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The Global Chatter with Amanda Bates

The Global Chatter with Amanda Bates

Written by: The Black Expat
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The Global Chatter is the global conversation for Black professionals who refuse to shrink, wherever they are in the world. Each season takes a deep, candid look at expat life, global mobility, identity and career abroad. Hosted by Amanda Bates, founder of The Black Expat. Season 5 is on the way.

© 2026. THE BLACK EXPAT® Self-Help Social Sciences Success Travel Writing & Commentary
Episodes
  • "From Local Kitchens to Global Plates: A Culinary Story" with Kuda Makoni

    "From Local Kitchens to Global Plates: A Culinary Story" with Kuda Makoni
    Apr 27 2023

    Accra-based chef, Kuda Makoni shares his adjustment to the U.S. after arriving from his native Zimbabwe as a young person on the cusp of adulthood. He shares his personal journey of trying to find the right spaces to fit and how his eventual journey into the culinary world just changed everything.



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    59 mins
  • "In Front of the Lens: Navigating a Mixed Race identity With Global Roots" with Georgia Goodman

    "In Front of the Lens: Navigating a Mixed Race identity With Global Roots" with Georgia Goodman
    Apr 13 2023

    In this episode, actress Georgia Goodman  discusses her early years growing up mixed race in Asia & Africa and managing the situations where people did not know how to categorize her. She also shares how her internationalism has helped her career and why she thinks the UK film industry is becoming more inclusive.



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    59 mins
  • "From Brazil to Sweden and Beyond: An Adoptee's Journey of Self Discovery" with Anna Linde

    "From Brazil to Sweden and Beyond: An Adoptee's Journey of Self Discovery" with Anna Linde
    Mar 30 2023

    In this episode, we explore the life of therapist Anna Linde, a Brazilian adoptee who was raised in Sweden. Anna shares her experience of the struggle to understand her identity as a person of color and recounts what happened when she finally met her biological family. She also discusses her year of travel while worldschooling her children. 



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    56 mins
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