Vienna International's Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Nathalie Goldstein is an American founder and CEO of MyExpatTaxes - this episode's partner - the platform that helps Americans abroad file their taxes.
Alexandra Allason is a Swiss-British Membership Manager of The Cover Vienna - this episode's partners. Join the exclusive community.
Erik Herrström is a Swedish creative director and founder of STUDIO HERRSTRÖM. His debut book, "The Echo - How to Design Brands That Move Culture," is now available.
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Alessandra Ranelli is an American New York Times featured writer. Pre-order her first novel, Murder at the Orient Hotel, on Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
Daphne Hebing is a Dutch partnership manager at More Than One Perspective, a non-profit organization helping third-country nationals in Austria find the job that fits them.
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Alexis Eremia is a Romanian social entrepreneur who co-founded Impact Hub Vienna.
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Aryasb Feiz is an Iranian Oscar-longlisted filmmaker whose animated short films have won festival awards worlwide. Watch his movies Mr Indifferent and Tomorrow.
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Benjamin James is an American architect and the founder of Atlas, the software that empowers content creators to build virtual worlds in a fraction of the time with generative 3D AI.
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Andrei Stefan is a Romanian former professional chauffeur. He drove bands like Linkin Park, Iron Maiden, Pink Floyd, Maneskin, etc.
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Shane Grace is an Australian media and policy researcher with over 20 years of experience. His new book, "Greater Than a Tourist - Austria," is now available.
Tetyana (Polovenko) Kohansal is a Ukrainian entrepreneur, managing partner of ks actuaries, and author. Her new book, "Sammy and the Secret of the Golden Coins," is available now.
Dr Kenneth Dekleva is an American practicing psychiatrist, a former American diplomat, a Salzburg Global Fellow, a REAL Mental Health Foundation Ambassador, and a spy novelist. His new novel, set in Vienna, "The Russian's Diplomat Wife," is available on Amazon.
Aron Lúis Gilbertsson is an Icelandic-German pilot and flying teacher for Diamond Aircraft. Watch Aron flying https://www.instagram.com/aronluiis/
This episode is recorded flying a Diamond Aircraft plane and at their hangar in Wiener Neustadt.
Carolyn Lai is a Malaysian-born production lead at the BOLD Community, who came to Vienna to sing and is now heading to Yale University. https://www.boldcommunity.org/
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Adriana Bestea is a Romanian psychotherapist under supervision. Get in touch for a free 30-minute consultation in English. https://adrianabestea.com/
Sophie Nicolas is an Australian financial coach for women. Follow her on Instagram @financial.feminist
Trevor Carlin is an American ex-marine and American Football player for Vienna's WU Tigers in the Austrian College Sports League.
Primaël Quémerais is a French entrepreneur who co-founded SecurEat and recently founded Ospaces - an innovative co-working and event space concept in Vienna. https://ospaces.org/
Rebecca Spanos is an Italian-British citizen who co-founded the Network of International Women in Austria. https://niwa-at.org/
She's also a private chef focusing on vegetarian/vegan recipes. https://www.rebeccaspanos-privatechef.com/
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Katy Witkowski-Strutz is an American customer success manager at Canva. She's passionate about access to higher education, multiculturalism, and media freedom.
Roberta Kostadinova is the finance and operations manager at TrendingTopics and was named a Forbes 30 Under 30 for her initiative Tsarski Pishtovi - a project for civic education in Bulgaria. https://www.instagram.com/tsarski.pishtovi/ (in Bulgarian)
Sagi (Jay) Zilbershatz is a serial entrepreneur who has been living in Vienna after living in Canada, Italy, and Israel. He founded the marketing agency Vsible and the tourism agency Secret Tours Worlwide, which started in Vienna and offers boutique tours for locals and tourists worlwide. https://secretvienna.org/
Dr. Alina Nikolaou is Director and Curator of TEDAI Vienna, the first TED event in Europe dedicated to groundbreaking ideas on Artificial Intelligence. https://www.alinanikolaou.com/
Born and raised in Mexico City, for the past ten years Alfredo has lived in Madrid, Berlin, and now Vienna.
After his Netflix movie Como caído del cielo, his new series Cada Minuto Cuenta premieres on Amazon Prime on November 8. Follow Alfredo on Instagram.
