Innlendingar

In this episode, we get to know the lovely Lauren Charnow and hear all about the various community-building projects that she has been involved in since she arrived in Iceland around three years ago. Thank you, Lauren, for a lovely chat!

In this episode, we spoke with the lovely Nicholas, one of the founders of Nágrannar, everyone's favourite food delivery app. We had a very touching chat about struggle, entrepreneurship, and resilience, and it was nothing but a pleasure to have Nicholas in the studio. Enjoy!

In this episode, we revisit our love/hate relationship with the beautiful Icelandic language. We talk about where we are at on our own journeys to learning the language, and we also dive into the treacherous comments section to get some insight into what some (some!!) native Icelanders feel about non-Icelandic speakers working in customer-facing roles. It's a juicy one.

In this episode of Innlendingar, we have a little catch-up about the sometimes tricky subject of the festive season, discuss some of our goals for the coming year, and talk about some of the things that we are looking forward to in 2022!

In this episode, we spoke to the lovely, sunny Jewells who is the host of the All Things Iceland Podcast and Youtube page. We talked about her journey towards finding home in Iceland, grappling with the Icelandic language, staring matches in Árbær, and much, much more. https://www.youtube.com/c/AllThingsIceland https://www.instagram.com/allthingsiceland/

In this episode, we discuss what microaggressions are, how they can hurt, and what we can do to avoid them.

In this episode, we spoke to our dear friend Safa about her formative childhood years in Tunisia, what brought her here to Iceland, and how she continuously strives to develop an entrepreneurial mindset in the context of her two incredibly innovative businesses that she is building here in Iceland.

Winter can be a challenging time of year here in Iceland so we decided to share some of the things we are very much looking forward to during the coming winter season.

In this episode, we spoke to Jordan Tyler who is originally from the USA and has been living in Iceland on and off since 2015. We spoke about physical and mental strength, how it gets harder and harder to say goodbye to family living at home, and the constant challenge of achieving a sense of belonging as an innlendingur living in Iceland.

In this episode, we speak to Arthie Bellot, a geologist and master in renewable energy who is originally from Dominica. He told us about his childhood in a tropical paradise, a natural disaster that destroyed his home and changed his life, as well as his experience living, studying, and working in Iceland.

In this episode, we get honest and a little bit vulnerable about our experience of cultivating a sense of belonging in a new place and we share some tips and tricks about how to make the people around you, whoever they are, feel welcomed and valued.

This is part two of Sayed's unbelievable story in which he goes over his experience since arriving in Iceland as a refugee, his time in Iceland's refugee camps, and his interactions with Icelandic policy-makers and politicians.... and it is probably fair to say that it has not been all sunshine and rainbows. I think this episode will be very eye-opening for us all.

In this episode, we share the first of two parts of Sayed's story. Originally from Afghanistan, Sayed was forced to flee his homeland as Taliban forces grew stronger and stronger in his region of the country. He tells the unbelievable story of how he tried twice to flee the country - a story filled with inconceivable violence as well as moments of great beauty and goodness. His journey from Afghanistan to Europe shaped who is is as a person today, and we were honoured to be able to receive him.

In this episode, we spoke to Kathryn Gunnarsson who is one of the founders of Geko, a rapidly growing and highly innovative recruitment agency in Iceland that has received three nominations for the Nordic Start-Up awards. Originally from the UK, Kathryn moved to Iceland in 2016 with her Icelandic husband and young family without knowing a single person and, in the face of a devastating personal trauma, has been able to build a thriving business and a gorgeous family and we had the pleasure of being to pick her brains and find out how.

In this episode, we spoke to fellow ~innlendingur~ Nicolai Engelbrecht - a healer, speaker, guide, author and much, much more . He spoke to us about his drastic transformation from a life of organized crime to a life that is dedicated to helping others to overcome obstacles, whatever they may be, and to live a happier and more fulfilled life.

In this episode, we sat down with Caroline Cheron, an interior designer, mother, and adventurer from France, who made the brave decision to relocate to Iceland with her family after having fallen in love with the country as a tourist. We talked about her experiences in setting up and running a business in Iceland, building a healthy relationship with failure, and nurturing your spirit of adventure.

Get to know us a little better in this (predominantly) light-hearted episode in which we ask each other an eclectic range of questions ranging from what the most disgusting Icelandic food we've eaten is to what our spirit animals are.

In this episode, we talked with the lovely Alo - an innlendingur from Chile who has recently become a mother. She gave us a very moving insight into the life of a new mother as a foreigner in Iceland and shared some of the ways that she has learned to survive and thrive in the most important role of her life so far.

In this episode, we highlight some of the moments of culture shock that we've experienced while living in Iceland. We discussed Icelandic naming traditions, Californian over-friendliness, the female nipple, and much more! If you have any of your own culture shocks that you'd like us to share in another episode…please send them our way

In this episode, we chat with the wonderfully charming Kyana Sue otherwise known as 'that girl on tiktok.' In what is our first interview with a fellow ~innlendingur~ we get to learn about Kyana's personal highs and lows of pursuing her dreams of settling in Iceland.

In this episode, we go over some of the things that we do to look after our mental well-being during the process of growing roots in a new place.

Ég tala ekki íslensku and sometimes it's unclear whether we ever will tala íslensku BUT!!!! we are doing our best and in this episode we go over some of our personal highs and lows when battling with this beautiful, fiendish language.