My Foreign Service Life
by Everhart Productions
Latest episode
S4E3 - Kenya - Home Leave, Nairobi Bound
S4E3 - Kenya - Home Leave, Nairobi Bound
About this podcast
I've spent most of my career—that's 35 years—living and working overseas for the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service. My coworkers and myself were responsible for carrying out U.S. foreign policy and helping U.S. citizens abroad. With this podcast, I'm starting at the beginning - or really slightly before the beginning—to walk through what it was like being 27, with a small child, moving overseas to Africa for the first time. Join my son and I as in each episode, I read my story and we talk through the challenges overcome and the joys discovered in My Foreign Service Life.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 43 episodes
- S4E3 - Kenya - Home Leave, Nairobi Bound · 22 min · Season 4 Episode 3In this episode Christine and family get to Nairobi, Kenya and find a new past time, but not before Gabe pulls a bone-headed teenager move--possible because he's a teenager.
- S4E2 - Onward Assignment Blues · 22 min · Season 4 Episode 2In which Christine and family are in limbo because of congressional inaction. Christine gets a new boss and a new assignment.
- S4E1 - Cameroon: Farewell to Cameroon · 21 min · Season 4 Episode 1In which Christine talks about being usurped at work, warehouse sales, Juju, and working with local staff.
- S3E12 Cameroon: Crazy last Year · 17 min · Season 3 Episode 12Christine talks about leaving Cameroon, boarding school woes, corrupt elections, and a possible apocryphal story of bare-chested grandmas.
- S3E11 Cameroon: Greeks in Africa · 17 min · Season 3 Episode 11Christine talks about her experience as a Greek-American in Africa and the lovely community she found in Cameroon.
- S3E10 Cameroon: Camping at Kribi · 28 min · Season 3 Episode 10In this episode Christine and Matt remember the good times in coastal Africa. They discuss tandem couples, spousal hires, interning at the Embassy, and the Sea Turtle Incident.
- We're Not Done Yet! An Update. · 1 min · Season 3We're not done yet, we just have run into the Not-Enough-Time problem! We'll be back later this year with more episodes! In the meantime, check out my new kids podcast, History…
- S3E9 Cameroon: Evaluations, Promotions, Suspensions · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 9In this episode, Christine talks about getting suspended, having a friend in the home office who knows your plight, and promotion strategies.
- S3E8 Cameroon: Settling Into Yaoundé · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 8Christine talks about her first days in Cameroon, including short hand, serving coffee, security violations, a platoon of misbehaving Marines, and friends in the right places.
- S3E7 Cameroon · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 7In this episode Christine talks about life in Cameroon, traveling with toddlers, secret societies of Ambassador's secretaries, and saying grace as white man.
- S3E6 DC: The End of an Era · 24 min · Season 3 Episode 6In this episode Christine contemplates her next move after DC. Should she go back to Africa with an uncertain working environment, or try some place else? Childcare, spouse jobs…
- S3E5 DC: Janneke · 16 min · Season 3 Episode 5Christine talks about getting an au pair in the US and Matt discusses his super normal plans for a commune.
- S3E4 DC: Kudos and International Press · 23 min · Season 3 Episode 4Christine talks about the negotiations with Namibia, Angola, South Africa, and Cuba for the Tripartite Accords in 1988, and awards in the Foreign Service.
- S3E3 DC: Treaty Negotiations in Angola and Namibia · 23 min · Season 3 Episode 3Christine talks about working in the Office of Southern African Affairs including treaty negotiations, typing up letters of sanction, straphangers, and leaving your only…
- S3E2 DC: AF-S and the Birth of Emily · 17 min · Season 3 Episode 2In this episode, Christine talks about joining the Bureau of African Affairs in DC and having her third (and best?) child.
- S3E1 DC: Back to Washington DC · 22 min · Season 3 Episode 1Christine talks about working from Main State, finding childcare, the expense of being in the DMV and teases a future episode.
- S2E12 Senegal: King Matthew's Triumphant Return · 19 min · Season 2 Episode 12In this episode, Christine talks about transporting a fresh baby internationally. She discusses nursing, two hour lunches, domestic help, and Matthew's first trip to Africa. This…
- S2E11 Senegal: Matthew: The Biggest Pain · 19 minChristine talks about delivering a baby in a different decade from the last with an OBGYN who refused (??) to give any anesthetics (???). She also talks about baby supplies…
- S2E10 Senegal: Baby Med-Evac · 27 min · Season 2 Episode 10In this episode, Christine discusses what it's like having a baby at post and med-evac rules past and present. She's joined by both her sons to talk about spousal employment at…
