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An educational show for anyone curious about becoming an Ex Patriot or ExPat. Our focus is on our experiences in Buzios, Brazil. Hosted from two different perspectives. Karl Schieneman was a successful American entrepreneur who wanted a new challenge in life and Felix Broden a Swedish citizen who moved to Brazil with his wife to start businesses and begin a family. They connected in Buzios, Brazil and thought it would be fun to explore deeper the what, why, where, when and how questions and answers of chasing the ExPat dream in Brazil. So if you love to travel, want to save money in retirement, seek a different life from what you have where you are, or maybe just want to improve your life, this show will offer some insights from two different people who came to be ExPats for different reasons. If you have more questions or need more information, visit our website at ExPatBytes.com or email us at info@expatbytes.com. We hope you enjoy our show.
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October 12th is the day of Children in Brazil. What better day to talk to some students who get their education from Brazilian schools. Listen to Karl Schieneman and Felix Broden interview children and parents about what the Brazilian school experience is like as well as a little bit about a very big holiday in Brazil, Dia das Criancas.
Today is a crazy time to be an American. There is so much disruption going on back in the United States. While ExPatBytes has not jumped into this topic, the numbers of Americans now coming to Brazil sort of has. This will be a special show with two American hosts as Karl Schieneman will be joined by Christopher McAllister and we will talk about the macro reasons behind the surge in both Americans visiting Brazil as well as the number of Americans moving to Brazil under longer term Visas. I think it will be an interesting show. For us two ExPats, the American Dream has moved to Brazil and it is doing very well here.
Listen to Karl Schieneman and Felix Broden talk about the Brazilian five day party known as Carnival. This year Karl Schieneman attended on the last day in the premium Camarote and his high school friend Vladimir Rizberg and his wife Galina attended in a different Camarote as well as attended on the first day of Carnival in the basic seats. Vladimir will be offering his perspective as will another special guest from Dwight-Englewood High School, Tom Wieschenberg, who has created a niche professional space filming South American dance and making movies. A large part of his filmography focusses on Brazilian dances and Carnival in particular. Join us for a lively ExPat discussion on what makes Carnival such a special time in Brazil.
Listen to Karl Schieneman and Felix Broden talk to Dr Everton Freitas about some of the differences and opportunities of experiencing preventative medicine in Brazil. We will discuss coverage available to ExPats and compare our experiences in medical care versus our prior countries. Our special guest, Dr Freitas will talk about some of the differences in approaches he has seen in Brazil versus our perspective on what we encountered in our former home countries. Medicine is a hugh issue for many ExPats who wonder what the differences will be for them if they get sick. This can often be seen as one of the biggest unknowns and barriers to moving to another country. We will try to shed some light on what happens if you come to Brazil.
Today we do a special Schieneman version of ExPatBytes as Lorraine Sarhage my mom, and Gary Schieneman my dad, join me and my Brazilian wife Rita de Cassia Melo to talk about their shared memories of the military dictatorship from when we lived in Brazil and from my wife's memories as well. The fact that a foreign language film is up for the best picture and best actress award at the Oscars speaks volumes about not only how great it is as a movie, but how timely the messaging is. This should be a very interesting podcast.
Listen to Karl Schieneman and Felix Broden along with our special guest, Peter Kraft, all talk about our recent birthdays in Buzios, Brazil. The focus will be on the 60th Birthday which like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, when you reach this milestone means you have earned a golden ticket entitling you to lots of useful lifestyle benefits. Maybe it's not free chocolate, but parking spaces and priority lanes at airports, banks, and stores are all pretty useful to have. All of us had our birthdays last week, two of us are now in the over 60 age bracket, and we are each Expats from different countries. Looking forward to a great show.
Karl Schieneman and Felix Broden speak with Daniel, and Australian ExPat who moved near to a mid size city outside Sao Paulo to be with a Brazilian friend only to have the relationship end after he had accepted a job and set up the trip. Daniel who asked only to use his first name, will be sharing his experiences and challenges in getting set up in Brazil with only basic Portuguese skills. This is the other side to moving to Brazil as he shares his experiences with bureaucracy to set up even basic things like where he was going to live. It has not been smooth sailing, but he has navigated the worst of it. As a result, he has a great perspective on what can go wrong coming to Brazil and how to survive.
Listen to Expats Karl Schieneman and Felix Broden, hosts of ExpatBytes interview Christopher McAllister and hear about his reasons for moving from the metropolis area of Atlanta, GA to the quaint Portuguese fishing village, of Buzios located two hours away from Rio de Janeiro as well as his opinions on the differences between life in the USA and in Brazil.
Listen to Felix Broden and Karl Schieneman discuss their experiences as ExPats in Buzios, Brazil. We will talk about some of the highlights in Brazil in 2024 which just past and some of our thoughts looking forward to 2025.
