S5 Ep137: Living the Ex-Pat Life with Brooke Rasmussen, Pt. 1

Live Well Anyway

MacKenzie Koppa

Books, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Arts

4.6 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Show Notes-

On today's episode of CTL, we have the first of a special two-part series with MacKenzie Koppa and her high-school friend Brooke Rasmussen. Brooke and her husband, along with their seven children, have lived around the world. Today, MacKenzie and Brooke chat all about what it was like to move to so many unique places and adjust to many different cultures.

Brooke talks about their first tour when her husband was a diplomat in Eritrea, Africa
- Learning to live with less, especially where food is concerned
- Changing her perspective on pity versus generosity
- Equipping their family to handle future challenges
- Learning that language is not always that big of a barrier
- Shifting perspective on chasing beauty by cultural standards

The transition from Africa to Poland, in the States for training
Brooke talks about life in Warsaw, Poland
- Ease of travel and abundance of food
- Enjoying the history and cultures in and around Poland
- Getting used to having babies amidst transition periods
- The blessing of having friends nearby for the kids
The difference in other cultures' views on family size
Returning to the U.S. for a home assignment
The decision to take an assignment in Jerusalem

Tune in next week to hear the rest of MacKenzie and Brooke's discussion and find out about the Rasmussen's time in Jerusalem, plus so much more!

Find MacKenzie-

You can find MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram, Facebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! You can also listen to her family-friendly podcast The Same Page!

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0:00.0	When we talked about doing this interview, I remember telling you, I could tell people how to parent without goldfish, because that was like the hardest.
0:06.3	When I thought about, like, how am I supposed to be a mom to these little kids without like goldfish crackers?
0:12.1	Yeah.
0:12.7	A pantry of snacks.
0:27.5	Yeah. Welcome to Cultivating the Lovely.
0:29.2	I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa.
0:35.6	And around here, we know that life is hard, and we have to do everything we can to just make it a little bit more lovely.
0:37.6	So it's my mission to bring you great conversations, practical tools and information, and a healthy dose of community to help make
0:42.5	those things happen. If you want to find out more, you can go to our website at cultivating
0:46.5	the lovely.com, visit our amazing membership community at patreon.com slash cultivating the lovely,
0:52.1	or by connecting with me on Instagram, which is one of my favorite
0:54.9	places to interact with all of you. You can find me at McKenzie Kappa. Thanks so much for joining
0:59.8	me today. Okay, ladies, this is an episode that again is going to break out of the box a little
1:07.0	bit, which I'm really enjoying exploring more of this season with the podcast. I actually have
1:12.1	on an old friend from high school who I recently reconnected with because she's been living
1:16.8	out of the country for most of the past 10 years, three different countries that she lived in
1:21.5	around the world with very varying experiences. And I thought, wouldn't it be so fun to just find out what that was like.
1:29.0	She has seven kids. She's had all kinds of experiences in all these different countries.
1:34.4	And I think that she can give really good perspective to how we live here in America.
1:39.2	And so I thought, wouldn't that be fun? Well, wouldn't you know it? As we got chatting, we started
1:43.7	talking for so long
1:45.4	that we actually are able to break this episode up into two episodes. So it's going to be both
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