House of Peregrine: The Global Life Podcast

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Nov 2026

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Welcome to House of Peregrine, a podcast hosted by Mickelle Weber, the Founder & Auteur of House of Peregrine. Mickelle brings together a diverse range of experts, seekers, and fellow Peregrines to delve deep into the multifaceted aspects of living abroad. Through thought-provoking conversations, personal anecdotes, and expert insights, Mickelle and her guests navigate the intricacies of living abroad. They share their wisdom, experiences, and strategies for building meaningful connections, managing financial matters, nurturing relationships, and finding a sense of purpose and fulfillment in an unfamiliar environment. Whether you are a seasoned expatriate, an aspiring wanderer, or simply curious about the peregrine experience, this podcast offers invaluable guidance and inspiration. Each episode takes you on a journey of self-discovery, expanding your perspective and empowering you to thrive amidst the complexities of living abroad. We look forward to having you join us on the House of Peregrine Podcast as we explore the depths of the expatriate experience. For more about our community, visit https://www.houseofperegrine.com/

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November 4, 202645 min

You’re Fighting About the Wrong Thing | Ep 102

Love and money make a complicated pairing. Add a border and a country that isn’t the one you grew up in and the conversation gets harder still.Victoria Cantemir and Carlos Garcia of Amsterdam Financial Coaching, are a married couple who help international partners get on the same page about money, as a team. Victoria left Moldova for Amsterdam sixteen years ago, did everything by the book, and still never felt like she’d arrived. What she discovered became their work: money is never really about money. It’s about values, and whether two people are building toward the same life.A conversation about the quiet arguments (yes, the price of cheese), the goals that drift apart when no one’s watching, and why a plan — even an imperfect one — is what makes a life abroad feel like yours. In this episode: Why “it’s never about money” — and what every argument is really about The three layers couples move through, from daily friction to the bigger questions Avoider and chaser: the dynamic nearly every couple quietly plays out How goals fall out of alignment the further ahead you look Building a shared plan when you don’t know how long you’ll stay The couples therapy behind the coaching — practicing on themselves first Find out more about Victoria and Carlos and their coaching at https://www.houseofperegrine.com/podcast/ep-102 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: @houseofperegrine podcast YouTube: @HouseofPeregrineofficial LinkedIn: @company/house-of-peregrine TikTok: @houseofperegrine podcast

October 28, 202652 min

Creating a Regenerative Village | Ep 101

What does it take to build a life — and a village — that actually is regenerative and reflects those values? Luna Mangan is a somatic sexologist and co-steward at Traditional Dream Factory (TDF), the regenerative, tokenized village in Portugal’s Alentejo co-founded by her partner, Samuel Delesque. Luna traces her move from designing five-star hotels in London to building community rooted in the body, the land, and the long term. Together they explore why so much truth lives below the mind, and how choosing where and how we live becomes a quiet act of resilience. In this episode: Somatic sexology: why the body holds what talk alone can’t reach Leaving burnout behind for a more aligned way to live and work Inside TDF: a regenerative village built on stewardship, not ownership How blockchain and tokens can value time and care, not only money Burning Man–inspired principles: inclusivity, consent, leaving a positive trace Consent as a lens for how we spend our time, energy, and attention A conversation for anyone drawn to belonging, intention, and a different blueprint for home. Find Luna, Traditional Dream Factory, and everything from this conversation at houseofperegrine.com/podcast/ep-101 . 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: @houseofperegrine podcast YouTube: @HouseofPeregrineofficial LinkedIn: @company/house-of-peregrine TikTok: @houseofperegrine podcast

September 16, 202646 min

The Relationship Reboot Abroad| Wiebke Anton | | Ep 99

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: @houseofperegrine podcast YouTube: @HouseofPeregrineofficial LinkedIn: @company/house-of-peregrine TikTok: @houseofperegrine podcast

September 9, 202658 min

You Are the Table: The Overlooked Power of the Accompanying Spouse | Ep 98

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: @houseofperegrine podcast YouTube: @HouseofPeregrineofficial LinkedIn: @company/house-of-peregrine TikTok: @houseofperegrine podcast

September 2, 202644 min

What It Really Means to Feed Your Soul Abroad | Ep 97

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: @houseofperegrine podcast YouTube: @HouseofPeregrineofficial LinkedIn: @company/house-of-peregrine TikTok: @houseofperegrine podcast

