OM DENNA PODDSÄNDNING 🔗
We’re Georgette and Valentina—two close friends, mothers, and creators navigating the messy middle of life in Florence, Italy.
Together, we bridge the ultimate gap: one of us lived the Italian reality from birth, while the other fought tooth-and-nail through bureaucracy, visa battles, and cultural shocks to make it home.
We created this show because we were tired of seeing Italy reduced to wine windows and Tuscan clichés. You listen to us because we bring something rare: a local’s deep cultural DNA combined with an outsider’s sharp observation. With decades of combined experience living, working, parenting, and building community right here in Tuscany, we’re serving up the gritty, hilarious, and necessary conversations about what it actually takes to build a life here without losing your damn mind.
What You’ll Find Every Episode:
✔️ Dual Perspectives: Valentina’s native Italian lens vs. Georgette’s long-term expat point of view
✔️ The Hard Numbers: Uncensored truth on housing, work, money, and the price of staying
✔️ Cultural Deep Dives: Unfiltered talk on everything from body image to viral food trends
✔️ Florence Insiders: Conversations with local guests who actually know their stuff
✔️ Cose a Caso: Our signature unscripted rapid-fire round to close every episode
We don't just love Italy—we know Italy.
👉 Hit Subscribe and join the conversation every Friday!
Together, we bridge the ultimate gap: one of us lived the Italian reality from birth, while the other fought tooth-and-nail through bureaucracy, visa battles, and cultural shocks to make it home.
We created this show because we were tired of seeing Italy reduced to wine windows and Tuscan clichés. You listen to us because we bring something rare: a local’s deep cultural DNA combined with an outsider’s sharp observation. With decades of combined experience living, working, parenting, and building community right here in Tuscany, we’re serving up the gritty, hilarious, and necessary conversations about what it actually takes to build a life here without losing your damn mind.
What You’ll Find Every Episode:
✔️ Dual Perspectives: Valentina’s native Italian lens vs. Georgette’s long-term expat point of view
✔️ The Hard Numbers: Uncensored truth on housing, work, money, and the price of staying
✔️ Cultural Deep Dives: Unfiltered talk on everything from body image to viral food trends
✔️ Florence Insiders: Conversations with local guests who actually know their stuff
✔️ Cose a Caso: Our signature unscripted rapid-fire round to close every episode
We don't just love Italy—we know Italy.
👉 Hit Subscribe and join the conversation every Friday!
Uppdateringsfrekvens:
weekly
Genomsnittlig ljudlängd:
52 minutes
Engelsk
USA
28 avsnitt
sedan 20 mars 2026
episodic
SENASTE AVSNITTET 🔗
It's spooky season and you better believe that there is a myriad of legends in Tuscany that are as mysterious as they are spooky. Let's start with the open window in Piazza Santissima Annunziata that hasn't been shut in centuries. Legend says the one time someone tried and the house started throwin…
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TIDIGARE AVSNITT 🔗
Money might be the last taboo in Italy. In this episode, Georgette and Valentina talk openly about Italian money culture and what you need to know before you go: what’s polite to ask, what never gets said out loud but probably should. We also touch on why that silence hurts women and freelancers m…
"Art is not a medicine… but it can help a lot to feel the beauty, to feel the joy, to feel the lightness. Art can help people heal." - Lucia Montuschi
Can looking at a painting actually make you feel better? In April 2026, Italy's Ministries of Health and Culture signed a protocol so doctors can pr…
This Friday might be raining here in Florence but let us take you two hours south to a place that is special to our hearts. Here are flamingos in the lagoons, cowboys working long-horned cattle, a beach where there is finally peace from the summer crowds, and some of the clearest (and cleanest) wat…
Are wine windows, flambéed cheese wheels, and viral affogatos ruining Florence's food culture... or is there room for a little culinary theater?
Georgette and Valentina sit down with Florence-based cooking instructor, food journalist, and Saporita Supper Club founder Sara Cagle (LOVE HER) to talk a…
Unpacking the popular narrative that European (and specifically Italian) women have a healthier, more relaxed relationship with their bodies than American women — and testing that narrative against lived experience and actual data.
A viral Substack essay claimed European women don't hate their bodi…
We knew that by the time we recorded, edited and released this episode, things would have advanced even further and sure enough they have. While we are currently seeing tech bros lament the too-fast progress of the machines they created, here us regular humans are trying to wade through what to thi…
We're back and doing what we do best: talking honestly about guilt.
Not the tidy "here's how you can fix it" version, but the real thing: the guilt of dropping your daughter at camp while she clutches her stuffed hedgehog, the guilt of taking a vacation you've worked two years to earn, the guilt o…
Wellness has become a $4 trillion global industry and somewhere between sleep, movement, and nutrition, it started selling us anxiety as often as it sells solutions.
In our first-ever guest episode (and Season Two opener), Georgette and Valentina sit down with Ilaria Di Donato and Gloria Fuson of …
How many languages do you actually need to survive (and thrive) in Italy? In this fun summer special, Georgette and Valentina pull back the curtain on their own language journeys: from raising trilingual kids and losing native accents to navigating the "humiliation phase" of learning a new tongue.
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