Florentina Olareanu, a.k.a. Golden Hour Pictures, is a New York Times featured photographer based in Vienna for the past ten years. She's worked with many big brands, focusing on portraits, still life, and documentaries. Her new Studio Glasdach is available now for bookings.
Born to a Cuban father and a Puerto Rican mother, Tito is an illustrator, street artist, and stand-up comedian who moved to Vienna nine years ago from Texas. Check out his art on IG @deadbeathero & @titoperezofficial and his podcast @artcadepodcast.
Born and Raised in Amsterdam, Jóia moved to Vienna two years ago after her studies in Maastricht. She's a feminist, a vegetarian since 7, and doing documentaries mainly focused on sustainable and inclusive education. www.joiaboode.com
Sonya Matejko is a writer and founder of Nurtured Narratives - a storytelling company that provides feel-good copy and experiences. She's also a yoga teacher. Sign up for her upcoming yoga and journaling workshop here.
Born and raised in Italy, Eva Sangiorgi moved to Vienna in 2018 to take over Austria's largest film festival - the Viennale, after living in Mexico for 16 years.
The festival's 61st edition will run until October 31st. More info at https://www.viennale.at/en
Currently lecturing at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Vienna as a Linguist, Nathi Dlamini is also a musician. His new album, Kingdom of Love, is coming up this fall. Follow him on Instagram and Spotify.
Keith Gray is an award-winning writer, annually publishing young adult novels. His latest book, The Den, is out now and can be purchased online or in this Viennese bookstore. He's also the co-founder of the Sunday Writers' Club. sundaywritersclub.com
Shane is moving to Vienna after living and working for two years as an English teacher in Bratislava. He's now entirely focused on stand-up comedy. Register for his next show on October 7 here and follow him on Instagram.
Gus Horn was born in Brazil and partially raised in the USA, where he studied nuclear engineering. He works at the International Atomic Energy Agency and performs weekly stand-up comedies in Vienna and worldwide, where he opened for internationally famous comedians.
She's the head of marketing and communications at FDI Center and a writer and editor in chief of 'the lead' business magazine from the female factor https://www.femalefactor.global/the-lead-magazine
Audrey Masi is a scientist passionate about biotech, bioprocesses, innovation, and entrepreneurship. She's a member of FemChem - a group of female scientists at the Technical University in Vienna. https://femchem.chemie.tuwien.ac.at/index.php/parent-panel-discussion/
Kaven studied architecture in Italy and moved to Vienna during the lockdown, where she founded VIǍ (www.viaconnected.com) — an international crowd-logistics platform.
Besides directing the marketing department of Impact Hub Vienna, Itai is a former Israeli Army soldier, a black belt in martial arts, a chess player, and a passionate hiker. In this conversation, he says farewell to Vienna after seven years of living here and shares insights from his army years and long-term goals.
Kevin Çobaj, Brendon Ahmeti, and Agron Bajraktari founded www.synaps.at - a meeting tool where you can draw plans, attach references, and make decisions.
After eight years in the Netherlands, where she met her current husband, she moved to Vienna without a "concrete plan." She shares her experiences as a black woman, a mother of three, and a self-employed copywriter. Check out https://thewerks.nl/ services.
An experienced software developer, Nadia ended up in Vienna after renouncing her Australia and New Zealand options and is now exploring entrepreneurship.
Born in Switzerland to a Japanese mother and a German father, Leon Neubeck moved to Vienna to study Physics after completing high school in Taiwan.
Michael Goldrei is an English photographer from London, featured by The Guardian and BBC.
www.michaelgoldrei.com
The conversation with Fabricio was pure gold... literally!
He's a certified master craftsman from São Paulo, Brazil, producing fantastic handmade jewels. www.do-carmo.com
Born and raised in Romania, after her studies in Prague, Mădălina Boț moved to Vienna to study International Relations and Affairs at the CEU. She's a Communication Officer currently working for https://ifound.global/home/
After moving to Vienna from the Philippines during the pandemic, Justin Espejo (justinespejo.com) started creating YouTube content. The Award Winning content creator recently focused on his Instagram account (@justin_joseph_espejo), where he organically went from 3k to 350k followers in one month.
