Overseas Radio Network - Expats Living Abroad

Laura Inks Bodine and Clay Bodine -- founders of Fishbon del Sur in Cuenca -- will be the featured guests on this week’s “Ecuador At Your Service” radio show An independent affiliate of Santa Barbara, California’s Fishbon collaborative, Fishbon del Sur’s purpose is to provide a forum, education and support for creative collaboration, mentorship and the visceral experience of visual, aural and performance-based art. It is also provides exhibition media for the artists and their work. Housed in an 80-year old colonial house in Cuenca’s El Centro district, Fishbon del Sur seeks to blend the dynamic creative cultures of Southern California and the highlands of Ecuador for mutual exploration and collaborative expression. Laura and Clay talk about how they met and founded this creative alliance and why they decided to move themselves and this idea to Cuenca. Laura also talks about her role portraying Inez McCormick, an Irish activist in the recently sold-out play SEVEN. 

Take 10 steps back, clearly focus, pay attention, and what do you see?  That is what you will do today listening to Blake Sawyer's open letter to people living in the United States of America.

Recording this show made me want to give everything up, pack it all in and spend my savings on a 4x4 and go on an adventure. Although, any adventure I take would pale in comparison to that achieved and being undertaken by dutch couple Karin-Marijke and Coen.    Karin-Marijke, Coen and their Toyota Land Cruiser BJ45 have been on the road in Asia and South America since 2003. They are often characterized as the slowest overlanders in the world but for them it’s all about staying in places and connecting with people. Can you imagine my excitement to be able to sit down and chew the fat with Karin at a coffee house in Bogota and hear about their adventures in Iran and in Colombia and beyond before they headed off along a little known route to Puerto Carreno at the far end of the Colombian Llanos bordering Venezuela!    Read more about their incredible lives here on their website: http://www.landcruisingadventure.com/ and tune in to the show to hear a first account of life on th

Mary & Tod Freeman, co-founders of the CA non-profit corporation, Helping Kids in Ecuador (HKIE - http://helpingkidsinecuador.org) and HKIE Board Member Will Taylor, will be the featured guests on this week’s “Ecuador At Your Service” radio show.   Our guests will talk about the inception and growth of this incredible charity, whose goal is to provide medical help, hope, and healing to children in Ecuador who would otherwise not be able to receive services.    The three will talk about the Salinas chapter and its upcoming Fundraiser, March 6 in Salinas (“A Taste of Salinas”); how to get tickets or to donate to this cause regardless of your where in the world you live; a little about their Cuenca chapter and its upcoming events; and about the heartfelt Ecuadorian doctors and generous hospitals who are helping to make these life-changing and life-altering operations a reality for children in need throughout Ecuador.    Our guests will als

Richard provides the roundup on Sydney prices which again this week and averaged  a unbelievable but true $1.1 million of the combined auctions, and we have recorded a actual auction taking place last week.    You will be surprised not only a the eventual sale price, but will also  the short  passage of time the actual auction takes.   Richard also supplies tips this week on when to have your auctions and figures nationally are averaging back to normal.   From Mission Bay  in New in New Zealand we now move on after  our four-week the series of  Kiwi shows  but  now to Mission Beach in Queensland, Australia, our guest this week to Dick Williams licensee of Ray white Mission Beach, who has had 25 years experience in marketing and selling this beautiful l part of the Queensland coastline, accessible to the Great Barrier Reef and many tropical islands and is  considered a the gateway to famous Dunk island resort.   This is the hidden secre

Having first cut my teeth in journalism working the news desk at an anglo newspaper in Costa Rica back in 2000, I am always impressed by those who decide to launch an enterprise of this type. So this week on Colombia Calling we sit down with the Bogota Post's director Emma Newbery and staffer Azzam Alkhadi to talk about this venture and how it has gone for them as they approach the 1 year anniversary of their launch.    We discuss the rise of the internet, the death of the newspaper, their readership, aims and dream and of course, above all, Colombia.    Tune in to find out why Newbery decided to plunge into an adventure of this type, why she is here in Colombia and where the Bogota Post will go from here. Learn about the machinations of a newspaper trying to bridge the gap between anglo and local news and make a success of it. 

