HeyJaredSpanSwede
I’m Juan, an argentine who’s lived so long in the Nordics I sometimes feel more Swedish than the Swedes. In this podcast, I share stories from my life in Sweden, explore philosophy, culture, and identity, and reflect on whatever sparks my curiosity.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Sep 15, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Aug 30, 2026
Latest episodes
Unemployed in Sweden: My Experience (opens the original)
Read excerpt
More than 400 days. That is how long it took me to find work after losing my job in Sweden. In this episode I talk honestly about what unemployment looks like here: the A-kassan system, the compulsory outplacement programme that barely helps if you are qualified, the CV engineering I developed, using AI as an interview coach, and the 50-plus interviews that led to exactly one offer. What the market does to your ego, and what Seneca had to say about it. #Unemployment #Sweden #JobSearch #SwedishLi
How I Keep Trying to Learn Swedish: The Greatest Intellectual Challenge of My Life (opens the original)
Read excerpt
In 2003, while I was a student at a university in Madrid, I had a Swedish friend who was there on an exchange program. Before that, my knowledge of Sweden was practically nonexistent. Twenty years later, I'm a Swedish citizen, but I'm still struggling with the language, though the biggest challenge isn't the grammar. It's overcoming the fear of speaking and realizing that my limitations are more in my mind than in reality. #Swedish #LanguageLearning #Immigrant #Sverige #SpanSwede #EnglishPodcast
Spain, the Country Where Everything Is Banned (opens the original)
Read excerpt
This summer I arrived in Spain for the solar eclipse and ran into a national state of alarm, the first in Spanish history triggered by a forest fire. Not a war, not an earthquake. Fire. In this episode I talk about something I feel every time I return to Spain from Sweden: the weight of a country where everything seems forbidden, controlled, or regulated. Police checkpoints, iron grilles on every window, neighbours reporting each other. And the strange paradox of a place I love that somehow no l
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Not enough subject data for this period yet.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.