About the show
Where the polished expat story comes undone.
A podcast about identity, belonging, cultural friction, and the strange little moments that reveal who you become when your life crosses borders.
The hosts
Meet Janice and Trice.
Janice Diaz
New York → Italy
Writer, strategist, and builder of platforms around identity, reinvention, and belonging.
Trice Turner
Chicago → United Kingdom
Storyteller and cultural observer on the layered reality of building a life abroad.
The show
The move is not the whole story.
Expat-ish is a conversation about what happens after the arrival.
After the novelty softens.
After the first language fail.
After the dinner table gets awkward.
After you realize that living somewhere new does not simply change your address. It changes your context.
Hosted by Janice Diaz and Trice Turner, Expat-ish explores the funny, uncomfortable, tender, and revealing parts of life between cultures. We talk about the moments people usually save for voice notes, kitchen tables, long walks, and the group chat.
The social rules nobody handed you. The things people do in their own country that they would never do somewhere else. The way language changes your confidence. The way marriage, friendship, politics, food, family, and belonging all start to feel different when you are no longer operating inside the culture that raised you.
This is not a relocation guide. This is not a glossy expat fantasy. This is not a show about becoming magically healed because you moved somewhere charming.
This is the real conversation from the in-between.
What we talk about
The conversations that don't fit the brochure.
Identity
Who you become when your old context no longer explains you.
Belonging
The quiet ache of being included, but not fully understood.
Cultural Friction
The awkward, funny, revealing moments that make life abroad feel very real.
Relationships
Marriage, friendship, family, and social dynamics across cultures.
Reinvention
Not the glossy kind. The complicated, unfinished, honest kind.
The Otherhood
Expat-ish is a podcast from The Otherhood — a storytelling platform for women navigating identity, reinvention, belonging, and cultural in-betweenness.