Podcasts by Overseas F-ing Workers (OFW pod)

Overseas F-ing Workers (OFW pod)

Two Filipinas working white collar jobs overseas talk about getting used to their lives as expats, their meandering professional paths, and what they do, or don't, miss about the Philippines.

Join these Overseas Foreign Workers as they talk about how living overseas changed their lives as they figure out exactly how many of their Filipinos are living, and loving?, elsewhere.

Share your own expat stories with us:
email: ofwpod@gmail.com
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Overseas F-ing Workers (OFW pod)
Episode 15 - Checking in On People Staying In from 2020-05-04T01:00

Jocelyn, Paola, and Marco have been working from home in Jakarta, Indonesia and Singapore for a few weeks now. And while the world has gone slightly mad and everyone's going a bit stir crazy, th...

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OFW Pod Ep 14 – Entering Twilight Zones and Not Knowing How to Quit SG from 2020-03-31T00:00

NOTE: So this episode aged quickly.

Paola and her friend recorded this on 7 Mar, a full month after Singapore went on Code Orange, and two weeks before Europe became the epicenter. It was...

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The OFW Pod Ep 13 - Third Culture Kids and Growing Up Expat from 2020-03-26T00:00

We talk to our producer Marco and his sister Iz as they share with us their experiences growing up and tagging along with their parents expat/OFW experiences in Jakarta, Indonesia and Bangkok, T...

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The OFW Pod Trailer from 2020-03-23T09:04:05

We have a pod trailer! 

Listen to conversations and random ramblings of 2 Filipino women working overseas in Indonesia and Singapore. Share it with your friends and tell them to tune...

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OFW Ep. 12_Jakarta Anniversaries and Expat Conversations from 2020-02-24T00:00

A Lawyer, a Creative, and 2 Marketing Bosses walk into a pod, and that's how we celebrated Joey/Jocelyn's 5 years in Jakarta, Indonesia! We talked with some of our Filipino friends to see how th...

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OFW Ep. 10 - A Very Late New Year Episode from 2020-01-27T00:00

It's 2020! By the time this comes out it would already be close to the end of January, but we are very late. 

The two expats Jocelyn and Paola say goodbye to 2019 with much happiness...

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A Very Special Episode - #TaalEruption2020 Experience from 2020-01-24T12:00

Jocelyn/Joey was in Manila waiting for her flight to Jakarta when the Taal Volcano erupted, leading to 240 cancelled flights. Chaos in the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) as everyone w...

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OFW Pod Ep 9: A VERY LATE Christmas Special from 2020-01-21T00:14:21

Since every expat that worked on this podcast took a long Christmas break, whether they went back to their country or origin or not, this is our Christmas episode. Paola and Jocelyn talk about t...

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8 - All the -isms in the Workplace from 2019-12-02T01:00

Paola and Jocelyn discuss all the office -isms, from classism and racism to sexism and ageism. All expats need to get used to different work cultures when they work abroad and this epis...

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Overseas F-ing Workers (OFW pod)
7 - The This Is Not Dating Episode from 2019-11-25T01:00

Joey tries to sugarcoat the meat market by calling it all dating, while Paola discusses the joys of Singapore dating and explains why she does not partake. 

Dating or meeting people/...

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OFW Pod Ep 6: Sick or Homesick from 2019-11-11T00:00

Homesickness can take a lot of forms: being angry and frustrated all the time, comparing everything to where you used to be, and being thirsty (for friends and dudes). OFWs/Expats Jocelyn and Pa...

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OFW Pod EP. 5: Settling In from 2019-11-04T00:00

OFWs/Expats Jocelyn and Paola talk about how they found their people in Singapore and Jakarta and how they settled in.

Share your own stories of your expat experiences settling in your ne...

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OFW Pod Ep. 4 - Setting Up from 2019-10-28T00:00

Jocelyn and Paola talk about how they set up their new lives in their new hometowns of Singapore and Jakarta. After a long episode talking about POEA struggles, we talk about leaving the Philipp...

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OFW Ep 3: The POEA Monstersode: A Rant in (mostly) Filipino from 2019-10-21T00:00

Jocelyn and Paola rant for over an hour about the Philippine Overseas Employment Association (POEA) and all its related associations (What is OWWA and POLO anyway?). POEA is where Filipinos need...

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OFW Ep. 2 - Our Expat Opportunities in Jakarta and Singapore (and what the heck is POLO) from 2019-10-07T00:00

Paola and Jocelyn struggle through technical issues in their first LDR (Long Distance Recording) episode. Deep dive into why Indonesia and Singapore has such different environments and requireme...

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OFW Pod Ep. 1 - How We Got Here (Expat Starts and OFW Hearts) from 2019-09-22T02:44:27

Overseas F-ing Workers The Podcast Ep. 1 - How We Got Here (Expat Starts and OFW Hearts)

Jocelyn and Paola start the first episode of the OFW podcast with rum and cokes a...

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