Rooted and Routed Podcast

About Rooted and Routed Podcast

Rooted & Routed is a podcast built on human stories and lived experience from lives shaped by global mobility. Hosted by Sabiya Pathan Withoeck, the podcast explores identity, belonging, and the real human impact of living between cultures, countries, and systems. Through thoughtful, unfiltered conversations, Rooted & Routed brings forward voices shaped by cross-border lives, including expats, returnees, diplomats, leaders, founders, educators, parents, and third-culture individuals. This is not a podcast about relocation checklists or surface-level expat stories. It is a space for real conversations that help listeners make sense of what global lives demand — emotionally, structurally, and personally, and what they quietly produce in return: empathy, adaptability, judgment, and perspective. Across episodes, the podcast examines lived experience alongside the systems and ecosystems that surround global mobility; from work, education, and leadership to policy, culture, and family life, without losing the human lens. Rooted & Routed is for anyone navigating life between worlds, and for those building, leading, or supporting global mobility ecosystems who want a deeper understanding grounded in real lives, not abstractions. 🎙 New episodes available on YouTube and major podcast platforms.

Publisher

Sabiya Pathan Withoeck

Category

business · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Jul 2024

Latest episode

27 May 2026

Latest episodes

57 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 May 2026

   The Expat Feels Home. The Local Feels Foreign. | Dieter Withoeck | #Belgium #India

   Send us Fan Mail What happens when the local feels like the outsider, and the foreigner feels at home? In this episode of Rooted and Routed, Sabiya sits down with Dieter Withoeck, her husband, a Belgian who has lived in India for nearly two decades, and a returning guest from Season 1. Together they unpack one specific tension: the difference between collective and individualist societies, and how the two of them have quietly ended up on opposite sides of it. Dieter pushes back on the assumpt...

2. 

   10 May 2026

   Performed Authenticity, Brave Brands & Starting Over | KETAKI TANAJI GOLATKAR, GOOD DAY PR | Pt 2

   Send us Fan Mail Visibility without values is just noise. Ketaki Tanaji Golatkar returns for Part 2 of our conversation on Rooted and Routed — and this time, the lens turns from identity and belonging to the work itself. After 21 years across global communications, diplomacy, and international sport, including heading Global Comms for the International Cricket Council, she has spent the last year mentoring women across 108 countries through career pivots, first-time entrepreneurship, layoffs...

3. 

   3 May 2026

   Indo-German DIPLOMACY to Pro KABADDI to ICC: KETAKI TANAJI GOLATKAR on Building Her Own GOOD DAY PR

   Send us Fan Mail Ketaki Tanaji Golatkar is a global communications leader, a DEI advocate, and the founder of GoodDay PR and Strategic Communications. She has worked across agencies in Bombay and London, led a diplomatic project on Indo-German relations, and spent a decade in international sports — including heading Global Comms for the International Cricket Council. In this episode, she joins Sabiya for a conversation that moves between the boardroom and the deeply personal — what 22 years o...

Who has been a guest on Rooted and Routed Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Anna Skorobogatowa
• Arnaud Luc
• Arnaud Lucas
• Jan Thomas Lerstein
• Mimi Nicklin

Reach and audience

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

YouTube views

1,387,397

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

4.5 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100

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

Quality

56

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

32