How She Creates: Ep 314 Create Community, Create Friendships with Denise of Taking Route
We have to dive deep, fast, and be vulnerable to create a community as an expat. Even if you aren’t an expat, it can feel difficult to find and create community where you live. In this interview, Denise from Taking Route explains that there are a lot of reasons to be worried about making friends but we need to risk being rejected in order to create community. She shares her own experiences as an expat, who had to take the risk of being rejected in order to make lasting friendships. She encourages you to look for people where you wouldn’t normally look, and find people who are different from you.
Show Notes
- The Traveling Academy is an online community for parents raising children overseas. We have 9 contributors that are scattered around the world. We discuss the good, bad, hard and fun of educating our kids outside their passport countries. Find us on IG @thetravelingacademy
- Better Help Counseling
- Elise Gets Crafty Podcast
Meet Your Guest
Denise is an Army Brat whose family finally settled in Georgia. Good strong coffee, Netflix and her Bible keep her sane. She homeschools her six kids with an “organic laid back approach” and is thankful they seem to actually be learning something. Ever since she moved to Southeast Asia in 2008, she’s been learning to appreciate the slices of humble pie cross-cultural living serves her every day; especially when the discussion of language is brought up and she, yet again, is reminded that she is not as fluent as her husband. In her “spare” time, you can find her blogging and podcasting.
- Denise IG: @travelinfam
- TakingRoute IG: @takingrouteblog
- TakingRoute FB @takingrouteblog
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