The Places We Call Home podcast

A podcast for any woman seeking practical support and life-transforming stories of rebuilding identity, finding belonging, and creating a meaningful life in a new country. Host Yolanda Reshemah explores the real inner work of moving abroad — the loneliness, the loss of professional footing, the homesickness, the cultural adjustment, and the invisible labor women perform to hold their families steady while navigating their own becoming. Through personal stories, practical tools, and conversations with women around the world, this show helps you make sense of who you are now and who you’re becoming. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, isolated, or permanently on duty after immigrating, this podcast is your room — a place to feel seen, share your story, and feel less lonely. For and by: migrant women, immigrant women, expat women, trailing spouses, global families, women rebuilding identity abroad.

The Places We Call Home podcast is a society podcast hosted by Yolanda Reshemah, with 75 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Yolanda Reshemah hosts The Places We Call Home podcast, a society show with 75 episodes published.

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  #75. Why You Don’t Feel Like Yourself Abroad: How to Reclaim Your Identity

  Sep 5, 20268 min

  When you migrate, you enter environments that reinterpret you. In this solo episode, Yolanda Reshemah breaks down why so many immigrant women, expat women suddenly feel unfamiliar to themselves after moving abroad, and how identity distortion happens long before you realize it. From credential devaluation to accent bias to being misread in rooms where people don’t yet understand your history. Yolanda explains the emotional and psychological impact of being seen through someone else’s lens. Drawing from her conversation with Assistant Professor Neisha Terry Young and her own six international relocations, Yolanda shows how identity disruption is a predictable response to being repositioned by new systems, cultures, and assumptions. She offers two practical tools to help you reclaim your sense of self: • A Narrative Audit to separate who you are from who others decide you are • A Belonging Anchor to stabilize your identity while you rebuild confidence and community. If you’ve been feeling disoriented, diminished, or disconnected from your old self, this episode gives you grounded, emotionally honest guidance to reclaim your identity and rebuild belonging from the inside out. Reclaim who you are — before the world decides for you. identity distortion; identity disruption; immigrant women; expat identity; belonging abroad; confidence loss; competence grief; misrecognition; credential devaluation; accent bias; narrative audit; belonging anchor; migration identity; emotional resilience; immigrant experience USA; expat life; rebuilding identity; Yolanda Reshemah

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  #74. Reclaiming Your Worth — Finding Yourself Again After Migration

  Aug 27, 202620 min

  A conversation about rebuilding identity, reclaiming your worth after migration. Educator and scholar Neisha Terry shares the deeply personal journey of navigating identity after migrating to the United States. She speaks openly about having her Jamaican teaching credentials reduced to “nothing,” being questioned about her legitimacy, and the emotional weight of constantly proving herself in spaces that weren’t built with her in mind. She speaks candidly about the exhaustion of becoming, the discipline of returning to being, and the moment she decided to stop shrinking herself and stand firmly in her truth. she acknowledges that self‑definition alone doesn’t erase structural barriers or the exhaustion of proving yourself. Belonging requires both inner clarity and external change. Her story is a reminder that that every woman navigating a new country, a new culture, or a new version of herself deserves to feel seen, valid, and whole. A grounded conversation on identity, worth, and the courage to define yourself on your own terms. immigrant women, expat identity, belonging after migration, Jamaican educator, women entrepreneurs, move abroad, study abroad, live abroad, homesickness, isolation, credential evaluation experience, women in academia, mental wellness, courage, resilience, women of color in academia, self‑definition, authenticity, cultural transition, reclaiming worth, migration identity, Neisha Terry Young, The Places We Call Home podcast

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  #.73 Why Going Back Home Never Happens for Immigrant Women—The Myth of Living the Dream in the USA

  Aug 19, 202621 min

  A conversation on identity, home, and why going back never truly happens for immigrant women. In this episode, I continue my conversation with Dr. Neisha Terry Young , Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University, about what it really means to build a life between geographies. We talk about the emotional weight of being an unconnected immigrant , the freedom she misses from her childhood in Jamaica, and the realities of raising Black boys in America. Neisha shares how a recent health crisis brought the ache of distance sharply into focus — “I wish I were still at home,” she says — and we explore why going back home never truly happens once migration reshapes your identity, your relationships, and your sense of belonging. We also talk about accents, self‑expression, and the challenge of being understood in spaces where your language and culture are not the norm. Neisha reflects on the moment she realized her Jamaican Creole couldn’t be heard in the way she intended, and how that shifted her understanding of voice, confidence, and becoming. This episode is for anyone navigating life across borders — emotionally, culturally, or physically — and for anyone who has ever wondered why “living the dream” doesn’t always feel like the dream at all. A conversation about identity, home, and the truth behind "living the dream". immigrant women; expat women; move abroad; homesickness; loneliness; Jamaican diaspora; belonging; identity; home; migration; American Dream; accents; Black motherhood; diaspora stories

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  #72.Immigrant or Expat? Neisha Young on Naming Ourselves

  Aug 12, 202617 min

  Jamaican scholar and assistant professor Nisha Terry Young joins me for a grounded conversation about identity, belonging, and the labels we inherit when we move to the United States. We explore the difference between immigrant and expat —and how those words quietly shape the way women migrants are seen, judged, and expected to perform competence in their new lives. Nisha shares how her identity as a Jamaican woman fuels her work, and how her decision to pursue a PhD became a direct response to the limiting narratives placed on immigrants in American schools. We talk about the quiet pressure migrant women feel to prove their value, the fatigue of constant adaptation, and the emotional cost of rebuilding identity in spaces where anti‑immigrant and anti‑Black narratives still sit in the background of everyday life. She also takes us home to Jamaica—its mountains, riverbanks, wood‑fire cooking, music, and mangoes—and reminds us how home stays alive through taste, sound, and small rituals that steady us when loneliness creeps in or when the grief of the old self shows up unexpectedly. This episode is for any woman navigating competence loss, language shame, identity whiplash, and the slow, uneven work of belonging in a new country. Part two continues next week.

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  #71. The Hidden Rulebook of Your New Country — What Every Migrant Woman Should Know

  Jul 24, 202613 min

  Five practical tools every migrant woman can use to stop feeling lost Ever felt overwhelmed after moving abroad? This episode gives you the missing manual. Host Yolanda Reshemah breaks down two essential skills every immigrant, expat, and migrant woman needs: Learning the hidden rulebook of your new culture and; Using curiosity and optimism as practical survival tools. You’ll walk away with five clear, actionable strategies to help you feel more grounded, more capable, and more at home in the place you’re rebuilding your life. As the woman who has relocated six times, host Yolanda shares her tools learned the hard way ... through life, not from books and theories. She first moved at age 10, then as a teen, a young professional, a wife and most recently as a mother. On Wednesdays guest conversations bring you lived experiences from a community of women who know where you are and how you feel. If this episode gives you something real, follow the show and share it with one woman who needs this today.

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