobre el programa de intercambio en el que participó Jolie Avant aquí: U.S. State Department Au Pair Exchange Program

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Conéctate con Katerina Salas

Instagram: @coachkaterinasalas | LinkedIn

Email: coachkaterinasalas@gmail.com

Agenda una Llamada de Conexión GRATUITA con coach Katerina

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Today, we welcome a fellow expatriate and Yoga & Self-Love Coach, Amarins Brandenburgh to talk about what we can do to authentically connect with others and adapt to a new environment without losing ourselves in the process.

We chat about:

• Amarin’s cross-cultural experiences in France, Australia and Spain

• Her native Friesland and its culture

• Feeling more free to be yourself in a foreign country than in your native country

• What self-love is and what it means to be authentic 

• Why practicing self-love and staying connected to our most authentic self is one of the foundations of our wellbeing and of experiencing a genuinely fulfilling life 

• Self-awareness, self-knowledge and self-love as tools to authentically connect with ourselves and others 

• Balancing staying true to who we are and adapting to a new community we want to be a part of

• Off days and how to embrace them and flow through them

• Practical tools to shift our negative self-talk, reconnect with our most authentic self, and overcome the fear of being rejected for being our authentic self

Ready to turn your intercultural life into an experience that feels much more fulfilling and is genuinely aligned with who you are and what really matters to you? Let’s go! Vamos! C’est parti!

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Connect with Amarins Brandenburgh:

Email: amarinsyogahealthcoach@outlook.com

Instagram: @amarins.brandenburgh

Website: https://amarins.es/

Book a FREE Self-love Call with Amarins Brandenburgh

Subscribe to get her FREE E-book: My top 10 tips to reconnect to your most authentic self!

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Connect with Katerina Salas:

Instagram: @coachkaterinasalas | LinkedIn

Email: coachkaterinasalas@gmail.com

Book a FREE Connection Call with coach Katerina

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Join & Support the BWBC Community:

Do you have a topic suggestion for an episode? Would you like to give some feedback? Click here!

Are you interested in being one of Katerina’s conversation partners in a guest episode? Click here!

Want to join the Intercultural Wellbeing email community? Click here!