Once You Leave, You're Never the Same

About this episode

In this episode, Saadia Khan interviews Laura Peruchi about the challenges and realities of immigrant life in New York City.

Immigrant life in New York City looks glamorous from the outside, but what happens when you arrive in January with snow up to your knees, no work permit, and no roadmap for who you're supposed to become? In this episode, host Saadia sits down with Laura Peruchi, a Brazilian journalist, content creator, podcaster, and one of New York City's most trusted voices for immigrants navigating life in a new country. Laura is the host of Transplants, a podcast about women thriving in new roots abroad, and the writer behind The Tiny Apple, a newsletter about New York life told with radical honesty. Laura and Saadia get into the raw, unfiltered parts of immigrant life that don't make it onto Instagram: What it really feels like to go from financially independent to completely dependent on a dependent visa, and why Laura didn't talk about it until she got her green card The identity shift of switching your content from Portuguese to English, and how language changes your personality Why Laura started a podcast specifically for immigrant women, and why she says "men already have enough spotlight.” The in-between world of being a transplant: too Brazilian for America, too Americanized for…

People in this episode

Host: Saadia Khan

Guest: Laura Peruchi

Topics covered

• immigrant life
• identity shift
• language and personality
• community building
• podcasting for women
• cultural transition

Keywords

• immigration
• New York
• Brazilian journalist
• content creation
• language
• community
• podcast
• identity
• transplant

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Transplants, The Tiny Apple

Places: New York City, East Harlem, Brazil, America

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