Life in your thirties, with immigration as a backdrop.
Life in your thirties, with immigration as a backdrop.
No grand speeches about expat life. Real conversations, the kind you have with friends once you stop pretending everything is fine.
Paperwork, housing, work permits, and above all the moment you realise you are starting from scratch, in your thirties, in a country where nobody knows you.
What moving really costs, the numbers nobody gives you, how you learn a banking system that is not your own, and how you start saving again.
How you go from zero contacts to a real address book. The people I called, the ones who opened a door, and the ones best avoided.
Long-distance friendships, family six hours away by plane, the birthdays you miss, the choices you own anyway. And work, in the middle of all that.
Building a business in a country whose codes you are still learning. What works in Montreal and not in Paris, the admin, the mistakes that cost you.
The professionals I actually call: real estate, finance, legal, business creation. They come and answer the questions we are too shy to ask.
Short enough for a metro ride or the washing-up. Follow the show wherever you already listen, and they land on their own.
The podcast tells the story. The notebook gets it done.
Soline, founder of Le carnet de June.