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ANYTHING BUT POLITICS: Living Abroad During One Of Europe's Worst Power Outages

SmartHERNews

Jenna Lee

Education, News

5615 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

One of the worst power outages in Europe *ever* happened this week, and no one knows exactly what caused it. Meg James joins us – an American mom, an entrepreneur living in Spain with her family - who rode out the power outage in Madrid with some lessons learned. She shares on the ground perspective on this unusual news story while also providing some inspiration for other American families looking to live abroad.

Meg's website: https://goanddogood.com/

Meg's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goanddogood

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Transcript

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0:00.0

One of the worst power outages in Europe ever happened this week.

0:04.3

And no one knows exactly what caused it.

0:06.3

We have a personal perspective on this story.

0:08.4

It's news with a personal touch.

0:10.3

Perfect for our anything but politics segment.

0:12.3

I'm Jenna.

0:13.2

And this is smarter news.

0:26.5

Megan I met organically as one does in modern times on Instagram.

0:28.7

I'm not quite sure what connected us, Meg. Hopefully it was the news.

0:31.6

But many years ago, okay, great.

0:34.8

Do you remember how you found smarter news?

0:37.8

You know, I honestly think being in the U.S. at the time I was looking for a mother run news

0:43.8

outlet of just something I could trust. And there, there you were. There was Jenna.

0:47.4

Here I am. And now we're connected through a news story, which is the way that this can sometimes

0:53.5

work, which is when we actually are grateful for social media and not angry at story, which is the way that this can sometimes work, which is,

0:54.3

which is when we actually are grateful for social media and not angry at it, which is half the time.

0:58.8

I'm kind of balanced 50, 50 on that.

1:01.1

But I have also been following your journey, too, living abroad in Spain.

1:05.6

And one of the things you do is you share your experience as a mom, as an entrepreneur,

1:10.3

as an American living abroad.

1:11.6

And I want to talk to you about your business because you've helped many American

1:15.0

families who are attempting to do the same. But I reached out to you on Monday because out of

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