Overseas F-ing Workers (OFW pod)
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Overseas F-ing Workers (OFW pod)
Two Filipinas working white collar jobs overseas talk about getting used to their lives as expats, their meandering professional paths, and what they do, or don't, miss about the Philippines. Join these Overseas Foreign Workers as they talk about how living overseas changed their lives as they fig...
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Episode 15 - Checking in On People Staying In
Jocelyn, Paola, and Marco have been working from home in Jakarta, Indonesia and Singapore for a few weeks now. And while the world has gone slightly m...
OFW Pod Ep 14 – Entering Twilight Zones and Not Knowing How to Quit SG
NOTE: So this episode aged quickly.
Paola and her friend recorded this on 7 Mar, a full month after Singapore went on Code Orange, and two weeks...
The OFW Pod Ep 13 - Third Culture Kids and Growing Up Expat
We talk to our producer Marco and his sister Iz as they share with us their experiences growing up and tagging along with their parents expat/OFW expe...
The OFW Pod Trailer
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Listen to conversations and random ramblings of 2 Filipino women working overseas in Indonesia and Singapore. Share it w...
OFW Ep. 12_Jakarta Anniversaries and Expat Conversations
A Lawyer, a Creative, and 2 Marketing Bosses walk into a pod, and that's how we celebrated Joey/Jocelyn's 5 years in Jakarta, Indonesia! We talked wit...
OFW Ep. 10 - A Very Late New Year Episode
It's 2020! By the time this comes out it would already be close to the end of January, but we are very late.
The two expats Jocelyn and Paola s...
A Very Special Episode - #TaalEruption2020 Experience
Jocelyn/Joey was in Manila waiting for her flight to Jakarta when the Taal Volcano erupted, leading to 240 cancelled flights. Chaos in the Ninoy Aquin...
OFW Pod Ep 9: A VERY LATE Christmas Special
Since every expat that worked on this podcast took a long Christmas break, whether they went back to their country or origin or not, this is our Chris...
8 - All the -isms in the Workplace
Paola and Jocelyn discuss all the office -isms, from classism and racism to sexism and ageism. All expats need to get used to different work cultures...
7 - The This Is Not Dating Episode
Joey tries to sugarcoat the meat market by calling it all dating, while Paola discusses the joys of Singapore dating and explains why she does not par...
OFW Pod Ep 6: Sick or Homesick
Homesickness can take a lot of forms: being angry and frustrated all the time, comparing everything to where you used to be, and being thirsty (for fr...
OFW Pod EP. 5: Settling In
OFWs/Expats Jocelyn and Paola talk about how they found their people in Singapore and Jakarta and how they settled in.
Share your own stories of...
OFW Pod Ep. 4 - Setting Up
Jocelyn and Paola talk about how they set up their new lives in their new hometowns of Singapore and Jakarta. After a long episode talking about POEA...
OFW Ep 3: The POEA Monstersode: A Rant in (mostly) Filipino
Jocelyn and Paola rant for over an hour about the Philippine Overseas Employment Association (POEA) and all its related associations (What is OWWA and...
OFW Ep. 2 - Our Expat Opportunities in Jakarta and Singapore (and what the heck is POLO)
Paola and Jocelyn struggle through technical issues in their first LDR (Long Distance Recording) episode. Deep dive into why Indonesia and Singapore h...
OFW Pod Ep. 1 - How We Got Here (Expat Starts and OFW Hearts)
Overseas F-ing Workers The Podcast Ep. 1 - How We Got Here (Expat Starts and OFW Hearts)
Jocelyn and Paola start the first episode of the OFW po...