From Where to Here

About From Where to Here

From Where to Here explores cultural exchange, languages, and connection. Hosted by French Canadian Alexandra Lloyd, each episode shares heartfelt stories and inspiring journeys that bridge cultural gaps and spark understanding. 🌍🎙

Publisher

Alexandra Lloyd

Category

society & culture · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Jan 2025

Latest episode

13 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

28 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Aug 2026

   Without My Sister, I'd Be Lost: A Deaf Woman's Story of Family & Language

   Send us Fan Mail In this episode: a woman diagnosed with hearing as a child, a teacher who kept turning her head away, and a kitchen conversation that dissolved into noise. That's the true story of an Alabama woman who lost her hearing as a girl and found her voice in American Sign Language. This is the finale of the Language Legacy series on From Where to Here, where teenagers from Alabama sit down with elders from immigrant, refugee, and Deaf communities. Guest Mary Lowman, now 66, walks ho...

2. 

   30 Jul 2026

   Beyond the Surface | Voodoo Isn't What You Think. Neither Is Africa.

   Send us Fan Mail Loulou Guedou grew up between Ivory Coast and Benin, and this deep dive pulls the moments from her full episode that go past the guidebook: why hospitality there means being treated like royalty from the moment you arrive, why voodoo in Benin is a religion and not a warning sign, and why "I'm from Africa" barely scratches the surface when there are two very different countries behind that answer. She also gets into the unwritten rules of greeting someone (three kisses in Ivor...

3. 

   9 Jul 2026

   E23 The Wedding Where the Groom Has to Guess Which Bride Is His

   Send us Fan Mail Louise "Loulou" Guedou grew up speaking a dialect with 63 versions in one country, got sent away from her parents at age 10 for boarding school in Benin, and later found herself standing in front of her groom while he tried to guess which veiled woman in the lineup was actually her. In this episode of From Where to Here, Louise shares what it's really like growing up between Ivory Coast and Benin, two West African cultures with their own languages, greetings, and wedding trad...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

27,249

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 52 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

45

Social presence

91

YouTube

72

Engagement

32

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

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