Born and raised in Russia, Alexandra Timofeeva moved to Vienna four years ago to study Economy but later switched to Art History. She's the co-founder of the cultural youth magazine bohema-wien.com.
Bosnian-born Austrian Sara Velić is one of the three chairpersons of the Austrian Student Union (oeh.ac.at) and chairperson of the Union of the Socialist Students in Austria (vsstoe.at), apart from being a Political Science student and singer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLUr7GfEt5U).
While composing his first opera, Abuzar shares his professional and personal life between Vienna, Azerbaijan, and Turkey.
www.abuzarmanafzade.com
Estefanía left her home country Mexico to first move to Argentina, then Spain, Germany, and finally to Vienna, where she is working as a migration and labor policy advocate and also co-founding/leading the Network of International Women in Austria (niwa-at.org), a non-profit organization.
While finishing her architecture studies six years ago, Nina Jakic started working at the Vienna Business Agency and slowly moved to their Expat Center where she's still creating and managing expat-related events.
Stay informed about the next events by visiting https://viennabusinessagency.at/international-business/expat-center/
Samantha Pyra is a North American Vienna-based filmmaker. She has recently opened a creative space in Vienna called Studio Bräuhausgasse https://www.samanthapyra.com/aboutstudio
Reginald's sold-out shows in 20+ countries across Europe, and he's performing every Friday at Shebeen. In the last six years, he became the "ambassador" of English stand-up comedy in Vienna.
Open to sharing his life drama, Reginald mentions his career highlights, the pandemic struggles, leaving the "greatest country in the world" to move to Vienna, and his recent passions which included creating video games.
On July 22nd, you can watch him perform the fresh "Born Behind Bars" - a true-crime comedy based on real events, at Shebeen.
Moving to Vienna on a bike after his business studies in Dresden, Jirka insists on realizing his dream of becoming a full-time filmmaker before turning 30. He's now 29 with lots of accomplishments.
Check out his latest movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7hvmolcSr0
Denys moved to Vienna after his scholarship in Munich, and before that from Ukraine, to become a Principal Dancer for the Vienna State Opera. He explains how hard, yet how beautiful it is to be a ballet dancer and he also talks about his latest clothing line for male dancers.
Iker finished his Ph.D. in Chemistry in Vienna, which lead him to develop a huge passion and expertise in the insights of wine. Indifference from a sommelier, he explains wine how it works and how it should. Iker talks about the wine production in his home country Spain and further about wine quality, differences, prices, and how to choose the right one.
After moving from the USA a year ago, Jo and her husband are exploring Europe, experiences that she is sharing at her IG blog average.jo.adventures. In this episode, we talked about the perspectives of the Americans regarding Europe, Vienna, the war, and the world.
Officially creating for Visit Austria, Sebastian Burziwal is the talent behind the camera of www.seplb.com and IG @seplb. The photographer, reposted by Oprah Winfrey in 2021, shares milestones of his journey, social media insights, and photography advice.
Margarita Kondratiuk, a Ukrainian MA student and activist in Vienna, speaks the truth about the ongoing Ukraine conflict, sharing facts from her family that is located in Odesa, one of the regions under Russian aggression. She provides concrete steps on how to help Ukraine from Austria and from all over Europe.
An inspirational interview with the 30 years old Mayor of Kopychyntsi, Ukraine, who answers questions about the Russian aggression, while having his night surveillance shift, not denying that this war could be the beginning of WWIII.
Edisa Shahini's journey in Austria started in 2003. The Austrian-Albanian blogger founded disicouture.com in 2010 and won the Best Austrian Blog 2016 award in the fashion category. Her life and career are full of stories that she gladly shared in this episode.
The struggles of moving to Vienna four years ago for her Master's degree, aiming to become a journalist in a German speaking country, while holding strong on her distant relationship.
From being in the same place with Nelson Mandela in Africa, to being a massage therapist in Florida and an English teacher in Japan, Yvonne Lumb decided to retire in Vienna.
Azar moved to Vienna six years ago for her Master's degree and she is now successfuly employed and with a lovely story to share.
Vijit Hooda moved from New Delhi, India, to Vienna 13 years ago, where now runs a successful hospitality business.
Annaux came from Germany to Austria 12 years ago, where she is now facing disability issues and, unfortunately, little support or comprehension.