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Hosted by Angela Alvarez · 🇺🇸 us · EN · 22 episodes
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Interviewing Colombians living abroad and foreigners living in Colombia and exploring themes of identity, belonging, community, family, and what it means to be Home.
Angela Alvarez hosts When Home is a Foreign Word, a society show with 22 episodes published.
In this episode I interview singer and content creator Velú Ochoa and discuss art, motherhood and why home isn't where you hang your hat, it's where you hang your hammock. You can find her at https://www.instagram.com/ve
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In this episode, radio personality and podcast host Alexandra Mariño and I talk about growing up away from our birth country and how safety helps us feel grounded, and community helps us feel safe. 🎧 Enjoyed this episod
In this solo episode I reflect on words: the good, the bad, and the cathartic. But especially the bad. 🎧 Enjoyed this episode? Help me keep the stories flowing: 🌸 Subscribe to my free newsletter: Confessions of a Sidew
Richard McColl shares many tales of a life led in pursuit of adventure, and we talk about journalism, storytelling, showing up in service of others and carving out a space for yourself in the midst of hardship while find
In the final episode of Season One, I interview my sister and we talk about moving around as kids, losing our mom earlier this year and dealing with whatever life throws at us by finding strength in ourselves and each ot
In this episode, artist Yamile Tafur talks about art as a means to narrating our journeys both physical and emotional, and how the passage of time shows up in every aspect of who we are and what we do. We also complain a
In this episode, Manuela Arboleda and I explore what it means to be Colombian and not at the same time, how porous national and cultural identity truly are, and how to make sense of a decisions you didn't make but shape
Mónica Ramírez Hartmann share her story about having to convince people to invest Colombia for a living, and how that job made her fall in love with Bogotá. We talk about our shared love for the vibrant city we call home
Mauricio Gómez Weiss shares the emotional story being kidnapped and escaping only to be met with cynicism and disbelief. We talk about the decision to leave Colombia, his lifelong journey to find a place where he belongs
In this episode, I talk to YA author Heidi Ayarbe about writing, embodying places and cultures, the importance of community, the harsh reality of living without Cheerios and how naming a flower after your girlfriend is t
In this episode I dive into the fascinating world of reinsurance and ship wrecks as Ana García tells me all about her life in the most expensive city in the world, how she's trying to keep her teenage daughter from the p
In this episode I talk to Andrea Giraldo about flexibility of body and mind and we reminisce about our childhoods playing Barbies and writing in our diaries while grappling with the violence around us. 🎧 Enjoyed this ep
Santiago LaVerde is a preppy lawyer turned speed junkie who gained a whole new lease on life, love, and what it takes to show the world what you're really capable of in his journey from nepo-baby to newlywed for the seco
In today's episode I sit down with Santiago LaVerde, a daredevil lawyer who left the manicured path laid out for him by his parents and carved a new one out of grit and determination, and he tells me how speeding down th
In this episode I talk to Juana Henao Llaña, an ambitious and driven young athlete who kicked the doors open for herself and her brothers by playing football and then found a new life, and a new love, on the track field.
You will take clowning around very seriously after listening to Maria Cano tell me all about her arduous journey from actress to clown to cake mamma, her struggles with not fitting in, finding refuge in humor, and forgin
Get ready to meet the chillest math teacher ever as I talk to Dereek Maneiro about being a self taught guitarist. getting in trouble for caring too much and straddling the gap between Colombian and Venezuela, black and w
In this episode I talk to Vincent Pollard, a Brit with an ear for music, a taste for cocktails and an eye for metaphor fueled by gypsy blood and passion for words. Vincent shares his take on being a nomad, wrestling with
In this episode I sit down with one of my mother’s oldest friends, Ysabella Hincapie-Gara, and we share a many laughs and a couple of tears as she recounts her journey as a young immigrant in New York City, her unique ta
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