Sara Coppler, Kathy McCullough and David Johnson will be our featured guests on this week's “Ecuador At Your Service” radio show. Tune in to hear them speak about their new magazine, Zero Magazine / Cuenca – Living with Latitude, launching today at a premier party at Cuenca's Museum of Modern Art.   The three also talk respectively about their own meaningful and colorful lives, as an international disaster response leader in more than 30 countries; an artist and writer who grew up in a Mafia family and is now writing a book, Kids Make the Best Bookies; and the founder and publisher Positive Community Magazines who is currently in the process of moving to Cuenca.   Zero Magazine / Cuenca will be Cuenca’s only printed English-language publication, featuring articles, profiles, and photographs of interest to expats, but also introducing our Ecuadorian neighbors and friends -- helping to build community and an opportunity for bett

Russian Roulette. What picture does that bring up in your mind? Believe it or not, you are playing Russian Roulette with your life (and the lives of your loved ones) in more ways than one. In fact, host Blake Sawyer points to 5 of the ways you are risking everything, including your life, on today's show. Solutions as always, are presented.

It's another snowy and cold blowy week in Massachusetts where Brian Thomas is holed up. Meanwhile summertime continues in the southern hemisphere where Richard Butler lives along the eastern Pacific coast in Australia.   Butler kicks things off with the Aussie real estate round-up. The auctions are now picking up steam, with the average price around Sydney, Australia around $918,000.   Today, we travel back to New Zealand for our 4th in a series of programs dealing with the Lifestyle and real estate opportunities where the world's day often begins. Our guest and tour guide is Wayne Maguire, Principal of Ray White real estate in Mission Bay, Auckland, New Zealand. Wayne has achieved outstanding results in real estate, accumulating in now owing and operating the Ray White franchise for the Mission Bay office.Wayne has been driven from day one in real estate to achieve and perform at an exceptionally high level.Within 5 years of entering the industry, he jointly owned a luxury real estate company based

Rico from QCostaRica joins us to address various topics going on in and around Costa Rica. Some of the topics we cover are:1. Recovering the Sunken Catamaran in Costa Rica2. Costa Rica Judges Using Cell Phones During Trials3. Puntarenas Festival in Costa Rica Being Shut Down4. Costa Rica Uneployment5. Teen Pregnancy Costa Rica6. Gas Prices Increasing in Costa Rica7. Toucan Getting Prosthetic BeakThis is followed by our Property of the Week, a luxury ocean view home near Jaco.

This week we head out to talk with Juan Carlos Caicedo, a US born Colombian, watershed management expert and ecologist to talk about some of the studies that he has conducted here in Bogota regarding the natural environment of this city.    By studying the immensely popular Virrey Park and the flora and fauna found in this 2km stretch of green found in this dense city, Caicedo has charted 65 different species of birds, hundreds of insects and a whole variety of trees. His plan is to continue to do studies of this kind to better inform Bogotanos of the importance of environmental awareness.    We talk about pollution, we talk about the city's growth, we talk about environmental policy, in fact, no stone is left unturned in this vivid conversation with a realistic, studied and well-travelled environmentalist. He's not here to shove doctrine down your throats, he's here to highlight and help us understand the needs of a city.    Tune in for a fascinating discussion about an overlook

Our co-host, Hector Quintana returns from the Amazon Basin with his backpack replenished with poison darts.  The remainder of the show is spent discussing the latest developments and opportunities on the coast at Salinas and the investment potential in historic Quito.

So, you are thinking about expatriating? Are you confused? Not sure about where to begin? Think you are too 'poor' to expatriate? Scared of 'going it alone'? Concerned about how much time you have to safely 'get out of here', before it is too late? Today's show is for you. Solutions, answers, insights, and epiphanies are less than one hour away. Host Blake Sawyer opens the door. All you have to do is walk in... and listen.

