Katya Barry

This episode is slightly different as my guest today is a born and raised Londoner, a miracle that doesn't happen often anymore, Alicia Cowen. Alicia is a social media consultant and she lives and breathes facebook and twitter. Literally. Many still find social media very confusing so I decided to pick Alicia’s brain a little to share with my audience that it’s not all so scary. In this episode we look into: Why social media matters What to use on daily basis How to decide which platforms to use Cultural differences between Twitter and Facebook Tweet it out! Focus on the social media platform where everyone is hanging out. ~@aliciacowen via #ForeignatorShowPodcast with @katyabarry About Alicia Cowen: Alicia Cowan is a British social media strategist, consultant and trainer for entrepreneurs. Finding fun and creative ways online to attract more business opportunities is what she gets excited about. She is the creator of Twitter Brilliance, and regularly holds sell out social media workshops in her home city of London.     Links mentioned: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Pinterest   Like this episode? Make sure to leave your reviews on iTunes and your comments below this episode. Talk again soon!  

In this episode I am talking to a marketing consultant, Ameena Falchetto. I have interviewed Ameena a couple of times now and this is taken from our very first interview back in October 2012. Ameena is a TCK (third culture kid) born in Dubai to an Egyptian mum and an English dad. She currently lives in the south of France with her family and considers her home to be anywhere where she currently is. (I think most of us global citizens will agree with her here). Ameena started and lead a number of businesses in various countries and now she teaches entrepreneurs about how marketing is not just about big yellow arrows and repetitive call to action exercises. In this episode I ask Ameena: Where her home is How she deals with nationality issues What it’s like to be a TCK child and adult Has being a TCK influenced her entrepreneurial mind How marketing could be different Tweet it out! Culture is more than just a language or a passport~@Ameena Falchetto via #ForeignatorShowPodcast with @katyabarry About Ameena Falchetto: Ameena Falchetto is a serial entrepreneur who has started businesses in the Middle East and France. Six years ago she ditched her corporate suit to share her straight up business and marketing style with the world. She’s worked with multinational companies, government agencies, small business and solopreneurs. She has a wealth of offline experience which she now applies online. With a Masters in Marketing, a background in Fine Art and History of Modern Art, Ameena creates Brand Identity Visualisation – a product that captures a brand’s essence in a single hand drawn image. She also illustrates her business and marketing articles. Ameena is a citizen of the world, she’s half English, half Egyptian, was born in Dubai. She currently lives in a small village on top of a hill in the South of France with her husband John Falchetto, their daughter, two cats and a dog (who were rescued from the United Arab Emirates). Links mentioned: Ameena Falchetto Mummy in Provence   Like this episode? Make sure to leave your reviews on iTunes and your comments below this episode. Talk again soon!

I am very excited to be bringing this episode to you as I speak to the head of a VA company Sarah Speicher. Sarah's story is so inspirational, I just had to speak to her and find out about her challenges and attitudes towards international life. Sarah had left a small town in Slovenia to go to New York to become a professional basketball player without any word of English and any knowledge of what would happen to her there. Her story really touched my heart because it resonated with my own story when I first went abroad to study as a 15 year old girl. Sarah also competed at the highest levels of European basketball and served as a team captain at an European Championship for Young Women. She served as a co-captain and led her collegiate team to the NEC Championship and Women’s National Invitational Tournament. Sarah’s drive and consistency, which she developed as a professional basketball player helped to ahieve great results and teach her identify her strengths and passions. Now, as a mum to a small baby girl, she runs a successful VA firm from her home base in new York while still travelling back to Slovenia for extended periods of time to infuse her home culture to her daughter . In this episode you’ll learn: What it’s like to pack up the bags and go to study abroad What it’s like to loose a job you love but then discover a new passion for your professional life How to deal with culture shock If and how being foreign sets one aside from local based entrepreneurs Who a VA is and what they do Why every international entrepreneur should have one   About Sarah Specheir: Sara Oblak Speicher, is the owner of VBM Pro, as well as a wife, a mum, and a former NCAA D-I basketball player. As a Virtual Business Manager at VBM Pro, Sara possesses a stamina of an athlete, strategic mindset and focus of a MBA graduate, and insights of a small business owner. She applies the experience, background and knowledge she obtained as a small business employee. Sara is also a chapter president of a national networking organization.  As an internationally recognized former basketball player, Sara possesses over 15 years of international professional, athletic and academic experience. Sara has been kind to share a special offer with my audience, check it here to get it http://vbmpro.com/businessbreakthroughsession Like this episode? Make sure to leave your reviews on iTunes and your comments below this episode. Talk again soon!

In the second episode of The Foreignator show I bring you the founder of Worldette.com, Marie Teather. Marie is British who had lived and worked in Japan and Hong Kong. She always new that she wanted to travel and the opportunities that she was seeking were somewhere far away from home. She found herself becoming an editor of an international publication in Tokyo soon after she landed there, an opportunity that would have taken her year to get had she been working back in the UK. Marie’s travel and curiosity gave her an idea to start a website that would not only provide travel advice for women but also offer support, connect those women and allow them to share their experiences by writing for Worldette. More than that, Marie had recently become a first time mum and still manages to travel with her baby boy and run this super successful company. In this episode I talk to Marie about: Is language important when going to live abroad How does one make friend and contacts when living abroad What inspired her to start her business What tips she’d share with new entrepreneurs Tweet it out! Speaking languages helps make more friends and establish business connections~ @marieteather via #ForeignatorShowPodcast with @katyabarry About Marie Teather: Marie Teather, founder of Worldette.com, is a British-born lifestyle design expert who advises women on how to get out in to the world, travel more, and enjoy life wherever home may be. She has become an expert in leading an adventure-filled life since emigrating around the world three times in the last 11 years to Japan, London and Hong Kong, and travelling to over 30 countries while advancing a career as journalist, launching her business, being a wife and mum, and leading her movement of Worldettes.     Links mentioned: Worldette I look forward to reading your reviews and words of support on iTunes and below this episode. Until next time, tada!

In the very first episode of The Foreignator Show I chose to feature an artist and entrepreneur Mayi Carles from Panama. Mayi is one of those people that make you smile and giggle when you listen to her. She is a joy to chat and to listen to and not only because she’s has a super bubbly personality but she is also incredibly smart and managed to build a world class business in a very short period of time. As a foreigner, Mayi always thought that her strong foreign accent is going to hold her back from achieving the success she wished for. As it turns out, her accent and her cultural background actually paid her huge favors in positioning herself as an international leader in business wisdom for creative personalities. In this episode you’ll find out: Do accents matter when working on an international arena How international education influenced Mayi’s understanding of others Who is her main support team What should all creatives know about making money About Mayi Carles: Mayi Carles is a tiny Panamanian artist with a T-Rex heart. Current obsession: Party props + pandas + Red Velvets. Uniform of choice: Her paint-stained Eeyore pajamas. Hidden talent: Singing in the shower. Where she makes people laugh + feel loved + turbocharge their piggy banks.     Tweet it out! Every successful entrepreneur should have a strong support team, mine is my aunt and grandma~@mayicarles #ForeignatorShowPodcast with @katyabarry Links mentioned: Heart Made Blog   Make sure to tune in again and leave your reviews on iTunes for me and underneath this episode. I value your feedback hugely! See you next time!