As an American with ancestors from Finland, I am personally connected to this Nordic nation. My podcast explores Finland from a Finnish-American perspective and the meaning of those ties. We’ll also explore Finnish society and culture and why Finland has become wildly cool—or as the Finns say, “Siistia!” For the seventh year in a row in March 2024, the United Nations named it the happiest country in the world. Let’s dive in to “all things Finland.”
Finding Finland
Claim This Podcastby Rudy Owens
7 episodes
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As an American with ancestors from Finland, I am personally connected to this Nordic nation. My podcast explores Finland from a Finnish-American perspective and the meaning of those ties. We’ll also explore Finnish society and culture and why Finland has become wildly cool—or as the Finns say, “Siistia!” For the seventh year in a row in March 2024, the United Nations named it the happiest country in the world. Let’s dive in to “all things Finland.”
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Recent Episodes
January 17, 2025
Bryant Tolles: Finding ski trails and adventure in rural Imatra, Finland
<p>Bryant Tolles is an American expatriate who currently calls Imatra, Finland home when he is not back in the United States. He has spent the last two decades in finance and business consulting, having worked in the San Francisco Bay Area working with tech startups. He continues to work virtually with his consulting firm to help emerging startups. From his base in Imatra, just three kilometers north of the Russian border and three hours east from Helsinki, Tolles is enjoying his time Finland, skiing countless local ski trails in the surrounding communities in the winter. Warmer and summer weather finds him outdoors in Finland, exploring its many outdoor recreation opportunities. His base in Finland also allows him to visit neighboring countries. His next planned ski adventure will take him to Tartu, Estonia, in mid-February 2025 for the World Loppet ski race that he plans to race on traditional wooden skis.</p>
July 16, 2024
Gail Bilto: New Yorker, Finnish-American, Michigan native, and family member
<p>Gail Bilto was born in Detroit, Michigan, in the first half of the 1940s. She is also a descendant of Finnish-American families who settled in Michigan during the five decades of mass Finnish immigration to Michigan, Minnesota, and Ontario, Canada through the 1920s. She left her home state in 1978 and moved to New York City. Bilto currently calls the city her home. Her work history includes holding positions as a waitress, bartender, and for a market research firm. Starting in 1988, Bilto began working for farmers in the Farmers Green Markets found around the city, selling fresh food and farmers’ products, mostly at the Union Square Farmers Green Market. She retired in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic started. Bilto is related to Rudy Owens through their maternal families and separated by one generation.</p>
July 2, 2024
Ronan Beckman: Author, Michigan native, and keen family genealogist with deep roots in Sweden
<p>Ronan Beckman is historical fiction author with a focus on the “long Regency” and Late Georgian era. He was born in Michigan and for more than three decades has lived in the United Kingdom, with his family. He describes himself as a keen genealogist, inspired by his wife’s ancestors and his own family stories. He’s also an adoptee, who learned growing up he had ancestry in Sweden, which ultimately led him to iscovering his family history. Many of his relatives trace their roots to farming country in central Sweden, a place he visited in the early 2000s to meet his distant kin. That trip has special significance for Beckman and helped solidify part of his family identity. His first novel was published in 2020, <em>An Actress of Repute</em>, and is available on Amazon. His latest project is to edit an updated version of rare, out-of-print book by a coal miner who became a Member of Parliament. <em>Visions of the Mine</em> by Samuel Woods is available through Amazon. Learn more about his work on <a href="https://ronanbeckman.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">his website</a>. In this episode Owens shares <a href="https://www.rudyowens.com/blood-is-thicker-than-water-meeting-my-kin-in-finland/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">his story</a> about his visit to his family villages in South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in 2023 and Beckman shares his story visiting his family's ancestral village about two decades earlier in central Sweden. Both Owens and Beckman found their biological kin in their adulthood. Owens and Beckman are both adoptees born in the Detroit/Metro Detroit area in the 1960s.</p>
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