Interviews

Gunnar Freyr, known as Icelandic Explorer, shares his journey from a stressful office job to exploring Iceland full time on the All Things Iceland podcast

Gunnar’s Spectacular Journey From A Stressful Job to Exploring Iceland

November 15, 2020 Jewells Chambers All Things Iceland Episodes, Iceland, Interviews 1:16:04 2 Comments

Gunnar Freyr, a talented Icelandic photographer and videographer, makes a living traveling around Iceland, and sometimes Greenland. On Instagram he is known as Icelandic_explorer and has over 360,000 followers. His images and videos capture the Icelandic landscape in such a mesmerizing way. During the chat, Gunnar Freyr shares how he left a very stressful office…

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Nichole Leigh Mosty's journey from cleaning floors to serving in Icelandic Parliament - All Things Iceland podcast interview

Nichole’s Journey From Cleaning Floors to Being in Icelandic Parliament

October 29, 2020 Jewells Chambers All Things Iceland Episodes, Interviews 1:20:40 1 Comment

Nichole Leigh Mosty is an American that moved to Iceland in 1999. During our chat, we talk about the challenges she faced when she first moved and her experience being the first woman of foreign origin to be the speaker in Icelandic Parliament. Nichole shares a lot of insights and definitely does not hold back…

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Elisa Hanssen interveiw on the All Things Iceland podcast

Elisa’s Big Move from the Netherlands to Iceland & Living on a Horse Farm

October 25, 2020 Jewells Chambers All Things Iceland Episodes, Interviews 00:51:24 0 Comments

Elisa is originally from the Netherlands. After falling in love with Iceland during a vacation many years ago, she decided to quit her career in media in her home country and move to the land of fire and ice. Elisa initially planned to stay for a few months. During that time she intended to travel…

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Halla Ólafsdóttir, a young Icelander, interview for the All Things Iceland podcast

What’s Driving Young Icelanders to Move to the Countryside?

October 6, 2020 Jewells Chambers All Things Iceland Episodes, Culture, Interviews 01:03:18 1 Comment

Halla Ólafsdóttir, a young Icelander, shares with me why she feels that people in her generation are moving away from the Reykjavík area in favor of the countryside. Halla has a BA degree in Icelandic language and creative writing at the University of Iceland. At the Free University of Berlin, she received an MA in…

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Mugison – Icelandic Musician on His Unusual Childhood, Success & the Evolution of his Music

September 16, 2020 Jewells Chambers All Things Iceland Episodes, Culture, Interviews 1:13:11 0 Comments

This week, I share the fun chat I had with Mugison, a talented Icelandic artist that has been making waves on a local and global scale. We talked about the time he spent living in Africa as a child, musicians that inspire him, the impact of Icelandic nature on his music, his epic music festival…

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Tyler Wacker cycling across America and to the Westfjords to Iceland - All Things Iceland podcast

Tyler Wacker’s Epic 8-Month Cycling Journey from California to Iceland

September 6, 2020 Jewells Chambers Adventure, All Things Iceland Episodes, Interviews 59:06 0 Comments

Tyler Wacker embarked on an incredible cycling journey from California to Ísafjörður in the Westfjords.  For those of you who don’t follow me on Instagram, I am currently in Ísafjörður taking Icelandic courses. Coincidentally, Tyler is at the same school, even though he is studying something completely different than me. After working in the transportation…

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LK Bertram interview about Icelanders that emigrated to Canada in the 1800s - All Things Iceland

LK Bertram on the Life of Icelanders that Emigrated to Canada in the 1800s

August 23, 2020 Jewells Chambers All Things Iceland Episodes, Culture, Interviews 00:59:10 0 Comments

During this week’s episode, I spoke with LK Bertram about the very large emigration of Icelanders to Canada in the 1800s.  LK Bertram is the author of The Viking Immigrants: Icelandic North Americans, and is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. Born and raised in Winnipeg, she also…

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Helga Kristín Torfadóttir, Geology expert, in a space suit in Iceland with the Icelandic flag - Interview with All Things Iceland

Geologist, Helga Krístin, Explains Why Icelandic Landscapes Are Unique

August 15, 2020 Jewells Chambers All Things Iceland Episodes, Iceland, Interviews 43:53 2 Comments

This week I chatted with Icelandic Geology expert Helga Kristín Torfadóttir. She is currently pursuing her PhD in volcanology and petrology, with a focus on structures of magma chambers. Additionally, she is a glacier guide, a model and drives really big cars. What an awesome combination!  I came across Helga on Instagram, where her handle…

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James McDaniel on being a horticulturist in Iceland - All Things Iceland

James McDaniel on Being a Horticulturist in Iceland – Ep. 68

August 5, 2020 Jewells Chambers All Things Iceland Episodes, Iceland, Interviews 36:19 4 Comments

This week I had the pleasure of chatting with James McDaniel about Horticulture in Iceland. For anyone that is not familiar with that word, horticulture is the art or practice of garden cultivation and management. Ever since learning about greenhouses in Iceland and just about different plants growing here in general, I have been looking…

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Dr. Kristín Loftsdóttir speaks about racism, nordic exceptionalism and the concept of whiteness in Iceland - All Things Iceland podcast

Dr. Kristín Loftsdóttir on Racism, Nordic Exceptionalism & Whiteness in Iceland – Ep. 66

July 17, 2020 Jewells Chambers All Things Iceland Episodes, Culture, History, Interviews 01:34:58 3 Comments

 I had the pleasure to speak with Kristín Loftsdóttir, a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iceland. Her research has focused on migration, whiteness, gender, racism, Nordic exceptionalism, postcolonialism and crisis, basing on work in Iceland, Niger and Belgium. Published Work by Kristín Loftsdóttir is currently leading the project Creating Europe through Racialized Mobility…

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