About

I moved to China in 2014 with — I'll admit it — a bit of a gleam in my eye and a tremendous amount of ignorance for what lay ahead of me.

I was, by all accounts, genuinely on my way home from Kentucky to Florida after an 8-year hiatus.

I never made it to Florida. My good friends from Kentucky invited me to join them on a one-year stint in Shanghai. They moved back to Kentucky nine years ago. Me, on the other hand?

I'm still in Shanghai — and the truth is, I'm still here not because I love it, but because I know what it is.

After the ups and downs of living in a completely different country for 12 years — marrying, starting a family, holding down a job, even enduring covid insanity — I started this podcast to paint the truest picture of what it takes to really live abroad. Not to party for a year. Not to dip in and dip out. Not to do a language exchange. No — what does it take to live a life worth living in a completely different place?

I'll tell you the truth.

If you're working through a decision about living abroad — let's talk.