Get to Know an Average Joe

You work with a person for several years and sometimes you miss the basic info.  Fascinating to get Mazyar's origin story.  Enjoy...

Jock White talks to Dodi about a career in mining, flying, deck-building, fatherhood and grandfatherhood.  If that's not enough, he also has an incredible survival and rescue story about Cyclone Tracy.

Dodi and Leslie chat about modern communications, life with twins, and changes old and new.

Catherine Mulligan talks to Dodi about career changes, challenging notions, and sparks the next podcast.

Hear his story and what brought him here!  Then go watch Antoni Lacinai on the Ted stage... here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvcbn6WtJvQ  

Dodi spends a few moments with Jean Johnson, talking about career, travel, history, and motherhood.  

To the background of ticking cuckoo clocks, join Dodi and Pat on this meandering conversation covering friendship, Hong Kong in the 60's, leadership and the secret to a long marriage. Happy belated 50th wedding anniversary to Pat and Jean!  

If you know what the Goofy dance is, then you already have something in common with Ben de Vries.  He tells Dodi about a recent and major career move...and thinks about how to make a long-distance, cross-cultural relationship work!  

This episode has been a long time coming.  I spoke to Peter in May, when it was hailing. Now it's winter in Sweden, the first snow has come and gone, but Peter is still chasing his passions... racing, working, travelling, and writing.  Enjoy this chat.

You could call him "Mister Baseball of Sweden" - or you can call him Robban. This episode of Joe is with Robert Claesson.

Minhua is this week's profile on Get to Know an Average Joe.  When Dodi first got to know her, that wasn't her name. Get part of her story when you listen.

Get to know this dad and PR entrepreneur.

Talk about your pivots - Elin Elkehag re-crafted her life midstream.  Hear how it's gone since she moved from Sweden to San Francisco and launched a startup.

Meet J Booth - Louisianian and full-on at all times. This brief chat is our 28th episode of Get to Know an Average Joe! 

Get to know New Orleans resident and superwoman Allison Stiel.  What gives you that extra oomph to be fabulous?

Odella Schattin describes an important teacher who helped shape how she has coached people to gain confidence in what they're doing.  You'll also hear about a certain fascination with cold climates on this edition of Get to Know an Average Joe.

Bori is a woman of accomplishments on the personal and the professional front.  Get her story on this episode of Get to Know an Average Joe with dodiax.

Captured at a moment of major change for Sebastian Lind, this podcast explores how to say goodbye to a longtime job.

Multi-culti Maggie is curious, energetic, and full of humor.  Here's a slice of her life.

Bright in every sense of the word.  Today's new friend on "Get to Know an Average Joe" is Marlene Jacobsson.

Having trouble prioritizing what's important in life? Keep it simple, says Sheila Burpee Duncan.

Cheryl talks to Dodi about big decisions, travel and how to stand for what you believe on Get to Know an Average Joe.

Göran Widham talks to @dodiax about being bipolar.  Is it a superpower or something that ostracizes people?  Explore that, plus storytelling, in this week's Get to Know an Average Joe.

Adam Lloyd's life has led him from Britain, drenched in family, food, and football... to Italy, drenched in family, food and football.  Get a dose of where his creative pursuits are taking him next on this episode of Get to Know an Average Joe. 

I think you'll see what I mean when you listen to this brief conversation with my childhood friend Alison.

Kevin Little is the first "Average Joe" for 2017.  He and Dodi talk about being a teacher, the love of pets, tattoos, dancing and more.

Love. Dancing. The love of dancing.  It all comes together for Andrew Roth in this conversation with Dodi on Get to Know an Average Joe.

Dwight Witherspoon is a lot of fun to talk to.  Lately his focus, however, is less on fun and more on how to support his young daughter through cancer treatment.  Listen and then act.  Give to Bonfire in Massy's name or to your favorite cancer hospital or research fund.  

Diego Zaragoza talks about education, gymnastics, and growing up as a Mexican American.  Get to know a bit about him on this episode with Dodi Axelson.

Ex-pat, educator, joyful person.  Get to Know Jason Johnston on this episode with Dodi Axelson.

Savannah Spillers kicks off our trio of educators on Get to Know an Average Joe.  Let me know @dodiax what you think!

Meet Amber Alberty, who hails from California and the world.  Amber is a Pilates instructor in Mexico City.  Learn a bit of her origin story and what it's like to grow up dancing and have dancing forever in your body.

Dodi talks to Thomas Wavelet about the culture of being a Frenchman, although a majority of his life has been spent outside the country.  Tweet feedback @dodiax

A sad occasion gives rise to a reunion of five friends on a road trip to their friend's mom's funeral.  Sound like a movie? it's actually this special edition of Get to Know an Average Joe.

Dodi interviews Rebecca Amey, who really didn't want to come out of her shell but relented for these few minutes.  See what this polyglot ex-pat has to say about leading a company and finding work-life balance.

I ended up on a 15-hour flight next to Gift and had to record his story.

My mother-in-law and I have almost the same name.  But very different lives.  Listen to Dottie Hansen and the unique connection she has to Tootsie Rolls.

Here's a guy who resisted gender roles by NOT becoming a father and family provider right away.  Jesper Rhode is a curious, driven professional who's always innovating.  Hear just a bit of his story now.

Mark is a masseuse in Mexico City.  (A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors...) It wasn't a straight journey from Kentucky to here.  Find out more in this episode.

Siblings grow up in the same households for the most part, but their growing-up experience differs greatly.  I talked to my sister Darcelle about our young lives, and how we've become friends as adults, while not being friends with our other two sisters.

Camilo Caliz is wrapped in several layers of the ex-pat experience.  Listen to how it all began and where it has taken him most recently in this conversation.

In this episode, we meet Juan Navas, an ex-pat American living in Sweden.  Life got a bit complicated when last year, he took life-changing steps to help his ailing mother.