Listen to Karl Schieneman, an American former EDiscovery entrepreneur turned hotel owner in Buzios, Brazil and Felix Broden, a Swedish entrepreneur with hotel, restaurant and bakery businesses in Buzios, Brazil, interview long-time friend of Karl Schieneman, Tim Opsitnick, about his recent visit to Brazil. We will touch on the trip highlights and how being an ExPat can offer new opportunities for friendships left behind in our former countries to continue to develop.
Listen to Karl Schieneman and Felix Broden talk to a friend of Karl's Tim Opsitnick, about his recent visit with Karl Schieneman. We will ask Tim about his experience and what his impressions were from his visit to Rio de Janeiro and Buzios, Brazil. We will also talk about strategies for maintaining long distance friendships when you are an ExPat.
Karl Schieneman and Rita Melo talk live while eating an array of fruits and drinks purchased in NYC. We are trying to eat healthy for this meal. Listen to our reaction to the fruits and coconut water we found in midtown Manhattan, thousands of miles away from where each of these items come from. This is a special ExpatBytes recorded far away from our home in Buzios, Brazil.
Listen to Karl Schieneman and Felix Broden analyze a recent CNN article entitled Considering leaving the US for good? Here’s what to think about before you move abroad By Blane Bachelor, CNN. Technical there are lots of good tips here. But is this all you should consider? Is the list longer or is it in fact much shorter? Listen to our two perspectives recorded live from Buzios, Brazil.
Felix and I thought it would be fun to review an article written by a journalist offering advice on how to move abroad to see if we agree with what they wrote based on our experiences. I think it should be a fun show as we illuminate why reading about barriers to moving abroad might miss the point a little bit. Our goal is to simply the process for people considering moving abroad based on our experiences living in Buzios, Brazil.
Listen to Karl Schieneman and Felix Broden talk about their experiences as ExPats in Buzios, Brazil. Argentina neighbors Brazil and many Argentines come to work in Buzios at pousadas and restaurants in the area. Having worked with so many Argentines, Rita and I decided to visit Argentina for a week. What a great trip. Skiing in Bariloche at Cerra Catedral and walking through plazas and parks in Buenos Aires seeing so many great neighborhoods. This show will explore the advantages Argentina offers to ExPats who live in Brazil to explore deeper.
Listen to Karl Schieneman and Felix Broden talk about how they have dealt with one of the largest issues of being an ExPat. Namely how to keep the friends you leave behind as friends when you now live in a new country. Let's face it, making friends as we get older is harder to do for everyone. So what happens when you move maybe thousands of miles away to your friendships? Our special guest James Naylor is a therapist and an expatriate currently living in Brasilia. Listen as we share strategies to minimize this issue and also how each of us have dealt with this problem. I should add that each of us strongly believe in the ExPat lifestyle and journey so this issue has not derailed us from a positive experience. But it is a real issue. And I for one hope that each of my friends listens to this show to better understand at least how I feel about this issue.
Listen as Karl Schieneman reaches back into his former life as a legal technologist expert to interview esteemed Scientist Herb Roitblatt how to use new search tools like ChatGPT to bridge language and cultural barriers most expatriates face in their new homeland. We will discuss how these tools work and why expatriates can likely trust the results they find using these tools to find answers to questions which traditional search engine searches might barely scratch the surface to uncover. Listen to Karl Schieneman and Felix Broden on this show as we discuss how we are living our expatriate lives in Buzios, Brazil. There will of course be a few legal war stories told between Dr. Roitblatt and Karl Schieneman as 10 years ago in 2013, we were two members of the legal team who gained judicial approval to use technology to search for documents in the seminal "predictive coding case", Global Aerospace v. Landow Aviation. This should be an interesting, informative and nostalgic show to listen to.
Listen to ExPat's Karl Schieneman and Felix Broden interview German ExPats Hans Peter Kraft and Rolf Geissinger as we talk about what it is like getting used to being married to a Brazilian. There are cultural differences and this could be a very funny show, which hopefully does not end in divorce for anyone. I also did promise the Brazilian wives the opportunity to talk about their ExPat husbands and anything they had to get used to.
Listen to us interview Ricardo Blasi, an Expat in Brazil who moved to Buzios from Argentina in 1989 to start the pousada Baia do Joao with his wife. In 2019 Karl Schieneman purchased Baia do Joao with Rita Cunto and renovated it before renaming it Baia do Joao Eco Pousada. Ricardo is a very colorful person with lots of stories. He is also our first Argentinian expat to be interviewed on our show and perhaps, the first Argentinian expat to move to Buzios. Listen to our show to find out.
Listen to Karl Schieneman and Felix Broden speak with Samuel Zapata, a Columbian expat living in Buzios on the topic of how you can reinvent yourself in a new country and explore passions which you maybe were not exploring in your former country. Being an Expat can be seen in many ways as a second chance in life if approached with a view towards making a new beginning. This does not mean deleting your past life or ignoring it. But taken at its extreme, it can result in a better "you". Listen to how three expats from different countries, accomplished this in Buzios, Brazil.
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