A new podcast

All Overthe Map

With Jess Buchanan & Mindy Schlechter

Motherhood. Wanderlust. Becoming.

Conversations about what happens when mothers leave the life they know, cross borders, and discover a new version of home—and themselves.

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The journey changes you

A podcast about women, identity, family, and starting over abroad. These are honest, heartfelt conversations with women who have left behind what was familiar and are building new lives in unfamiliar places.

01

Starting Over

What it really means to start over—geographically, emotionally, and within yourself.

02

Family & Belonging

Supporting children and partnerships through transition, and building community in unfamiliar places.

03

Identity & Reinvention

Navigating identity shifts, grief, growth, and reinvention: the inner landscape of change.

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Why this show exists

Jess and Mindy launched this podcast to bridge the gap for global moving mamas, turning their shared relocation bonding into an essential resource for others. Their lived experiences taught them that relocating abroad changes more than your address—it changes your identity, relationships, routines, community, and understanding of home.

All Over the Map is a space for honest conversations about the emotional, logistical, funny, beautiful, and difficult realities of building a life in another country, and supporting a family while doing so.

Not visa, immigration, or employment advice—a space for women to share their journeys of recreating a life filled with meaning, new traditions, and becoming.

“When you uproot your life, you don’t just find a new place—you discover a new version of yourself.”

Meet your hosts

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Jess Buchanan

Jessica Buchanan is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, entrepreneur, and host of How to Survive Survival, a podcast exploring resilience, reinvention, and what it means to rebuild after life changes you.

The founder of Soul Speak Press and Atlas Legacy Press, Jess has built her career around storytelling, meaningful conversations, and amplifying transformative voices. Her work explores identity, leadership, grief, healing, and starting over.

Her own next chapter is relocating to Sweden with her Swedish husband and their two children. When she isn’t podcasting, writing, or making dinner, you’ll find her with her family on a trail—or on a plane to their next destination abroad.

Mindy Schlechter holding a teacup

Mindy Schlechter

Mindy is a mother of two who has spent 23 years supporting women as an Ayurvedic counselor, coach, hypnotherapist, prenatal yoga instructor, and perinatal social worker.

She founded Effloresce Coaching to help mothers restore self-trust in their healing journeys, move beyond trauma and stigmatizing diagnoses, and reconnect with their intrinsic wholeness.

With her Austrian partner and their children, Mindy’s next chapter takes her from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Tyrol, Austria. She is cultivating a slower, nature-based, community-centered life—and holding space for other mothers reimagining home and belonging abroad.

Conversations that feel like home

For women relocating internationally, considering a move abroad, raising families overseas, navigating cross-cultural marriages, rebuilding careers or identity, and craving belonging and community.

  • What nobody tells you about moving abroad
  • Building a new version of yourself in a new country
  • Reinvention in midlife
  • Raising third-culture kids
  • Marriage and family during major transitions
  • Building community and friendship abroad
  • The unexpected joys of living overseas
  • Slower living and redefining success
  • Food, rituals, and cultural discovery
  • Loneliness, belonging, and identity shifts
  • Funny culture shock stories and lessons learned
  • What “home” means after starting over elsewhere

Be on the show

Have a story about starting over abroad? Jess and Mindy would love to talk with you about the highs and lows of living abroad as mothers, partners, and women.

Warm, authentic, not too serious, and heart-centered. Thoughtful conversations and real storytelling—not surface-level interviews. Each episode is professionally edited and promoted thoroughly and regularly.

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Questions or interview inquiries

info@jessbuchanan.commindy@effloresce.net
@all_over_the_map_pod

A global community for women navigating life abroad—through storytelling, shared experience, humor, honesty, and meaningful conversation.

A movement, not just content.

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