August 26, 202649 min

It's Never Just About the Language: Raising Multilingual Kids with Maria "Mimi" Potvin | Ep 96

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: @houseofperegrine podcast YouTube: @HouseofPeregrineofficial LinkedIn: @company/house-of-peregrine TikTok: @houseofperegrine podcast

August 19, 202658 min

Visibility Without Losing Your Soul Abroad | Claire Naughton | Ep 095

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: @houseofperegrine podcast YouTube: @HouseofPeregrineofficial LinkedIn: @company/house-of-peregrine TikTok: @houseofperegrine podcast

August 12, 20267 min

The Difference Between "I Need You" and "Come With Me" | Summer Special

Part of the House of Peregrine Summer Series, shorter clips drawn from our favourite episodes, for those in-between moments when you want wisdom without the full sit-down. In this clip, depth psychotherapist and author Vanessa Bennett, of The Motherhood Myth and the Cheaper Than Therapy podcast, unpacks one of the most quietly corrosive patterns in our relationships: codependence. Her definition is disarmingly simple, "if you're good, I'm good; if you're not good, I'm not good", a sense of self located entirely outside yourself. Mickelle and Vanessa trace how we learn it, from people-pleasing and passive-aggression to the fear of abandonment underneath, and why the financial system can quietly force it, especially on women. Then comes the turn: interdependence. Not hyper-independence, but two sovereign people relating without needing the other to change in order to feel okay. It's a reframe with real stakes for anyone building a life with a partner, especially couples navigating the identity upheaval of moving abroad and it rests on the deepest work of all: trusting that, no matter what, you will be okay. Connect with Vanessa Bennett at vanessabennett.com. Produced December 2025. Listen to the full conversation: https://www.houseofperegrine.com/podcast/ep-085 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: @houseofperegrine podcast YouTube: @HouseofPeregrineofficial LinkedIn: @company/house-of-peregrine TikTok: @houseofperegrine podcast

August 5, 20268 min

Student Visas: A New Way to Live In Europe at Any Age! | Summer Special

Part of the House of Peregrine Summer Series, shorter clips drawn from our favourite episodes, for those in-between moments when you want wisdom without the full sit-down. In this clip, Move to Europe visa expert Travis Drews - founder of the Global Citizen Hub - dismantles the biggest myth about moving abroad: that you need a corporate transfer or a backpacker's freedom to do it. The truth is there are far more legal routes than most people realise, open to you at any age and any income level. Mickelle and Travis walk through student visas, job seeker visas, and language-study routes (in France, learning French can be your visa). The standout: while the average US student carries around $40,000 in loans, public universities in Germany are free, even for foreigners, and study programs often help you land a job, opening a pathway from student visa to residency to citizenship. Travis also shares how his Ultimate European Scholarship Database helps people turn "someday" into a real, legal life abroad. Connect with Travis Drews at theglobalcitizenhub.com or on Instagram @theglobalcitizenhub. Produced January 2026; visa rules change, so always confirm current requirements. Listen to the full conversation: https://www.houseofperegrine.com/podcast/ep-081 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: @houseofperegrine podcast YouTube: @HouseofPeregrineofficial LinkedIn: @company/house-of-peregrine TikTok: @houseofperegrine podcast

July 29, 20267 min

Love Won't Protect Your Finances | Summer Special

Part of the House of Peregrine Summer Series, shorter clips drawn from our favourite episodes, for those in-between moments when you want wisdom without the full sit-down. In this clip, House of Peregrine founder Mickelle Weber shares the heart of her TEDx talk, the story of a single moment in a minivan that changed everything she thought she knew about fairness, family, and financial safety. What began as unexplained anger became a clear-eyed reckoning with invisible labour: the caregiving and household work that holds a family together but never shows up on a paycheck. From a bank telling her she was "better left off the loan" to a napkin sketch of how two partners spend the same 24 hours very differently, Mickelle builds toward a bigger truth — our economy depends on household labour yet refuses to value it. As Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin put it, the world runs on women. It's a call to have the conversations about money and value before crisis, especially for couples building a life abroad. Recorded at TEDxAmsterdamWomen (November 2024). Produced for House of Peregrine,June 2025. Listen to the full conversation: https://www.houseofperegrine.com/podcast/ep-066 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: @houseofperegrine podcast YouTube: @HouseofPeregrineofficial LinkedIn: @company/house-of-peregrine TikTok: @houseofperegrine podcast

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