Moving to another country is difficult. Doing it while pregnant, learning a new language, rebuilding your life, and becoming a parent at the same time changes everything.

In this episode of Home, Again!, Shelby Norment shares her journey from the United States to Chile after falling in love, starting a family, and choosing a very different future for her son.

Shelby reflects on identity, isolation, motherhood, language barriers, culture shock, dependence, guilt, resilience, and the quiet emotional realities of starting over abroad. She speaks openly about leaving family behind, navigating pregnancy in a foreign healthcare system, losing independence, and slowly rebuilding belonging one conversation at a time.

This conversation explores what happens when relocation strips life back to the basics and forces you to grow in ways you never expected.

Topics include motherhood abroad, immigration, language learning, identity shifts, cultural adaptation, loneliness, resilience, family, and rebuilding life in Chile.

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What happens when relocation changes more than your address?

In this episode of Home, Again!, illustrator and storyboard artist Pete Woo reflects on leaving South Africa for the United Kingdom and the unexpected personal shifts that followed.

Pete shares the reality behind rebuilding life abroad after leaving behind a settled home, creative identity, family, and familiarity in Cape Town. He speaks openly about grief, hearing loss, confidence, care work, creativity, bisexuality, and the freedom that can come when relocation removes old expectations and allows you to see yourself differently.

This conversation explores belonging, identity, adaptation, and the quiet internal changes that happen when you begin again in another country.

You can find Pete’s work at:

• petewoo.com

• Instagram: @pete_woo

Home, Again is part of Bravely Me, supporting people through life transitions, identity shifts, relocation, grief, and relationship change.

After personal loss, unexpected change, and a journey through Peru, Miranda arrives in Chile with little more than her dog, a suitcase, and the feeling that she no longer fits the life she left behind in the United States.

In this episode, she reflects on culture shock, rebuilding identity, learning to depend on herself, and the slow process of becoming part of a community. She shares how travel exposed her to both deep poverty and deep generosity, how Chilean culture reshaped her understanding of life, and why some relationships faded while others became stronger.

This conversation explores what happens when relocation stops being an escape and becomes the place where you finally begin building a life that feels like your own.

What changes when you stop trying to return to who you were before?

In this episode of Home, Again, Chris speaks with a Ivana Curic whose experience of relocation was shaped by constant change, uncertainty, and the slow process of rebuilding stability from the ground up.

Together, they explore what it means to live through seasons where nothing feels fully settled, and how resilience is often formed quietly through survival, adaptation, and small decisions made over time. The conversation reflects on identity, emotional safety, belonging, and the challenge of creating a sense of home while life still feels unfinished.

This episode is an honest reflection on growth that does not happen all at once. It is about learning to stop waiting for life to feel complete before allowing yourself to belong within it.

Home, Again is a reflective podcast about identity, belonging, and the inner changes that come with living between countries.

In this episode of Home, Again, Chris sits down with a guest whose migration journey became far more than a change of country. What began with uncertainty slowly became a deeper process of learning who she was, what she valued, and how to remain grounded while living between cultures.

Together, they explore the emotional reality of relocation, the pressure to adapt, and the quiet tension between belonging and staying true to yourself. The conversation reflects on empathy, identity, resilience, and the complicated experience of building a life that no longer feels temporary.

This is a story about choosing honesty over performance, and discovering that sometimes the hardest part of moving countries is not losing where you came from, but learning not to lose yourself along the way.

Home, Again is a reflective podcast about identity, belonging, and the inner changes that come with living between countries.

In this episode of Home, Again, Christopher speaks with Mitchell about moving from Cape Town to Norwich, and what happens when a new country makes you more aware of where you come from.

Mitchell shares the pull that led him to leave South Africa, the ache of leaving close friends behind, and the unexpected details that made home feel far away, from familiar foods to summer Christmases. He also talks about safety, identity, culture shock, finding community, and why moving abroad can make your roots feel clearer rather than weaker.

The South African Export is a warm and honest conversation about belonging, distance, self-kindness, and the parts of home we carry with us.

You follow a relationship across a nearby border, expecting you can return if it does not work. Chile feels close to Argentina. The language is shared. The move feels simple.

Seventeen years later, Celeste reflects on what actually changed. She describes the hidden distance between two neighbouring countries, where tone, pace, and social cues shape how you are understood. From moments of being too direct in public settings to learning a more measured way of speaking, she traces how her identity adjusted over time.

This episode explores what happens when you stay. You build a life, you adapt, and you begin to belong. Then one day you realise that home is no longer a single place, but something that has grown with you.

What has living abroad changed in how you show up, even in your own language?

Nayeon Kim moved from New York to Korea as a child, followed by a move to Germany as an adult. In this conversation, she discusses the isolation of moving to a country where she looked like the majority but felt fundamentally different. The episode explores the weight of cultural expectations on an eldest daughter, the realization that physical distance does not create a clean slate, and the long process of forming an identity when no single country feels like home.