In today's show we get to explore a little more about the situation of scarcity of household goods in Venezuela. Last week it was condoms and so as a first on Colombia Calling we have launched a competition to find the best or most appropriate or most amusing name for the state funded condoms which President Maduro is promising to produce.    After tackling this lightweight topic, we move on to the issue of tourism and being a tourism operator here in Colombia. This is based on jy own experiences operating a hotel here in the small town of Mompos. www.lacasaamarillamompos.com As we have the big tourism fair coming up in Bogota at the end of the month I am talking about what to expect and how to survive it and the difficulties we face in this industry in Colombia.    And finally, in the last segment of the show I provide you with snippets from my interview with the infamous Christopher Kavanagh or "the Mick" who I interview with the aim of writing a story about him. Some of you ma

Dr. Lee Dubs, freelance writer and owner of Carolina’s Bookstore in Cuenca will be the featured guest on this week's “Ecuador At Your Service” radio show. On this highly informative show, Dr. Dubs will talk about living in Ecuador for the past 12 years, what people can expect to find when they move here (hint, it’s not necessarily what you’ve read) and the top reasons people leave the country after they’ve expatriated.  This is a great show for anyone wanting to better grasp the realities of being or becoming an expat in Ecuador and how to get the most out of living in a foreign country, by being prepared before you come.

Our show co-host, Hector Quintana is in the Amazon this week looking to restock his supply of poison darts and has left his fellow co-host David Steckenreiter to main the fort. This week we sail offshore and examine NTL Trust in Nevis and some of the excellent services that they offer.  Paulina Vega, Miss Colombia is crowned Miss Universe. The first Colombian contestant to win in 57 years ! Ecuador in an effort to combat falling revenues is discussing a 100% tax on gas stoves and water heaters. Is there really such a thing as the top ten places in the world to retire. Read Hector's comments at - http://www.escapeartist.com/ecuador/live/2015/01/07/1-reason-ecuador-best-country-world/ We rebroadcast a 10 minute segment on the word Gringo - http://www.escapeartist.com/invest/2015/01/22/gringo-green-go/ David examines a couple of Colombian remedies for a cold/virus

All too often perhaps we can allow ourselves to get wrapped up in the great lifestyle that one lives out here in Colombia and forget about the day to day realities of life. So, with this in mind we invited Briton Claire Austin back on to the show to talk about how it has been raising her son here in Bogota and finding out the reasons why, after just over three years, she will be returning to the UK. In a fresh and personal interview, Claire shares with us the trials of raising her son, her hopes and feelings about having to return home and indeed the issues raised by the UK government about trying to secure a visa for her husband Juan. Frankly, once you listen to the difficulties encountered by this young Anglo Colombian family. you'll immediately sympathise with Claire and Juan and their predicament which, I am sure you'll agree, is far from unique but all the same no less shocking. You can read more about Claire's experiences on her blog: https://clairejayne.wordpress.com/As a future parent, this show

Brian Gary, musician extraordinaire, will be our guest on this week's “Ecuador At Your Service” radio show. Brian, who is a solo artist, composer, keyboard player, and lead member of the popular Cuenca band, Rubber Biscuit, talks about his musical career which started at age 3, and his time in San Francisco, Nashville, and now Cuenca, Ecuador playing with some top talent, including Eddie Money and Rhett Atkins. Brian is also a music teacher giving lessons in person or via Skype. Tune in for a great and entertaining show with Brian Gary.

Dan and Rico hit some hot topics that have come up over the past week, including the ruling in the Jairo Mora Sandoval murder case1. Ruling in the Jairo Mora Sandoval murder case2. USA Assistance in Recovering the "Pura Vida Princess"3. Canadian That Jumped Death4. Cost of Living in Costa Rica5. Price of Gas Dropped Again in Costa Rica6. Paying Your Corporation Fee in Costa Rica ruled "Unconstitutional"This is followed by our new segment the "Property of the Week". You have the ability to own your own private nature reserve in Costa Rica near the beach.

Announcing that this may be his most hard core show ever, host Blake Sawyer passionately exposes the hypocrisy, stupidity, and evil that is destroying the United States, and subsequently the people who call "America" home. You have a choice: living in a country that has made billions (literally) of enemies due to its actions, or a country that dedicates it time, energy, and money on living peacefully and without conflict. It is not only a matter of life and death, but your very soul is as stake as well.WARNING: As stated in the opening dialogue: due to quotes from Chris Kyle (American Sniper), this show is rated PG-13. It may not be suitable for young audiences.