HeyJared3rd Space Bucharest
Moving abroad can give you a new country—but not a community.3rd Space Bucharest is a podcast about building real friendships and social belonging hosted by Eric Melchor, a Texas expat living in Bucharest.
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Why He Registered in Hong Kong Instead of București (opens the original)
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Bogdan Sandu started the Design Your Way blog back in 2008 and now runs Upcut Studio, where he scales client websites to hundreds of thousands of monthly visitors. His early companies were registered in Hong Kong and Paris rather than Romania — and not for tax reasons. Clients in the US and Europe hesitated at Romanian entities. Hong Kong, for whatever reason, didn’t raise an eyebrow. He’s also cheerfully unimpressed by the scramble to optimize for ChatGPT and friends, calling it a gold rush tha
Vin Oriunde: Drinking Wine on Top of Arcul de Triumf (opens the original)
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Mirela Mateescu runs Vin Oriunde — wine, anywhere — and she means it literally. She’s hosted tastings in a car showroom, a beauty clinic, a hair salon, and, her favorite, on top of Arcul de Triumf. Her argument is that where you drink it and who you’re with are as much a part of the wine as the wine is. She also insists that a “good nose” isn’t a gift you’re born with — it’s just practice, which is bad news for anyone using “I can’t taste anything” as an excuse. She offered to train mine, so tha
Nu Negocia: Laura Balan on Firing Your Inner Critic (opens the original)
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Laura Balan is a Bucharest-based mindset coach, and she runs on one rule that does a lot of heavy lifting: never negotiate with your inner critic. Spot the unhelpful thought, ask whether it’s getting you anywhere, throw it out. No debate, no three-hour internal committee meeting. She’s also refreshingly unimpressed by toxic positivity — her take is that your nervous system knows when you’re lying to it, so chanting that everything is wonderful does approximately nothing. Confidence comes from do
🇷🇴 Bucharest Needs More People Like This (opens the original)
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Some people build companies. Others build communities. This week I sat down with Ioana Ioanăș , who somehow manages to do both while leading one of Bucharest's Rotaract clubs, organizing charity projects, and helping young professionals prepare for an AI-powered world. We talk about why volunteering is one of the fastest ways to grow, the surprising lesson she learned at the U.S. Embassy, why "creating moments that matter" has become her life philosophy, and how stepping outside your comfort zon
The Balloon Artist Who Ended Up in Romanian Mortgages (opens the original)
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What do balloon animals, London street performances, and mortgage loans have in common? Antonela Vulpe , apparently. Before helping Romanians buy homes, she spent 15 years in the arts, making balloon giraffes for kids on the streets of London (and somehow making a surprisingly good living doing it). In this short conversation, we talk about why people often buy houses they can't actually afford, the emotional side of money, why financial trauma is more common than most people realize, and how me
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